After nearly 25 years of grooming top leaders in a wide variety of companies we have found that the term ‘team building’ is terribly overworked and mostly misunderstood. The usual buzzwords are often used to encourage people, the requisite and appropriate trainings suggested, and the right books encouraged. But then, management actually thinks that by continuing the same behavior they have been engaged in all along that they'll get different results. Read that sentence carefully again and realize it is the definition of insanity.

To really light up your group, you have to find a fun and exciting way to have all of them meld into a TEAM. Team building is one of the trickiest and least understood exercises a company can undertake. I know because I've been teaching team building for years. Too many times the training can become a frustrating, thankless task that everyone is delighted to get through so they can stop the suffering.

Well done team building exercises have enormous and long lasting effects on all the participants and on the company. The trick is to find a venue which can entice and engage everyone in the group to participate. Ropes courses, white water rafting, off site team trainings and on site special events can all be powerful team building events. However they seldom yield the results management is looking for over time because they are all FAR TOO SHORT . In two or three days the enthusiasm wears off and you’re back to the same old stuff. Real team building is about behavioral changes and encouraging the new behaviors to become permanent.

Athlon Interactive Adventures has discovered a unique and very powerful alternative to regular team building. The time they spend involved is far more than any other program I know of available today . The great part for your company is the cost is negligible and the actual time taken during work time is minimal. Your entire group gets to play a game of skill and daring. They’re in a spirited competition, they have to cooperate in order to compete, they collect data and carry out real time assignments and all of this contributes to their ability to work together as a well oiled team. Your company's payoff is the beginning of the team you have only dreamed possible before today.

I encourage you to contact Athlon Interactive Adventures for more information or call Executive Mentoring and Coaching, Inc to get our unbiased perspective on the value of team building with this new and exciting program.

Colle Davis
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Executive Mentoring and Coaching, Inc
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Coach Colle Davis, CEO of EMCI, is a nationally respected executive coach and keynote speaker. He has been a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives, small to mid-sized companies, and individuals. His twenty-three years of executive coaching have produced solid career enhancements and organizational improvements for his clients.