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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.

We’ve been running the Food For Thought team building game for a while now, which concentrates on various historic and delicious aspects of Philadelphia (though versions for other cities may certainly debut). Now we have started a new fun-packed version that deals solely with the famous Olde City section of Philadelphia. There is so much food-related history just in this one area it is amazing, and definitely warrants its own team building treasure hunt style activity. Yummy!

Wrote a quick article recently about the curious world of game testing as it applies to Team Building Games. I find the process fascinating and hope to provide more insights into Team Building Game development (and testing) as time goes on.
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We’re pretty excited about our recent upswing in NYC activities. Along with some specially-designed New York City Team Building Exercises (created just for the Big Apple), we have fine-tuned many of our best-sellers for use in NYC. Many of our treasure hunt and food lovers’ programs are now perfect for NYC use.
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I’d like to talk about Cooking Team Building and Culinary Team Building and how they relate to the team building philosophy. I started cooking professionally way back (you’re not going to get a date out of me though… that's a lady’s privilege ;) I chose the career because it was work that had a very positive spin about it… it was creative and about being around people who are enjoying themselves (the customers).

I’d like to introduce myself. I am Betty Robinson, the owner of Philly Hops. I’d like to take a little time at the launching of this blog to tell you a little about Philly Hops, where we have been and my vision for the company.