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 top of one other journey across the solar, or one thing else fully, 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 excitement of final 12 months’s retreat, we knew that getting our crew collectively yearly was an essential 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 provide a singular setting for crew members to work together, share finest practices, and get in-person time with the folks we work with daily. There isn’t any alternative for having the ability to meet face-to-face and clear up actual issues collectively.
I’m grateful that we had the chance to create this expertise for a second 12 months, and I’m completely satisfied 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 part and have intensely rewarding breakout periods that offered 360* suggestions. We additionally received to mirror on our large achievements over the previous 12 months, in addition to a peek into the game-changing initiatives we will likely 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 every week crammed with scrumptious meals, enjoyable actions, and even higher firm. Nothing compares to hanging out along with your crew 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 Applications
“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 received 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 evaluation focus areas that may finest assist an ever-evolving business. Tremendous excited for what’s to return!”
—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 completely satisfied 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 crew constructing. I received to spend time with colleagues I hardly ever work together with over Zoom.”
—Lyndsey Fish, Director of Partnerships
“My favourite second was the completely satisfied hour and dinner on the primary night time. There have been soooo many individuals I’ve been wanting to fulfill 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 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 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 fulfill up face-to-face. Connecting on a extra private degree is nice, but it surely additionally opens up alternatives for dialog and new concepts between folks that just about actually wouldn’t have had a cause to attach on-line in any other case.”
—Cale Mooth, Senior Product Supervisor
“Being on the ommercial crew, I’m in a position to see of us from gross sales, advertising and marketing, and partnerships semi-regularly at occasions and reveals by means of the 12 months, however attending to work together face-to-face with the remainder of the corporate is one other degree of gratification. I received 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 few of the finest folks working right here. You may typically overlook that sitting behind screens on a regular basis.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Improvement
“It was nice connecting with teammates that I communicate to daily nearly, 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 totally different states!”
—Dan Buontempone, Enterprise Improvement Specialist
“Having simply joined TUNE two months previous to the retreat, I actually had no concept what to anticipate. Over the following two to 3 days, the in-person interactions, conversations, power, and impromptu moments had been points I don’t suppose may have been replicated anyplace else. I’m grateful to work with such extremely gifted and supportive folks. An enormous shout-out to the crew that helped make this occasion a actuality, and excited for what’s to return!”
—Rachel Tu, Built-in Advertising 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 screen.”
—Kyle Holderness, Senior Buyer Success Supervisor
Ideas on TUNE’s VisionType
“It’s so essential for a company to be wanting forward and attempting to anticipate what prospects would require not simply within the subsequent few months, however three to 5 years from now. It alerts that TUNE is a pacesetter with endurance and never simply following tendencies.”
—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 part 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 packages, and diligently working in the direction of these options. It’s thrilling to see the imaginative and prescient we have now 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 return!”
—Soyoon Bach, Director of Buyer Success
“We’re making some huge bets at TUNE, and seeing the VisionType received me extraordinarily excited for our future. It’s apparent the product crew has taken insights from present shoppers, workers, prospects, and business leaders to develop a extremely intriguing highway forward for us.”
—Nate Ivie, VP of Enterprise Improvement
“The long run is vibrant for TUNE! The VisionType is nice publicity to the place we need to be, but additionally 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 Improvement Specialist
To the Season Forward
Due to everybody who makes TUNE a particular place to work daily. I’d additionally like to increase a heartfelt thanks to all of our prospects, who make it potential for us to proceed to construct nice issues with nice folks.
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Nessa is at the moment the VP of Advertising, however over her decade-long tenure at TUNE, her obligations have prolonged past advertising and marketing to embody roles in each gross sales and operations. Initially from Alaska, she at the moment enjoys embarking on adventures along with her toddler whereas managing to sneak in ski journeys and music reveals in Seattle.
