Employers are increasingly seeking tangible ways to improve the wellbeing and mental health of their staff and are becoming very interested in the opportunities offered by ‘Mindfulness’. As we are now regularly being asked by clients to incorporate aspects of this in our team building activities, I thought I would devote this blog to describing [Continue Reading]
Team Activities Within Learning and Development
Whenever my phone rings and I see the name Susy Roberts from the company Hunter Roberts come up, I immediately smile. This is because we have been working with each other for well over ten years and I can be assured that whatever Susy asks from us, it will always be fun and an interesting [Continue Reading]
Tailoring Events to Clients’ Specific Requirements
I love it when I can get creative with an event and I recently had a great example of this. A client telephoned me with a requirement of a day-long programme of team activities to bond together a small team of senior managers. It was a new team being brought together. The lines of communication [Continue Reading]
Adding Team Events to Training Programmes
Last night, I was delivering a drumming exercise to a compact group of seven senior management participants. This was part of an intensive training day for them and highlighted some themes that external consultants had been working on with them. Drumming, Haka and many of our interactive activities continue to be used to explore and demonstrate [Continue Reading]
Enhancing Training with Creative Activities
We absolutely relish working with training companies to integrate our activities into training events and programmes. We provide hands-on, interactive group activities that can bring practical application to personality profiling and analysis of group dynamics – to make a training project totally memorable and understandable. Our sessions bring practical application to the theory! As part [Continue Reading]
Creating Emotional Responses with Team Building
Over the last ten years we have been asked more and more to bring our creative team building activities into training environments. Last night, I returned from Frankfurt after delivering a specially-designed drumming activity. This was a part of a week-long communication training course with the wonderful Courageous Communication Partnership. In the training course, Courageous [Continue Reading]
Drumming in Leadership Training
By taking our team building drumming sessions to a much deeper level, we have devised many formats and exercises that perfectly complement training and development sessions. In a training context, our number one objective is to be relevant to the course or the client’s specific outcomes. This is a terrific challenge but highly rewarding. We know [Continue Reading]
Way Beyond Executive Team Building
Often, we are asked to merge one of our creative activities with another event, for use within a senior management environment. This might be an executive team building course, a communication programme, or a change management seminar. By doing so, we are asked to deliver much deeper objectives and we relish these challenges. This leads us [Continue Reading]