Scavenger Hunt Gaming and Corporate Team Building in Philadelphia

Scavenger Hunting is catching on with how some corporate execs think would help their staff bond, work together and find each other’s strengths in the city of brotherly love. A private treasure hunt for an afternoon outing involves some legwork, riddle solving and the combination of unique skills and brain power. Scavenger hunting within the city of Philadelphia can hinge on a variety of unique themes. For instance a hunt to-do question list can bring hunters wandering the old neighborhood... Read more »

Some Basics on Team Building

This will be a brief discussion on some of the rationale companies use to decide to provide team building games for their employees and an example of scavenger hunting as the next new wave of exercise. The specific example of such an exercise will be for those in the Chicago metro area. Sometime after the industrial boom, social awareness and unions gathered to protect the employees’ welfare. Companies and competition grew throughout the U.S. and more focus was directed within. Corporations... Read more »

Are Treasure Hunts An Effective Team Building Activity?

Firstly, let’s take a look at the advantages of hosting a treasure hunt event for your team building session. Communication has to be high up on the list of benefits, on good events your team will need to communicate the information to each other. Getting people working together and breaking the ice is clearly achieved. There is a habit to want to stick with what you know and on these types of events you can mix up your team into small groups and by the end they will have bonded with their... Read more »

Ho Ho Ho - The Office Christmas Party

Its that time of year again, when summer is ending and its time to think about the perfect Christmas venue for your office party or social event. The search is having to start earlier and earlier as Christmas venues are getting more and more difficult to find as they are booked out months, even years in advance. There are two important issues to consider when looking for the perfect Christmas venue - location and atmosphere. Although you need to ensure that the location of your Christmas venue... Read more »

The Nice Flower Market

While spending the day simply walking around Nice, sipping cafe or lounging at the beach is likely more than enough to sate any visitor, this Mediterranean city also offers a few must-see stops as well. Among them are the Matisse Museum, the ancient Roman ruins, and most certainly the Cours Saleya Flower Market. Nice is famous for its Flower Market, which is open six days a week (on Mondays, the Flower Market is replaced by an almost equally delightful flea and antiques market). This brief walking... Read more »

Managing in a Multicultural Environment

Effectively managing a multicultural business requires at least a basic knowledge of your employee’s culture and traditions. Familiarity with both is essential because each has a bearing on an employee’s every day behavior. Our cultural identity helps us feel like we are “part” of the society around us. It keeps us from feeling isolated and sometimes it even helps us know how to react. For example, as Americans, we know it’s appropriate to stand and place our hands... Read more »

High Performance Fiduciary Creates Wealth

A recent survey suggests that advisory principals may, in fact, be savvier about the importance of succession planning than other businesspeople. In the survey, 33% of advisors said they have a written succession plan; only 8% of other business leaders say they have such a plan. Some advisory firms have a succession plan that was passed down to their leadership as part of the company culture. Based on the experiences of several advisory firms, the succession plan has the added value of reassuring... Read more »

Business Relationships - Promises are for Keeping

It’s a small thing, but it is so vital. In your business relationships, forgetting little things promised, causes erosion of trust and belief in you and all you stand for. And ultimately, those little things add up to a lot for your people. And that affects you and in the end, your business success. Integrity is very important to me, and I try hard to ‘do unto others as I would wish them do unto me’. It hasn’t always worked that way for me though. There have been times in... Read more »

Business Development - the Importance of Just ‘Talking’

Building relationships with your people is the most valuable action you can take. This week, make the time to get to know your people better. Create spaces in your diary to have some conversations with them which will build rapport. This makes a big difference if you are to build together as a team. All business is built on relationships - even virtual ones where the only connection between a vendor and customer is virtual. For most of us, face to face relationships are the order of the day, yet... Read more »

Agendas - The Key to Successful Meetings

For meetings to consistently deliver the required performance and hence outputs, it is critical to have a prepared communication process in advance of the meeting. This enables participants to be aware and where appropriate prepare for the meeting in advance. It also allows for them to circulate any preparatory information and pre-reading before the meeting to minimise any information-giving during valuable meeting time. This time when all participants are together must be devoted to the interchange... Read more »