Visexecutaries: Apprentice Team Building Team Building

Seizing Opportunities in Our Shifting Corporate Landscape

Perfect for your Next Team Building Retreat, Sales Rally or Executive Retreat

Facilitated Business Team Building to Prepare your Team for a Growing Economy

We help organizations succeed even during turbulent times

Turbulence is the New Normal!

Our global economy is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change and upheaval, presenting organizations with new challenges and opportunities. Some sectors are in decline while others are emerging. In this turbulent economic climate, even companies with strong performance need to be alert, on top of their game, and agile enough to respond quickly and effectively to changes in the economy and the marketplace.

Visexecutaries = Visionary Executives

Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in our Shifting Corporate Landscape an Apprentice Team Building retreat, will introduce you and your team to a toolkit that will help you respond more effectively to the demands of our economy. The tools will already be familiar to some members of your team, however, we will show you new ways to use them.

Ain Al Shockna, Egypt

Visexecutaries: Apprentice team building moves WAY beyond theory. Your team will participate in a marketing and sales competition and actually take a product to market to enhance learning and team building. Profits will be donated to a local charity.

Nobody will be fired

Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in our Shifting Corporate Landscape was FIRST designed and created by Anne Thornley-Brown, our president, in response to the economic downturn of 2003. Anne is a trendsetter who is always "ahead of the curve". The themes reflected in this workshop are now being discussed in front page headlines in newspapers around the globe. It gives companies that are doing well tools to scan the horizon, spot emerging trends and stay on top of their game. It offers companies that are facing challenges with a change in mindset and practical tools to identify new opportunities and jump-start organizational performance.

Ideal for Executive, Management, Sales, Marketing,
Project Managers, Project Teams, & IT Teams

Ain Al Shockna, Egypt

Outline

• Pleased Participants
• Who will Benefit?
• The Context
• Benefits
• Programme Highlights
• Upgrades Available
• Agenda

• Egypt - Public Workshops
• More Pleased Participants

Customized Team Building Retreats

• Egypt: Pharmaceutical Company from Saudi Arabia
• USA: Wireless Communications Firm

Visexecutaries is available globally. For other business simulations available worldwide, please also see "International Team Building" (on the side menu).

Pleased Participants

"The retreat went well. Anne provided useful techniques and was enthusiastic and informative. The Leadership Team enjoyed themselves and learned so much about the value by each participant from our Leadership Team."

Bob Boaldin, Founder/CEO, EPICPCS, Elkhart, Kansas

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"Anne is a highly energetic facilitator who is able to foster professionalism among trainees with insistence on achieving extraordinary results in a short time."

Marwan Abouelela, Commercial Manager,
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Saudi Arabia

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For Serious Inquiries Only

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

• you are looking for business team building with a facilitator & not just recreation
• a budget has been allocated
• you have an approximate idea of how many people will be attending
• you are definitely ready to select and book a service provider within 5 - 10 business days of receiving our quote

We will get back to you with a quote within 48 hours to 5 business days of receiving your request.

We require a $500 retainer before detailed, customized agendas are developed and 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.

If you aren't in a position to select a service provider and book your retreat, team building session or event within 5 - 10 business days of receiving our quote, we invite you to explore our website. You will find information about our services and pricing on our website. When you are in a position to make a decision and select a service provider, please contact us.

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Who will Benefit?

Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in Our Shifting Corporate Landscape is HIGHLY relevant to executives (including CEOS, CFOS and vice-presidents), directors, project managers, manufacturing Managers, logistics professionals, IT professionals, engineers and technicians who execute projects, any manager, sales and marketing teams, and professionals seeking to improve their effectiveness in a fast-paced and volatile environment.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

As this workshop places a heavy emphasis on implementation in the real world, it is highly recommended that you send at least 3 senior management delegates from various functional areas to this workshop.

Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in Our Shifting Corporate Landscape is NOT a marketing workshop. Yes, delegates will walk away with powerful strategies to help your organization be more responsive to shifts in marketplace and customer demand patterns. However, this highly interactive workshop focuses on business strategies to improve effectiveness in a turbulent business environment. Delegates will SIGNIFICANTLY improve their ability to achieve results and execute projects within a short timeframe.

The Context

To survive, thrive and grow in the midst of turbulence, a change in mindset is essential. Even well established corporations have had to be proactive, re-think old approaches and re-invent their of doing business.

This can involve:

• executing projects and producing results in shorter and shorter timeframes
• re-assessing, refining and articulating a clearer vision of the direction in which you want to steer your team and organization
• improving products and services
• re-shaping your marketing strategy
• modifying supplier and distribution networks
• transforming team leader/team member interactions
• ....and even forging alliances with the competition

Visexecutaries are visionary executives who move beyond traditional paradigms to take advantage of the boundless opportunities in the marketplace. Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in our Shifing Corporate Landscape, an Apprentice team building simulation, will give you new tools so that you and your team can fine-tune your strategy to seize opportunities in our turbulent market.

More Pleased Participants

"Very well done! I admire the style in which the session was conducted and the manner certainly catalyzed active participation and discussions. Initially, it seemed to be just a series of enlightening discourses on increasingly sophisticated customer needs, the volatility of market vicissitudes, and the importance of cohesive teamwork. The real eye opener was that all participants were required to apply in a real life situation; within a specific time frame; all relevant business principles. The performance parameters and results were measured and shared with the entire group. The experience of actually applying what is preached is exciting and invaluable. The most valuable aspects of this session were the various tools that can be applied to assess relevant factors before a plan is put into action."

Ooi Joo Hong, Deputy General Manager (Marketing), Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)

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Benefits

Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in Our Shifting Corporate Landscape is a powerful Apprentice team building simulation for executive retreats. This executive team building retreat will assist you and your team in your quest to improve organizational performance. Our highly interactive Apprentice team building retreat will give your team a chance to devote quality time to:

• gaining a better understanding of the needs and requirements of increasingly sophisticated and discerning customers
• identifying new markets for your products and services
• sharpening your project and team management skills
• improving your ability to produce results within a short timeframe
• defining and articulating a clearer vision
• unleashing and unleashing the creative power of your team to translate your vision into reality
• fine-tuning your marketing strategy
• boosting your marketing power through the use of the Internet including social networking
• building your brand presence with blogs
• identifying and overcoming barriers to marketplace success
• re-examining customer, supplier and team roles and relationships

Social networking is exploding, transforming the landscape of the Internet and creating unprecedented opportunities for marketing, networking, and promotion. Visexecutaries will give you up to the minute information and hands-on application in the use of social networking sites like Linked In, Facebook, Twitter, and Ryze and bookmarking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Stumble Upon.

You and your team will have an opportunity to use the toolkit in the real world by designing and executing a marketing and sales strategy for a specific product. Your team will complete all logistics and promotion required to take your product to market and generate a profit. The teams will compete with in a marketing competition to determine which strategy is most effective in generating revenue.

All teams will meet in the boardroom where NOBODY will be fired. Instead you'll identify key success factors and best practices. Debriefing and application exercises will help you take what you have learned back to work with you. All profits will be donated to local charities.

Giving Back to the Community

Our clients are making a difference!

Egypt

During their Visexecutaries team building session in Egypt, sales professionals from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Saudi Arabia worked in teams and provided consulting to 2 business small business owners in a local bazaar to help them design a marketing and sales strategy including promotional material:

• Both businesses improved their results.
• One business boosted its sales from 20 Egyptian Pounds per day to 400 Egyptian Pounds per day.

USA

Through their Visexecutaries project, EPICPCS raised funds for the "Save the Train" fund in Guymon, Oklahoma, Stepping Stone Shelter in Liberal, Kansas, and Miguel Giner, a highly respected social worker in Liberal's Hispanic community.

Malaysia

With the profits generated through their projects:

• 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

You and YOUR team can make a difference too!!

Highlights

Available:

Group Size:

Time Required:

All Year

8 - 60 (Optimal = 12 - 45)

Minimum = 3 Days

Locations:

Skills/Competencies:

Available Worldwide

Egypt: March 26 - 28, 2009

Dubai: June 27 - 29, 2009

• Weathering Economic Storms
• Executing Initiatives in Short Timeframes
• Marketing Strategy
• Sales Strategy
• Executing Promotional Campaigns
• Business to Business Selling
• Innovation
• Leadership

Programme Details

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Egypt - E-mail Inquiries Re: Public Workshop

Upgrades Available

We can add upscale elements to this Apprentice team building simulation by offering it in New York. We can also fly the winning team for Project One to New York for the evening of Day Two and Day Three to New York for their Reward. Depending on your budget, their experience in New York can include limo ride to your hotel or the Trump Penthouse, an overnight stay at a high end location such as the Trump Penthouse, dinner, orchestra tickets to a Broadway show, a helicopter tour, hot air ballooning, spa treatments, even golf with Donald Trump.

More Pleased Participants

At first I was reluctant to take the programme since I thought it was not related to my daily responsibilities/job. However, Visexecutaries was excellent and offered much more than marketing skills. I will suggest to my management to make this programme compulsory for all operations, marketing and business development staff.

Norleen Ali Rasah , Executive – Service Provider Management,
Operations Department, Rangkaian Segar Standard Bhd (Malaysia)

I’m very excited by this programme due to the examples and real life cases. It has a lot of practice activities. I found that the mind maps is very effective to use in daily work.

Alvira Nuam, Operations Executive, Rangkaian Segar Standard Bhd (Malaysia)

The “Apprentice” style experience was certainly one of the highlights of the entire programme which really rejuvenates the mind and helps jog the memory.

Ismail AB Rahman, Executive Participant, Public Workshop, Kuala Lumpur

The programme doesn't involve a lot of theory but places emphasis on the practical. It was a unique experience attending this type of workshop. I even had fun.

Executive Participant (Name Withheld Upon Request), May, 2007 Kuala Lumpur Session

Action-oriented programme with clear explanations and effective marketing tools.

Mazlan Bin Othman, Assistant Vice President,
Automobile Business, RHB Islamic Bank (Malaysia)

Visexecutaries: Apprentice Team Building Simulation Overview

Agenda

Day 1

It was Supposed to Work: Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks

• Shifting Sands: Turbulence and Other Changes in the Corporate Landscape
• Why Some Traditional Business Paradigms are no Longer Helpful

Desert Survival

• Mini-Simulation:
  
  A scaled down version of one of our Survivor style team simulations to familiarize with the Visexecutaries Toolkit

Lunch

Desert Survival Mini-Simulation (Cont'd)

Debriefing

• Identification of Key Success Factors, Lessons Learned, Opportunities for Improvement

Reconfigure Teams

Task Assignment

Project Planning

• Opportunity to Brainstorm and Plan Your First Project Using Visexecutaries Toolkit
• Product Acquisition
• Location Site Inspection

Day 2

Project Planning (Cont'd)

• Product Packaging
• Production of Marketing Material

Project Execution

• Logistics and Set-up
• Marketing

Presentation Development

Project Execution

• Sales
• Calculation of Results

Presentation Development (Cont'd)

• Debriefing Prep.

Evening

Celebration Dinner

Day 3

• The Boardroom
• Re-configure Teams
• Business Issue Analysis with Simulation Tools
• Mini- Presentations Development

• Lunch
• Mini-Presentations & Discussion
• Other Agenda Items