Corporate leisure in Ukraine
The majority of Ukrainian managers note that corporate activities represent a special kind of motivation. Effects of such activities may be noticeable not only inside the company, but outside it in case if activities involved trainings and public actions. ???Corporate leisure also results in the rise of motivation and strengthening of the corporate spirit. In some cases it even brings new clients and increase brand popularity??? ??“ says marketing-manager of Kiev office of international law firm ???DLA Paper??? Natalie Marchenko. From the words of the HR-department director of ???CITIUS??? company it is clear that main tasks of corporate activities are: the development of positive inside relations between colleagues, increasing of self-reliance and reliance in members of own team, development of the ability to make quick decisions and think unconventionally.?
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Undoubtedly, there are lots of firms celebrating only New Year and 8th of March. However, the quantity of those which gather not less than 5-7 times a year is increasing. Each year large companies spend more and more money on corporate activities. This expense item in the company??™s budget becomes more important.? Ukrainian company that wishes to celebrate New Year, 8th of March, its corporate birthday and professional day, as well as gather two times a year for business trainings and 2 times for an active rest, must be ready to spend $80-150 thousand.?
All corporate activities could be divided into two main categories: business-meetings and corporate holidays. Practically all Ukrainian enterprises arrange both types of events as they purpose differ. Business meetings, conferences and congresses are essential components of every business community, company or fund. Meetings of interested parties represent an excellent possibility to sum up everything, change plans or the strategy, come to an agreement. Most popular business activities are trainings, symposia, business trips, team-buildings. The price of usual training for a company is on average $3 thousands. An average price of business-session is about $4-5 thousands. The workers of above-mentioned company ???DLA Paper??? attend special course of English. Each worker can also visit 1 or 2 trainings abroad annually in order to raise qualification or to broaden contacts.?
The best way to relax after hard project is to organize a corporate party, visit a bowling-club, to arrange some kind of corporate holiday and entertainment. Such amusements are even more popular in Ukraine than business-meetings. It is worth to mention that their price is higher (from $2 thousands to $40 thousands).?
Here are prices on different types of corporate activities (an average price for one person):?
Training abroad - $500-1000?
Corporate training - $70-250?
Team-building - $20-150?
Corporate banquet - $50-150?
Outdoor corporate holiday - $300-800?
Corporate picnic - $5-30?
As we can see in Ukraine are popular almost every kind of corporate gatherings. The choice depends on company??™s age, specialization, an average age of its workers. Organizers should think of every detail and avoid turning corporate leisure into banal ???booze-up???. They must answer questions: what is the aim of gathering, for whom is it held and which sum of money is acceptable for firm.?