“Groups don’t become teams because that is what someone calls them.” – Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith1 The Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) is a branch of the U.S. Uniformed Services comprised of medically-oriented health… Read More
-
Does Corporate Team Building Affect Business Outcomes? Y-E-S!
“Leadership is not a personality style; it is a learned set of skills attained through development opportunities that are integrated to a lifestyle of learning.” – Katherine T. Whitnah1 When many business owners or executives hear the phrase “corporate team… Read More
-
Terrapin Adventures' Steve Carne Wins 2016 SmartCEO Executive Management Award
Terrapin Adventures is very pleased to announce that our general manager, Steve Carne, has been recognized as one of Baltimore’s top 40 leaders as part of SmartCEO’s 2016 Executive Management Awards (EMA) program. The EMA program recognizes the leadership and… Read More
-
Research Says the Summer Camp Experience is Beneficial to Children, Teens
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Unfortunately, the inverse isn’t much better. All play and no work makes for a pretty unproductive summer. In the late 1800s, one summer camp director, Henry W. Gibson characterized summer… Read More
-
Case Study: How Teamwork, Competition Motivate Employees
“Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.” – Michael Dell As a freshman at the University of Texas, Michael Dell started a small business assembling and selling computers out of… Read More
-
How to Get the Most out of Team Building
Team Building (team build·ing) verb. “Team building is the activity of attempting to improve a work group’s effectiveness at doing its work, maintaining the relationships of its members and the team’s contributions to the wider organizational system.”1 Research has shown… Read More
-
The Pitfalls of One-and-Done Team Building
In 2005, when the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players’ union negotiated a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the league sought to impose a minimum age limit on all NBA players. Commissioner David Stern believed requiring players to be… Read More
-
Research Suggests More Team Building is Best
When it comes to building a successful business, Team Building can be a powerful tool. The American Psychological Association (APA) finds that team building activities can help employees feel valued, thus increasing motivation and overall productivity1 . Simply put, team building… Read More
-
Does Corporate Team Building Work? Research Says Yes!
Seven researchers from the University of Central Florida and Army Research Institute set out to answer a very simple question – Does Team Building Work? It’s a question many business owners, managers, and decision makers have asked themselves over the… Read More
-
Three BIG Scientifically Proven Ways Corporate Team Building Promotes Employee Happiness and Business Success
It’s a common misconception that success breeds happiness. In fact, according to Shawn Achor, Harvard psychologist and author of The Happiness Advantage, it is actually quite the opposite. Happiness breeds success. “So for you and for your team, if happiness… Read More