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PROTRAINING welcomes you to the PRO World of Team Building!

Here you will be able to consider an array of exciting activities from full days to short two hour conference fillers.

Explore international solutions for large conferences or any of our locally PRO-Designed adventures that your team can experience. Turn the page and select the best team building activity to suit your needs.

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C H o o s I N G Y o U R TEAM BUILDING a C T I V I T Y . . .

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CORAL BANks

PROMIsEs, PROMIsEs

GOLD Of ThE DEsERT kINGs

ChOCOLATE ChALLENGE

COMMAND TAsks

TEAM PROfILING (BELBIN)

COMMON CURRENCy

MIssION TO MARs

COMMUNICATION Is kEy

DECIsIONs DECIsIONs

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ENGAGEMENT, large groups/ conferences

DyNAMIC wORkshOP, achieving results in multi-cultural environments

COMPETITIVE sALEs conferences, strategic planning

fUN sIMULATION for interactive team activity

TEAM and self-discovery, hands on activities, conference filler

COMPLEMENTs all team builds, profiles participants for self & team insight

CONfERENCE fILLER - Team game based on negotiation

ENERGETIC conference filler - outdoors only

CONfERENCE fILLER with focus on communication and team work

CONfERENCE fILLER balancing need for profit versus customer satisfactionCONfERENCE fILLER – Creative ways to communicate and collaborate when the circumstances are a challengeCONfERENCE fILLER – a problem solving challenge focused on brainstorming and role delegationCONfERENCE fILLER – Foster creativity and sticking together under pressureCONfERENCE fILLER – Discussion-based activity about making good decisions under pressureCONfERENCE fILLER – Fun and often hilarious team building activity to add to your eventCONfERENCE fILLER – Highlights the importance of communication and practicing together as a team under pressure

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Coral Banks™ Construction Company challenges participants with an ostensibly impossible task. Seemingly overwhelming goals often put teams into ‘deer in the headlights’ mode—paralyzed by self-doubt and confusion. But in this challenge, paralysis is quickly replaced with motivated, purposeful action as people explore the potential for “What’s Possible” with the power of collaborative teams.

Duration: 3+ hoursGroup Size: 20 – 1,000 delegatesEnvironment: Indoor & Outdoor

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Use Coral Banks to:

• Highlight effective use of resource allocation and talent sharing

• Create bonding and team spirit

• Demonstrate that a team can achieve together what an individual cannot do alone

• Highlight how to build unanimous focus on a single task to achieve success

• Teach the importance of inter-team support

• Emphasise the need to adhere to quality standards within an allotted time

• Engender pride for a job well done

• Realise the influence of leadership and chain of command on outcomes

• Round up the troops for a hands-on team building activity (without the physical stress and exertion of more traditional team building activities)

A Coral Banks™ world record in 2012 brought 750 people all in one place with Al Nabooda team at Meydan Hotel and together they built the longest Coral Banks™ Bridge in the world!

Thank you very much for making our team building such a great success! From the very beginning we felt comfortable with your innovative, creative and professional approach. Not only did you handle all aspects of our Coral Banks team building for over 700 colleagues to an impressive standard. We loved the high energy facilitation and the attention to every detail that made it such a success. Until today our people are still talking about the event. A new standard has been set! It’s been a true pleasure to work with you PROTRAINING!

Ines Albert, General Manager Organizational Development

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Your stimulating team building program presented during our annual workshop was outstanding and it seems everyone I talked to wants me to express appreciation for your great presentation of Promises, Promises. Our team enjoyed to be part of the fun, challenge and politics which finally led to create synergy between our team members. Thank you for your contribution to the success of our workshop for this year.

RotanaHotels

Duration: ½ day to 1 day Group Size: 10 - 1,000 delegatesEnvironment: Indoor

Promises, Promises! ™ demonstrates the strong relationship between teamwork and results. The delegates will trade, negotiate and rapidly interact to get the right resources to the right people based on needs and deadlines. Politics, intrigue and fun are all in the mix making it a unique and entertaining team experience. Participants will walk away with an understanding that everyone within an organization is both a customer and a supplier.

Use Promises, Promises to:

• Build team unity

• Improve synergy and inter-departmental effectiveness

• Promote “big picture” thinking to achieve the overall mission

• Increase productivity through strengthened working relationship

• Highlight the impact of silos in-company politics and unproductive team behaviours

• Remove barriers towards achieving the common vision

• Maximise productivity through “we” versus “me”

• Emphasize the value of relationships for sharing resources

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Gold of the Desert Kings™ addresses the issue of effort invested versus results achieved. This fun and fast paced team exercise takes participants on a virtual desert journey whilst working in competing teams of four or five members. They face circumstances with limited time and resources and must accumulate as much gold as possible by the end of the experience. The challenges encountered are similar to a hectic work schedule.

Duration: ½ to 1 dayGroup Size: 10 - 1,000 participantsEnvironment: Indoor

Use Gold of the Desert Kings™ to:

• Emphasise the impact lack of planning has on results

• Highlight the need for obtaining as much information as possible

• Stress the importance of risk management and adapting to changing circumstances

• Increase the awareness of sales productivity

• Prove the difference (in results) between teams who maximise results, versus those who survive.

Convert your team’s activity into productivity, and maximize results!

I knew I had hit bull’s-eye with the Gold of the Desert Kings idea. What made me more confident about the programme was the manner in which the PROTRAINING team responded - right from the start they impressed us with their efficient, professional manner, an approach that not only inspired confidence, but generated the results we were looking for. All members of my client’s top management learnt new business skills which they could put to use in their day to day management jobs….and all the while had an amazing fun filled time..

Thomas Joseph, Events ManagerNPA Events LLC, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

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Q: What was the worst thing about the event? A: “Aching tummy muscles from laughing so much.

The day was extremely good for morale as well as being good at highlighting the benefits of teamwork and our ability to stretch our boundaries.

A well organised and structured event, which produced some great results from our team. The professionalism of the facilitators – during the event but also before and after (when they set up and cleared the room) meant that I didn’t have to worry about a thing!

Duration: ½ daysGroup Size: 20 – 50 ParticipantsEnvironment: Indoor

The Chocolate Challenge is a great team development activity that simulates a complete business process from initial concept through to design, production, marketing and promotion. It’s all done in a light-hearted and highly creative environment requiring co-operation, mental and artistic skills (and several kilos of chocolate!).

Use Chocolate Challenge to:

• Emphasise the importance of creative thinking

• Highlight the need for working together to achieve an end result

• Improve communication & innovation

• Strengthen working relationships fACT The Chocolate Challenge was originally created

in 1998 – it has since been used for the final challenge of the BBC ‘Apprentice’ series.

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Duration: 2 hours to 1 dayGroup Size: 12 - 50 participants Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

Command Tasks are a selection of 40 practical challenges traditionally used in the military to put teamwork and leadership to the ultimate test. The tasks can be completed indoors or outdoors and can range in time from two hours to two days. All you need to do is to share your objectives with us.

Use Command Tasks for:

• Team Competencies:With expert insight to their performance.

• Fun, Enjoyment and Feel-good Factor: teams are confronted by logistical challenges and need to figure out the best solution. No heavy analysis or debriefing.

• Recruitment and Selection: Actions speak louder than words! Tasks are selected based on the competencies sought in the recruitment process. A detailed report on each applicant against organisational competencies is provided.

• Leadership Assessment Centres: This format places individuals in the position of leader to specifically assess their leadership capabilities and report back on.

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We really enjoyed the first of its kind training with physical activity session. It gave us an insight to the importance of “taking the instructions properly, delivering them to the team, planning, getting all the team members involved to achieve the goal and over all “thinking out of the box.

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Duration: 1/2 DayGroup Size: 8-100 participants per groupEnvironment: Indoor

The “Belbin360°ProfilingTool” enables you to learn more about the personalities on your team. Coupled with any of the team building workshops, the Belbin Team Roles session is about uncovering, highlighting and maximising strengths while being aware of and managing possible “allowable weaknesses.”

UseBelbin360°ProfilingToolto:

• Learn more about the personalities in the team

• Create insight to the team role of other colleagues

• Increase self awareness of strengths and allowable weaknesses

• Highlight how others perceive us (360° profiles only)

• Reflect on the entire team profile and discuss any gaps

• Maximise individual contribution and therefore achieve greater team output and effectiveness

The Belbin philosophy denotes that there are almost no jobs that operate in total isolation.

Most people need to contribute their best abilities and talents to a team situation, in order for their goals and the overall goals of the organisation to be effectively achieved.

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PROTRAINING truly shapes future performance! They not only delivered a very engaging team building event but have challenged team members and at times got us out of our comfort zone to ensure we see the bigger picture. The day was packed with exciting learning and ensured everyone left with a better understanding of a team and its purpose, higher tolerance and more appreciation for one another that translated positively in the workplace. PROTRAINING were fantastic and their preparation was impressive.

Basma Ahmad Essa, Senior Manager, Brand and Corporate Communications Management, Emirates National Oil Company Limited (ENOC) LLC

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Duration: 1 1/2 hoursGroup Size: 8 – 32 participantsEnvironment: Indoor & Outdoor

“Common Currency” is a business game designed to provide groups of individuals with the opportunity to practice “cooperative-competition” as they build their negotiation and team skills. Teams must rely on their own effective group dynamics as well as building productive relationships with the other teams. The game explores basic teamwork concepts as well as strategic planning and negotiation.

Use Common Currency to:

• Teach teams the value of cooperative-competition

• Stress the importance of group interdependence

• Highlight the role of information in negotiation

• Examine win-win behaviours

Knowledge is Power. Information is Liberating.Kofi Annan

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Duration: 1 1/2 hoursGroup Size: 20-100 participantsEnvironment: Outdoor

“Mission toMars” is an energising opening or closing to a team building event which focuses on the need for sharing information, achieving success and building team spirit. The mission is to build a prototype of a rocket and successfully launch it to Mars. Sub-teams compete to have the most launches whilst working to a deadline.

Use Mission to Mars to:

• Energise your team building or conference

• Highlight effective communication/ sharing of information

• Stress the Importance of perseverance and motivation

• Emphasise the need to share best practice

• Discuss the need for goal setting and achievement of goals

• Inject a physical fun activity to your schedule

I would like to thank you for being so flexible and adaptable when planning our team building days for the managers and the team members. Being able to ‘adjust to fit’ has enabled us to get the most out of the events. With your follow-up and support with the managers, it has been very beneficial in further developing the team in the workplace.

Karen Thorburn, Human Resources DirectorKempinski Hotel, Mall of the Emirates

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Duration: 1/2 DayGroup Size: 8-100 participants per group Environment: Indoor

“CommunicationistheKey” is an activity with a challenging and smart team exercise. Teams must jointly solve a problem. Through self-discovery, teams experience first-hand, the barriers and communication challenges they create and face every day, as they struggle to get the right result.

UseCommunicationistheKey”to:

• Discuss communication barriers and their effects

• Highlight the challenges of email communication

• Allow teams to identify for themselves their communication needs

• Highlight the importance of good listening

• Address the impact of making assumptions

• Reveal the consequences of poor meeting preparation

• Stress the benefits of face to face conversations

On behalf of our Management team, I would like to thank PROTRAINING for the dynamic delivery of Communication is the Key. It was an amazing programme that really opened the team’s eyes to how they are communicating on a daily basis and where there are clear signs for improvement to form a better team and that performs together more effectively.

The programme was assimilated in such a way that made each of us accountable for how and why they communicate the way we do, it was a great success and I truly cannot thank PROTRAINING enough.

Victoria McIntosh, Cluster Learning and Development Management, Movenpick Ibn Battuta

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“Decisions-Decisions” is an interactive team decision-making business game which challenges groups to solve problems by consensus, under time pressure and on a budget! In groups of four or five members, they represent the management of a tour company and are presented with a series of issues and problems to solve.

Duration: ½ to 1 dayGroup Size: 12 - 64 participantsEnvironment: Indoor

Use“Decisions-Decisions”to:

• Highlight the need to balance profit and customer satisfaction

• Drive the need to manage expenses when solving customer service problems

• Demonstrate the impact of decisions on long term customer loyalty

• Discuss the value of solving problems in consultation with team members

• Build teamwork between individuals who need to work better together

Participants debate the given options mindful that spending money on a problem may increase customer satisfaction but reduce profits, while going for the cheap option may well mean a loss of customer satisfaction.

They enter their decisions into a computer using a secret team code, the customer service score and profit balance is then printed along with the next problem.

I’ve read a lot about successful men. They don’t do it alone. IT ALwAys TAkEs A TEAM.-Paul “Bear” Bryant

The Decisions, Decisions activity was great for focusing the managers on the fine balance between spending and keeping customer’s happy. It provided an ideal platform for teamwork, debates and making decisions while having fun in the process. Thanks for the very professional and engaging delivery, it certainly added value to our conference.

John Matthews, CFO, HMH.

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Castaway’ is a 2 to 4 hour activity which can be conducted out in the desert or indoors. Teams are tasked to become tribes and compete head to head in ‘Survivor’ style challenges and Castaway themed activities.

Based on the popular TV show, your group will have fun, learn about each other, face and overcome challenges, and best of all, no one has to be voted out of the desert!

Duration: 2+ hoursGroup Size: Min 10 Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

Tribes are encouraged to create a unified tribal appearance before the activities begin. Tasks to be completed will include building a shelter, and other short activities depending on your objectives.

Your tribe will have to overcome all of these obstacles to ‘stay alive’ in this lively and challenging activity.

Castaway will illustrate the importance of communication, collaboration and seeing a job through from inception to successful completion.

Use Castaway to:

• Take teams out of their comfort zones

and open lines of communication

• Encourage strategic thinking

• Break down barriers and face

challenges head on

• Improve camaraderie

• Build trust in the workplace

• Develop leadership skills

Aha. Look what I’ve created.

I have made FIRE.Chuck Noland – Castaway

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Murder Mystery is a 2-3 hours indoor activity that will challenge your employees as they form small detective teams to solve complex mysteries.

Complete with victims, suspects, clues and all the rigors of detective work, the groups will have to sharpen their skills while they work together to solve the crime!

Duration: 2- 3 hoursGroup Size: Min 18 – Max 80 Environment: Indoor

Was it Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick or was it Professor Plum in the kitchen with the lead piping?

Are you a real life Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Clouseau?

Use Murder Mystery to:

• Improve communication and collaboration within an organisation

• Foster team insight, learning and trust• Acknowledge each team member’s

significance and value• Emphasise the importance of effective

team planning and considers the skills, talents and aspirations of all team members as its critical to quality decision-making

• Push innovation and strive to practice collaboration

If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d

spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem

and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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In Swahili Jenga means “build”. In the Jenga Jam workshop you and your team have just arrived in south east Africa to win the largest Jenga construction deal in the history of African architecture.

Upon arrival at the construction site, your “engineering” teams have to solve the problem of building the tallest tower.

Duration: 20 minutes per roundGroup Size: Min 8 Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

Competing against one another on the construction site, the teams must demonstrate their jenga-bilities and construct the tower without it toppling over!

The team that has the most robust jenga-bilities wins the competition and the prestige of being the construction kings!

Will you be ‘Bob the Builder’ or will you be standing proud with your tower rivaling the Burj Khalifa???

Use Jenga Jam to:

• Find solutions for problem solving

• Increase creativity

• Make business connections

• Team bonding

Jenga is the third most popular game the world after Monopoly and Scrabble based on the number of units sold.fA

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Duration: 30+ minutesGroup Size: Min 8 Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

This is an engaging team activity based around the scenario of a crash landing in the Canadian wilderness. The learning priorities in this team simulation are about making good decisions under pressure. Time is very limited. What equipment will they use? How will they make it home? Will they all survive?

Use Lost in the Wilderness to:

• Have a discussion-based team activity

• Work together for team building

• Analyse and discuss a problem under

time pressure

• Apply brainstorming methods

• Prioritise options

• Discuss assertiveness for negotiating

ideas Within the simulation, participants have the opportunity to demonstrate an organised approach, analytical thinking, decisiveness, leadership – and much more!

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Madonna, Prince, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones – they all pale into insignificance when compared to you and your team! This team building workshop calls on your team spirit for 1 to 2 hours to create your very own team song.

Leave your nerves at the door and show up for a great team experience. Have you got what it takes to be a superstar?

Duration: 1+ hourGroup Size: Min 8 Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

Have you got the ‘X Factor’? Are you and your team the next pop sensation? Could you be the ‘next big thing’? Find out in this fun and sometimes often hilarious team build.

Use Team Song to:

• Foster creativity and problem solving

• Find one,s voice in context of a team

• Reinforce key values and messages

• Push innovation and strive to practice collaboration

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proven to lower stress, relieve anxiety, and elevate endorphins.Stacy Horn, Time Magazine

Where words fail,

music speaks.Hans Christian Andersen

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‘Landmines’ is a ½ hour to 1 hour conference filler that challenges teams to traverse dangerous and obstacle strewn terrain avoiding the landmines along the way.

The team uses specially constructed wooden boards and ropes to cross the dangerous terrain, they must not step on the ground otherwise………

Duration: ½ to 1+ hourGroup Size: Min 8 Environment: Indoor & Outdoor

The debriefing of this activity can be linked to your company’s strategy discussing the role of vision, mission and objectives.

Alternatively, this activity can be used as an energising team exercise whereby teams race against each other.

Use Landmines to:

• Emphasise communication transfer

down the line

• Highlight the importance of practicing

together as a team

• Overcome obstacles en route to a

goal

• Develop teamwork and

synchronisation

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The human brain is naturally open to fun. The characteristics of fun are

that it is relative, situational, voluntary, and natural. Fun can have a POSITIvE effect on the learning process by inviting intrinsic motivation, suspending one’s social inhibitions, reducing stress, and creating a state of relaxed alertness. For stimulated learning

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