Do you find ‘hybrid meetings’ challenging?

Remote participants feel a lack of inclusion by in-office colleagues. In-office participants feel a lack of engagement by remote colleagues.

‘Hybrid meetings’ lack cohesion and connection. It leads to declining equity (according to McKinsey) and a drop in employee experience (according to Slack).

In this experience, Stanford University’s Glenn Fajardo joins you live. Your team will play three games to understand what’s going wrong, why it’s happening, and how to adjust.

Bring your team together for a 45-minute session that will improve how you work.

What can your team learn about collaboration and creativity from NASCAR?

In motorsports, races are won and lost based on fractions of a second. The speed and precision of recurring pit stops in a race — where a dozen people collaborate around a vehicle – have the power to decide who wins.  A three-hour race can come down to those precious few seconds spent in the pits.

Pit stops are a collection of movement, concentration, empathy and reaction. Successfully accomplishing a virtual tire change (and learning from your mistakes), with your remote and hybrid teams, requires identical connection and execution.

For decades, mechanics, who optimized team performance based on individual skills and expertise, comprised pit crew rosters.  In the early 1990s, a former Stanford University football player, Andy Papathanassiou revolutionized the approach to pit stops — encouraging a new, more collaborative mindset.  His greatest value to motorsports, initially, was his position as an outsider, combined with outside-the-box thinking and ideas that fresh eyes bring to any challenge.

The result? Pit stop times dropped and the NASCAR crews coached by Andy consistently won. Today, the entire sport has shifted to leverage his methodology and cultural approach for working fast — together.

In this Teamraderie experience, Andy Papathanassiou joins you live. First, to lead an exercise in which your team performs its own competitive, virtual pit stop. You will learn the complexity of the collaboration and recognize the imperative for speed balanced against the need for accuracy. Next, Andy shares the analogies between pit stops and your own collaboration — all process driven events — and asks questions designed to evoke discussions that reveal constructive (and less constructive!) collaboration patterns in your own business.

Teams are astonished at the relevance of the “pit stop” analogy to software development, product innovations, and go-to-market. Bring your team together — led by NASCAR’s most thoughtful human performance director.

Program pricing:

$1,500 for the experience for up to 30 people, $30 per attendee kit + $15 domestic (U.S.) shipping per attendee (additional fees for International shipping). 

Can learning about another culture build connection in your team?

In this Teamraderie experience, celebrate Hawaiian culture from the comfort of your desk. Your team will receive everything needed to make three delicious tropical tiki cocktails and mocktails. With spirits, liquors, tropical elements, and a little spice mingling, these concoctions will transport your team to a state of relaxation at a tropical beach.

Enjoy tiki time as a team. Bond and connect. Join your team for a cocktail!

Please note that all attendees located outside of the U.S. will receive the non-alcoholic version of the kit. This version includes all the same contents as the alcoholic version, but with a 200 ml bottle of Seedlip non-alcoholic distilled spirits. A sophisticated and delicious beverage that adds depth to each cocktail

Did you know that an Italian Monk first made the pretzel for his parish to snack on during service in the 6th century?

In this experience, your team will learn about snacks from around the world as well as the differences, and the similarities of how different cultures snack. Each team member will receive a kit that includes 3 snacks and a beverage originating from South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Your team will go on a journey through each country. Each story offers different team members a chance to share more about their culture and foods that have a special memory for them.

Take your team on a snack journey around the world!