Seven team building activities for retreats
Retreats (aka conferences and offsites) often start with a get-to-know-others activity (See my post of Sept ... a dose of team building. Here are some examples from my consulting experience. Team cooking (such as by Team Cuisine in Massachusetts) lets members of a law department do something together [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 16:53:05
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Molly Fuller
Molly is the founder of Hands On Gourmet, culinary parties and team building. She is also a Make Mine a Million $ Business Awardee ... and cook with professional chefs,” Molly says. “It’s a team building exercise, it’s camaraderie building, it’s an activity ice breaker for co-workers.” View full interview here [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 21:52:02
cooking and leadership
Corporate team building sometimes happens in the kitchen these days. I often hear about the team cooking as an alternative to paintballing, go-carting, rock climbing ... of heightened stress and activity. At such times it doesn’t hurt to go back to tried and true, more formulated [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 20:28:43
Education and Reform: Personal Reflections on the Duncan Pick
In my time as a high school teacher, I worked for two distinctly different principals ... to attend a four-day “team-building” retreat cooked up by Human Resources evil-doers. Well-dressed twenty-something corporate trainers barraged us with platitudes [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 14:19:00
Tonight: Peggy Markel Dinner @ The Kitchen in Boulder, Colorado.
Didn’t know about this amazing reservation-only dinner with slow food cook, culinary adventuress & elephantjournal ... in building community through her culinary immersion travel adventure programs. Come and meet the woman ... feature in the February issue of Food & Wine, The Kitchen’s Hugo Matheson will team up with Peggy to cook [more...]
Date: 2009-02-09 20:47:48
Self Healing Expressions Newsletter - June Cook
This is a newsletter produced by my friend, June Cook. Great information, and wonderful courses for you! Sally www.drsallywitt ... the team building exercises she and the other CITs were ... State” of Summer Love… Just For Fun! 7) Do Angels walk among us in disguise? TERRIFIC SHORT FILM [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 19:12:42
The Greenhouse is up!
A big thank you to our dedicated building team comprising one engineer, one quantity surveyor, one lawyer and one civil servant ( ... of cooking the meal and drinking wine). Here it is!! It contains some former [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 17:10:52
Gourmet Restaurant in the Dark
Learning how to use a Trangia is brilliant fun and very useful. Cooking is also a great life skill, and a very good team building excersise ... recipe for the culinary success you find here . [more...]
Date: 2009-02-08 13:24:00
Executive pay greed demoralises employees
March 2, 2009 – 7:05 am, by Trevor Cook Executive salaries are routinely justified as market-based, ... out of the business as quickly as possible.Avaricious corporate bureaucrats love human resources. They spend buckets of their shareholders’ funds on stuff called employee engagement, team building [more...]
Date: 2009-03-01 20:05:42
Teen Challange in Wargrave for 2008
Wargrave Teen Challange will be running on Tueday 28th October - Friday 31st October 2008 ... has been running for over 3 years now and over 45 young people get together to do team building and group activites, we have wall climing, orinteering, lazer pulser, cooking, Art projects, woodland skills + lots [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 19:16:48
Competitions & Opportunities: Team Up with Apartment Therapy for DIY Month
Spread the word! Our pals over at Apartment Therapy are hosting a competition during February called Do It Now where they invite you to tackle one small household project: painting a bureau, rewiring your home theater, building an organizer for all your cooking spices, whatevering a whatever. We here at Etsy are dangling some tantalizing [more...]
Date: 2009-02-03 20:16:00
Wale[squared]
Greetings!! Time is going by so fast! When we first arrived in Ghana, we spent a week in the capital (Accra) ... to cook local dishes! Lauren and I are planning confidence building activities for girls ... and I watched the Walewale girls’ soccer team play a match against the boys. Before the match we we’ [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:50:27
Building a Contemporary Immigrant Work Force
By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS The New York City Taxi Union Berkeley–In the last two issues, this newspaper published articles on Palestine ( ... has been thoughtfully amassing his ruling team, but there have been two controversial selections. The first is Rahm [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 17:47:44
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