The Sandstone Team Building Blog

Wow. So much has happened since my last entry to our combined blog, which was back in August of last year now. A Conservative victory at the next general election is no longer an odds-on bet. My house is worth considerably less. And, of course, we have the credit crunch.

I am not in the least bit qualified to comment on the first of these things and I can only silently weep about the second, but the third – the credit crunch – is a topic worthy of a Nikki blog entry if ever I saw one. We have such a wide spread of clients by sector, by industry, by discipline etc. that it is bound to affect us. Some of our client base will undoubtedly find their purse strings tightened – especially when it comes to non-essential expenditure. At the same time that very breadth of the base is likely to give us a fair degree of protection as well.

However, our most important protection comes from the characteristics of our portfolio. We come from a learning and development background, so all of our activities combine participant engagement, enjoyment and genuine team and individual learning. Some of our options offer the most fun of any team activity in the world, yet the money spent also brings with it as much learning as our clients want to achieve from the time spent. Our options naturally offer two big hits for the price of one – participants love them and teams and organisations see real improvement that positively affect their bottom lines through increased effectiveness.

So if you need to justify time and money spent on team building in these difficult times (and surely everyone should do that anyway?), then here are some quick reasons for you to consider:

• The team is working harder than ever and needs to feel important.
• It’s not just a “jolly” – yes it’ll be fun but it’ll also improve us as a team and make us more effective.
• We have a supplier who understands our challenges and will deliver against our objectives.

That’ll be us, by the way…

Nikki