Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Washington Adventure Team Building and Fine Wine
Looking for an excellent team building program, while in Washington DC? Your team to enjoy dining experiences, but want to try something new, something different from Cooking Team Building or your usual group dinner? Well, here is a program that fits that bill. Washington DC and its restaurants, with their penchant for good food and drink, make it a perfect venue for team building programs based on the enhancement of wine. One of the most notable of these is an activity offered in Washington Challenge called The Wine Maker.
The winemaker Challenge Team Building Program is designed to take place in a private room of a hotel or a restaurant - and Washington has some of the best and most interesting anywhere. The Capitol Grill, with its splendid location on Pennsylvania Ave, or the historic Willard Hotel, just across from the White House, are perfect examples of the possibilities for a wine that uses the program. The Caucus Room, which earned the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence could be playing "tasty" for conducting a program about wine.
How does this unique team building program really work? It begins when participants are given an interesting scenario. The teams are informed that their company has received a gift from a grateful client - a famous comedian. The gift is a vineyard, the comedian who has left their company. There is one condition bit 'tricky, though. The company only if they inherit the vineyard team members to create a new wine, and sell it to a segment of people with "a highly developed sense of humor." Everything - from the name of the wine label, the marketing campaign - should be fun. Otherwise, return to the heritage assets of the customer.
Going from the world of business and commerce in Washington DC to winemaking is an unusual step. However, just as other unusual team building activities, this one works - and very effective. Adding a touch of humor to corporate team building activities is a great way to get participants to let go and enjoy the exercise, they do not feel as if they were in a conference room.
As the team building activities before, corporate team building is now leaning towards activities in which employees experience and learn at the same time. HR professionals and leaders in Washington (and around the country) speak of "experiential team building" as one of the most effective ways to bring out the best in teams. It is believed that, being directly involved in an activity and experience, the teams will remember that exercise and the lessons learned more than if they were to sit in a room and listen to a lecture. The lessons learned on their decisions and behavior, and thus improve their productivity.
Challenge the winemaker in Washington, although it may seem like entertainment is also a vehicle for learning, an experiential team building program. Participants go through a '"interactive experience" that stimulates their imagination and puts them in a situation where they must work together towards a common goal. Throw some 'humor, and what you have is a learning experience very positive and effective.
Activities like this allow Washington to team members to build trust in each other. They get the participants to collaborate, cooperate, and experiment with success, as well as learning that a healthy risk-taking can be fun. Moreover, during the campaign Challenge Wine Makers 'marketing, you could also choose to do some' public speaking and performance "team" and realize that actually it's fun.
What does wine have to do with the company's ability to achieve market leadership, and leadership development of employees? And 'the process - not the job. Author Mel Silberman, in his book "The Handbook of experiential learning," says that "learning can best occur when you offer a new approach, a different mentality." Team building activities like this program in Washington to offer a new experience for participants and exposure to different ways of thinking about working with other members of their team .......
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