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Entries from September 2009

Hiking – a great outdoor activity!

September 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Adventure holidays can take many forms. When planning a holiday or activity day, the sky is the limit as far as the outdoor pursuits you can take part in. So why not go all out and make it either as exciting or as leisurely as possible?
Hiking is a great way to liven up a [...]

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Tags: Backpacking · Family Activities · Outdoor Activities

Striving for Success

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

There are many adventure centres available in the UK which provide great opportunities for teambuilding activities. Outdoor pursuits and adventures that are well organised and executed encourage people to work as a team to achieve a common goal.
A number of positive mentalities are taken from these teambuilding games and can be worked on when [...]

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Tags: Adventure Course · Corporate Away Days · Outdoor Activities

Team building activities

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Team building activities that take place away from the office and incorporate outdoor pursuits are a great way to work on leadership and management training. In this way, it’s not only the junior employee who will get a lot out of a corporate away-day, those in more senior positions should also seize the opportunity to [...]

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Tags: Adventure Course · Corporate Away Days · Outdoor Activities

Skiing Holidays

September 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

If you’re a bit of an adventure junkie then skiing or snowboarding might just be another sport to add to your belt. Like beach holidays you don’t have to travel far to be in the snow filled mountains from France and Spain to the USA and Canada all these places are able to cater for [...]

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Tags: Skiing

Adventure Courses – A fun day out for all the family

September 18th, 2009 · No Comments

So why are adventure courses and other outdoor pursuits suddenly so popular? For one thing they provide an escape from our everyday lives. In the present age we are so used to a steady routine of work and home life that sometimes we forget there is more to the world than just our office and [...]

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Tags: Adventure Course · Family Activities · Outdoor Activities

Problem Solving Games

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

There are many sorts of teambuilding games for a group to engage in. Some involve the application of physical effort, while others are more sedate. Problem solving games fall into the latter category.
There are numerous skills that businesses require their employees to learn. If an employee, or group of employees, is not displaying these [...]

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Tags: Adventure Course · Corporate Away Days · Outdoor Activities

The All Important Ski Binding

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

The ski binding is the device that connects you through your boots to the skis but more importantly it allows the skis to come free from the boots in the event that you fall. There are two styles of ski binding, the Alpine and the cross country or Nordic versions. The vast majority of bindings [...]

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Tags: Skiing

Working at relationships through corporate days out

September 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Since the 1990s, teambuilding has been a phrase that is often used in the corporate world, and coming up with new ideas to help colleagues to bond with each other remains popular now. The easiest definition of teambuilding is a team of people working together in order to achieve a common goal.
Due to the fact [...]

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Tags: Adventure Course · Corporate Away Days · Outdoor Activities