Team Building & Executive Retreats

by Executive Oasis International

Team Building Retreats

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

We help organizations succeed even during turbulent times!

Our emphasis is on 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. That is why we incorporate upbeat recreational activities, often outdoor, into our simulations.

Most of the team building programmes on the market include a "debriefing session" that lasts less than an hour.

We devote 1/3 - 1/2 of each executive retreat or team building retreat to your SPECIFIC business issues and challenges.

After an in-depth debriefing, we e re-configure your teams and assign a SPECIFIC business issue, challenge or opportunity to each team. The rest of the team building retreat is devoted to:

• analyzing your business issues using the tools and strategies acquired during the simulation and recreational activities.
• an opportunity for teams to make brief presentations the results of their analysis and proposed solutions
• your business agenda items
• next steps and a follow up planning to be implemented when your team returns to the office

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Dubai

5 to 7 star resorts and itineraries are our specialty.

Outline

• Benefits of Team Building
  
  
• One Stop Shopping
  
  
• Certain Minimums Apply
  
  
• Luxury Upgrades
  
  
• Our Unique Approach
  
  
• What we Offer
  
  
• What we Don't Offer
  
  
• Approach to Customizaton
  
  

• Our Expanding Global Network

Team Building
Simulations Charts

• Chart 1: Canada, USA, Dubai, Oman
  
  
• Chart 2: Jamaica, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore
  
  
• Luxury Team Excursions

We can offer business retreats for executives anywhere in the world. However, we offer a number of highly effective simulations for business retreats at luxurious locations in Canada, Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, and Asia (Singapore, Malaysia).

Kuala Lumpur

Are Team Building Retreats a Smart Strategy for Tough Times?

Here is one Perspective in this reprint of a "National Post"
Newspaper Article in Which our Owner is Quoted:

During Tough Times, Smart Firms Retreat

Should Companies Cut Team Building During a Recession?

Business Events Turn Practical

Our Unique Approach
to Business Retreats

Dubai

We prefer to approach executive team building as an on-going process rather than a stand-alone executive retreat, corporate event or downtime for the executive team. Yes, our executive team building sessions are upbeat and engaging but we offer MUCH more than "fun in the sun". Our expertise is in business facilitation.

Some organizations have include executives, managers and team members in the same business retreat or 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 climate 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.

We focus on giving your team tools & strategies to:

• identify emerging opportunities in your marketplace
• resolve business issues
• improve your bottom line

Avoid Negative Publicity.
Ensure That Your Retreats Have Bottom Line Value

Lawmakers steamed over
ritzy AIG retreat after bailout

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.

To closely tie your executive retreat to your business needs, all of our executive team building simulations include:

To help our clients to implement the strategies
designed during team building retreats we offer:

• Executive Consulting
• Executive Coaching
• Meeting Facilitation

What we Offer

Abu Dhabi

We are a consulting firm with expertise in the design and facilitation of business team building simulations.

In today's demanding business environment, your team faces intense pressure to "make their numbers" and generate tangible results. However, on a typical day, you'll find many executives scrambling to put out the latest fire, inundated by e-mail, and swamped with voice messages. Few senior management teams can afford to devote time, money or energy to executive team building that adds little in terms of bottom line value. That's where we come in.

We integrate our expert business facilitation with INCREDIBLE indoor and outdoor team challenges and recreational activities to produce effective and engaging business team building simulations.

We specialize in:

• team building retreats that involve 1 - 5 night stays at STUNNING hotels and resorts worldwide
• "day" team building simulations that can be offered at your office or off-site at a hotel

Abu Dhabi

Our core services are consulting and business facilitation. We would also be pleased to work with your team on-site at the fraction of the cost of an executive retreat.

You can select from:

• a customized team building retreat bundling our expert team building facilitation with hotel, meeting space, transportation, recreational activities, a reception, themed dinner, and entertainment
• a facilitated team building simulation for an executive or team building retreat that you plan internally
• on-site, facilitated team building

No matter which option you select, your team will leave your team building session with tools and strategies that they can use on a daily basis to boost team and organizational performance.

What We
Don't Offer

We do NOT specialize in short, stand alone, low budget, strictly recreational activities for teams.

• We offer team building simulations and business retreats at stunning locations worldwide but we are not a travel agent.
• Our simulations incorporate recreational activities but we are not a recreation company.
• Our retreats usually have a gala dinner or a night of entertainment but we are not an entertainment company.

Our focus is on innovation and using tools that will help executives, managers and sales professionals from fast-paced organizations:

• get a clear view of the lay of the land to determine priorities
• spot emerging trends in your marketplace
• expedite decision making
• engage in course correction to keep abreast of marketplace developments

We'll help you identify obstacles, challenges, and opportunities so that you can chart your course and take action when it is required.

Our aim is to help you avoid analysis paralysis. Therefore, if you are seeking detailed and rigourous analytical tools and complex financial models, our approach would not be a good fit for you.

Our luxury team excursions are typically offered
as part of a full executive retreat but they are
also available as stand alone events.

Our clients are making a difference!

Kuala Lumpur

Give Back to the Community

Kuala Lumpur

Experience the local culture....Give back to the Community

Recently, several financial institutions and insurance companies in the USA have been severely criticized for holding luxurious retreats when their companies have been experiencing financial difficulty.

Lawmakers steamed over ritzy AIG retreat after bailout

This has made some organizations nervous about spending on team building retreats during a recession. We want to remind you that, if your company is doing well, you can actually help stimulate the economy and save jobs in the hospitality, travel and tourism industries by spending money on team building retreats. This is also an ideal opportunity to inspire your team by giving back to the community. If you want to reward your team, giving back to the community is in and of itself highly rewarding.

For a number of years, we had offered team building simulations that provide an opportunity to generate revenue for charity, assemble toys and provide meals for families. Here are a few examples:

• Visexecutaries: Apprentice Team Building
• Survivor Team Building
• Team Building with Toys

For example, as a result of their team building simulations:

• Our March, 2007 Visexecutaries delegates in Kuala Lumpur raised RM1,647 for the National Kidney Foundation
• Participants in our May 2007 Visexecutaries: Apprentice Team Building session in Kuala Lumpur raised RM2,311 for the National Kidney Foundation
• In August, 2006, BBQs were held in conjunction with the EPICPCS Visexecutaries Apprentice Team Building projects. As a result, the executive team of EPICPCS donated funds to the Stepping Stones Shelter in Liberal, Kansas and the Lions Club Save the Train fund in Guymon, Oklahoma
• CIBC donated a giant puzzle used for a team building simulation during orientation to a children's therapeutic residence
• Senior managers from various municipalities in China assembled shoeboxes for Operation Christmas child as part of a simulation that we conducted for them during their exchange programme in Toronto

YOUR team & your organization can make a difference too!!

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