 “Great team-building experience! This event helped me in gaining strategic commitments from individuals while providing a tangible "take away" that I could immediately use! ”- Ken Krivanec - Quadrant Homes “Fun, physical, intellectual, Geoteaming was an amazing emotional challenge that allowed use to use the skills of our leadership team to solve real business problems. ”- David Brown - Verizon Wireless “Learning on the fly! An incredible mix of technology, adventure and team skills that energized our group. ”- Elizabeth DuBay - Classmates.com “An eye-opening experience! It was amazing to see our individual mindset transform from a team position of win-at-any-cost to one of collaboration and mindfulness of the entire company goal. It has greatly facilitated our ability to break down the work silos that exist in our organization and change the way we now approach our work. ”- Greg Allot - Weyerhaeuser Enterprise Accounting Center - Controller“It was great! Good learning experience that is easy to take back to the company! 5 Stars!”
- Michele Pfeffer - Peterson Pack Systems  “Geoteaming does what team-building experiences do at their best which is to mirror and reflect real behavior, so people can develop learning and apply it to the workplace. ”- Moe Carrick - Moementum - Quoted in American Airlines Magazine 11/1/2005 “Thank you for facilitating our Board retreat. We achieved tremendous success in bonding our new team members and operated as a high-performance team. John helped us do more in 30 minutes than we would have with hours of meetings! A great balance of allowing key conversations, while keeping us on track and on time. John created a positive environment that left us empowered and enabled with a great vision for continued success. Highly recommended! ”- Jeanette A. Johnson - Procurement Agent, Boeing - Treasurer, SafeFutures Youth Center “Thanks again to the Geoteaming staff for letting us all come out there to have a first hand look at how PLAYTIME works. I like that we were a smaller cohesive entity that ended up focusing on the total "prize" of reaching all the caches. It made the overall challenge more fun than strictly vying for individual team achievement. It's a great tool to use and have fun with - I for one can't wait to get more of my clients aboard this. ”- Michael Boulanger - Event & Program Manager - Destination Services NW |
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 “"This is a great exercise! The best part was seeing misperceptions and miscommunication because it teaches us how to deal with it. The debrief was effective in showing us about how different styles of communication process can impact group dynamics. It applied what we learned in the communication workshop into actual activities that can happen when working with people. We love Geoteaming!" ”- 2006 Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation Participants, Seattle, WA “Geoteaming was a huge hit during our 2006 International Conference! This event was able to connect 280 people from 38 countries and provide tremendous experience and value for the time we invested. John and his team did an extraordinary job of listening and customization to bring a dynamic event to life that resulted in exceeding our expectations and in bringing our message to life. The buzz is still going strong, I highly recommend it for your next team building event! ”- Jeanne Beauregard - Director of Learning and Partner Development - Starbucks “Andrew at Geoteaming, thank you for doing a great job planning and with the execution of such a great event for my districts in Colorado, I really appreciate your professionalism and flexibility in the planning of the event. From my perspective it almost was a "turn key" event for me since I could rest assured that the logistics were handled and that the objectives of the overall program would fit our needs and that my team would find it fun, challenging and just as important they would be able to apply the lessons that they learned during the event into every day work situations. These are things that a manager always strives for but rarely achieves in a team-building event. Thank you again. ”- David Stump - Amgen - Manager, District Sales“The City of Elgin Water Dept. was in dire need of some "team-building" strategies in 2005. Having a personal love for geocaching, the Geoteaming concept just seem like a natural. We did our first event in October of 2005. It was extremely well received by my bunch of "cynical" employees. I didn't realize how many competitive people were on my staff! Although we reached the team objectives, it was the FIRST PLACE team that was pumped up.
In Sept. 2006, I decided to build on the successes of the first event and contracted to do another event. I worked with the staff at Playtime, Inc. to develop a program that would focus more on the TEAM aspect. I was unsure about repeating a program, but it worked. IT REALLY WORKED!!!
This year's group had a much more collaborative focus. The course was more complex, more spread out and with challenges at the caches. It required team-work and the group rallied to the challenge. The staff saw the benefits in communication and working together that enhance relationships can build.
My goals were simple. I want my staff to know each other, know that their jobs are important and that their job impacts every other division within this department. I think that they are definitely becoming a TEAM.”
- Kyla Jacobsen - City of Elgin, IL - Water Dept.  “Just to say thanks for the very fast turn around on this project. I really appreciate your flexibility and fast response! ”- Ina Gantcheva - Organizational Development Program Manager -Booz Allen Hamilton “We took the whole Groundspeak Team to Discovery Park in Seattle for a company team-building event. Thanks to Geoteaming, we had a really fun time searching for 16 well placed caches, solving puzzles, playing with technology and figuring out how we could work together better for the benefit of the geocaching community. Not only did we learn a lot about our company, we had a really great time.
If you are looking for a fun and unique team building event that incorporates geocaching, check out geoteaming.com. It is a great program and they do a tremendous job of making team building fun and exciting. ”- Bryan Roth - Groundspeak“Through Geoteaming, we have been able to truly shift the thinking of our senior leaders to balance competition with collaboration to meet our company goals. Our senior executives said Geoteaming is one of the BEST team-building events they have ever experienced - unique, cutting-edge and effective. ”- Ed Cohen - Booz Allen Hamilton - Senior Director of Center of Performance Excellence “"This was the single greatest "meeting" we have had all year, and I am confident that when we meet our goals at year-end, we will look back on this event as the turning point in our success!"”
- Robert Baker, Tetra Pak Inc.  “I could not have imagined how fun and inspiring this activity was going to be. Getting to play with all the cool high-tech toys was a natural for our group, but the way it was integrated with the learning lessons made it so much more valuable. ”- Rachael Ligtenberg - REI - Flagship Store Manager |
