Inspire your team to greater creativity

Reveal the barriers to collaboration and communication

Uncover leadership potential in your team

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When you watch a celebrity chef on TV prepare five very complicated dishes in sixty minutes, he’s not working alone. It’s a well coordinated effort among skilled collaborators who bring their best game and together pull off an amazing challenge and win.

Cooking Up Collaboration builds on the popularity of cooking TV programs and integrates lessons of team building, collaboration and process improvement as participants work together towards a mutual goal: making and sharing a meal together.

The lesson we strive to convey: to succeed, teams must have the best effort of all participants, collaborating in a trusting manner that maximizes the contributions and effort of all involved.

Cooking Up Collaboration can be completely customized to your training objectives. 

The program includes an online behavioral assessment (Five Dysfunctions of a Team, DiSC, TrueColors or one of your choosing) a welcome with wine and hors d'oeuvres, a review of the assessment with participants, preparation of a three or four course gourmet meal, facilitation by ICF certified coaches, and an executive report with recommendations for followup training and coaching. 

This is the ideal program for companies that have multiple day meetings in leiu of "just dinner". Other great ideas include:

  • virtual teams working together in real time
  • cross functional team building
  • leadership development
  • as part of a Board retreat
  • teams facing a stretch goal
  • a reward for an outstanding team who wants to take it to the next level

Locations include:

  • With our portable kitchens, we can come to your office, church, school or hotel.
  • Other venues include:


    • The beautiful Miele Showroom in the Design District in Dallas

    The Shooting Star Ranch and Retreat in Red Oak

     


    The Morrison Showroom, Fort Worth