Round this time every year, plainly 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 fully, we spend a bit extra time than ordinary 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 workforce 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’ve got continued to refine our remote-first office, the necessity for a unified TUNE tradition has solely intensified. These annual retreats provide a singular setting for workforce members to work together, share greatest practices, and get in-person time with the folks we work with day by 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 blissful to have the ability to share a number of ideas and pictures from our time collectively.
Why We Make Time for a Yearly Retreat
“It’s nice to place your each day ‘work life’ on maintain for every week to have everybody cease every thing and have intensely rewarding breakout periods that offered 360* suggestions. We additionally obtained to replicate on our huge achievements over the previous 12 months, in addition to a peek into the game-changing tasks we might be bringing to the market in 2024 and past!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Growth Specialist
“Touching down in sunny Palm Springs for the annual TUNE retreat introduced every week full of scrumptious meals, enjoyable actions, and even higher firm. Nothing compares to hanging out along with your workforce in particular person. 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 collect collectively in an setting that facilitates collaboration and appreciation amongst friends, in addition to rest and reflection on the place we’ve got 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 obtained 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 talk about TUNE’s VisionType and overview focus areas that can greatest assist an ever-evolving trade. Tremendous excited for what’s to come back!”
—Emily Ersbak, Senior Onboarding Supervisor
“My favourite second was all of the speeches throughout the closing dinner. There was each some laughter and a few blissful tears, and it actually confirmed how a lot people from throughout the corporate cared about TUNE and the group of people who make this such a particular place to work.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Growth
“The retreat in Palm Springs was my favourite TUNE occasion but. It was an ideal mixture of productive conversations and enjoyable workforce constructing. I obtained to spend time with colleagues I hardly ever work together with over Zoom.”
—Lyndsey Fish, Director of Partnerships
“My favourite second was the blissful hour and dinner on the primary night time. There have been soooo many individuals I’ve been wanting to satisfy and chat with, and the room allowed for nice mingling and publicity to everybody.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
Takeaways from Connecting in Particular person
“Whereas I worth the flexibleness of distant work, the importance of interacting with my colleagues in particular person can’t be overstated. The enjoyment of sharing laughter, private anecdotes, and fascinating in work-related discussions amid the backdrop of swaying palm bushes and the beautiful 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 satisfy up face-to-face. Connecting on a extra private stage is nice, but it surely additionally opens up alternatives for dialog and new concepts between folks that nearly actually wouldn’t have had a cause to attach on-line in any other case.”
—Cale Mooth, Senior Product Supervisor
“Being on the ommercial workforce, I’m capable of see people from gross sales, advertising and marketing, and partnerships semi-regularly at occasions and reveals by the 12 months, however attending to work together face-to-face with the remainder of the corporate is one other stage of gratification. I obtained to hang around and bounce concepts off of engineers, product managers, and worldwide staff, and it simply reinforces the truth that we’ve got among the greatest folks working right here. You possibly can generally neglect that sitting behind screens on a regular basis.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Growth
“It was nice connecting with teammates that I communicate to day by day nearly, however IRL! From our ‘convention crew,’ there have been a handful of people who I’ve seen not as soon as, not twice, however thrice this 12 months — in three completely different states!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Growth Specialist
“Having simply joined TUNE two months previous to the retreat, I actually had no concept what to anticipate. Over the following two to a few days, the in-person interactions, conversations, power, and impromptu moments have been points I don’t assume may have been replicated wherever else. I’m grateful to work with such extremely proficient and supportive folks. An enormous shout-out to the workforce that helped make this occasion a actuality, and excited for what’s to come back!”
—Rachel Tu, Built-in Advertising Supervisor
“With being distant since beginning at TUNE, it was so nice to satisfy 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 personalised 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 wanting forward and making an attempt to anticipate what clients 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 feel that is by far essentially the most thrilling time to be at TUNE! We’re questioning and re-evaluating every thing we all know and never afraid to tackle massive challenges. We’re recognizing the altering partnership panorama, understanding what our shoppers have to run profitable packages, and diligently working in the direction of these options. It’s thrilling to see the imaginative and prescient we’ve got for the long run and what impression that would have for our shoppers — and I’m thrilled to be a part of the adjustments which can be about to come back!”
—Soyoon Bach, Director of Buyer Success
“We’re making some massive bets at TUNE, and seeing the VisionType obtained me extraordinarily excited for our future. It’s apparent the product workforce has taken insights from present shoppers, staff, prospects, and trade leaders to develop a extremely intriguing street forward for us.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Growth
“The longer term is shiny for TUNE! The VisionType is nice publicity to the place we need to be, but in addition is a reminder of the work forward to get there.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
”It’s wonderful 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 Growth Specialist
To the Season Forward
Due to everybody who makes TUNE a particular place to work day by day. I’d additionally like to increase a heartfelt thanks to all of our clients, who make it attainable for us to proceed to construct nice issues with nice folks.
Right here’s to constructing on our tradition 12 months after 12 months … and to planning subsequent 12 months’s occasion!
