Don’t have the time to spend a whole day doing team building? Or maybe you want to incorporate regular, short team building activities as part of your on-going corporate development. Keeping it simple can offer a host of benefits with minimum effort. Here are some of our favourites. 1) I Had A Boss Who… WhileRead More
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How To Choose The One For You From Team Building Companies
Team building teaches new skills, harmonises workplaces, and invigorates teams. However, when it comes to choosing the right team building company for your organisation, there is a lot of variety out there in terms of quality, delivery, and capability. Here are the main things to look for. 1) Experience Absolutely top of the list isRead More
Engaging Prospective University Graduates With Fun Team Building
Sponsored by the Outreach Team at Birmingham University, a team building activity was required to enable a group of prospective under graduates from non-typical backgrounds to quickly feel welcome and bonded with their fellow course mates. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Share
The Thinker On The Race Track: Wrong Personality Types In The Wrong Roles
Making sure an organisation has the right people in the right roles is a business-critical function. Human capital deployed into the wrong roles can lead to a negative employee experience. This can present major barriers to teams achieving their optimum performance. Knowing The Team Getting to know which personality types are represented in your teamRead More
Ready, Steady, Cook! A Team Meal
Most people are familiar with the phrase ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’. EML’s Super Chef challenge is the team building activity that will bring this saying to life, and see if it applies to your team. Who Does What? Commercial kitchens operate along delineated lines of control and command. Every team member will knowRead More
Radio Silence: Get Your Managers & Team Members Communicating Again
Day-to-day poor communication can lead to misunderstandings at best. At worst, it can lead to complete communication breakdown and conflict. It doesn’t take much imagination to see where this leads. While communication won’t always be perfect, an ongoing culture of poor communication is a disaster for businesses. The Challenge For Managers The sheer number ofRead More
You’ve got 60 Seconds: Drop Your Team Into The Crystal Maze
Team building activities can sometimes be met with a silent groan by employees. This is often due to poor quality experiences in the past, with no discernible benefits to the employees or business. Booking a team building event with expert providers can help mitigate the resistance, as can having a familiar topic. Most people haveRead More
A Fun Evening With The Team Or An Exercise In Business Growth… Why Not Both?
It’s no secret that somewhere along the line, team building events got a bit of a murky reputation. Reputable events became seen as expensive jollies dressed up as a serious business. Even if this were true in some cases, it’s a substantial misrepresentation of the possibilities that a well-facilitated evening team building event offers anRead More
Innovating To Hit The Target – Conference Team Building
Collaborating with the client we decided to base the team building solution on our Construction Project format. Rather than have 40 teams design and build one of our more typical devices such as cranes, catapults or bridges we tailored the activity to build ‘football free-kick machines’. Required Specifications: Client: Southampton FCRead More
5 Team-Building Activities That Need You To C-OM-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-E
EML provides a wide selection of team building activities to develop communication skills. Here are five that require team members to communicate throughout. 1) Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code is an immersive treasure hunt that needs the team to work together to crack the ancient code. Only the teams that can communicate effectivelyRead More