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There has continued to be a trend for companies to outsource the planning and delivery of their conferences in 2018. However, the noticeable growth has been in the outsourcing of selected event services rather than complete end-to-end management of conferences. This includes services such as pre-event planning, online registration, travel management and creative team building activities.

Does your organisation acknowledge the importance of culture but fail to address it for whatever reason? It could be because ‘time’ gets in the way or there is always another ‘priority’. At least acknowledgment is a start, now it’s time for your organisation to make a commitment. A good way of doing this is to create a culture calendar!

As Christmas fast approaches, this month I want to present some ideas for staff Christmas parties for small groups in New Zealand. Each of these company team building games can be tailored to suit the location, time of day, abilities and interests of your staff. But most of all, they are fun and provide healthy competition in a small team environment.

Having a skilled, functional and cohesive team is vital for business success. You need to have an effective team of people who can work well together, complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, fit within the culture of the organisation and are clear on what they are working towards and why. Here are three tips on how you can create an effective team with your people.

Team building is an important part of any New Zealand business whether an organisation has a large number of employees or only a few. For small businesses, team building is vital to unify those few staff involved in the day-to-day running of the business. Because the success of the business is in the hands of few, it is imperative that all staff can work effectively together for a common goal. So what team building activities are suitable for small groups?

Coaching is universally linked to sport. Most sporting teams and individual athletes, whether at the elite or recreational level, have coaches to teach, train, plan and develop. They guide team members to become leaders and leaders to become the best leader they can be. It is no different in business! Except coaching isn’t as widely utilised as it should be. So how can coaching make a difference in the corporate world?

It is that time of year when many companies embark on strategic planning, budget planning, creative planning or even operational planning. The common term here is ‘planning’. So a question to you… how can you extract the creative and innovative potential through team building to maximise these planning sessions and develop a future-focused plan beyond your expectations?

Today’s executive retreat is more purposeful than ever with organisations looking to maximise the occasion with strategic planning sessions, team building exercises and tailored corporate training workshops. So why is team building important to include in these retreats? They foster a positive team culture and empower senior executives to lead from the front in instilling a great culture throughout the team.

By training with FISH!, I am not talking about jumping into the sea and swimming with fish. By training with FISH!, I am talking about learning, appreciating and applying the universal training philosophy called FISH! Let me share the benefits I have experienced by living the practices of the FISH! corporate training philosophy for well over a decade.