When you think of things like a trout fishing corporate retreat you think of the company treating the top sales executives to a weekend away for an outstanding sales quarter or it being used as a team building strategy by building comradeship and friendships among team players. But the most popular reason for corporate retreats is to thank and entertain customers and your sales associates with the hopes of generating more business.
What better way to endear your company to its clients than to show your appreciation by hosting them at a corporate retreat weekend. A golf outing is nice and ski packages abound in season but many of those outings are all about the outing. The adventure itself is the event and while they still have the overall effect they don’t generate enough quiet mellow conversational time that an afternoon spent on the lake, river or stream trout fishing can.
These retreats span the luxury rating from a small cabin and open fire next to the lake where cell phones don’t work and there’s no satellite TV, up to 5 star hotel facilities with trout fishing gear, a guide and catered gourmet meals lakeside all included. The common ground and place to relax, talk and form long term business relationships is while your waiting for the trout to bite so next time you pay this customer a sales call, all they can talk about is the wonderful time they had at your companies last trout fishing outing.