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| How Hunts Boost Your Bottom Line |
| Fact: Companies That Promote Enthusiasm Make More Money That’s what management expert David Maister found when he studied 29 companies around the world to determine whether employee attitudes correlated with financial success. The statistics proved that the greater a firm’s morale, the more profitable it is. In his book Practice What You Preach: What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture, Maister also discovered that successful companies have “superstar managers” who create fun. How? They do such things as… •Arrange group days out of the office. •Do things that surprise people. •Offer free exercise classes, book clubs, language lessons, surprise ice cream sundaes, pinball machines, and so on. •Fund client entertainment liberally. •Work hard and play hard with their people. “People like and need a release.” By regularly providing fun for employees, Maister concludes, you can “retain people and increase billability by 15 percent!” If you are looking to create fun and play hard with your colleagues, you can’t do better than a Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunt. It’s a game out of the ordinary for people out of the ordinary. Underline the Lessons of the Hunt with a Team-Building Workshop Every hunt highlights the importance of teamwork and the value of each team member’s contribution, as well as the many fascinating aspects of group dynamics and problem solving. To emphasize the lessons of the hunt so that the participants bring them back to the office and apply them to your bottom line, Watson Adventures can add a workshop led by the team-building experts of Wise Solutions. Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts are a natural fit for discussion on company values, objectives and ways to effectively work with or in a team environment. Facilitated discussions before and after the hunt will illustrate the parallels between the team dynamics in the hunt and the team dynamics in the workplace. Participants will take away strategies for creating and maintaining high-performance teams. Team building allows all members to maximize their personal and leadership potential. The more leaders a team develops, the greater will be their competitive advantage. As noted by author John Maxwell in 21 Laws of Teambuilding, “Investing in the Team compounds over time.” Looking at the teams’ performance on the hunt, participants will consider the question: Why do some teams out perform others? Research shows that a team will be successful in meeting stated objectives when everyone on the team does the following: • Embraces the same values. Teams need more than a common goal. Values allow a team to become more connected by providing a common language • Understands team dynamics—those processes and structures that can propel a team to higher performance • Enhances communication (imperative, particularly if team members are usually virtual i.e., dispersed). • Recognizes team members’ leadership, contributory value, and working style. • Leverages team members’ value (knowledge, talent, expertise, and working style). • Recognizes the benefit of brainstorming for solutions. • Recognizes the importance of “rules of engagement.” • Gains skill in working in time management (working within a deadline). Team building allows individuals to retain their value in the organization during periods of growth and change as well as improve customer service by teaching how to effectively operate as a cohesive team. It serves to encourage the development of innovative products and services by leveraging team members’ value, resulting in increased value overall to the organization. While these lessons are implicit in every hunt, a formal team-building workshop with Wise Solutions around the hunt will boost your hunt’s return on investment. And it will be a lot more fun than sitting in a conference room and being told to make a new product out of rubber bands, paperclips and plastic cups. Contact us for more details about our team-building workshops. Boost Teamwork with the “Know Your Colleagues” Quiz What would it take for you to relate to your colleagues on a more interesting level—as people with interests and talents that go beyond the usual requirements of the job? Our Know Your Colleagues challenge sparks amazing conversations and forges bonds that enhance the workplace. Before the hunt, we will give your staff a fun questionnaire for all participants to answer individually, with questions about their lives outside of work. Then, during the hunt, each team has to answer such questions as, “Who in the office has gone sky diving?” “Who won a prize for playing jazz piano?” “Who was a contestant on a TV game show?” If your colleagues want to grill each other before the hunt in an effort to “cheat,” so much the better! The result is to stimulate conversations and help people find common ground and hidden talents, particularly at the end of the hunt, when the answers are revealed. You can add Know Your Colleagues to any hunt. Contact us for more information. Find Out What We Can Create for You For more information about how we can customize a team-building hunt for you, e-mail us or call us at 877-9-GO-HUNT (877-946-4868), extention 11. Your hunt for exciting new adventures is over! |