Archive for March, 2009

Team building in Perth, the Swan Valley or Margaret River?
Come to the WA winners of the MEA awards for conference and support services, we are flexible and committed to making your teambuilding experience exactly what you are after. Lately we have been really ramping up our teambuilding events and going above and beyond for our clients, heres what the press has to say:

CEI Asia Perth and South West Feature, Feb 2009

GREAT FOR…TEAMBUILDING
Margaret River is home to West Australia’s leading teambuilding company, Merribrook Corporate Outdoors (www.merribrook.com.au).
The idyllic property covers 160 acres of native forest and houses numerous facilities for groups. Recent clients include BHP Billiton and ANZ.

WA Business News, 12th March 2009

Accolades for WA event organisers
“For the meetings, events and support services category, Merribrook Corporate Outdoors was the winner for its team-building events with a WA focus”

Augusta Margaret River Times, 11th March 2009

Merribrook tops WA in events
Cowaramup based teambuilding event company, Merribrook Corporate Outdoors has topped the state in last Fridays MEA (Meetings Events Australia) awards, held at the Hyatt Hotel in Perth. This is the premier accolade in the Western Australian meetings and events industry.
Winning their division, 2008 Conference and Support Services, Merribrook focuses on client service, quality and creativity which has set them a cut above the rest for the qualifying period of July 2007 to June 2008.
“Being a small team we work hard on designing, planning and delivering large, cutting edge incentive events and team building programmes and this is a great result to be rewarded with such an honour, we are looking forward to the outcome of the national awards in April” said Managing Director, Richard Firth from his Merribrook Retreat property.
“Helping and rewarding other companies teams is what we do on a weekly basis, so its fantastic to be on the other side and for our team to see such success reinforced with an award like this. We are always proud to have been a regional Margaret River company that has expanded state wide over the past 25 years. Our product has changed enormously from our early days of adventure ropes courses and canoe trips to now offering Amazing Race in Perth and the Fremantle Da Vinci Team Code plus our now famous Merribrook Safari Challenge set up at Merribrook Retreat ” Firth said.
As the state winner Merribrook is now a national finalist and will solely represent WA in their category for the national awards, presented at MEA’s annual national conference in Adelaide this April.
Merribrook’s next team event is themed on the Amazing Race with multiple companies competing against each other in a corporate challenge, starting from the CBD late March

So what are you looking for?

Fun?
Building trust?
Increasing retention?
Increased communication?
Or simply to get to know each other outside of the work environment?
Is it to work on serious issues that are effecting our current performance?
Is it to reward some outstanding efforts and achievements from the last few months?
Is it to refelct your companies value in its staff members?

Will this be a whole lot of work for me as the organiser?

NO! Not at all. Our full time staff are corporate event specialists and we organise your whole event from start to finish (NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL!). We are available for meetings and updates throughout the whole event process and we can do as little or as much as you would like.

I like the sound of a certain event, will it suit my team?

This is where we would recommend a meeting or to have an in depth phone conversation with one of our facilitators, again going over the outcomes, based on this Merribrook can give you several options for your team, perhaps realting to certain team issues, price, time constraints and of course, outcomes.

For more questions like these see our FAQ page.

Last Friday the 13th, our first ever multiple company Amazing Race Corporate Team Challenge was a fantastic success and the 5 teams who entered all gave it everything to be the winning team. As there was multiple teams from Enerflex, it must be noted that it was the Enerflex ‘Projects’ team, in the Black CANTEEN bandannas who took home the cup.

Stay tuned to the Team Buzz for your chance to win our next multiple company

Amazing Race Corporate Team Challenge!

Official Results:
1st, Black, 3hrs, 15mins, 53sec
2nd, Yellow, 3hrs, 27mins, 23sec
3rd, Red, 3hrs, 42mins, 47sec
4th, Blue, 3hrs, 58mins, 53sec
5th, Green, 4hrs, 14mins, 52sec

Its official! Merribrook Corporate has won the Meetings Event Australia (MEA) WA award in their category of

Teambuilding event company, Merribrook Corporate Outdoors has topped the state in last Fridays MEA (Meetings Events Australia) awards, held at the Hyatt. This is the premier accolade in the Western Australian meetings and events industry.

Winning their division, 2008 Conference and Support Services, Merribrook focuses on client service, quality and creativity which has set them a cut above the rest for the qualifying period of July 2007 to June 2008.

“Being a small team we work hard on designing, planning and delivering large, cutting edge incentive events and team building programmes and this is a great result to be rewarded with such an honour and we are looking forward to the outcome of the national awards in April” said Managing Director and founder, Richard Firth.

“Helping and rewarding other companies teams is what we do on a weekly basis, so its fantastic to be on the other side and for our team to see such success reinforced with an award like this. Our product and the market has changed enormously from our early days of adventure ropes courses and canoe trips to now offering The Amazing Race in Perth and the Fremantle Da Vinci Team Code” Firth said.

As the state winner Merribrook is now a national finalist and will solely represent WA in their category for the national awards, presented at MEA’s annual national conference in Adelaide this April.