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 The Recipe for Organizational Success

Making Your Organization More Successful

About Team Building
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Successful organizations require innovative and responsive people who can work together in high performance teams. Such teamwork does not happen by chance. The winning team is created by design, and nurtured through continuous effort. A team building experience can take place anywhere, from a boardroom to a whitewater raft. However to realize its full potential, an effective team building experience must include two key elements:

  1. The experience should be conducted in a setting that emphasizes individual value while promoting group accomplishments.
     
  2. At the conclusion there must be a skilled and objective analysis of the experience that will translate the lessons learned back to the daily workplace.

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The Effectiveness of Culinary Team Building

Grounded in the universal human experience of "breaking bread together", Culinary Team Building combines productivity skills training with a cooking experience in the world's premier culinary setting. It provides an opportunity for each team member to contribute, regardless of their culinary skills.

Culinary Team Building removes the athletic prowess required in other team building programs that require a group to overcome a physical challenge. Instead, it simulates the challenges of the work environment through a cooking experience that requires your team to make time sensitive decisions, assign tasks, communicate and coordinate actions, and complete the project under deadline. Your team will celebrate its success over a gourmet meal that results from your collaborative effort.

The Chocolate Box Challenge is a less intensive alternative that can be brought to any meeting location. Program cost depends on group size. Please contact us for information and pricing.

The Culinary Team Building Program Offerings

The one-day Team Building Lite program is designed to acknowledge and reward your team's accomplishments. The Basic, Advanced and Extended programs focus on team building training needs. These programs begin with a pre-training consultation with a professional trainer to identify goals and objectives. Once onsite, the group works with the trainer on a series of dynamic team building exercises, which are then integrated into a gourmet cooking experience, led by a chef instructor. Please contact us for information and pricing.

The Culinary Team Building Trainers
Each Culinary Team Building trainer has a strong background in business processes, experiential learning and optimizing team performance. They are skilled at creating an environment that will enhance the learning opportunities for the participants.

In a Culinary Team Building kitchen, the team is the leader, and its entire membership is coached by our trainers to exhibit a broad spectrum of leadership skills.

HMS Travel Group
Destination Management & Meeting Planning Services Division
707-A Fourth Street    Santa Rosa  CA   95404
Ph 800-367-5348  Fax 707-526-6949  Email: info@hmstravel.com