Why invest in team building?

1. Enhance communication skills;

2. Develop a spirit of collaboration;

3. Build trust;

4. Learn to focus a group on specific goals;

5. Learn to use group dynamics to create an environment of innovation and creativity.

Here's what people have written about kitchen team building...

... It's based on the discovery that some of the most effective, efficient teams in the world are in the kitchens of fine restaurants, where skilled professionals provide models of organization, communication and results-oriented processes.

Excerpted from "Cooking Up Effective Team Building" Howard Prager, Training and Development Magazine, December 1999

The challenge of group cooking under a deadline fosters trust, cooperation and communication, as well as new respect for unsuspected skills in teammates.

Excerpted from "Memo to the Team: This needs Salt!" Eileen Daspin, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2000

American companies dish out an estimated $60 billion dollars every year on employee development. Factor in time away from the office - as much as $300 billion a year. But rolling up your sleeves and standing over a hot stove with your co-workers may be priceless, if that means a cohesive work force that could skewer the competition.

Excerpted from "A New Way to Bond at Work: Cooking Together", Carl Quintanilla, CNBC, printed from MSNBC.com, June 7, 2006.

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