It’s no secret, crew occasions are extra common than ever. If you’re an occasion supervisor or an HR skilled answerable for placing collectively crew occasions, it’s very seemingly that your calendar prior to now 12 months has been fairly busy. (With much more company occasions within the pipeline…)
And you’re not the one one.
In a latest survey that included hybrid, distant, and totally in-person groups, 25% of admin and occasion managers stated they’re organizing crew get-togethers each month, with 22% saying their crew most well-liked to fulfill quarterly.
There’s little question that firms proceed to see the worth in real-life interactions, whether or not that be a team-building occasion, firm offsite, or bringing colleagues collectively for one of many many tech conferences world wide. But because the urge for food for face-to-face occasions continues to develop, it is important you spend money on the fitting instruments for stress-free and cost-effective planning.
Booking journey and lodging in your crew occasion may be one of the crucial costly and difficult elements of the planning course of, however there are software program instruments particularly designed for group journey to assist with this. This permits firms and occasion managers to save lots of time, get higher management of their occasion price range, and simply coordinate plans with colleagues.
3 methods TravelPerk can simplify journey administration in your subsequent crew occasion:
1. Plan, manage, and share your occasion from one single platform
Those days of getting a number of tabs open in your web browser and frantically having to flick between e-mail, calendar, slack, excel sheets, and a number of reserving confirmations are properly and actually over.
With TravelPerk Events, you possibly can invite members, manage attendees, talk plans, in addition to guide and handle journey all from the identical platform.
This not solely saves you time as an occasion planner but additionally signifies that your crew has one supply of knowledge for the whole lot associated to your upcoming occasion. No extra repetitive slack questions or back-and-forth emails – all of the vital info members want about your crew get collectively may be added to TravelPerk Events.
Once you’ve created an occasion on the TravelPerk platform, you possibly can see who has accepted the invitation or not (and provides them a nudge if you must!) and see every attendee’s journey plans at a look. In just some clicks, you possibly can see after they’re arriving, which lodge they’re staying at, and talk new actions all from inside the identical platform.
Other occasion attendees may have visibility of their colleagues’ journey plans, so crew members touring from the identical metropolis can catch the identical practice for instance, or guide the identical lodge, serving to to maximise cross-team collaboration and fostering these all-important in actual life connections.
See how simple it’s to trace occasion attendees’ journey plans:
If you’re planning a crew occasion, managing everybody’s particular person journey plans is usually a actual headache with a number of itineraries and reserving confirmations. With TravelPerk Events you possibly can see all attendees’ flights, trains & lodging at a look, making group smoother and less complicated.
2. Empower workers to guide their very own occasion journey
In many firms, the duty of reserving enterprise journey for a corporation occasion typically falls on just a few particular individuals within the group. But the reality is, this course of may be actually inefficient. It may cause bottlenecks in your processes, and in lots of instances, go away workers feeling disgruntled and annoyed.
With TravelPerk’s built-in journey insurance policies you possibly can empower workers to guide their very own journey and lodging in your subsequent crew occasion, with the peace of thoughts that they received’t overspend your price range and guide the penthouse suite at a 5* lodge…
In just some minutes, you possibly can set separate journey insurance policies for various groups in your group and resolve the way you need the approval course of to work. For instance, if a crew member books flights and lodging which can be ‘in policy’ you possibly can select to have this robotically accepted inside the platform.
Conversely, if an worker tries to guide a visit that is out of coverage, you possibly can set who within the firm might want to ‘approve’ that journey earlier than it will get booked. Our platform additionally has simple integration with Slack, which sends a notification to the designated ‘approver’ for journeys out of coverage. On common, this integration accelerates the approval course of by 80%. Giving you full management of your occasion and journey price range with out micromanagement. A real win, win for all.
3. Easily regulate your occasion price range
Organizing an unforgettable crew occasion, whereas attempting to stay to your price range may be one of the crucial difficult elements of bringing your crew collectively.
Of the numerous methods TravelPerk might help you lower your expenses on company occasions, one of the crucial valued options on our platform for occasion managers and finance groups alike is the flexibility to trace your journey spend in actual time.
One of the widespread causes occasion managers are likely to overspend their occasion price range is as a result of they’re monitoring prices retrospectively – normally having to collate journey invoices and receipts from everywhere, with out a clear overview of what they’ve spent in actual time. And earlier than you realize it, you notice half the price range has been spent on lodging earlier than you’ve even had an opportunity to arrange refreshments or leisure.
TravelPerk makes monitoring journey spend in your crew occasion extremely simple. Simply apply a custom-made ‘label’ to the occasion you’re organizing after which all prices attributed to this occasion, may be tracked through our subtle reporting dashboard. No extra chasing a number of invoices and receipts to get forward of your occasion price range!
See the way it works beneath.
If, like many firms world wide, you’re trying to future-proof your group with trusted enterprise journey software program, that can make bringing the crew collectively easy and straightforward to handle, then guide a free demo with TravelPerk.