With all the talk about effective team building techniques it’s remarkable how often we see people get the wrong end of the stick entirely. In 2008, for example, the boss of a company in Utah water boarded a member of his sales team as part of a team building exercise. His aim in this instance: to inspire them to strive for every sale. Did it work?

No. Once he’d recovered his breath the traumatised worker stumbled back to his desk. “My team just tried to kill me,” was his verdict. He later launched a law suit against the company for torture. It just goes to show, if you don’t think things through they can quickly go very wrong indeed.

On a less extreme level, managers spend thousands of pounds every year on team building events. Unless you know precisely what it is you want to achieve that’s just money down the drain.

Developing team work is a delicate task. You need to engender a unity of spirit amongst your workforce, identify a common purpose and help them learn how to work together. Only when employers adequately understand the aims and objectives involved can their precious efforts pay dividends.

If you want to know how to plan a team building event, give us a call. We can discuss your objectives and find the best option for you.

The Greeks have been participating in Flour Wars recently, the village of Galaxidi sees thousands of people from the surrounding areas arrive in plastic suits, split into two rival gangs and then throw a lot of flour 1500kg of flour to be precise. The Flour Wars annual event is hosted to relieve tension and stress and with the year that Greece has had they certainly need to vent!

It’s often the case in business that stress and tension will build up but throwing flour may not be seen as productive but you do need to relieve the stress and diffuse the tension. This is where good team building come in.

Hosting a quality, well organised team building event can work wonders for your team. You can often see a marked transformation within the event, bridges are built and bonds are forged. Team building doesn’t just have to happen in the daytime, you can host an evening event or even at the weekend.

If you would like to discuss a team building event for your company, give us a call today and we can discuss your specific objectives and outline your options.

The newspapers have been full with the news that one British couple from the West Country won themselves £56 million. Congratulations! Lucky them, one lucky ticket and a selection of lucky numbers has seen them catapult into the nations ‘seriously rich’ category!

We all like a feel good story like this, it makes us believe that someday we too could be lucky, maybe we wouldn’t win £56 million but maybe, just maybe it could be a million or so…? As we all know in business the last thing we can rely on is luck. Sometimes luck will give us a chance meeting with a client or call them up at the right time on the right day and a deal is secured but our business infrastructure is based on solid facts and solid teams.

It is sometimes surprising that some companies invest in systems, spend money improving products but leave their team totally to luck. Communication, motivation and co-operation is left to chance. This is a big mistake as your team is as important an investment as many of your other business priorities, teams don’t just happen, they take working at and it’s normally only when things start to go wrong that people realise that they should have invested in their team.

We appreciate how important team building is at Accolade Corporate Events, we’ve devised a whole range of team building events and we love creating new and exciting concepts to meet our clients objectives. Give our team a call today and let’s start building your team.