“Groups don’t become teams because that is what someone calls them.” – Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith1 Have you ever considered team building? It’s a scientifically proven way to improve your team’s performance in a fun, yet effective way. Learn… Read More
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Terrapin Adventures Staff Highlight: Matt Baker, Chief Adventure Officer and Team Building Facilitator
Terrapin Adventures is all about fun! In fact, you may say that we are on the cutting edge of fun. We have created a new realm of aerial adventures using only wood, rope and cable. Our high ropes course, which… Read More
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What I Learned on the Challenge Course: Overcoming Fear
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”1 Simply put, in many instances in our life, fear holds us… Read More
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The Five Stages of Team Development: What Stage Is Your Group In?
In 1965, Bruce W. Tuckman, a well-respected psychologist from Princeton University, developed his four stages of team growth, known as “Tuckman’s Stages.”1 These stepping stones in team development – Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing – are all necessary in order… Read More
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What’s the Difference between a High Ropes Course & a Low Ropes Course?
You have probably heard the term “Ropes Course” before. Sometimes called adventure courses, these fun and exciting courses are popular amongst scouts, as well as sports teams and companies looking for team building expertise. And they’re everywhere nowadays. According to… Read More
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The 5 Building Blocks of Relationships
Relationships are the building blocks for good business. However, like Rome, relationships are not built in a day. They take time and effort to construct – step by step, brick by brick. But where do you start? What makes a… Read More
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The Therapeutic Nature of Challenge Courses & Team Building Activities
Challenge courses, also referred to as ropes courses, have been in use since the early 1940s.1 These courses can be characterized as either low or high ropes courses. Low challenge courses are activities “generally focus on group problem solving and… Read More
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Case Study: An International Law Firm has Fun and Improves Productivity via Team Building
“Team developmental interventions are key mechanisms that may be used to facilitate team effectiveness.” – Raymond Noe, author of Employee Training and Development.1 In 2001, a major international law firm based out of London, England sought to supplement their own… Read More
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What Makes a Great Corporate Team Building Event?
Team Building noun1 Philosophy of job design in which employees are viewed as members of interdependent teams instead of as individual workers. Ability to identify and motivate individual employees to form a team that stays together, works together, and achieves… Read More
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Custom Ropes Course Experiences Drive Team Building Results, Research Says
Challenge courses, also known as adventure or ropes courses, have been around since 1941. They started as a military tool to train soldiers and foster a sense of teamwork in a relatively short period of time. Today, these fun and… Read More