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!

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)

Top 10 tips for running Successful Employee Workshops

1. Create  an appealing environment - a light, airy comfortable venue and appropriate table & chair layout
2. Offer the opportunity for groups to mingle before, during and after to assist in natural ice-breaking
3. Offer refreshments throughout to ensure the mind and body is ‘on the job’ and concentration levels are high
4. Provide plenty of breaks to cater for natural attention spans and allow time to absorb and reflect
5. Use a range of stimulating media to structure the learning process
6. Create workshop materials with a laser-like focus on the objective you are trying to achieve
7. Train the presenters and facilitators beforehand and ensure their skills, techniques and knowledge are up to speed to maximise the workshop
8. Capture the output and use that intelligence in future communications strategies - close the loop and don’t let the feedback get lost
9. Keep to time and keep the agenda moving
10. Provide plenty of opportunity to feedback during and after - verbally and/or in writing