Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
Deciding you want to be more productive and fulfilled is a start.
The book "THINK ABOUT IT" will show you HOW to improve and achieve your true potential in an easy, enjoyable - even laugh-out-loud way! See example page
“share, care, communicate!”
for the ultimate balance between success, productivity and HAPPINESS!
We Can Help Your TEAM by...
1. Helping you identify your POTENTIAL as a Team
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Using unique and original How Good ARE We? questionnaires for team members to complete anonymously!
2. Helping individuals learn about THEMSELVES
Our unique Experiential Profiling system shows people WHAT TO DO to be more successful and fulfilled
3. Providing Resources
for the Team as a Team - to develop themselves and each other
for Team Leaders, to develop their leadership and management skills
for trainers, managers, leaders to grow their people as needed
for Senior Leadership to hone the organisational culture
4. Providing Guidance
by consulting you and customising resources to maximise relevance
by providing advice on HOW to use resources
Rick offers "guest appearances" as a Speaker at your events
Rick offers bespoke JANUS and THINK ABOUT IT workshops
for ANYONE - entrepreneurs, politicians, leaders, the lonely, people feeling unappreciated, or with personal challenges - for EVERYONE
5. Rick as a Speaker - always customised for clients - 60 to 90 minutes any location
“THINK ABOUT IT!”
what I have Learned in over 40 years that might apply to you!
Talks designed to entertain, inform and make people THINK - about the subject matter AND about THEMSELVES
THINK ABOUT ....
an inspirational boost to your conferences, anchor days, meetings, dinners - to focus, collaborate, pivot, solve problems; AND... develop associated skills - “direct” egs negotiating, influencing - and/or “background” egs creative thinking, visualising.
“My talks are always researched to ensure RELEVANCE and VALUE for the client and their invited audience. I don’t tell people what to do, but I DO provide new ideas on HOW to do it !” Talks are always entertaining and verbally interactive with rhetorical questions which ask people to THINK (and often LAUGH) rather than answer"
and Rick's "legacy" of resources also includes his Self Help books and the Do It Yourself Kits described below
To view the slide show, hover over an arrow on left or right and to enlarge any or all of them, click one
- and then try to work out or guess which of the DIY Tasks below each one is an example of !
Do It Yourself - Kits for purchase
NB: All kits include: a Tutor's Brief; delegates' briefs; Teamwork and/or Leadership behaviour checklists for debrief
ALL TASKS REQUIRE TEAMWORK, whatever the functional learning objectives like planning, negotiationg and many include teams needing to acquire information or resources. This is indicated by an icon linking to WALK. Don't RUN showing possibilities
Over the years we have built a library of unique learning "Tasks" which we are now making available in "KITS" for clients to use as they wish, as often as they like, with their team(s). The range includes our most popular Teambuilding and/or Leadership Tasks (leaders can be assigned to teams in any Task) and other tasks to develop targeted skills. Below are links to the details of 15 of our most popular kits
always customised
£350
Getting to Know You
What's in the box
More of a treasure trove than a box! The jewel is Rick's booklet, "Who Am !?" containing a host of creative and fun ways to achieve your objectives
What's the task for
Teamwork and Relationships; as an Icebreaker.
conferences; anchor days, meetings, team get togethers. 30 minutes to as long as you like!
This is a flexible task which typifies Rick’s approach of "SERIOUS FUN". His booklet “Who Am !?” is a compilation of introductory exercises he has written over the years - all aimed at colleagues “getting to know” each other better to harmonise and enhance teamworking, "shared objectives", relationships and fulfilment AND develop the most relevant interactive skills like questioning, listening, debating, humour. And some genuine treasure in the box are wads of Impetus money!
indoors - 60 to 90 minutes
£250
The Moonlanding
What's the task for
Teamworking; an Icebreaker; develop key skills.
team meetings, courses and workshops,
Ideally 4 to 6 people in each of 2 to 4 teams.
What's in the box
Tutor's brief; delegates' briefs - 3 parts; Teamwork Behaviour checklists; Assertiveness and Listening Techniques questionnaires
A great task for helping people engage with each other and learn and practise key skills - LISTENING, DEBATING and TEAMWORKING. In Part 1 individuals (without colluding) choose 12 out of 30 items to take with them to the moon and in Part 2 each team must discuss and AGREE on 12 items to take - and prioritise them. Teams present and justify decisions; optional Part 3 is debate between teams to agree; reflection focuses on teamwork and individual behaviour and skills.
What's the task for
Teamworking; Leadership; as an Icebreaker. conferences; team meetings, courses, workshops 60 to 90 minutes and as many people as you like!
Teamworking; Leadership; as an Icebreaker.
conferences; team meetings, courses, workshops 60 to 90 minutes and as many people as you like!
Cashback
£250
outdoors - 60 to 90 minutes
What's in the box
Tutor's brief: how to plan and a route with photo clues; lots of cash! - 3 denominations of Impetus bank notes; delegates' briefs; behaviour checklists.
Simple in concept, but endlessly flexible. Impetus bank notes are hidden and competitive teams (with or without leaders) try to find as much as possible! The money can then also be used in other ways. For example to buy food at a "Tutors' Deli" for a Gourmet Challenge or in an arranged private bar at an "exchange rate" eg £100,000 Impetus = £1) See example of a Brief, but remember the concept is very flexible, so ideally call Rick to discuss what might suit your needs.
£300
How Good ARE We
at Teamwork?
What's the task for
The ultimate way to boost Communications and Teamworking. For any team or teams at any level, in any organisation. Indoors circa 60 minutes.
What's in the box
Always personalised, examples and tutors' brief in box and see How Good Are We (symptoms are edited for you by Rick who will also collate results)
always customised
In preparation for this Task ideally EVERY member of the team (even those not attending) must anonymously complete a questionnaire scoring the "symptoms" of effective teamwork in YOUR team. Go to How Good Are We for an example. The facilitater (or Rick) collates the scores to identify strengths and opportunities.. All individual results (but still anonymously) and the team totals and ranking, are presented to the team for discussion and debate and, hopefully, AGREEMENT on an action plan on how to improve teamwork and communications AND how to move on together to achieve the team's "SHARED OBJECTIVES".
THINK about it!
£300
including copies
of the book
What's the task for
What's in the box
60 to 90 minutes; 6 to 10 people; for mindfulness, reflection, teambuilding, relationships - AND improved productivity and job and life fulfilment.
2 copies of the book “THINK ABOUT IT!” for each participant with instructions / brief; a separate tutors’ booklet with ideas and options.
Part 1, participants are issued (or posted) a copy of the book in advance with a brief on how to study it to prepare for and then use on their workshop eg, from each of the 5 Steps select 1 or 2 epigrams that are most relevant and prepare to say WHY - and to also THINK ABOUT their colleagues (those who will be attending). Part 2 is an "honest debate" where people learn about themselves including how OTHERS see them, hopefully accompanied by good humour and laughter! Having used their first copy, all receive a second, pristine, signed copy of the book to take away. Please call Rick to discuss your people and goals.
What's the task for
Indoors 60 to 90 minutes; for teamwork, flexibility, decision making, strategic planning, negotiating and recognising assumptions; teams of up to 6.
What's in the box
Two bags of Scrabble tiles (the same number and the same value BUT a different mix for each team) Task briefs, Tutors' brief with spare tiles for auction/sale.
Wordpower
£400
2 kits (2 competing teams)
extra kits £100 each
In this task, using Scrabble tiles, teams have to make up words of specific lengths. Each team is issued with a bag of tiles (the same number and the same value BUT a different mix for each team and they can add to these in a variety of ways - buying, or an auction between teams for valuable letters like a Z or a blank or negotiating. Teams need to read the "small print" carefully to work out how to score highly - and, watch out for the ASSUMPTIONS that WILL distract them!
The Lego Tower
£400
What's the task for
Indoors 60 to 90 minutes; for teamwork, planning for profit, decision making, creative planning and recognising assumptions; teams of 4 to 8.
What's in the box
2 boxes of Lego pieces (identical number and mix of bricks each team); 3 Profit Graphs illustrating how to maximise profit. Task and tutors' briefs.
2 kits (2 competing teams)
extra kits £100 each
The aim for this task is to maximise PROFIT. This requires real teamworking, especially in challenging the ASSUMPTIONS people WILL be making! And as a Leadership task, strong leadership to control the debates! NB: There is a BEST way of using the bricks which is counter-intuitive and is explained in the tutor's brief. If a team does do it this way, (or if none do, the tutor can explain it) this can be used in a discussion around the types of intuitive assumptions that influence decisions and limit creativity and innovation in your world.
The Minefield
£700
for 1 kit for 2 teams
Outdoors up to 3 hours; for teamwork/leadership, use of resources - time management, creativity and lateral thinking, motivation; teams of 4 to 8.
all equipment (see below); task briefs including logic puzzle clues to enable teams to plot where mines are laid and plan a route through; tutors' brief
What's the task for
What's in the box
The aim is to escape through a minefield - including wounded and blindfold team members! Included in the kit is one "minefield" for laying out, poles and materials teams can improvise with to make stretchers for "injured" team members; blindfolds; a "mastermine" and carrying buckets and assorted poles and ropes for teams to improvise with on how to carry the "mastermine"; There are photographs all over this web site of various minefields in action.
The Minefield is flexible (so talk to Rick) and adaptable to different groups - eg, very senior people confused and arguing about the logic puzzle clues! And once a Headmaster who had attended a Leadership course briefed Rick to prepare a version with simpler logic clues (and methods of escape, eg three legged) for Year 6 pupils (they did brilliantly, because they didn't make the assumptions or argue as much as senior people!)
Find, Cook, Eat!
£500
venue dependent (discuss with Rick) for creative planning, leadership, teamwork, getting to know you, relationships; teams need 4 to 8 in each.
AFTER choosing a venue and consultations with Rick AND research - "treasure maps" with MRNs (map reference numbers) and clues; task and tutors' briefs.
What's the task for
What's in the box
for 1 kit (for 1 to 3 teams)
£250 each for more kits
A classic "treasure Island" task. Teams are issued with a hand drawn scroll map of the "island" with cryptic clues and instructions to where the "treasure" is buried in a minimum of 3 places. When a team finds "the crooked tree" or whatever, they take a smartphone photograph with at least two team members recogniseable in it and on their return to base redeem this for their treasure (food) Not all the team will have been out hunting, however, because others will have been finding fuel and starting a fire on which to cook and eat the food - FIND, COOK, EAT! Then teams can relax around the camp fire for as long as they like!
The Gourmet Challenge
£300
for as many teams as you like!
a venue dependent cooking task with a difference; for teamwork, leadership, budgeting, negotiating, creative planning, time management.
a catering price list, Impetus money, instructions in the task brief on how to acquire a budget; tutors' brief includes how to source and price the food
What's the task for
What's in the box
(AFTER choosing a venue and consulting Rick)
Another cooking and eating task, this one is ideal after a morning task like Cashback where teams have earned some money to spend! But you can also just give each team a budget of Impetus bank notes or hold a quiz on product knowledge or whatever (Tutors' brief has lots of ideas)
One way or another though, teams acquire a budget in hard cash with which to buy ingredients at the "tutors' deli, which will have items like potatoes priced at £20,000 each! The deli should contain a sensible range of ingredients including vegetable/vegan options - but limited amounts - which is where the negotiating and co-operating between teams comes in. Teams are briefed to produce a 3 course meal for themselves and one or two extras (course tutors) and the brief stresses ALL team members should participate equally!
Experiential Profiling
£300
ideally 4 to 8 participants
indoors, circa 60 minutes
Your choice of the 4 books which include Experiential Profiling, plus copies of THINK ABOUT IT for each participant, plus task brief and TUTORS GUIDE.
What's in the box
What's the task for
Facilitator issues laminated Experiential Profiling Reference Cards and explains the principles from Tutors “Guide to Experiential Profiling for Presenters”. Team members then pair up to each select 2 or 3 "Personality Types" from each of the Bright AND Dark sides that best describe how they believe they project as personalities. There is then a round table "group therapy" session with each individual learning HOW they can maximise their individual effectiveness and "see themselves as others see them". Kits include 20 Reference Cards.
One Big HAPPY Team
from £750
at least two teams of 4 to 8 - in and outdoors, 90 to 120 minutes
What's the task for
TEAMWORKING - shared objectives - competing teams MUST help each other - leadership, use of resources, negotiating, motivation.
What's in the box
a jigsaw split into 20 sections and each piece has a number on its back; a “treasure map” with photo clues; lots of Impetus Bank notes; task brief and price list for puzzle sections; customized tutor’s brief (consult Rick)
Prices - £750 for a 500 or 600 piece jigsaw; £950 for a 1,000 piece.
At least two competing teams need to collaborate to fully assemble one jigsaw puzzle, but teams are not issued with their sections - they have to buy them by going on a “treasure hunt” This is a great task for bringing everyone together and getting over the message that, no matter what your individual and/or “small team” roles might be, everyone has to communicate and co-operate to maximise results for the "greater good"! Finishing your sections first might be nice but NO-ONE wins unless the full puzzle is completed within the deadline!
the Outdoor Jigsaw
or Floating Puzzle
from £750
for up to 12 people - per puzzle -,
mainly outdoors, up to 4 hours
What's the task for
LEADERSHIP, motivation, delegation (to sub team leaders), teamwork use of resources, creativity, communications, time management.
What's in the box
a jigsaw split into 20 sections and each piece has a number on its back; equipment to build "mini-rafts" and transport them; task brief and customized tutor’s brief.
Prices - £750 for a 500 or 600 piece jigsaw; £950 for a 1,000 piece.
We have a continuous production line assembling, numbering, sectioning and disassembling jigsaws and have used them in a variety of ways over the years. Illustrations in the slide show above include an Indoor (hotel pool) and an outdoor (pond) floating puzzle and an outdoor jigsaw which had to be transported to the top of a mountain! A 1,000 piece puzzle really needs a minimum of 12 participants split into 2 or more competing (and then co-operating) teams, who also need to build a raft to carry / float their completed puzzle. And the option is to have teams earn their sections by going on a “treasure hunt”
The Case of the Blackened Filament
from £300
indoors, 60 to 90 minutes
What's the task for
PROBLEM SOLVING and DECISION MAKING,
teamwork, leadership, negotiating, communicating, time management; one or two teams
What's in the box
the book “Leadership at WORK” for participants; behavior checklists; tutors' file with price lists and one AND two team task briefs
Prices - for one team of 6 to 10 - £300; two team version £500
This is a PROBLEM SOLVING exercise to be used alongside Chapter 6 in the book Leadership at Work. Teams have to solve an industrial problem by acquiring information from a tutor who refers to a file in the kit. Information is "priced" in units of time with the objective of finding a solution as quickly as possible. If teams have appointed leaders they can be debriefed afterwards using checklists provided.
It is recommended that the client identify in advance real life challenges the group face (or case studies of past situations) so discussions following the task can relate the lessons learned on problem solving to real life, and an action plan agreed. The two team version provides different background information for each team and teams can liaise and exchange information as they wish (to save time and money)
The Balloonpole
£600 for 2 kits
What's the task for
Outdoors up to 3 hours; for teamwork/leadership, use of resources - time management, creativity, negotiating, motivation; teams of 4 to 8.
What's in the box
one kit per team:100 balloons; a variety of poles sufficient to design and build a base and erect a 50 feet balloonpole; string and rope, scissors; extra material for auction between teams; tutors' guide.
£200 each for more
The aim of the Task is to maximise PROFIT by building a flagpole flying balloons from the top of it. Profit is calculated by the height and the number of balloons and the time taken. Included in each kit are 100 balloons; poles of varying widths and strengths sufficient to design and build a base and then erect a 50 feet balloonpole; varying widths and lengths of string and rope; and scissors. An option In the Planning Phase is to hold an auction between teams for materials. So by the time of the auction teams need to have a very specific strategy - for how much they can afford to spend versus the potential rewards. And negotiating before and after the auction is allowed. See a variety of Balloonpoles in various stages of erection in the slide show above.