At the Fireside with Peter Hayward
Get personal with Peter at his Fireside blog.SCALES OF ECONOMY AND VALUE FOR MONEY
Greetings I trust you are doing well and the seasons have been good to you so far. It’s a funny thing when you sit down and work out what is meant by “great value for money”. Does this mean “really cheap” in your opinion? Or perhaps, “bargain of the year”? It’s a...
PRODUCING A WORLD OF WONDER
Greetings, There is an undercurrent in the event and incentive market to package the marvelous and the extraordinary – but at what seems to be highly restricted rates. It does not seem to have gotten any better since 2010 and in many cases it has not. The industry may...
THE ESSENCE OF A HAYWARD’S GRAND SAFARI
Greetings Sure you’ve always wanted to take your group of top performers on a safari. But it’s been quite a task finding a venue that provides an authentic safari experience and that can handle your whole group, hasn’t it? To add insult to injury when trying to find...
UNWRITTEN RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Grand safari greetings to you It has always been my policy to be open and frank with our supportive agents when it appears other agents are also quoting on the same safari event. To avoid duplication (and because we can) we have guided our esteemed agents to present...
THE GOURMET BURGER
Grand safari greetings to you. I want a hamburger! (Apologies to our vegetarian friends for this simple analogy) A real solid perfectly juicy hamburger with all the frills, all the toppings but most of all, a pure beef patty. But have you taken a real good look at the...
JUST DOING IT
Grand safari greetings to you You may recall the last time you were in good company around a bushveld fire, that there were moments of absolute quiet? A period of no words or idle chatter. Just the hiss of the stumps as they slowly dissolve to ash and an intermittent...
WHO DETERMINES ONE’S
Grand safari greetings to you I recently had the pleasure of producing a Grand Tented Camp Safari Event for a group of ninety business tycoons, their partners and children. There was absolutely no confusion from the host as to exactly how he wanted his two day safari...
TOUCHING SOULS
Grand safari greetings to you! Imagine a business where on a 24/7 basis you are plotting, scheming and practicing the art of making people happy. Enthralling them. Creating effects they have possibly never experienced. Think about that for a moment… Every second of...
Out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary
Grand safari greetings to you It's a strange feeling to meet Goliath face to face. But the thing about giants and why they are extinct is that they have to catch you first! These mammoths are weighed down by too much ego and complexity. Many years ago when I undertook...