After a number of inquisitive questions over the past few weeks, Michelle and Chris dive into some of the answers about starting your own business in the wild world of team building – the fields of Adventure and Experiential Education. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or teambuilding-related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  FUNdoing.com Sign Up for FU ..read more

Michelle gives us a vivid recap of Training Wheels at 25! Of course, no historical picture is complete without some reflection over a number of the lessons learned along the way. (Chris is there for the memorable ride, asking questions to spark some details.) We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or teambuilding-related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  FUN ..read more

Michelle and Chris share two more modern versions of classic teambuilding activities.  Put more action and group cooperation into Moonball and make knots, in the now 50-year-old classic, Human Knots (originally called simply, Knots). We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or teambuilding-related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  FUNdoing.com Sign Up for ..read more

Action Reflection and Object Lessons are the final techniques in this five-part series. Michelle and Chris share favorites and discuss why when and why they use them. We hope this series of processing techniques has given you new inspiration or revived an old tool you plan to revisit.  We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamB ..read more

Michelle and Chris share another pair of processing and debriefing tools - Artistic Methods and Self Reflection. This five-part series (one more to go) is designed to show you how many ways you can approach the important task of discussing the valuable lessons of team building activities and programs. When you use different approaches you and your participants stay curious and engage more in the process of processing. Mix it up, make it fun. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a commen ..read more

Michelle and Chris talk about the next two processing techniques - Intervention and Anchor Pieces. Interventions are ways to focus on correcting disruptive group behaviors and Anchors are tangible items participants can take home with them as a (learnings) reminder from a program. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.co ..read more

Michelle and Chris continue their current series on processing and debriefing with the Metaphoric Methods and Frontloading. Find out some of their favorite tools and activities for both techniques and two different ways to Frontload. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  FUNdoing.com Sign Up for FUN ..read more

Michelle and Chris dive into the first of a five-part series on Processing & Debriefing tools. Be sure to grab Michelles handout on all the tools we'll be sharing in the series. Then, be sure to catch all the episodes for the finer points on all the tools. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  F ..read more

Michelle and Chris call it the "Soft Start." Mark Collard, author of Serious FUN calls it an "Unofficial Start." Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering calls it a "Threshold Moment."  These are all terms for the valuable time we have between when our participants arrive to (or start trickling into) our program space up to when we officially begin the program (e.g., 8 a.m. sharp). Michelle and Chris discuss some interactive ways to connect with and encourage participants to interact with each other before you're "on the clock," and why it brings value to your participants experience ..read more

Michelle and Chris discuss some of the considerations for solo large group facilitation – how/what to prepare, some all-group and simultaneous small-group activities, and getting the large group's attention. We hope you join us! Emails:michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or teambuilding-related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HERE Dr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com  &  FUNdoing.com Sign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Ac ..read more