Round this time every year, it appears that evidently our ideas naturally have a tendency flip towards the issues we’re grateful for. Whether or not it’s the vacation season, the tip of one other journey across the solar, or one thing else solely, we spend a bit extra time than typical reflecting on the great we’ve been fortunate sufficient to expertise.
This 12 months, one of many issues I’m grateful for is the time we spent collectively on the 2023 TUNE Retreat.
After the thrill of final 12 months’s retreat, we knew that getting our group collectively yearly was an necessary a part of TUNE tradition. For 2023’s occasion, we determined to get out of the PNW and enterprise south to the desert of Palm Springs for some hotter climate and much-needed vitamin D.
As we have now continued to refine our remote-first office, the necessity for a unified TUNE tradition has solely intensified. These annual retreats supply a singular setting for group members to work together, share greatest practices, and get in-person time with the individuals we work with each day. There isn’t any substitute for with the ability to meet face-to-face and resolve actual issues collectively.
I’m grateful that we had the chance to create this expertise for a second 12 months, and I’m glad to have the ability to share a number of ideas and images from our time collectively.
Why We Make Time for a Yearly Retreat
“It’s nice to place your day by day ‘work life’ on maintain for per week to have everybody cease the whole lot and have intensely rewarding breakout classes that supplied 360* suggestions. We additionally bought to replicate on our huge achievements over the previous 12 months, in addition to a peek into the game-changing tasks we can be bringing to the market in 2024 and past!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Improvement Specialist
“Touching down in sunny Palm Springs for the annual TUNE retreat introduced per week full of scrumptious meals, enjoyable actions, and even higher firm. Nothing compares to hanging out together with your group in individual. From the hilarious dinnertime tales to the morning brainstorms over a cup of espresso, I left feeling refreshed and excited for the way forward for TUNE!”
—Shandi Michno, Head of Onboarding and Coaching Packages
“The retreat to me meant a time for all TUNErs to assemble collectively in an atmosphere that facilitates collaboration and appreciation amongst friends, in addition to rest and reflection on the place we have now come whereas specializing in the place we’re going.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
“The pre-travel jitters left instantly as quickly as I bought off the airplane in Palm Springs and began reuniting with friends on the retreat. The power was electrical, and it was nice to get collectively and focus on TUNE’s VisionType and overview focus areas that may greatest help an ever-evolving business. Tremendous excited for what’s to return!”
—Emily Ersbak, Senior Onboarding Supervisor
“My favourite second was all of the speeches in the course of the closing dinner. There was each some laughter and a few glad tears, and it actually confirmed how a lot of us from throughout the corporate cared about TUNE and the group of those who make this such a particular place to work.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Improvement
“The retreat in Palm Springs was my favourite TUNE occasion but. It was an ideal mixture of productive conversations and enjoyable group constructing. I bought to spend time with colleagues I not often work together with over Zoom.”
—Lyndsey Fish, Director of Partnerships
“My favourite second was the glad hour and dinner on the primary evening. There have been soooo many individuals I’ve been wanting to fulfill and chat with, and the room allowed for excellent mingling and publicity to everybody.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
Takeaways from Connecting in Individual
“Whereas I worth the pliability of distant work, the importance of interacting with my colleagues in individual can’t be overstated. The enjoyment of sharing laughter, private anecdotes, and fascinating in work-related discussions amid the backdrop of swaying palm timber and the gorgeous surroundings of Palm Springs is actually unparalleled. What extra may one ask for?”
—Iana Starostovich, Head of Buyer Success, EMEA
“Since TUNE is a remote-first firm, it’s all the time thrilling to get out from behind the digital camera and have an opportunity to fulfill up face-to-face. Connecting on a extra private stage is nice, however it additionally opens up alternatives for dialog and new concepts between individuals that just about definitely wouldn’t have had a motive to attach on-line in any other case.”
—Cale Mooth, Senior Product Supervisor
“Being on the ommercial group, I’m capable of see of us from gross sales, advertising and marketing, and partnerships semi-regularly at occasions and exhibits by means of the 12 months, however attending to work together face-to-face with the remainder of the corporate is one other stage of gratification. I bought to hang around and bounce concepts off of engineers, product managers, and worldwide workers, and it simply reinforces the truth that we have now a number of the greatest individuals working right here. You may typically neglect that sitting behind screens on a regular basis.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Improvement
“It was nice connecting with teammates that I converse to each day just about, however IRL! From our ‘convention crew,’ there have been a handful of those who I’ve seen not as soon as, not twice, however thrice this 12 months — in three completely different states!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Improvement Specialist
“Having simply joined TUNE two months previous to the retreat, I actually had no thought what to anticipate. Over the following two to 3 days, the in-person interactions, conversations, power, and impromptu moments have been features I don’t suppose may have been replicated wherever else. I’m grateful to work with such extremely proficient and supportive individuals. An enormous shout-out to the group that helped make this occasion a actuality, and excited for what’s to return!”
—Rachel Tu, Built-in Advertising and marketing Supervisor
“With being distant since beginning at TUNE, it was so nice to fulfill so many individuals that I work with each every day, in addition to in one-off conditions. Fostering IRL relationships with teammates makes for a way more customized expertise when working with colleagues going ahead and serves as a reminder that we’re all human beings, not simply bots behind a display.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
Ideas on TUNE’s VisionType
“It’s so necessary for a company to be trying forward and making an attempt to anticipate what prospects would require not simply within the subsequent few months, however three to 5 years from now. It indicators that TUNE is a pacesetter with endurance and never simply following traits.”
—Cale Mooth, Senior Product Supervisor
“I’ve been at TUNE for over six years now, and I believe that is by far probably the most thrilling time to be at TUNE! We’re questioning and re-evaluating the whole lot we all know and never afraid to tackle huge challenges. We’re recognizing the altering partnership panorama, understanding what our shoppers have to run profitable applications, and diligently working in direction of these options. It’s thrilling to see the imaginative and prescient we have now for the longer term and what impression that would have for our shoppers — and I’m thrilled to be a part of the modifications which might be about to return!”
—Soyoon Bach, Director of Buyer Success
“We’re making some huge bets at TUNE, and seeing the VisionType bought me extraordinarily excited for our future. It’s apparent the product group has taken insights from present shoppers, workers, prospects, and business leaders to develop a extremely intriguing street forward for us.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Improvement
“The longer term is vivid for TUNE! The VisionType is nice publicity to the place we wish to be, but additionally is a reminder of the work forward to get there.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
”It’s superb to see what got here to fruition from our 2022 VisionType presentation, and I can’t wait to see our 2023 VisionType come to life!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Improvement Specialist
To the Season Forward
Due to everybody who makes TUNE a particular place to work each day. I’d additionally like to increase a heartfelt thanks to all of our prospects, who make it doable for us to proceed to construct nice issues with nice individuals.
Right here’s to constructing on our tradition 12 months after 12 months … and to planning subsequent 12 months’s occasion!
