Leadership Magazines Leadership Magazine Issue 5 | Page 20

Incentive Trip Recap In January 2013, after seven months of hard work during the “LETS CRUISE!” incentive, 375 of our Independent Product Consultants (IPCs) and the dōTERRA Executive Team set sail from San Juan, Puerto Rico on a sunny Caribbean cruise. In addition to those who qualified, we had many IPCs who joined us just because they didn’t want to miss out on all the fun. During an action packed week, we traveled to St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Aruba, and Curacao. IPCs enjoyed kayaking through a mangrove lagoon, snorkeling from a catamaran in the aqua blue water, and a very competitive round of volleyball on their own private island. However, these were only a few of the many adventures IPCs enjoyed. In addition, lifelong friendships were formed during evenings filled with dinners, dancing, karaoke, and games. dōTERRA even found time for high energy training, while at sea. It’s safe to say that the highlight of the trip, for the entire group, was our Voluntourism Day, in Aruba. Under the dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation the group participated in service projects. These projects covered five different schools, in great need, throughout the Dutch island. Rather than just donate money for future projects, our IPCs put in hours of hard work building playgrounds, painting buildings, planting gardens, laying cement, and leading the children in activities. Both the children and our IPCs, left with happy faces and memories that will last forever. We look forward to our next incentive trip, and hope to see you there! 20 Essential leadership | Spring 2013 “The trip was truly wonderful! It was so inspiring and real to meet the leadership of dōTERRA and the opportunity to share experiences in the training sessions and activities was invaluable. What more can we say, this was by far a once in a lifetime experience. We will remember this throughout our career with dōTERRA . It took hard work to win the grand prize, signing up so many new people certainly pushed us out of our comfort zone. However, we learned a lot about oils and people in the process and would not trade that experience for anything! We made a commitment to do the very best we could and the Grand Prize was our goal. We set up a plan and stuck to it, and ended up achieving the results we had hoped and prayed for. dōTERRA has changed our lives not only the oils, but also the philosophy of business and integrity that it promotes. We share our lives and the dōTERRA opportunity with everyone we meet. –Brent & Kristi Averett, Gold, Grand Prize Winners “dōTERRA goes all out on incentive trips! Nothing beats winning and going for free, but it would have been worth every penny if we had spent the money to go. Who doesn’t want a huge dose of sunshine in the middle of winter? The relationships built on these trips are special and lasting. We have learned so much from the other amazing people who went. Incentive trips are definitely the events to attend if you want to get inspired and spurred on in your business.” –Paul & Betsy Holmes, Blue Diamond, 2nd Place