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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Top 3 Team Building Programs in Bangkok
Best-Selling Team Building Programs in Bangkok Bangkok is an awesome destination for team building. It’s an aviation hub and the second busiest international airport in Asia after Singapore Changi. In 2019, Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport handled…
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Welcome New Team Members with Empathy
Orientation? What Orientation? I was recently chatting with a friend who had just accepted a new position in the marketing department of a luxury hotel in Phuket. I asked her what steps the hotel had…
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Review: Amazing Race Bangkok Feb 16 2022
The Smallest Amazing Race Ever? It was certainly the smallest race I’ve ever done. Eight people. Two teams of four. That was it. We made it work though and, despite the small group size, the…
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Top 3 Team Building Programs in Chiang Mai
Best-Selling Team Building Programs in Chiang Mai Chiang Mai is a great destination for a corporate retreat. It’s a cultural and historical hotspot and is quite different from the rest of Thailand. For this reason,…
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What Is Teaming?
The Need for Teaming Amy Edmonson, Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School, coined the phrase in her book ‘Teaming: How Organisations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy.’ She describes it as…
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What Happens When Leaders Forget to Focus on Their Teams?
When Employees Lose Their Mojo I wanted to share this little anecdote with you because I feel that it nicely demonstrates what happens when leadership doesn’t keep a sharp focus on the team. At the…
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Don’t Overcomplicate Leadership
The Need for Simplicity Most afternoons, I scroll through LinkedIn reading various posts and articles under the #teams hashtag. Some days, I’ll find a real gem in there but some days I want to throw…
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Tuckman’s Five Stages of Team Development. Still Relevant?
Bruce Tuckman Explains How Groups Mature into Self-Managing Teams It was in 1965 that Bruce Tuckman first published his model of team development. Now, in 2022, it remains one of the most popular ways to…
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Does Virtual or Online Team Building Work?
Challenging Times for the Team Building Industry When COVID-19 hit us back in early 2020, the MICE industry here in Thailand and around the world took a massive hit. Corporate groups immediately stopped travelling and…
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Team Building in Thailand with Alun Gathergood
My Personal Brand of Team Building Team building is a serious business. It’s not just silly games with balloons. I work with CEOs and leaders from some of the world’s largest organisations. Their expectations are…
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New Team Building Menu 2022
Introducing the New Team Building for 2022 Alongside a redesigned website, the team building menu has also been updated for 2022. In fact, the whole branding has been overhauled. You’ll probably notice that I’ve introduced…
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New Website 2022
Introducing the New Website for 2022 With the recent time I’ve had on my hands (Covid, anyone?), I thought I’d take the opportunity to build a new website. In recent years I have felt more…