Team-Building Thursday (7 Photos)

Team-Building Thursday (7 Photos) Team-Building Thursday (7 Photos) Image Source: Winnipeg Boldness Project on TwitterTHE photographs in this week’s Team-Building Thursday post show hard-working personnel from nine  companies and organisations in England, Wales, the US, Canada, and Hungary  improving  their individual and collective skillsets  on  out-of-office team-building exercises.If you  would  like your company  to be included in future AGENT Team Building  Thursday posts, click the link below for submission details. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1. Google â€" CA, USACheck out these 7-person tricycles that @google has on campus. #teambuildinghttps://t.co/1A7T5dDs0sâ€" Tech Insider (@techinsider) June 21, 2016VIDEO SOURCE: TECH INSIDERTHE Conference Bike used by Google employees to travel  around the tech giant’s California campus shows how seriously Google takes team-building. Invented by artist Eric Staller, the Conference Bike (or CoBi-7) is piloted by seven riders sitting in a circle, with  one  person steering and  the other six pedalling (or not!). This video from  Tech Insider  shows how the bikeâ€"which costs $12,750 (or $900 for the five-person model)â€"encourages team-building and social interaction as well as promoting physical exercise.2. Pegasystems Cambridge, MA, USAIMAGE SOURCE: TWITTERTHE  US-based provider of strategic applications for sales, marketing, service and operations, Pegasystems  on an ongoing mission to transform the way that business is done in leading enterprises around the world. But it’s important to ensure that the fundamentals are right, and here, ‘The Hawks’,  a  Pega  staff  team  celebrate their success in a recent team-building scavenger  hunt. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 3. Welsh ICE Caerphilly, WalesImage Source: TwitterWELSH ICE is the first Innovation Centre for Enterprise in Wales, offering meeting rooms, reception services and space for new startups, to bring a positive economic impact for Caerphilly and the Valleys. Ther e was high drama in mid-June, when events company Crime Solvers Ltd  descended on the campus for some CSI-styled team-building fun.4.  Budapest, HungaryImage Source: TwitterMEMBERS of the Hungarian National Waterpolo team, pictured in Austria recently during a break from  an energetic team-building exercise in the great outdoors, was forms just part of the team’s preparations for the 17th  FINA World Aquatics Championships, to  be hosted in Budapest, Hungary, in July 2020. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 5.  The Winnipeg Boldness Project, Winnipeg, CanadaIMAGE SOURCE: TWITTERTHE  Winnipeg Boldness Project is an  early intervention childhood development project in the Point Douglas area which runs programmes aimed at  improving young children’s outcomes by drawing uponâ€"enriching and strengtheningâ€"the  community wisdom  for which the neighbourhood is famous. Project Director Diane Roussin and members of her  team  recently enjoyed some team-building fun  at Bad Axe Throwing.6. Smart Orthodontic Group    Tacoma/Gig Harbour, WA, USAIMAGE SOURCE: TWITTERTACOMA orthodontists Dr Chad Smart, Dr Timothy Quinn and Dr Vincent Kokich Jr are well aware of the importance of teamwork in the multi-disciplinary field that modern dentistry has become.  Most recently, they rewarded their  staff at the Smart Orthodontic Group with  a morale-boosting night out at the movies. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 7. Specsavers  -Basingstoke, England, UKIMAGE SOURCE: TWITTERA VOLUNTEER team from Specsavers, Basingstoke, recently had an enjoyable team-building exercise when they helped out at the farm of Miller’s Ark Animals (and their Animal Touch charity). Miller’s Ark brings the sights, sounds and experience of the farmyard to organisations, with their mobile farm, and also organises visits to the farm at the Earl of Malmesbury’s estate at Hook in Hampshire for  individuals and groups with special needs, as well as bringing animals t o private home or specialist  centres.  These visits are heavily subsidised and rely on donations, and voluntary help, to organise.