Survivor Team Building

Business Team Building Simulations for
Executive Retreats & Sales Rallies

Featured Destinations: Canada, Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, Asia (Singapore, Malaysia)

In this turbulent economic climate, even companies with a strong bottom line need to be alert, on top of their game, and agile enough to respond quickly and effectively to changes in the marketplace.

Our Survivor team building simulations will introduce you to proven tools and business strategies that you can use on an on-going basis to enhance team and organizational effectiveness. Your team will compete in a variety of challenges and leave the session as a cohesive unit, refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to tackle the demands of your marketplace.

Nobody gets voted off!

We specialize in 5 to 7 star itineraries

For sessions available at specific destinations,
please click on the country or region (on the side menu).

Outline

• What we Offer
• Benefits
• How We're Unique

• Business & Brainstorming Tools
• The Simulations (By Destination)

Important: To offer this session with the name Survivor and include elements from the show, we will have to collect royalty charges from you and pass them on to CBS, Disney or Touchstone depending on your location.

For Serious Inquiries Only

We would be pleased to handle your inquiry, check availability of dates and venues and send a proposal if:

• a budget has been allocated
• you are certain about your numbers
• you are DEFINITELY ready to select and book a service provider within 5 business days of receiving our quote

We require a US$500 deposit before any hotels or other venues are contacted on your behalf. [Why?] This will be deducted from your fees if you book your session with us.

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We are located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As you can see from the photos on this page, we can offer our Survivor Team Building sessions around the world and introduce you to some of the stunning locations that we have discovered. If bringing us to your location involves air travel, please ensure that there is room in your budget for travel expenses BEFORE proceeding with your request for quote.

What we Offer

We are an executive consulting firm specializing in the design and facilitation of business simulations.

We deliver MUCH more value than just "fun in the sun". We bundle our expert business facilitation with recreational activities and team challenges flawlessly executed in collaboration with our global network of local alliance partners. We provide the business facilitation and event planning services. Our alliance partners provide the recreation, transfers, and ground logistics based on our specifications.

You can select from:

• a team building simulation or executive retreat
• a customized package bundling our expert team building facilitation with tours, excursions, recreational activities, special events, hotel, meeting space, and transportation.

We offer corporate team building retreats and executive retreats worldwide. (See side menu for our featured destinations.) Based on our familiarity with these destinations, we can also simulate most of these sessions at almost any location.

The percentage of indoor and outdoor time will be customized to meet the needs of your team. Depending on the location, a variety of energizers and activities are available to create and reinforce the survival theme. Menu selections, music, video footage, posters and props can be used indoors to give you the essence of the various countries even if you don't have the budget for foreign travel this year.

Benefits

Loosely based on the TV show Survivor, our Survivor team building simulations will take you through a step by step "team tune up" to:

• Fine-tune your corporate, marketing and sales strategy
• Identify new target markets for your products and services
• Forge stronger links between geographically dispersed teams
• Identify and eliminate communication barriers
• Develop strategies for improving processes and reducing red tape
• Build team spirit
• Break down silos

Experience the local culture

Our Survivor team building retreats will also give your team an opportunity to experience the local culture and traditional lifestyle.

• Visit a Maroon village in the hills of Jamaica
• Go on a desert safari in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) and camp out overnight in the desert in Bedouin style tents
• Camp out in the jungle and visit an Orang Asli Village in Malaysia
• Go dog sledding near Toronto
• Have lunch with an Omani family and provide a feast for their village

Give back to the community

Participants in our sessions have donated the funds they have raised through our simulations and the objects they have purchased to charities in Malaysia, the USA, and Oman.

How We're Unique

We focus on giving your team tools & strategies to overcome business challenges, identify emerging opportunities, and improve your bottom line.

We kick-off our sessions with a presentation by your CEO or other member of your senior management team. Then, we provide a team briefing to ensure that the link between what you are about to experience and your business realities is clear. Then, the fun begins.

Our emphasis is putting titles and organizational levels aside so that people can really have a chance to relax, unwind and connect. Creating a stronger bond between peers in a relaxed setting will improve interaction and communication.

Some organizations have include executives, managers and team members in retreats and business team building simulations. To set the stage for success, prior to the session we'll help you select team leaders for the recreational activities and simulation. We exercise great care to ensure that your least experienced and newest team members are assigned to these non-threatening roles within a context of fun. Executives and senior managers become just another member of the team. Once team members have seen a lighter side to your senior management team, this fosters a climate of open communication. This fosters a climare of open communication and creates a productive atmosphere for working together during business discussions. It also encourages open sharing or ideas as innovative, breakthrough strategies can come from any level of your organization.

Most team building programmes on the market include onlya 1/2 an hour to 1 hour "debriefing session".

We devote 1/3 - 1/2 of each executive or team building retreat to debriefing your team building simulation, mining your experience for applications to your SPECIFIC business issues and challenges.

After your team building simulation and debriefing, your teams will be re-configured. A specific business issue, challenge or opportunity will be assigned to each team. In breakout groups, each team will analyze its business issue using the tools and strategies acquired during the simulation and recreational activities. Finally, the teams have an opportunity to make brief presentations of their results and proposed solutions. Next steps and a follow up planning is developed before your team returns to the office.

All of our 2 1/2 to 4 Day Survivor Team Building Simulations for Executive Retreats Include:

• Pre-session CEO briefing
  to ensure that our session is fully customized to your business needs
• Pre-session Team briefing to get "buy in" from entire team
  Usually conducted the afternoon or evening before your session
• Post Session Team Briefing

Business & Brainstorming Tools

Your team will leave the session with a toolkit that you can use on an on-going basis to fine-tune your strategy, enhance teamwork, and improve processes.

One of the goals of our Survivor team building session is to use a simulation to familiarize your team with a toolkit that they can then use to analyze business issues and strategize on an on-going basis. Some of the tools to which your team can be exposed during Survivor team building:

• Corporate Landscape Analyzer
• Storyboards
• Strategy & Priority Grids
• Force Field Analysis

• Mind Maps
• Flow Charts
  (Used but Not reviewed)
• Cause Effect Diagrams (Substitution)

If your team is already familiar with these tools and using them on a regular basis, we can substitute with other tools.

Alternatively, we can make the session process focused rather than tool focused. This will involve additional costs as we will require one observer/assistant facilitator per team to observe and provide feedback about group dynamics during team challenges.

Team Building Simulations

Canada

• Arctic Survival
• Wilderness Survival

United Arab Emirates
(Dubai, Abu Dhabi)

• Desert Survival
• Mountain Team Building
• Beach Team Building

USA

• Desert Survival
• Arctic Survival
• Wilderness Survival

Jamaica

• Island Survival

Sultanate of Oman

• Mountain Team Building
• Desert Survival
• Beach Team Building

Malaysia & Singapore

• Jungle Survival