Conferencing, like golf and many other aspects of our lives, has its seasons. The first quarter of this year saw many companies shaking off 2010 and booking conferences at Greetham Valley to discuss how to move their businesses forward. Many companies have shed employees in recent years and seem to be concentrating on ‘upgrading’ their remaining staff – retraining workshops, seminars, brainstorming have all been very much in evidence as businesses focus on investing in their people. Conferencing trends for 2011 therefore are twofold:

• smaller meetings between higher management, offsite and in private
• larger workshop type seminars, with multi breakout groups and an emphasis in encouraging employees to believe in themselves and in the companies they work for

After a quieter summer, conference bookings are picking up again for the colder season – everyone’s back from holidays and raring to go, of course!!

Now this would save some greenkeeping costs on our golf courses! Toro, a well known golf course machinery company, came to Greetham Valley to demonstrate to the regions’ greenkeepers their latest products. Whilst here, the demo included cutting tees, fairways and greens with state of the art equipment and with the greatest care. We’d like to invite Toro to do a similar demonstration again – maybe twice a week during the growing season??