Harry Potter Hunt (onsite)
Calling all Potter Heads! It’s here…the Harry Potter-themed, teambuilding scavenger hunt. We come to you at your meeting/party facility. In small teams, participants have 60 minutes to solve a series of devilishly tricky, HARRY-POTTER-THEMED puzzles and clues, leading to pictures and objects stashed around the room. Your Takeaways: Increased awareness of your […]
Holiday Hunt (onsite)
Q: Who doesn’t like a holiday party? A: Just about everybody! Why is that?!! Holiday parties can be rough, especially for introverts, because they’re so unstructured. Everyone ambles around aimlessly, trying to make idle chit chat. Fun for some, torture for most! Our Holiday Clue Trek program is the antidote to the same […]
The Pleasure And Pain of Motivating Employees
The Pleasure And Pain of Motivating Employees A short while ago, I wrote an article called “The 12 Best Ways to Motivate Your Team” in which I listed a dozen ways you can create a highly motivational environment at work. Although I stand by my argument that “As managers, we can’t really ‘motivate’ anyone […]
10 Tips for Creating a Whopping-Good Teambuilding Scavenger Hunt
10 Tips for Creating a Whopping-Good Teambuilding Scavenger Hunt Scavenger hunts have been around since the dawn of human civilization. One might argue that Homer’s Odyssey was just a big treasure hunt, as was Jason’s search for the Golden Fleece and the Arthurian Knight’s quest for the Holy Grail. (Not to […]
10 Tips for Promoting Team Mindfulness
10 Tips for Promoting Team Mindfulness It’s no secret that we’re all experiencing unprecedented levels of stress, both in our personal lives and especially in the workplace. One solution for mitigating all this agitation is to take your team out of the office (playing a teambuilding scavenger hunt, perhaps) – blowing off steam, unplugging, […]
newsletter puzzle clue 100918
Here’s this week’s puzzle clue challenge, leading to somewhere interesting/unusual in the world. Solve the puzzle below, search the internet for the location indicated, go there, and answer the final question at the bottom of the puzzle. Send your answer to dave@drclue.com to receive 1 entry into our drawing. All entries go […]
The 12 Best Ways to Motivate Your Team
Okay, you got me! As managers, we can’t really “motivate” anyone to do anything – at least, not in the long term. Oh sure, we can briefly dangle a carrot (or wield a stick), but take away the external factors and poof –there goes the motivation. Rather than focusing on penalties and incentives, it’s far […]
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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Hi everyone, Here’s this week’s clue puzzle, leading to somewhere cool in the world Send your answer to dave@drclue.com to receive 1 entry into our drawing. All entries go into a drawing for a series of $10 Amazon Egiftcards. Good luck! Contest ends at 5pm on Wednesday September 27th. ***Increase your chances […]
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 […]