A New Team Building Resource For Meeting Planners

Toronto, ON – A person for whom “pathfinding” is not just a skill set but a job title has to be on top of their game – literally - when it comes to finding new ways to help people find the easiest path to choosing a team building activity. Andrew Long, Chief Pathfinder of Critical Pathfinders (http://www.criticalpathfinders.com), a team building event company, was contemplating the many calls his company receives from beleaguered meeting planners, ranging from EAs to VPs, who haven’t a clue where to start.

As Long shared, “Many people call us with no idea of what they really want out of their team building activity. They are sifting through a huge amount of information to find the right thing, and they’re not even sure what the right thing is. I wanted to help”.

In fact, Long may be understating the problem. A quick Google search under the keywords “team building ideas” gets you 34,500,000 hits.

So Long used his long time experience in leading corporate team building to assemble the key questions meeting planners need to ask themselves to set parameters for their event. “I wrote “I Love Team Building” because over the years I have sensed the frustration from those calling us who are often asked by their manager to research team building ideas with very little in the way of guidelines. I wanted to help them gain clarity in their team building objectives and at the same time give them a useful tool for their search”.

Knowing what the right questions to ask your manager are won’t only improve the odds of putting on the most appropriate team building game but also makes you look more prepared and professional to your boss.

The “I Love Team Building” (http://www.iloveteambuilding.com) guide is designed to help a meeting planner choose the best team building provider for your situation by helping them determine their objectives and guide them to the right parameters and objectives for creating the best offsite team building activity for their group.

Long encourages even seasoned planners to check it out. “There’s one page in the “I Love Team Building” guide that captures all the key information on your objectives that makes a great crib sheet when talking to team building providers”.

Interested (or relieved!) planners can go to the site http://www.iloveteambuilding.com and enter their name and email and their free guide will be sent to them immediately.