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Philly Hops is revving up to take teams to a new high-speed challenge with our Slot Car Racing Program. This highly dynamic exercise is great for large groups and features collaboration mixed with competition. The group gets into gear as everyone helps build custom racetracks and then races on those tracks in a fun-filled day of tire-squealing teamwork! I am personally excited to bring this enjoyable experience to corporate teams, as slot car racing combines nostalgia, creativity and a taste of impromptu engineering.

This season’s barrage of holiday music and festive cheer has got me thinking that what we do at Philly Hops is a great example of Helping Others To Help Each Other. (HOTHEO?) We do it all year long, of course…Bringing teams together and supporting efforts to encourage positive interaction and creative problem-solving. The world needs more of that! As a team building company, we act as ‘catalysts’ in this process, but the true participants are the team members’ themselves.

Just posted a short but insightful video with interviews and opinions from recent participants in the Chocolate Therapy Team Building Exercise. The video ‘Chocolate Talk’ was made during a highly positive, high-energy installment of this popular team building activity. The teams at this event proved outstanding achievement in working together, collective brainstorming and group problem-solving. Spirits were high and these glimpses should allow a peek into how the day unfolded.

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Just officially added the Classic Team Building Games and Challenges Program to our catalog. This is a very exciting series of 'mini-games', led by professional team building experts, combined into a very energetic event. It is like an 'Olympics' of team building games! This is so flexible and can fill any time-slot, from 90 minutes to a full day! (half-days are typical). WIth so many smaller activities packed into a full program, the return of your investment (ROI) is quite substantial!
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With all of the moviemaking team building activities we are producing these days, a common real estate phrase comes to mind (one that happily applies to moviemaking also):
Location, Location, Location!

A quick overview and highlights video showcasing the new Lightning Fast Video Challenge is now online. This short film introduces this very fast-paced team building exercise and includes clips from various teams’ own projects.

This film should give a good sense of the speed and intensity of a corporate team building activity that combines some quick-thinking team challenges and a lot of hyperkinetic fun.

I believe that team building exercises are a perfect match for the dynamics and excitement of the movie making business and this is why I was inspired to write a brief article about the topic. There is so much that Hollywood (and filmmaking in general) can lend to the experiential team building industry that the synthesis is a ‘no brainer’ to me.

I have designed a few moviemaking team building programs and will undoubtedly be designing more in future.

We just came back from a fun promotional edition of the new Big Box Office team building game at a great community church center in the Northeast area of Philadelphia. The event was a great change of pace for the participants and a lot of valuable program testing occurred.

Philly Hops now has a presence on the informational network, Squidoo, in the site’s ‘business’ section. This new resource includes convenient at-a-glance listings of all Team Building activities offered by the company (sorted in helpful categories), video links and much more. See More…

I have been thinking a lot of about structured brainstorming games (as I have talked a bit about in a past article) and may publish a book of my favorite ones. I notice I use such games, not only in team building exercises (as actual activities or simply as warm-ups to bigger activities) but also in teaching (sometimes, I teach art classes) and during networking events. Finally, I find brainstorming games that are structured to be good standard exercises for a thinktank or other [problem-solving group.