Pure Teams: Team-Talk
Building the perfect team takes time, experience, knowledge and enthusiasm. These articles are designed as a resource for you, our customers, to help you with training and team building in the work environment. Feel free to print them out and read them at your leisure!
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10 No Cost Ways To Recognise Employees
Turn on any nightly newscast and you will hear the doom-and-gloom predictions of an economic recession just around the corner....
A Classic NEW Kiwi Team Building Event: Pimp my Trolley
‘Pimp my Trolley’Wheels and Deals!Re-live the days of thunder as your team powers their way to pole position for a...
A Great New Team Event; Outrageous Olympics
OUTRAGEOUS OLYMPICS The great 4 way team tug a warOn Target giant slingshoots Outrageous TEAm PentathlonPLUS LOADS MORE ACTION…...... There can...
Team Development: Are you working in a Group or a TEAM?
Following on from January’s newsletter were we looked at the does and don’ts of Team Building we have been having...
Be a Pureoutdoors Facebook Fan
Pureoutdoors now has its own little Facebook Fan Club. Why would you bother I hear you say. FREE Team Building ActivitiesHUGE...
Team Development: Brainstorming: Not just for Breakfast
Place a box of ready-to-eat cereal (Weet-Bixs work best, a Kiwi classic) on a desk at the front of the room....
Catapult to Success Programme
Looking to Catapult your team to Success? Good Leadership activity. Was really good to acknowledge and appreciate and listen to other...
Creative Thinking: More Than Meets the Eye
One of the most useful of all thinking modes in creative problem solving is visual thinking. It is especially effective...
Team Development: Fist of Five: Measuring Support
We are often asked to vote on a proposal or idea at work, but our feelings about the issue aren’t...
Fun phone number trick
Using a calculator, key in the first three digits of your phone number (not the area code) Multiply by 80...
Improve Your Team Morale With 3 Words
We are fortunate to work with many dynamic companies, and we often are asked to do employee climate survey's for...
Innovation Breaking out excerise
Breaking OUT, imaginary boundariesMost of us impose too many imaginary boundaries, restrictions, and constraints upon our problems, and hence fail...
INNOVATIVE Team Happy Hours
Team Happy Hour Increase morale Re-energize team spirit Enhance teamwork Create a positive vibeBoost productivity Have lots of fun...
Inspirational Quotes: Great opener activity
This is a brilliant activity to introduce meeting ideas, focus thinking around a specific theme or generate creative thinking. Print...
Latest team building research
Team building – Adding value or variety?What, if any, are the organisational benefits of team building? This was the subject...
Lessons from Geese
Lessons from Geese provides a perfect example of the importance of team work and how it can have a profound...
Master BBQ-Chef New Zealand
The Event you have all been waiting forMASTER BBQ CHEF New Zealand You have seen it in action, now is your...
Must & Must Nots of Team Building
"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." Robert Yates Team Building MUST...
12 Pure-Teams Newsletter November 09
PURE-TEAMS NEWSLETTER Volume 12 November 2009 Get ready for the silly season, we thought we would keep it light hearted and...
NZ Marketing Magazine April 2009
Adding Value Or Variety? What, if any, are the organisational benefits of team building? This was the subject of a...
Pure Teams News Feb 10
PURE-TEAMS NEWSLETTER Volume 14 February 2010Work’s an Adventure….Be Prepared! In this Issue of PURE-TEAMSwww.pureoutdoors.co.nz Self PROMOTION it’s the new BLACK A few...
Pureoutdoors Nationwide Team Building Finalists 09
We made the Peoples Choice Awards as a finalist …but alas it was not to be Pureoutdoors year this time...
Push play to stress less
'I thought of that while riding my bike' – Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity.Getting active lowers your stress...
'NEW' Spinning their Wheels Team Building Event
Looking for an interactive fun feel good event? Spinning their Wheels is your answer. Each member of your team will help build...
The Power of Practice
Practice is the best of all instructors. ~Publilius Syrus (100 BC) Professional athletes typically spend about 90 percent of their...
The Huddle: worlds fastest meeting
Aligning priorities and avoiding scheduling conflicts can be difficult. Many of our clients use the Huddle, a quick meeting held...
Tumeke Team Times - Winter 2010
Welcome to Pureoutdoors new Tumeke TEAM Times…time for a change, less is more. Do you believe it…this is my first email...
What is the most important lesson you learned regarding innovation
"What is the most important lesson you learned regarding innovation" This year's request resulted in a record number of responses -...