Company - Innogy
Event - Team Development
Group Size - 44
Venue - Gower Peninsula
For a company as large as Innogy - formerly National Power - regular meetings with colleagues from various departments can prove challenging. With this in mind customer services manager, Chris Legge brings together a number of employees each year to meet over a team-building weekend. Following last year's mountain based event in the Brecon Beacons, Innogy opted for Wales again, but, this time to take part in beach based challenges at Llangennith on the Gower peninsula.
"We had looked at holding the event on the west coast of Wales, but it was a little too far from Swindon where we're based," says Chris Legge. "The Gower was just far enough away to be getting away from it all, but near enough for us to reach. We were looking for a relaxed, informal event so after some research on the web we saw the Gower could provde the right balance of activities, learning and fun."
Event organisers Call of the Wild, who helped with Innogy's event the previous year arranged the whole event from using accommodation in their private hotel to the activities. In keeping with the informal feel of the event, the first evening's meal was a barbeque. Then it was straight into the activities the following morning.
"The group took part in challenges to help them win equipment to use in their hunt for buried treasure," explains Call of the Wild Director Mark Soanes. "Then the winning team was able to choose how to spend a leisure afternoon from a range of beach based activities such as coasteering, surfing, surf-kayaking or speed boating. But the loosing team got buried in the sand."
"The area and the activities met all our objectives to have a fun team building weekend and would certainly come back again next year," said Chris Legge.
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