Worldspan Group

Celebrating 30 Years of Working with Honda

We are delighted to announce that we have just celebrated our 30th anniversary of working with long-standing client Honda.

We operated our first event for Honda in 1980, organising a dealer incentive trip to Thailand. Our events team have estimated that over the last three decades we have delivered in excess of 150 events for Honda on virtually every continent.

Amongst others, our work has included:

The largest event: Honda’s 50th Anniversary celebrations at the Isle of Man TT Races, which hosted 8,000 visitors from around the world.

The longest event: The launch of the Accord to the European Press in Baden-Baden which ran consecutively for three months.

In recognition of this milestone and to celebrate the 30 year partnership between the two companies, we hosted senior management from all divisions of Honda UK and Honda Motor Europe at a reception.

We have always sought to build long term partnerships with our clients and as we enter our fourth successive decade of business, it was such an accolade to celebrate our partnership with Honda. In the words of our Chairman - Len Wilcock: “To work for thirty years with a brand such as Honda is a true privilege and honour”.

In the words of our client “The relationship that Honda has had with Worldspan has been nothing short of outstanding. You understood the Honda philosophy and above all, what your business has created for our staff, dealers and customers are memories and for that we are extremely grateful”.

Thank you Honda!

Cancer Research Appeal

Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK and almost 46,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Sadly more and more people are being affected from the consequences of the disease either directly, or indirectly, through people they know and love.

The good news is that the number of women dying from breast cancer has fallen to less than 12,000 for the first time in almost 40 years.

Thanks to improved detection and better treatments, more people are beating breast cancer than ever before and now 8 out of 10 breast cancer patients survive beyond five years.

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Employee Engagement vs Employee Compliance

Employee engagement is about appealing to the hearts, minds and hands of your staff and gaining their heartfelt commitment to the cause. Commonly, however, organisations can only gain an employee’s compliance which involves just the hands.

There are 4 common key factors in interacting with your employees that will help in creating that desired level of commitment*:

Clarity - every employee must clearly understand what the goal is and they can articulate it to others

Relevance - every employee can see the relevance of the goal to business success

Meaning - they can see the personal meaning of the goal - what does it mean to them and how does it resonate with their personal values

Involvement - most importantly, they have the choice to be involved in shaping and implementing the goal either directly or through another.

*(Belgard-Fisher-Rayner)