Teamwork makes the dream work

Team away day with MBE Franchise Partner, Peter Lyons

Peter Lyons is one of MBE UK & Ireland’s longest-serving franchise partners, opening his first store in Marylebone High Street, London, over 25 years ago. His five highly successful central-London stores regularly top the company’s total sales chart across the network and he is a dedicated champion of the MBE brand.

Peter is committed to developing his team by giving employees a career path, celebrating success and rewarding hard work. Inspired by the performance of his centres, which had shown a 5% growth on the previous year and delivered a great first quarter, Peter felt the best way to thank and motivate his team this summer was to combine a review with some training and team-building activities that would take them out of their everyday environment. And what better way to do this than whisking them off to a five-star hotel for two days on the south coast, combined with a sail on the Solent?

Peter says: “Twelve of us met in the Kensington store and travelled to our hotel in Southampton for individual presentations on store performance and the chance for everyone to share ideas. Everyone had their own sumptuous room.

“In the evening we wined and dined out until the early hours. After an early start the next day for the director’s review, we all boarded a luxury yacht to take us up the Hamble river, over to the Isle of Wight and around The Needles.”

The team then had a fabulous lunch at The Hut restaurant at Colwell Bay. (If you haven’t checked it out, it’s well worth a look!)

“We returned home that evening,” continues Peter, “for a refreshed and invigorated start to the second half of the year with a renewed focus on accelerated growth and excellent service. I’m certain the whole team enjoyed the trip and that it helped motivate them to continue to proudly represent the Mail Boxes Etc. brand.”

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