Qualities of a Strong Team

There are many qualities that make a team strong. Encourage your team to embody these qualities. Suggest activities that inspire support, openness and individual development. These team building activities will bring out the best in your team. Above all, a strong team is a happy and productive one!

Support and trust

A strong team is built on trust. People help each other by listening, evaluating and offering ideas. Therefore, Encouraging experimentation and giving support is key to progression. Give your team the chance to build trust in one another. Suggest Archery Tag! Your team will learn to support one another learning a new skill. (And trust they won’t be used for target practice!)

Openness

People can express themselves openly and honestly. Working through difficult situations constructively is important. Looking for a way to encourage this? Take them Paint balling! Form teams and open fire! A great way to get the blood pumping. This team bonding activity increases reaction speed. As a result your team will learn to trust their instincts!

Individual development

Developing new skills is a way to stay excited. You learn new ways to think! In other words, It keeps everything fresh. This can be stimulated in a variety of ways. Developing your team on an individual bases is a great team building exercise! Of course, Surfing is a great skill to learn! Many people have not tried it before! Your team is made up of individuals. Give them all a chance to learn something new! 

What else makes a great working team? Find out here!

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What Makes a Great Working Team

What makes a great working team? Well, a number of things! A happy team, a productive team – a positive team! Clear objectives that the team can achieve by working together. Great working processes and some solid communication skills! Bring out these qualities in your team. They are already there! Enhance them by participating in tram building activities.

Objectives that are clear

Make sure that there you have made objectives clear. Everyone is working toward the same goal. The goal is clear too. Make sure everyone understands! At the start of any team bonding session, make the aim clear to your team. If you are considering bringing your team to a life drawing class, let them know the aim is to stimulate creativity and patience. Ask them for feedback after.

Working processes

Ensure that there is good working processes. Making, communicating, implementing and reviewing decisions will be made easier. Co-ordinate your resources. There are many Team building activities that include working together as a group. Try taking your team Paint balling! this activity encourages your teams to work together to beat the other team. They will come up with tactics that suits each others skills. It will transfer into good working processing in the work place.

Communication skills

Good communication skills are the cornerstone of a great workplace. Communication between departments means the smooth running of a business. Communication between employees is paramount. Listening skills are are a large part of communication. Increase your teams communication skills by suggesting a team building activity that requires communication. Try out a cocktail making class! Communicating which flavour combinations to your co-worker work best for you is a great way to practise this skill.. (with an event better pay off!)

Finally, if you’re planning an upcoming team building event. Make sure you contact us today and we’ll help create a fantastic team building experience.

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A work annual outing is always a brilliant occasion. The buzz and excitement around the work place lifts everyone. Everyone is in a happier mood in anticipation of what will be a great day and team building event. A happy team is a hard working team is what they say. There are a few things to bear in mind when organising an annual outing. So, here’s our 5 Tips When Planning An Annual Outing!

Pick A Day That Suits Everyone

This seems pretty straight forward I know. But you’d be surprised how often people don’t stop to think what day would suit your team. You want your team to get the most out of the day, experience and outing. If they’re distracted or thinking of an unfinished project or even if it’s coming up to a big deadline. They won’t enjoy it.

Your annual outing should be an enjoyable time away from the office. And not seen as a hindrance to your team completing their work. Some teams prefer to have an outing at the start of the week as come Friday they may be under pressure. Whereas other team may like to have it towards the end of the week to kick off their weekend. You know your team better than we do so, you’ll know what time will suit them better. And do get their input.

Dress Appropriately

Depending on what team building activity you choose, it’s a wise move to let your team know what type of clothing they’ll need. For an indoor activity it might be light, breathable clothing for an active afternoon before the night ahead.

Alternatively, if it’s an outdoor activity, check the weather forecast and suggest that the team bring a light jacket, hoodie and if our unpredictable Irish weather is anything to go by maybe some sunscreen too. Also, if you’re going straight from the activity to dinner on the annual outing. Make sure to remind the team to bring a change of clothes and a towel for a shower etc.

Team Bonding Meal

On an annual outing with BigPotatoes.ie we always make a point of suggesting going for a meal to allow your team to bond even further. The dinner is also seen more as a treat. Not every team member will be keen to be dragged away from their work to go on the annual outing but a meal is sure to sweeten the deal.

Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail

This is a pretty obvious tip and a smart one too. Preparing for the Annual Outing can be a little tedious and boring at times. But, if you share the workload across the team and turn this preparation into a type of scavenger hunt. It will make the process a bit more fun.

You may want to pick up little takeaways on the day, a few bottles of bubbly maybe, beers, nibbles, a first aid kit, water, and disposable bags to mention a few. You may even decide to have a mini awards day after the activity.

Keep It Going

Over the course of your annual outing your team will get the chance to make memories, bond as a team and improve working relationships. As with any good relationship, it takes work. So, plan ahead and ensure that you keep that team building ethos up. Reinforce where ever possible the team building skills you learnt on the annual outing and transfer that positive energy from the outing into their work.

So, there you have it ladies and gentlemen. Our Top 5 Tips When Planning An Annual Outing. Hopefully these quick little tips will help to improve your overall experience on an annual outing both before and after the event.

Remember on an Annual Outing, don’t go big, go BigPotatoes!

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9 Reasons To Choose BigPotatoes For Your Next Event

Here at BigPotatoes we are the experts in organising fantastic events big and small. We aim to exceed expectations and will provide a service and event like no other. Unlucky for some but not for us. Here are the 9 Reasons To Choose BigPotatoes For Your Next Event!

1. We Won’t Burn A Hold In Your Pocket

Regardless how big or small your event is. We’ll make sure that you get the best value for money. So, if you book a Team Building Event, a Work Night Out or even a Weekend Away with the other half. We’ll make sure you get the best deal. How? Well we work with fantastic suppliers who have given us extra special discounts, in exchange for our big potatoes. We then pass this onto you.

2. We’re Event Planning Legends!

The only thing better than our potatoes is our event planning skills. If you hear us say we got this, we got this! We’ve planned events of varying sizes and have probably heard all the craziest requests you can think of. So, whatever you’re looking to achieve out of your team building event, work night out or even Christmas party. We’ll make sure it’s a rip roaring success.

3. Variety Is The Spice of Life

Here at BigPotatoes we pride ourselves on offering as much choice as possible. Every person, group and team are different so we aim to have an activity and to cater an event to suit any type of group. The hardest part will be deciding on what to do!

4. Unreal Customer Service

Our team are powered by spuds and coffee. This means there always full of energy and are pumped to guide you throughout the whole event planning process and answer any questions you might have. Seriously, for one minute, our team take an active interest in whatever type of event your planning and care that it’s a success and exceeds your expectations.

5. You Like Me, You Really Like Me!

We could easily shout as loud as we possibly can about how great we are, our savage packages, and list of activities etc. But we let our actions and events do the talking. Our testimonials are proof of this with so many of our groups, clients and team sending us fantastic feedback. We place a lot of stock in these and we aim to provide a 5 star service everytime.

6. A BigPotatoes Event Gets Everyone Excited

There’s no getting away from it. When you start to organise a work, team or group event. You want everyone to be excited about the upcoming day out. How do you make sure that this is the case and the buzz around the team of office. Tell them we’re heading on Big Potatoes event and just check out all the activities they have on offer! Simples!  And you in turn come out looking fantastic for the one organising it.

7. We’ve Sampled All The Activities

It’s one of the perks of the job but it also ensures we know exactly what happens on all the activities. This way should you have any questions about what’s involved during the activity we’ll be able to confidently tell you.

8. Easy Ways To Pay

Depending on your event we have a variety of easy payment options. If it’s a group for example and everyone is paying individually, we have an easy online system in place which allows everyone to log in and pay when they can. This also saves you running around after people for cash.

9. We’re A Lovely Bunch

We love organising Team Building Events, Activities, Work Nights Out, Annual Outings and Weekends away. We want to organise more and more and provide you with the best event possible irrespective of the budget or size. We’ll there all the way through the process right up the day before the event and we’ll be calling to see how it was afterwards too. I think Father Ted said it best…

So there you have the 9 Reasons To Choose BigPotatoes For Your Next Event. We can’t wait to hear from you so drop us a line anytime on info@bigpotatoes.ie. Or if you fancy a chat call us on …

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