14th May, 2010
MoneySupermarket, Watts, Coca-Cola and M&S...
Another week, more happy clients...that's what we like at SuccessfactoryTM! We've been up to all sorts this week, including having a sleep-over in our woods! Its been busy, its been fun and its all been done the SuccessfactoryTM way.
On Monday, we welcomed MoneySupermarket.com's Executive Team and Watts Commercial Finance. MoneySupermarket.com spent the day in Inspiration, working hard on their talent pipeline and achieving great things! They're joining us again soon and we're looking forward to having them back!
Watts Commercial Finance arrived in the afternoon, tucked into some lunch and then got involved in their Mad Allen's Auction challenge, set by Martin. This allowed them to explore their team values, develop successful communication strategies and demonstrate high performance as a team! After they trekked through the Cheshire countryside, they returned to our lovely venue and the team spent the evening celebrating successes, having a BBQ and a few drinks on our patio! After the BBQ, Martin took the team down to the woods where they spent the rest of the night! Snuggled in the yurt with sleeping bags and our wonderful woodburner fire, Watts had a brilliant time. Phil Gray, Director of Commercial Finance, said the next day,
"Just a quick email to thank you and the team for an "amazing" event over the past 24 hours. The event was fantastic from start to finish, great venue, great food, great auction exercise, great yurt, great BBQ and most of all great staff! I didn't realise just what we had on our doorstep in terms of "Lake District" type countryside and I will certainly be exploring the area more! Thanks from me and all the team and rest assured we will be using you again".
Added to the power of experiential learning the option of camping in the Yurt is a great way to reduce the costs of your teambuilding events!!! SuccessfactoryTM is looking forward to working with Watts Commercial Finance in the near future!
On Wednesday, Coca-Cola Enterprises joined us at our Cheshire Venue. 52 of Coca-Cola's Northern Team Leaders came to SuccessfactoryTM for the launch of their Online Team Development Toolkit - designed to boost teamworking and results. The focus is to develop the Team Leaders to run teambuilding workshops themselves. So the morning was spent exploring the online resources and how to develop teams through experiential learning. Part of the toolkit is access to Successfactory's teambuilding challenges. So after being split into 7 different groups, they experienced the power of activities such as Trebuchet, Stylities, Bubble Chair, Pyramid, Communicate and Rollarball. All these activities are great if you're looking to build creative problem-solving approaches, celebrate a team's past and current successes, deal with change effectively and apply project management skills and tools. Five of Coca-Cola's Team Leaders took the opportunity to facilitate some activities, alongside three of Successfactory's facilitators. A fantastic day was had by all, we received great feedback and we're excited about future events with Coca-Cola.
And last but certainly not least, we currently have Marks & Spencer with us. They're a great group who have opted to use Creategy as a blank space to allow for creativity and innovation during their meeting time!
So, after a quick catch-up of the last week and what we've been up to and who we've been doing it with...its time to look to next week! Busy as usual, however, we also have our Inspiration Monthly evening happening on Thursday! Its totally free, you'll get some tea, coffee & yummy biscuits, and then get involved in an exciting, thought-provoking discussion! If you'd like to know more, please don't hesitate to call!