Corporate Bootcamps
Rewarding Team Activities
With distributed teams, it can be challenging to create highly-effective employee groups. TQG retreats combine knowledge sessions with fun activities and mindfulness. The result: Creative solutions to current challenges, and a greater commitment to collaboration and top personal performance.
What Happens at TQG’s Corporate Bootcamps?
Facilitated brainstorming, punctuated with creative activities designed to help solve specific company problems, helps companies overcome challenges. You will come away with a strategic game plan to solve your specific business challenge.
At the same time, morale and camaraderie will be enhanced, making it easier to foster teamwork and effectively implement these plans once back at work.
Mindfulness sessions are woven in, to amplify creative problem solving, and to give participants tools for long-term stress reduction.
Add in campfires, downtime and good food, and it’s a win all the way around.
“We solved a complex problem by doing interesting activities that felt like playtime. I was surprised by how effective it was.”
Gillian H.
Team building. Solid solutions. Good food and fun, We’ll be back!
Stephen R.
Customized Problem Solving – 3-day Program
Work for this bootcamp begins 2 -3 weeks before camp. Senior members of The Q Group meet with senior members of your team to learn about key problems impacting the firm, or challenges being faced.
Outside research, including trend assessments and some competitive analysis is conducted. The findings are reviewed with senior management one week before camp, and the three-day program is designed accordingly, blending interactive, sometimes creative, work sessions with teambuilding and stress reduction exercises.
This bootcamp may sound a little dry, but the creative exercises and physical challenges (mostly active games) ensure that people have fun while teambuilding and problem-solving.
New Revenue Creation – 2 & 3 day options
TQG has developed a proprietary process for helping companies identify and develop new sources of profitable revenue – with their current products and customers, and by making some minor changes in specific areas.
Team Revitalization – 2 day program
Designed to help teams connect/ reconnect and work collaboratively, this can also be a good tool for introducing new employees to the company and its culture. Prior to the boot camp, we meet with employees and team leads to determine what communication challenges may exist. Work and play sessions are designed to help address these problems.
The three-day option also enables team members to focus on a specific business problem – when identified by the team.
Either way, your team will leave recharged, able to work more effectively, armed with tips for reducing stress while maintaining productivity once you get back to work.
Brand Building/Enhancement – 2 & 3 day options
This unique boot camp uses many hands-on, creative exercises to help ensure that brand and business strategies are aligned. You also get tools to help with personal brand building as well as division brand building within the firm.
The three-day option includes a deeper dive into how the brand is perceived in the marketplace, as well as vis-à-vis the competition will. Exercises, led by a senior brand strategist, will explore ways of enhancing the brand to improve its position in the marketplace and help generate increased sales.
Other Courses are Currently Being Updated
Please check back with us in May.
about your lead facilitator
Jane-Michèle Clark
Jane-Michèle Clark is the founder and CEO of The Q Group, author of soon-to-be-published Point of DistinctionTM, a qualitative research expert and business strategist. Clark is often a speaker on business matters at world conferences (including the World Congress on Marketing) and provided content for the 2023 United Nations General Assembly. She has also appeared on TV shows such as BNN, as a panelist of Steve Paikin’s “The Agenda”, etc. Concurrently, for the past +20 years, Jane-Michèle has been teaching in the i/BBA, MBA, and Masters of Management and Marketing programs at the Schulich School of Business where she is also a Strategy Field Study Chair.
The Q Group, which has been in business for over 25 years, helps clients develop effective business strategies, as well as customer retention and integrated marketing programs for B2B and B2C companies in multiple sectors.
Clients have included: Ainsworth, BMW, Bell Canada, Citizens Utilities, Cloud Managed Networks, Delta Hotels, Honeywell, Lexus, NCR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, RBC Dominion Securities and dozens of other blue chip firms, including many in the technology sector, as well as various associations and Social Sector / Not-for-Profit organisations in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, the UAE and further afield.
Jane-Michèle’s strength and passion: Determining what will give a company a strong, sustainable competitive advantage today and tomorrow along with the best ways of making this a reality… including how to leverage partnerships to advantage, how to create outstanding customer experiences, and how to motivate employees to realize the vision.
Jane-Michèle was also responsible for the introduction of market research to the Middle East. As a result of these and other ongoing innovations in the marketing arena, Jane-Michèle has been nominated 11 times for Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.
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