{"id":22,"date":"2009-04-02T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:43:55","slug":"team-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Team Building?<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitymasters.co.uk\/\" target=\"_Blank\">company <\/a>conference tomorrow, so the office is a mess of palpable nerves and bristling egos. I&#8217;m trying to gather all the presentations together: deadline Wednesday pm, so far it&#8217;s Thursday lunchtime and half of them are done<\/p>\n<p>I have no room to talk: mine&#8217;s not finished either! But don&#8217;t I automatically I get special dispensation as the Marketing guy?<\/p>\n<p>As I polish off my Cajun Squirrel crisps (possibly my favourite Walkers experiment so far) I&#8217;m checking my desk for car keys, as I&#8217;m off to the bank to releive the Sports &amp; Social fund of \u00a3440 towards post-conference refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big believer in Conferences as Team Building events, but I have to confess that it&#8217;ll be a relief to get back to actually doing some flippin&#8217; work next week. The new style marketing&#8217;s working very well and I need to keep the momentum up. 16 good leads in the last 5 weeks from emails and the web, which in our niche is brilliant, if I say so myself.<\/p>\n<p>At Home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No progress on the blinds business, BUT I did get a little more of the &#8216;plane done.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s looking vaguely like an actual aircraft now, and with each step I relax a little bit more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" data-attachment-id=\"24\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/02apr_1\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Apr_1.jpg?fit=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hurricane 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Taking Shape&#8230;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Apr_1.jpg?fit=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Apr_1.jpg?fit=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24\" title=\"Hurricane 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Apr_1.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Taking Shape...\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking Shape&#8230;\u00a0&#8230; See?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Note the clever use of a dark background this time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d better get to the bank before 22 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitymasters.co.uk\/\" target=\"_Blank\">Utility Masters <\/a>employees and up having to pay for their own beers tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share with your friends:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-22\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-22\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-22\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-22\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-skype\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-skype-22\" class=\"share-skype sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=skype\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Skype\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/team-building\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20%3Cb%3ETeam%20Building%3F%3C%2Fb%3E&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.phillconnell.com%2Fblog%2Fteam-building%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I&#8217;m trying to gather all the presentations together: deadline Wednesday pm, so far it&#8217;s Thursday lunchtime and half of them are done I have no room to talk: mine&#8217;s not finished either! 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