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Dubai Team Building by Executive Oasis International

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Dubai Team Building

Are you an executive spearheading your company’s recovery from the economic fallout-from COVID-19 and preparation for the forecasted global recession?

Dubai is emerging from one of the biggest challenges in its history due to the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and the retail sector.

For the past 15 years, Executive Oasis International has facilitated executive retreats and team building in Dubai to help local and foreign companies:

  • Keep abreast of trends and design innovative strategies to stay ahead of the curve.
  • Break down silos and improve cross-functional communication.
  • Uncover hidden business opportunities.
  • Manage diverse work teams.

Dubai team building can be facilitated indoors, in the desert, on the beach, or in the mountains.

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Choose Your Dubai Team Building Oasis

Virtual Team Building

Virtual Team Building

Are you an executive struggling to lead your team virtually during the pandemic?

Managing “Zoomed-out” virtual teams can be overwhelming, confusing, and chaotic when work/life compartmentalization is no longer possible.

Virtual work is creating new challenges for executives including:

  • retaining your existing client base
  • supporting your clients & team & in the midst of trauma
  • accommodating asynchronous communication styles across multiple platforms

Executive Oasis International is pleased to unveil our suite of experiential virtual team building to address these challenges.

Our Flagship Programme:

Group Size: 6 – 20

Delivery Options:

Face-to-Face: 1 1/2 Days

Virtual: Four 2-hour weekly sessions *

Lemons to Lemonade: Squeezing Opportunities Out of Adversity When Business Goes Sour

The fallout from COVID-19 will continue for the foreseeable future.

Our brand-new virtual team building simulation guides your team through the process of transforming your business to thrive during a time of turbulence and uncertainty.

Bespoke Dubai

Custom Crafted, Bespoke Team Building

The right setting really opens up the possibilities.

  • Experience the thrill of world class polo.
  • bask in the luxury of silk carpets and soft cushions.
  • Create gourmet dishes during cooking team building competitions.
  • Camp out overnight or enjoy a sultan’s feast under the stars at a private oasis owned by a sheikh.
  • Relax during a gentle drive on the dunes – it’s more environmentally friendly than dune bashing.

Need a custom curated business simulation, executive retreat, or team building?

Many of our team building simulations began as off-the-beaten-track executive retreats to inspire discerning clients.

Our owner, Anne Thornley-Brown, specialized in instructional design for many years so we have the capability to design and create custom curated experiences to fit your specifications.

Give us your:

  • dream experience
  • objectives
  • timeframe
  • budget

We’ll do the rest.

Your dream…our design. A winning combination.

Black Gold Quest – Dubai Team Building

The Quest for Black Gold: Uncovering Hidden Business Opportunities)

Group Size: 6 – 20 (6 – 60 – Post COVID-19)

Delivery Options:

Face-to-Face: 1 1/2 – 2 Days

Virtual: Four 2-hour weekly sessions

Available: Face-to-face: Dubai, Abu Dhabi

Season: Mid-October – Mid-April

Benefits:

  • Chart your course in the midst of uncertainty.
  • Uncover Hidden Business Opportunities
  • Cross-functional Teamwork

Your team has been cooped up for MONTHS of self-isolation…give them some fresh air and a fresh perspective in this safe, social distanced business simulation.

This highly interactive desert team building simulation integrates facilitated business team building exercises with outdoor team challenges.

The Quest for Black Gold draws rich parallels between searching for oil in the desert and uncovering hidden business opportunities for your organization.
This Dubai desert team building simulation familiarizes teams with a suite of brainstorming, problem-solving, and decision-making tools to help your team identify new target markets and market niches for your products or services.

Activities:

  • Orienteering, GPS challenge, oil rig assembly
  • Dune Bashing
Desert Survival

Desert Survival: Dubai Team Building Simulation

Group Size: 6 – 20 (6 – 60 – Post COVID-19)

Delivery Options:

Face-to-Face: 2 1/2 – 3 Days

Virtual: Four 2-hour weekly sessions

Available: Face-to-face: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Jordan

Season: mid-October to mid-April

Benefits:

  • Chart your course in the midst of turbulence & uncertainty.
  • Managing change
  • Improve Cross-functional Teamwork
  • Refine Your Marketing Strategy

Your team has been cooped up for MONTHS of self-isolation…give them some fresh air and a fresh perspective in this safe, social distanced business simulation.

This highly effective desert team building simulation integrates facilitated business team building exercises with outdoor team challenges.

Desert Survival draws rich parallels between the lost in the wilderness theme and charting your course in the business world.

This Country team building simulation familiarizes teams with a suite of brainstorming, problem-solving, and decision-making tools.
Your team will use this toolkit to analyze and resolve the specific business challenges confronting your organization.

Activities:

  • Orienteering, GPS Challenge, Firestarter Challenge, Outdoor Cooking (post Covid-19)
  • Dune Bashing, Sandboarding, Overnight Camping (optional)
The Quest for Black Gold Uncovering Hidden Business Opportunities

We have had royalty attend our events and we have used venues patronized by royalty.

In Dubai, we also have a number of luxury corporate events that are perfect to integrate into executive retreats for companies that need to impress clients and express appreciation to top performers.

  • Experience the thrill of world class polo.
    bask in the luxury of silk carpets and soft cushions.
  • Create gourmet dishes during cooking team building competitions.
  • Camp out overnight or enjoy a sultan’s feast under the stars at a private oasis owned by a sheikh.
  • Relax during a gentle drive on the dunes – it’s more environmentally friendly than dune bashing.
Dubai Profile – Dubai Team Building

A Quick Glimpse at Country

Dubai, one of 7 emirates comprising United Arab Emirates, had undergone dramatic transformation from Bedouin tribes wandering the desert to a thriving and affluent metropolis. It’s an ideal destination to unpack the themes of change, transformation, and uncovering hidden business opportunities.

COVID-19 has impacted two important pillars of the economy: oil production and luxury tourism.

Negative COVID-19 Certificate Required for Travel to Dubai
(Valid for up to 96 hours from time of PCR test)

New teams are required to work faster, more thoroughly and more responsively to the fast-changing daily developments…

HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Ruler of Dubai
Preparations for the post-coronavirus, Covid-19, period’
Arabian Business

What our Clients Say About Us

Virtual Team Building

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

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, Kansa

Michael Waterfield, Vice-President, Xerox Canada

Great selection of contests, right combination of competition and fun….provided a great opportunity for teambuilding in a fun and semi-competitive environment. It was very professionally organized.

Michael Waterfield
Vice-President, Xerox Canada

Akhtar Zahid General Manager Blue Nile Dairy Company Ltd. The Dal Group of Companies (Sudan)

We had a great time and took away a number of good learnings. I have no hesitation in recommending Executive Oasis International to any interested companies.

Akhtar Zahid
General Manager, Blue Nile Dairy Company Ltd. The Dal Group of Companies (Sudan)

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