The Sandstone Team Building Blog

My thanks to Alan for keeping you up to date on our events of the month in recent blog entries, but it is high time I took back the reigns and the first one for a new year is a good reason for me to do so.  That said, we have something of a split decision this month.  A brilliant afternoon’s worth of Cube gets my vote but we ran a small Romanbar that I didn’t attend that my colleagues who were there insist just pipped it for them.

Mine first – the Cube event.  Held in the third week of January in Ascot, we were back at the fabulous Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa – fabulous because the service has always been great whenever we have been there.  Anyway, on with the event.  It was an unusually small Cube event for us – just 70 or so people – but boy did they get into it.  Noise-wise, it would have been easy to mistake them for a group 5 times that size.  Excellent!  We added a few new prize cube tasks in for the first time and it was particularly pleasing to see these going down well with the participants and our team alike.  Their Cube itself was beautiful, the professional event support team the client used were superb – just an all round brilliant event.

The Romanbar event, held in Watford, had Nikki and Steve from our team and just 7 people from our client’s team.  It was a day event and we know from experience small groups (our smallest was just 3 people) can tend to be a little quieter if only because there are fewer there to make a noise.  Well, they tell me that this group proved us wrong!  They were fantastic from the moment someone said “Oh no! There isn’t Karaoke is there?” to being one of our most regular performers on it!  Everyone noticed that there were certain members of the team who just couldn’t put down our flair bottles whatever else they were doing at the time!  The whole group really got into everything, tried all that we could throw at them and even had a whole group song at the end!  Nikki had the pleasure of videoing that song.  Having seen it myself, I have to say that even though it wasn’t always in tune, they all threw themselves into it and it really showed what tremendous team spirit they went away with.

So, two groups of quite different sizes that both punched well above their weight noise-wise.  Excellent team building!

Paul