10 Things You Didn’t Know About Scavenger Hunts

1) Teambuilding “scavenger hunts” and “treasure hunts” are two different animals. A scavenger hunt involves the execution of a simple list. For example, in a scavenger hunt, you receive a list of objects to find, or pictures to take — all very straightforward. By contrast, a treasure hunt involves the solving of tricky clues that […]

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10 Sure-Fire Ways to Boost Team Productivity

Here are 10 sure-fire ways to boost team productivity.  Note that I’m not saying “teamwork” or “teambuilding”.   Where the rubber meets the road is productivity–deliverables–work getting done.  All the rest is fluff.     1) Decide which tasks would benefit from a team approach and which tasks could better be done individually, and ONLY do […]

Is Teambuilding a Waste of Money?

Recently I came across this very interesting and challenging article in the Harvard Business Review, titled: Stop Wasting Money on Team Building by Carlos Valdes-Dapena In a nutshell, the author argues that most corporate teambuiilding is a waste of time.  He refers to bowling, ropes courses, and the like, and references one company which took […]

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Teamwork vs. Teaming

Did you know there is a difference between “teamwork” and “teaming”?    I didn’t either until I watched a great TED talk by Amy Edmondson, which you can watch here.   It’s called “How to Turn A Group of Strangers into a team”.   Edmondson suggests that teamwork is what sports teams do.  Teamwork is: –stable –a […]

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Welcome to Dr. Clue’s Twitter Puzzle #1!!!!   Are you ready to travel around the world (virtually), in search of cool mystery locations.  Click here for puzzle #1!   Find all the words in the word search and pull out the letters NOT circled to read your secret message — directions to somewhere really cool […]

Investment Update, Fourth Quarter 2018

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New Delhi, India–National Museum teambuilding scavenger hunt

A fun site to hold a team building scavenger hunt in New Delhi Event Description:   One of the largest museums in India, the National Museum holds a variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. Holding around 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years, […]

Mumbai, India – Prince of Wales Museum teambuilding scavenger hunt

A fun site to hold a team building scavenger hunt in Mumbai Event Description: Now called the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is one of the premier art and history museum in India. Situated on the southern tip of Mumbai on the ‘Crescent Site’, the Museum building […]