Last month, we celebrated the fifteenth birthday of Clarendon Business Centres by taking the whole team for a weekend trip to Paris...
One of the secrets of our success at Clarendon is that we encourage all our staff to talk regularly to our teams based in other Business Centres. Sharing our experiences helps us to analyse and improve the ways we look after our clients and also is a great way of reminding our staff that they are part of the bigger Clarendon family.
Last month, we celebrated the fifteenth birthday of Clarendon Business Centres by taking the whole team for a weekend trip to Paris. Although there was some work activity, the main goal of the trip was to reward our hard-working team and encourage interaction and knowledge-sharing between staff, old and new, and distant and local.
Charlotte Jilbert organised the trip and described the experience as follows…
It was an early start for all of the 26 Clarendon team members heading off from St Pancras on the 07.20 train to Paris. Many of the team had not visited Paris before so there was a great deal of excitement. We all practiced what we had learnt at school, many of us declaring our names and the fact that we were all 11 years old! Whilst our French accents may have varied from the impressively bilingual to rather too close to an Inspector Clouseau impression, everyone was trying hard to speak French.
A great deal of planning had been put in to ensure that everyone could enjoy the break as much as possible and we ensured that everyone had their 'packs' including the hop-on hop-off tour bus and the tickets for the river cruise.
When we arrived in Paris, everyone was able to enjoy free time until meeting under the iconic landmark that is the Eiffel Tower. We took the rare opportunity to take this group picture (above) and it's definitely one for our photo album!
"It was great to watch the team forming friendships with other staff members that they had spoken to on the phone but not had the opportunity to spend much time with in person" said Candy Woodington, Clarendon's Operations Director. "Seeing the team in a relaxed environment, enjoying themselves was just what we hoped for".
Back at the hotel and all checked in, Frankie Baldwin, CSA, Oxford, was delighted with her room saying "I've never stayed in such a lovely place!"
We had a wonderful meal in a restaurant just off the Champs Elysées and some retired earlier than others - many opting to endure the highs and lows of the England game at a local bar. With some free time the next day and a hassle free check-in for our return journey we returned home, a tired but happy team.
In conclusion, one of our team posted: "See, you work hard - you get rewarded" which really encapsulated the ethos of the trip. Everyone enjoyed themselves and have already started planning our Sixteenth Birthday Trip!
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