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I was asked to do a short piece for our local radio station the other day on how team building might be effective for the new Government coalition. My instinctive response was that the issues of bringing together two political parties with what would often be two contradicting views on issues would be an unusual challenge – but, as with a lot of things, my instant reactions were wrong.

After all each party is itself a mix of individuals and factions with conflicting views, aims and ambitions – it is just that with the Liberal / Conservative coalition there becomes an even wider mix of aims.

What is the difference between political team building and corporate team building – very little I would say after giving the matter some more thought. In a corporate environment individuals are seeking to achieve their personal aims which often might conflict with or to a lesser extent deviate from the corporate goal – ever heard of office politics? The team leader has to recognise this and establish clear objectives for the team as a whole and then create the environment in which the disparate ambitions of the individuals are harnessed to the good of the team – and this is the area in which team building plays an important part.

Every day the corporate world brings together different teams and competitors to work together in mergers, acquisitions and more pertinently joint projects, ventures and major engineering works. It’s just taken the politicians a while to catch up.

I’m awaiting David Cameron’s call.

Whilst we all know that a poor journalist has to make a living somehow however that cannot be accepted as an excuse for poor journalism.  Not so for Kate Devlin the Medical Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.

   She wrote a fascinating article on Team Building when, obviously feeling in need of a break, she took time out at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Stratford-upon-Avon. (more…)

My client was looking for a fun and interactive team building event to run after dinner on the evening of their event conference for sixty sales staff and managers from regions across the UK. It needed to be memorable and within a strict budget, whilst taking the delegates away from the bar! (more…)

The message was innovation and profitability as my client was trying to become the most profitable insurance provider on the market. We provided a two day conference event for forty six regional managers to push home the company message and outline the steps needed to achieve this. They required corporate team building with an emphasis on communication and working together to solve business problems and we had just the thing. (more…)

My client has ten Regional Sales Managers who often work together on the same projects but rarely have the opportunity to get together. With a new Managing Director and a recently appointed Sales Manager, team building and developing communication understanding were key issues. (more…)

A market leader asked us to create a back to basics team building event with a difference for 200 guests. They wanted teams to pull together on activities to achieve a reward for the whole group later in the evening whilst incorporating the conference and business messages discussed in the morning session. We talked through lots of options, coming together to create an Inside Out Party. (more…)

“We have a new team and a slot available before dinner. Can you give us something to get them working together?” This was the enquiry from a regular venue contact of mine for a client enquiry. They were a new team who had only been working together for a few months and had never held an event before. (more…)

“We want Rags to Riches! but which games do you suggest?” A regular client needed help to put together the team building option for their annual conference. Building on the success of last years event they wanted activities to inspire a mixed group of guests. (more…)

A well-known brewer (our favourite sort of customer!) came to us looking for ideas for the conclusion of their conference. The conference theme was to be “stand out from the competition” and working well as a team was vital to their success. With a top-secret product about to be launched there was only one solution… (more…)