Los Gatos: Downtown teambuilding scavenger hunt
A scenic place to hold a team building scavenger hunt in Los Gatos Event Description: A fun and diverse teambuilding location, close to San Jose yet worlds away, downtown Los Gatos today has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings. Here you can find Michelin-starred restaurants, cafes galore, antique shops and […]
Sonoma Valley Wineries teambuilding scavenger hunt
A beautiful area to hold a team building scavenger hunt in the Sonoma Valley Wine Country Event Description: WE arrange the vehicles–YOU tour the valley for history, art, architecture (and perhaps a glass or two of the grapes)–all the while solving our tricky clues and enjoying a stimulating corporate team building event. Location History: Home […]
Sonoma Downtown teambuilding scavenger hunt
A wine-derful place to hold a team building scavenger hunt in the Sonoma Wine Valley Event Description: A lively yet laid-back town, with shops, restaurants, public art and historic signage, Sonoma offers ample locales for tasting the local grapes while doing your corporate teambuilding program. Location History: Home to indigenous people for 12,000 years, Sonoma […]
Just-for-fun Puzzle
Here’s a rebus (picture puzzle) I just created, indicating a famous world location. Can you solve it? Dave
Treat Each Other Right — or Lose Business
We all know the fall out from intra-team squabbling: a break in trust, team members taking sides, and a huge ebb in productivity — to name just a few results. Alas, wherever human beings are present, arguments are bound to happen; we all have egos. Fighting is unfortunate, but it’s natural. In the end, it’s […]
Keeping Virtual Teams on Track
There’s a nice article in Inc. magazine (March 2012) called: “Out of Sight, Top of Mind: How to keep a business on track when top performers are scattered across the map” The author (Jason Fried) provides some great tips for creating and maintaining virtual teams. To summarize: 1) Working virtually is not for everyone; make […]
An Amazing Mission Statement That’s Fit For Framing
Just about every business has a mission statement — but how many have a mission statement poster that has been viewed online more than 50 million times and translated into 12 languages? That business would be Holstee, a NY-based company selling eco-friendly clothing and accessories. Check out their unique mission statement, below: You can […]
When Teams Fall Apart
I’ve been reading a lovely little book of late, called “When Things Fall Apart”, by Pema Chodron. If you’re unfamiliar with Chodron (nee Deirdre Blomfield-Brown), she’s a world-renowned teacher and writer living up in Nova Scotia, Canada. Although her books tend to revolve around Tibetan Buddhism, I find that her teachings shed much insight into […]
Samuel Johnson
I ran across this quote recently, from the English author and critic Samuel Johnson: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”. How true! By the time people reach adulthood, they’ve probably heard pretty much everything they need to know in order to succeed at business (and as business […]
Clue Trek — Mindfulness Scavenger Hunt
The world’s first MINDFULNESS SCAVENGER HUNT! When you think of a treasure hunt, you probably think: winners, losers, & prizes. In short, a treasure hunt needs to be competitive, fast-paced, and full of adrenaline, right??? In fact, there’s NO reason a hunt has to be fast paced at all! In fact, […]