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 Post subject: Team Building and that
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:32 
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I am part of the group responsible for our work away day.

22 people, budget of about 3 grand.

Must involve somewhere to do business stuff in the morning, then food options for lunch, then an entertaining activity that involves team building in the afternoon.

Obviously I'm already sounding out places to do wine tasting, but what are other ideas that aren't too far from London?

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Curiosity wrote:
I am part of the group responsible for our work away day.

22 people, budget of about 3 grand.

Must involve somewhere to do business stuff in the morning, then food options for lunch, then an entertaining activity that involves team building in the afternoon.

Obviously I'm already sounding out places to do wine tasting, but what are other ideas that aren't too far from London?


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Some of them are okay.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Laser Quest/Quaser.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Saturnalian wrote:
Laser Quest/Quaser.

or

Lazer Quest/Quazer.

Great! If they're all 14.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Psht. Fourteen schmourteen.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Just take them for a Happy Meal and pocket the change.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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horse races with a function room.

You can use "gambling" to teach them about "risk"


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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start the fans, purlease

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Organise a car wash where they wash cars for the public for a day.

This has the added benefit of actually raising money and you can donate the profit to the homeless or someother worthy cause. You can have chips at lunch.

Plus, it won't be some meaningless works team building exercise where a bunch of middle class gits build a raft using barrells and rope and pretend that they're roughing it.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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No strenuous physical activity, thanks.

Half a day doing talks and work shit. Half a day having fun. Actual fun.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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I think Satunalian's idea is an excellent one.

If it doesn't appeal, I went to a good team-building event at the Underground Cookery School, by Jamie Oliver's 15 Restaurant (don't think it's connected.

Everyone cooks their dinner with professional chefs, who are fairly droll and tolerant of cack-handedness (though aren't afraid to tell you you've ballsed it up and to start again) and you eat your dinner with as much booze as you can handle.

http://undergroundcookeryschool.com/coo ... ng-events/


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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I've been helping organise our team building event. We are off to a hotel for breakfast and the boring bit, then cocktails and lunch buffet and then we have some cocktail baristas from Diageo coming to the hotel to teach us the fine art of cocktail making with some fancy moves so we can all drop drinks everywhere, then out for drinks.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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When is this so I know when to book the day off? Team building days are the worst thing ever.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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TheVision wrote:
When is this so I know when to book the day off? Team building days are the worst thing ever.

I don't know, Mimi's sounds great!


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Mimi wrote:
I've been helping organise our team building event. We are off to a hotel for breakfast and the boring bit, then cocktails and lunch buffet and then we have some cocktail baristas from Diageo coming to the hotel to teach us the fine art of cocktail making with some fancy moves so we can all drop drinks everywhere, then out for drinks.


That sounds like a hoot.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Go carting.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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nickachu wrote:
Go carting.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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My favourite team building day was a poker clinic (whoever calls these things clinics should be shot, but that's not the point)
I've never had so much fun on a teambuilding thing and we all chipped in for some casino type stuff afterwards and would play poker in the pub after work regularly for ages after that.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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That sounds awesome! Do that, Curio! And then the cocktail thing!


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Team building deffo needs a good drinking game - I'd suggest Freckles, Curio, apparently as beloved of our dear (non commissioned) armed services personnel.

Your staff will love it, guaranteed. Just hold fifty quid back for soilage costs.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Strop poker?

I can't tell if this is a spelling error, or a comment on Curio's colleagues' personalities.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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BOAT.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Casino Wine Tasting BOAT.

If that's not a thing, it motherfuckingwell should be.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Casino Wine Tasting BOAT.

If that's not a thing, it motherfuckingwell should be.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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any event on a boat is always a bad idea. especially if the boat is anywhere near the Thames.

So much bad experience speaking here.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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I think any team building exercise, boat or not, is a bad idea but there you go.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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TheVision wrote:
I think any team building exercise, boat or not, is a bad idea but there you go.


Obviously.

My task is to find the best way to spend the money anyway. Preferably on things I like, such as wine.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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I wonder if there is any research as to whether they actually help teams work better? My guess : No.

Give each person their share of the budget and then all go home early.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Use the office computers for a LAN party.

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Use the office computers for a LAN party.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Mimi wrote:
any event on a boat is always a bad idea. especially if the boat is anywhere near the Thames.

So much bad experience speaking here.

*frantically redesigns hen do* :p

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Mimi wrote:
any event on a boat is always a bad idea. especially if the boat is anywhere near the Thames.

So much bad experience speaking here.

BOAT is fine. Its after BOAT that the evening rapidly becomes intolerable. BOAT.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Don't do some of the shite we've had to endure like "learning circus skills" or "buying ingredients for luxury sweets and then doing a sales pitch".

No matter what you pick though, someone will be unhappy. Miserable gits.


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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Casino BOAT
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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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We used to hear them going up and down the Thames at night.

I went on one once - the drinks cost a fortune and you weren't allowed to get off :(

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A fortune even compared to London prices?


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A fortune even compared to London prices?

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A fortune even compared to London prices?

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 Post subject: Re: Team Building and that
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Drinking in Watford the other night, I bought three drinks and got change from a tenner! What witchcraft is this?

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