Time to start thinking about your Christmas party.

 

Adventure for Life is currently developing Christmas Party events across Victoria and Tasmania. Using our Wildgoose technology guests will travel from their workplace to a party location in a dynamic fashion. The best way to think of our Christmas Wild Goose Chase is to think of a Christmas Themed pub crawl.

We can run full service events, or for those on a budget we can send you QR codes to our Christmas games and you can run them yourselves.

For more information send an email to info@adventureforlife.com.au

Use it or Lose it.

With only 17 days until the end of the financial year, it’s time to use your team building / events / training budget or lose it.
Don’t give your company’s bean counters an excuse to reduce your next year’s budgets by having unspent money on June 30.

3000th guest

During our last event (surfing and wine tasting) Adventure for Life passed the 3000 guest mark. It’s taken just over 3 years, and we’ve had plenty of laughs along the way.

Low tech – high fun.

Hi Tech – low fun or low tech – high fun.

At the EANetwork we spun up 200 daiquiris and margaritas in two hours on our new bike blenders. Jack worked the ingredients while I pedalled madly to keep the thirsty people happy.

After watching screens all day, the delegates certainly loved the low tech entertainment and social networking the old fashioned way.

Plus I’m sure they enjoyed the  drinks!!

 

Welcome back to work activities

After the traditional summer holidays many employees will be dreading January 3 and January 10. These will be the traditional back-to-work days for workplaces that don’t operate in the 24/7/365 environment.

That first week back can be incredibly unproductive. Staff are still dreaming of the beach, their colleagues and customers may still be on holidays, important people aren’t returning phone calls or emails, and nobody is firing on all cylinders. A general malaise often settles in around the office.

A good way to break this cycle of unproductive inaction is to offer a “Welcome back to work” activity to kick off the year. Done well, these activities can energise your staff and boost office morale right when a shot in the arm is needed.

New staff can be welcomed into a team and favourite customers can be thanked.

Welcome back to work activities also send a distinct message to staff : “welcome back, we value you, we want this year to be fun, now let’s kick some goals”.

If you’re planning on a welcome back to work activity it’s now time to start planning them.

 

It’s Survivor Season.

With Australian Survivor just hitting the screens the same motto applies:

“Outwit – Outplay – Outlast”.

I’m actually amazed some companies still offer Survivor as a corporate team building activity. In a perfect world, executives would study why people win Survivor and do exactly the opposite.

Survivor is a text book example of why teams fail. And let’s be realistic about Survivor, the teams (tribes) aren’t teams at all, despite all the faux goodwill at the start of the game. The players are just a collection of individuals forced to live in close proximity, all with different objectives.

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  • there’s no common goal
  • no trust
  • alliances and cliques form and crumble in record time
  • information is withheld
  • lying to each other is routine
  • most players leave the game in a humiliating way
  • and short term self interest trumps everything.

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Why anyone thinks Survivor is a good reality TV show to base a team building activity on is a mystery to me.

If you ran your office like Survivor, after 55 days “in camp” you’d have 24 people who pretty much hated each other, your place of work would be a filthy mess because nobody works for the common good, and very little would be achieved.

Survivor, great for TV, lousy for team building.

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