Corporate & Community Services Education for business and the community
Cooking Up Teamwork CCS

Objectives
  • Effective leadership and followership
  • Quick thinking and flexibility
  • Effective communication
  • The management of resources
  • Trust and creativity
  • All the components needed to compete in the world of business in the new millennium!
Information

The fee includes:

  • A trained facilitator who will engage with your team to define their specific needs
  • A custom agenda of activities designed to facilitate your team's needs
  • A master chef instructor to coach the team in the kitchen
  • Use of a fully-equipped kitchen and meeting room
  • Midday snack and gourmet meal
  • Personalized Chef's apron for each participant
  • Commemorative photos and 'Big Brother' video

Overview
  • The workshop has two components:
  • The first is the workshop itself, were our facilitator will employ a variety of techniques and activities. Activities are chosen based on your needs: whether your team needs to get to know each other better, build greater cooperation, trust, cohesiveness or be more creative.
  • The second phase takes place in the kitchen were your team would prepare a gourmet meal, which they will later enjoy. Inherent in the process will be challenges to the group’s creativity, communication skills, cooperation and time/resource management.
  • While sampling the delights of the kitchen, we lead a debriefing of the kitchen experience. The kitchen experience, like the classroom workshop, is tailored to your team’s needs. Everything from the menu to the preparation techniques is designed to stress the skills needed by your team to achieve its full potential
Outcome
  • An opportunity to learn the skills required for effective teamwork. Also get to know the people you work with, away from the office, The team will be able to evaluate how they currently work together and to identify their strengths and weaknesses
  • The kitchen is a familiar environment to most people, so familiar that participants will forget they are in a team building or learning environment. The same skills and strategies that they use on the job follow them into the kitchen.
  • Your team will work together and get to know each other better in an environment that is familiar yet, in a very real way, challenging.
  • People have the incentive - good food. And good food is the reward as long as everyone understands their role and their importance to the end product.
  • You will now know that Bob from accounting can make a mean Tina of West Ireland Crab and that the CEO doesn’t look quite so foreboding with flour on his nose!