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Since the 2008 Wall Street Meltdown, it’s been a bumpy ride for many companies and industries. Yet, signs are that the economy is on the upswing. So, how does an executive take a team that’s battle weary and a bit discouraged and inspire them to give those final pushes required to seize emerging [...]

The Greater Toronto and areas accessible to it (e.g. the Muskokas, Niagara-on-the-Lake) offer many possibilities for team building. Your options will vary depending on the time of year and, of course, your budget. The key is to combine facilitated business exercises and cases with activities to invigorate your team and boost team spirit. Here are [...]

If you want to create a team building session with a tropical theme, you can always plaster the room with travel posters, scatter beach balls around the room, play reggae and calypso music, serve drinks with umbrellas, and project images from a DVD. Somehow, this doesn’t come close enough to the real thing [...]

With companies looking for cost effective approaches to provide facilitated business team building, team building with a winter theme is an approach worth exploring. The beauty of this approach is that one can scale it up or down depending on budget.
With modern technology, it’s now possible at unexpected places around the world including Dubai, Singapore, [...]

Team Building Pitfalls How to Avoid De-railing Your Next Team Building Session
To ensure that you get value from the time and money invested in team building sessions and corporate retreats, here are some more pitfalls for companies to avoid.

Whenever the economy takes a nosedive or goes into a tailspin, the knee jerk reaction for many organization is to put all team building initiatives on indefinite hold or scrap them altogether. This is a short-sighted approach that misses the mark. When it’s essential to pare down your budget, this is the perfect time to [...]

When organizations expand beyond their borders, fostering cross cultural understanding and business etiquette at your various locations are crucial. You do this in a unique, inspiring, memorable, and affordable way with a half day international fair that includes interactive team building.

Effective team building involves much more than fun and games. A simulation or activity is only as as effective as the briefing that preceeds it and the debriefing that follows it. In fact, although our bias is that team building can be enhanced by incorporating recreational activities that promote team bonding, team building can [...]

Team building that isn’t closely linked to the real world issues and challenges of your business is a waste of time. It is really important for CEOs and other executives to support team building to ensure that:

The company vision gets communicated clearly
You leverage each and every opportunity to reinforce the corporate culture [...]

What’s reasonable when requesting a quote for team building? Our latest blog entry will give both team building firms and clientas an idea of some reasonable expectations.

I know that all organizations are looking for additional streams of revenue. These are tough times and the hotel industry has been particularly hard hit. However, isn’t it misleading to market recreational programmes and entertainment as “team building”?

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