Fresh Tracks 2015 in Pictures
We ran a lot of memorable events last year, with great feedback. Look and see if you made our highlights of 2015:
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Over 70% of homes have at least one stray brick buried deep in a sofa or hiding in the dusty corner of a cupboard. With 33% operating profit on sales of £2710 million LEGO is a serious business.
Alongside bacon and beer, LEGO is one of Denmark’s greatest exports, some might even say ‘Probably the best toy in the world!’ The LEGO phenomena began in 1932 when Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, who believed in the value of play, decided that the best kind of toys are those that can be built, and then rebuilt. Stimulating creativity and imagination, whilst developing character.
There’s much we can learn from LEGO as adults. The four letter name LEGO is derived from leg godt, meaning ‘play well’ in Danish, and ‘I study’ or ‘I construct’ in Latin. Underpinning the name is the company slogan ‘Only the best is good enough’ An admiral intention but one that nearly led to the iconic toy’s collapse 10 years ago.
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How Balfour Beatty Play it Safe
When the Deep Water Horizon court case opened in February 2013, oil giant BP were accused of “putting profit before safety”. The resulting $4.5bn settlement sent shivers through Chief Executives across the globe.
Fresh Tracks facilitated a practical exercise for Balfour Beatty...
The requirement to generate profits on large, low margin contracts is a distinct challenge to the construction industry. …
Playing at CSR
When children’s charity Rainbow Trust wanted to engage with Lombard Financial Services, our Toy Factory Exercise was the perfect fit.
Our Toy Factory Exercise was a success for all involved
The day began with Lynn (a family support worker) from Rainbow Trust sharing her experience of working with a family going through the crisis of child bereavement, and how she uses play therapy to engage with and support siblings….
Case Study: Corporate Branding & Change Management Team Event
HSBC Merchant Services would be changing their name to Global Payments in line with their US parent company. The process was part of an internal campaign and a full day was set aside for a management team event for the whole company to get everyone involved, excited and motivated about the name change.
Feedback: “Thank you for your help with our Brand Day. Your team were highly efficient and everything ran perfectly on time and as we had hoped it would.”
Fresh Tracks was asked to develop a programme for this event, with content that reiterated the benefits of the name change and highlighted Global Payments’ mission and values. Above all it needed to be a fun activity that everyone would feel part of. This was a large scale programme with activities to run twice throughout the day, each time for over 200 participants….
Team Building Development Programme for a Senior Team (Fresh Tracks Case Study)
The client for this team development programme was a senior leadership team from a company that makes educational toys.
The programme included our unique a large-scale team building exercise, The Team Machine
It’s a fast paced company with recent growth placing increased pressure on the leadership team. We were asked to come up with a leadership development programme that would enable them to:
- spend time together
- get away from daily pressures and distractions of the office
- get to know one another better
- build trust
- create a positive environment in which to work on strategy
A tailored programme was developed to include:…
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