The Blog
As well as posting my latest company news, I write about team building, team development, and leadership. I might also comment on any amusing or annoying aspects of corporate life.
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Snapshot: Amazing Race in Phuket Old Town Feb 20 2025
Phuket Town is the very best destination for an Amazing Race team building program in Phuket. There are so many points of interest and there’s so much going on that our client on this day…
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Snapshot: Team Building Sales Challenge Jan 18 2025
Our second team building this week was held at Thavorn Beach Village Resort & Spa in Kamala, Phuket. The highlight for me personally was the small petting zoo in the resort. Two little miniature pigs,…
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Snapshot: Amazing Race Phuket Jan 14 2025
Our client this time was from the financial sales industry in Singapore. An ultra-competitive group of young sales professionals with a leader who, knowing how driven his team members were, surprised everyone on the day…
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The Peter Principle And Why Leadership Should Not Be A Reward
There’s an awful lot of people in senior leadership positions who, quite frankly, shouldn’t be there. So why are they there? Leaders often reach their positions through one of the following pathways: The Perceived Ability…
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Snapshot: Amazing Race Bangkok Nov 21 2024
This race was slightly unusual in that we were starting and finishing the race at my client’s office. Usually, my clients (most often companies from Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong) stay in a hotel, often…
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Snapshot: Team Building with a Marketing Twist in Phuket Oct 26 2024
I have quite a few video-based team building programs on my menu. I find that they are some of the best team building experiences because they allow participants to get creative and innovative. They are…
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Snapshot: Team Development and Leadership Training Phuket Oct 25 2024
This team development and leadership workshop on leading and facilitating teams, held at Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach, was an intensive 5-hour session. The original plan was for a 4-hour session but when the group…
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Snapshot: Back to Back Team Building in The Rain in Bangkok and Phuket
The main talking point from this week was the weather. How British of me, right? I’m not exaggerating when I say that it was “end of the world” weather. Well, I might be exaggerating a…
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What’s The Best Group Size for a Team Building Program?
I’ve worked with team building groups as small as 7 people and as large as 1000 (although I wouldn’t want to do another group of 1000!). While there are pros and cons to both small…
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Snapshot: Team Development Workshop in Phuket May 8 2024
“How do we make a good team better?” This was the question from a recent client from the medical services industry. I was asked to work with the non-sales departments. This included Operations, HR, finance,…
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Snapshot: Big Group Team Building in Phuket April 2024
What Can I Say? There’s not a lot I can say about this team building in Phuket a couple of weeks ago. That’s not because nothing happened. Indeed, it was a pretty awesome and memorable…
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3 Types of Team Building Program in Phuket
Phuket Offers Something for Every MICE Group The phrase ‘team building program’ can mean different things to different people and, as a personal brand, I like to focus on one particular style. It’s important to…