PlayTime Inc. Team Building & Leadership News

geoteaming with the Puyallup Parks & Rec Department

http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/story/5592151p-5027681c.html

This lead story ran on March 16th, 2006, then the event happened!!!

http://www.cityofpuyallup.org/page.php?id=630

What a great day! Braving the weather, people of all ages joined in with the Puyallup Recreation Department for its first Geoteaming Adventure. After an introduction by Geoteaming's president, John Chen, teams were shown how to use the equipment to find the hidden "caches" around town. Everyone had an alloted amount of time to find the caches using preprogrammed coordinates before returning to the Memorial Center for prizes and a video wrap up.

Thanks to Matt Deeds who set this event up and Pauline and Kent for helping out during the day!

Welcome LAVA to our largest NY event ever!

Ready for 250 participants, 32 teams descended from the 27th floor of the Citigroup building into bustling Manhatten.  Leaving from a scenic waterfront photo with 3 major color shirts, The Lava Trading group began their exploration and team building event with over 40 caches in Manhatten.  Using a combination of cabs, subway and feet, teams made their way to historic location including the Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street and others on this amazing course.

Congrats to Lava and thank you for joining our client family!

New article mention of PLAYTIME Inc.

http://www.meetingsnetwork.com/displayarticle.asp?id=3828

Hey, we got mentioned with a bunch of our friends (Tim Walther, we did a Journey style program with him on the Grand Tetons) and Carissa Zenorinni from SF!

Welcome Booz Allen Hamilton's IT team to our client family in the BRAND NEW National Mall course

Frank Burdette and his team from Booz Allen Hamilton joined the PLAYTIME Inc. client family as they experienced our brand new National Mall geoteaming course.

This course took 3 teams from challenging caches in the American History museum through a powerful cache located at the Vietnam memorial.

This course ended with a dramatic finish, where the margin for winning was only .1 Million (the top team scored $9.0M, 2nd scored $8.9M) and it was determined by the fact that a team had brought back an incorrect answer! The teams celebrated at Buffalo Billard's where a photo reception and prizes for all closed the day.

Here are some of the quotes from the day.
"I've lived here and saw things I've never seen at the National Mall!"
"What a powerful experience about team dynamics and getting multiple teams to collaborate"
"We had a great time!"

Thanks again to Frank, Rick and his team, welcome to the PLAYTIME Inc. family!

PLAYTIME Inc. Trains First International geoteaming Affiliate in Taiwan, China.

PLAYTIME Inc. is proud to announce the launch of our geoteaming Affiliate program. With our train-the-trainer program and geoteaming Affiliate sales & support (GASS) system, we now have the ability to turn 4 years into 4 days for companies and organizations that want to harness the power of geoteaming.

We are proud to announced that Team Adventure http://www.t-adventure.com is the FIRST International geoteaming Affilaite. Ping Huang-Liao is an experiential leader by being one of the first to bring experiential training to Taiwan and to China.

Now with offices near Taipei and 3 offices in China, Ping and Team Adventure are poised to be the first to bring high-tech team building to Taiwan and to China. After an intense 4 day training, Team Adventure completed their first geoteaming event on 9/24/2004 and are generating a tremendous amount of interest for geoteaming.

Congratulations to Team Adventure. If you're a team building organization that is looking to harness the power of geoteaming, email john@playtimeinc.com to find out more about our geoteaming Affiliate program.

Geoteaming™ Course Comes to The Inn At Port Ludlow

http://www.ludlowbayresort.com/press/June_2004.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Geoteaming™ Course Comes to The Inn At Port Ludlow
June 2004, Port Ludlow, WA – The Inn At Port Ludlow, a 37-room Inn located 90 minutes from Seattle, now offers companies a new reason to bring their groups to the waterfront resort: a new geoteaming™ course.

geoteaming™ is a high-tech, team-building solution powered by global positioning system (GPS) technology. The mission for participants is to skillfully combine the use of GPS and cutting-edge technologies – a GPS Device, a 2-way radio, a PDA, and a digital camera – to find a hidden cache of goods. All of this takes place in the spectacular surroundings of The Inn At Port Ludlow. There are several levels of geoteaming™ adventures. Each is designed to build team morale, enhance creative problem-solving, boost cooperative skills, and promote teamwork.

geoteaming™ is more than a high-tech treasure hunt. The experience will teach skills that will boost leadership and teamwork performance within the company through a fun and exciting experience.

The Inn At Port Ludlow is a 37-room Inn, each guestroom featuring a fireplace and oversized whirl jetted tub. Meeting rooms have been tastefully appointed and feature natural light and views taking advantage of the scenic surroundings. A 27-hole award-winning golf course and 300-slip marina provide additional recreational options for groups looking to do more than just meet. For more information on holding your next meeting or team building event, call 206-855-9619 or go to www.ludlowbayresort.com

geoteaming™ is a revolutionary concept in corporate team building from PLAYTIME, Inc., the company that builds leadership and team skills through technology and adventure. PLAYTIME, Inc. is the recipient of the Better Business Bureau Innovative Business Practice Award and numerous other awards. www.playtimeinc.com

For more information:

Suzanne Wicker
Envision Marketing and Communications
Phone: 425-681-8062
Email: envisionmarketing@comcast.net

PLAYTIME Inc. welcomes Puyallup School District at our *NEW* Point Defiance Course!

Jo Fjellman and Adam Hitch welcomes Puyallup School District as one of the special Bond project teams joined us for a team building event on August 13th, 2004. Our new Point Defiance course located in Tacoma, WA features beatiful trails and scenic outdoors for geoteaming. Key lessons were brought out for this critical team and a great time was had by all. Congrats to Jo & Adam on another event and welcome Puyallup School District to the PLAYTIME Inc. family!

PLAYTIME Inc. Partners with Team Adventure to Deliver First geoteaming programs in Taiwan & China!!!

John Chen flew to the other side of the world to deliver 2 ground breaking program with a unique partnership with Team Adventure, based in Taiwan. CEO & Leader Ping-Huang Liao invited John to come to Taipei, Taiwan & Shanghai, China to deliver 2 geoteaming programs as well as introduce the concept to these new areas.

The (click for photos) Taipei event was held as Acer's Aspire Research Learning Park were 40 participants experienced geoteaming for the first time. Using creative out of the box problem solving and many using GPS for the very first time, these teams learned the value of competition, collaboration, sharing information, and team-to-team building.

The (click for photos) Shanghai event was held at the East Campus of Shanghai University. Using the University property, this event used the many nooks and crannies of Shanghai University for 24 people. With unique cache sites that even included a statue of Mao Tse-Tung, this challenging course required the teams to think out of the box while valuable lessons in team-to-team building came through while using the exciting GPS technology.

PLAYTIME Inc. is working with Team Adventure to become the first international licensee of geoteaming, bringing this powerful team building event to Asia! Thanks again to Ping, Dian, Arline and the entire staff of Team Adventure for making John's stay a fantastic event!

PLAYTIME Inc. Welcomes over 240 people to geoteaming at Camp Jeep VA 2004!

Through a partnership with Rodale, BBDO and DaimlierChrysler, PLAYTIME Inc. was invited to Camp Jeep to provide 240 participants with the geoteaming experience! Demand was overwhelming with all pre-signups closed within the first 3 hours of event opening! We kept our standby list open and were able to accomodate those who were on standby.

6 sessions with ~40 participants per session were able to explore the beautiful property as well as the exhibits as part of Camp Jeep. Participants were able to win special Jeep Travel Bugs, cameras and additional prizes. Many participants said it was the highlight of this Camp Jeep and some said of all the Camp Jeeps!

Check out the creative photos many shot during this event.

7/15 AM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYmA
7/15 PM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYnE
7/16 AM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYo4
7/16 PM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYp8
7/17 AM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYqw
7/17 PM - http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EemN3DNsyYr0

For more information, here are a few links:
Jeep - http://www.jeep.com, The one who made it happen
Rodale - http://www.rodale.com, Our sposnor
Geocaching - http://jeep.geocaching.com, If you want to play more now that you're home
PLAYTIME Inc. - http://www.playtimeinc.com/ - Free newsletter
You can sign up for the FREE "Teams and Leaders" Newsletter at the bottom of this page.
geoteaming - http://www.geoteaming.com - More info about putting on an event for your team or company.

We're off next week (Aug 19-21, 2004) for the first ever Camp Jeep CA near Santa Barbara, CA to create even more geoteaming experiences!

Welcome Back All-Star Directories

All-Star Directories is back for the 2nd event in a new location, Magnusson Park in Seattle. PLAYTIME Inc. Director of Sales and Facilitator, Jo Fjellman, led this group to higher levels of team development as they completed their second event.

Thanks again to All-Star Directories for a great event!