The Team Buzz

Team building activities in Perth and across Western Australia have just got a little more creative.

Introducing Merribrooks Creative Team Art Workshop.

Discover the depth of your teams creativity and talent with an art workshop at your next teambuilding day.

From a blank canvas to a creative piece of art, teams experience the fun of working together to create a masterpiece. There is a role for all to contribute and overcome the daunting prospect of putting paint onto canvas. The results are surprisingly excellent and have often been framed for the office wall.

Our Art facilitators have extensive experience working with corporate groups to challenge their creativity, have fun and uncover a wealth of talent in the teams.

Working in teams, participants are given basic instructions in the use of the materials and ways to create different effects on the canvas . Preliminary sketches and ideas representing a theming topic, team values or future vision are put onto canvas by the team, to create the painting. A large team may create one very long art piece with smaller teams completing their section of the canvas and integrating with the team on each side.

A great journey for any team. Book your creative experience today!

Contact Merribrook on 089 755 5599 or request a quote.

Team building activities in Perth and Western Australia are Merribrook Corporate Outdoor’s speciality.

When considering your team building day, selecting the ideal setting for your groups needs is important. That is why Merribrook have launched a venues page to help you with your decision making. The list is by no means exhaustive but may help to guide you in selecting the right venue.

Merribrook can run your program on any outdoor space, oval, beach front or reserve, with some programs also requiring the use of a conference room. Whether a local park near your workplace; at the conference venue of your choice; in the beautiful surrounds of Merribrook Retreat in Margaret River or any inspiring space by the beach; overlooking the swan river; out in the swan valley or amongst the trees in Kings Park, we will come to you.

The benefits of getting outside and breathing in the fresh air are plentiful. The outdoor environment also helps to create a level playing field for all participants to learn something about teamwork.

Almost no destination is out of the question. We will custom design an event at the venue of your choice. Recently for example, Merribrook held an event at Lake Leschenaultia as requested by our client. The fun Safari Style program saw 5 teams of budding accountants traverse the lake, undertaking many fun and challenging activities along the way. Getting out of the city and into nature held a great appeal to our client and made for an exciting and unique experience for the participants.

Some questions for you to consider:

• Are your time frames short and therefore do you need to be close to the office?
• Does your budget allow for transportation costs?
• Do you want to be close to a nice venue where you can have a few drinks and nibbles afterwards?
• Do you want to escape the city with your team for the day or weekend?
• Do you require disability access?
• Do you require catering, power, signage and / or a liquor licence?
• Do you require accommodation and conference facilities also?

Let us know your groups needs and we will take care of all venue preparations for you.

We can also provide recommendations and quotes for transportation and catering if required.

Need more help to decide, contact one of our friendly staff today, to help make your event a great success.

Teambuilding Perth Specialists, Merribrook Corporate Outdoors are always looking for innovative ways to provide a profound connection for its return clients between experiential outdoor activities and the workplace.

Merribrook is pleased to introduce a Brand new program PROJECT SIMULATOR.

Project Simulator is a superbly complex and challenging strategic planning exercise which explores the importance of TEAMWORK. Designed for teams who have done teambuilding challenges before and are ready to really test themselves, this program offers a powerful link back to the workplace.

The activity aims to simulate you specific business units and departments in a large scale problem solving challenge. A three hour exercise, your group will be divided into sub teams and allocated a station which flows in the typical order of your daily business operations.

The objective is to maximise your teams efficiency in a way directly related to team performance in the workplace and maximise profit for the organisation.

The activity recreates an intense work environment where decisions need to be made in the face of various curveballs. The problem is, it is not immediately obvious how to maximise your scoring potential once in the marketplace. It is only through discussion and sharing of information that teams can maximise their potential profit. Teams quickly learn the importance of listening to all ideas and brainstorming, planning v.s. action and the importance of team leadership in varied roles.

With the clock ticking, the earlier teams recognise the need to integrate team performances to enhance organisational outcomes i.e. profit, the greater their chances of success.

Following the challenge the group will receive quantitative and qualitative feedback, with a percentage result evaluation at the end. The score is a direct reflection of the group’s ability to think strategically and perform as a team.

Project Simulator is a Merribrook original and a great platform to kick of a weekend retreat, strategic planning meeting or compliment a morning session of teambuilding games and challenges.

Want to know more?

Contact Merribrook on 08 9 755 5599 or request a quote.

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.