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The packet is great! We held our offsite a few weeks ago and our management staff performed "A Deadly Incentive". Your instructions were thorough, complete and easy to follow. Everyone really got into their role and had a great time being someone else for a moment. The audience was completely drawn into solving the mystery, questioning the suspects, looking for clues, etc. The best feedback I received was that this was the best offsite ever, and from a TEAM-BUILDING standpoint it was a huge success. We couldn't have done it without you...I'm sure this will be a teambuilding workshop that won't soon be forgotten. Thank you again and take care. Mary Ann Skudnik, Key Bank, Buffalo, NY
We're really impressed with the completeness and amount of detail included in the packet. You've anticipated all my questions!! Cylde Rector, Greenville, SC
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Donna has GREAT ideas here > Just
to let you know the scavenger hunt was very successful. I tweaked
it a bit
to add some Amazing Race stuff, a detour and a roadblock, plus
they were all video taped doing 3-5 minutes, each 4 ( 7 members)
teams with a different movie to perform, costumes all supplied.
The participation was phenomenal! The
teams watched the video tape while I added up the scores. I was
amazed at how resourceful people were from getting the YMCA
construction workers along with getting a police officer to pose
with a team member. My favorite was the team that took a picture
of themselves and put in on the phone to have them all "in" the
phone booth!!! We had 2 beautiful "cranes" made out
of TP seat covers. Their roadblock was to go to the Sales Office
of my town home, sing a Christmas song to the sales person, take
a pic with her and have her sign their album page!! I surely
wish I had a video tape of that, but the pics were great. Your
package was great as starting from scratch would have taken forever.
The small investment was well worth it. Thanks, I love your product!! Donna
M. Tom, Hewlett-Packard Company, San Jose, CA
We had an absolute blast with your your "Our Town Scavenger Hunt". We learned a lot about each other and had such a fun and memorable time in the process. I'm glad I found your service online. Several other companies were charging thousands of dollars to come out and organize and staff a scavenger hunt. Personally, I think yours was just as good if not better, and certainly less costly. Thanks again. Carrie B. Price, Senior Professional Sales Representative, GlaxoSmithKline, Westminster CA



Just a quick note to let you know how successful our scavenger hunt was and what an asset your plan was. I'm happy to say it was more successful and fun than any of us had anticipated. Worth the price to download the info! Thank you for providing such useful information, ideas, suggestions and such wonderful guidance! I definitely will remember you for any future teambuilding needs. Regards, Sue McClaflin, Wakeman, OH
The Murder on Maui script was easy to follow and the mystery itself was cute. The company I work for did the Murder Mystery as a fun break from a training retreat conducted away from the office for all the Information System department employees. After the presentation, every one commented on how fun the event was and that it was much better than the Murder Mystery performed last year (by a professional acting group). Thanks for following up on our event and thanks for providing such a wonderful product. Neil Danzig, Columbia, MD
We had a great
team-building day! I used your scavenger hunt on the town idea and took pictures in
advance of different areas in Uppsala. The teams had fun exploring
the town together. I gave bonus points for every stranger they could
get to pose for the picture with them. That turned out to be fun.
I think you have developed a very good idea
with your website and downloads. The price was right (ie, not too
high). And getting the material was instant. Paying via paypal was
easy and ideal. Overall, it was a great success. Thank you! Best wishes, Ang Nordqvist, Uppsala,
Sweden
The hunt was a big success and everyone had a good time. It's a great way to get to know each other and promote teamwork. We are in Shanghai, China, and this activity was totally new to the participants. They had no idea what to expect. Thanks for offering this. I was so happy to get a "do it yourself kit", instead of having to create a hunt of my own, or pay hundreds of dollars for a consultant (which was not an option!). Best Regards, Mary Milan, Ericsson Corporation, Shanghai, China
Thanks for your follow up. We did our Murder Mystery at our company's conference on Tuesday evening and we had an absolute hoot. Everything that we needed was there, and the scripts were first rate (however I don't think my acting skills did them justice, there is definitely no Oscar in the pipeline for me). Thanks again for taking the time out to reply to my order, and I would definitely recommend your firm to any one looking to do a murder mystery. Andy Beaton, Inverness, Scotland
I
have gotten tons of positive feedback that universally
stated it was the best teambuilding activity we have done in awhile. I
formed the teams by pairing up people who normally don't
get to work together, and that really paid off in teambuilding
and should set the stage for future cross-functional cooperation.
The only advice I didn't take was to have a co-facilitator. This
would have helped most during the scoring, but next time
I'll be sure to get some help with that. It's nice
to hear people say that they are looking forward to the
next time we can do
something like that. Thank you for setting up such a great
event. The instructions were very
easy to follow, and everything I needed
was included. Thanks again - it was well worth it. Jay
Schumacher, Fritolay, Binghamton, NY
What a great experience. My staff participated in the hunt on Friday and absolutely loved it. We have never laughed harder and it sure did help our team "bond." Interestingly enough, several people had to work together that have had difficulty in the past and would you believe, they had a great time together!!!! Thanks a million - I will definitely recommend you hunts to the other managers I work with!!! Shannon Burroughs Campbell, Portland, OR
I wanted to let you know how our team hunt challenge went. I work at a public school and was in charge of a teambuilding activity during our annual retreat. I got at least 5 phone calls today from people just to say thank you. One person even told me that her face was sore from laughing and smiling. Everyone had a wonderful time. It was the perfect activity to end the evening. I also wanted to tell you how simple it was to edit the actual hunt to match our program. Everything tied together perfectly. Thanks again for a great time! Kim Hansen. Grand Rapids, MI
Our
murder mystery party was a smashing success. Not only was
it good teambuilding but we found talent in areas we would have
never known. Thank you for sharing
your work! Charlotte W. Hummel Firm Administrator,
Carneiro, Chumney & Co., L. C., San Antonio, TX
This is the only time that we heard comments like, "I was actually challenged by this hunt." Most of the time they think this kind of stuff is a waste of time. It turned out really well. Lee Ann Moorman, Names and Numbers, Pittsburg, KS
My team and I really enjoyed the scavenger hunt. It was a great experience for my group, and we found such value in the discussion at the end of the activity. We learned a lot about each other, how we can function more effectively as a team, and about our individual leadership skills and styles. I have recommended it to other business partners as well. Thank you. Mickey Nole, Las Vegas, NV
Wow! An email from the owner. Now that's customer service! My initial thoughts about the materials are that they are very thorough and provide more than enough information to run a high-quality teambuilding exercise. This package will save me a lot of time in the planning stages and will allow me to focus more on the meeting itself. I am confident the exercise will go over very well with the team and I'm very excited for that day! Thanks, Megan Smalley, Campbell's Away From Home, Haverton, PA
We had tremendous success with your
product. Our staff gave glowing reviews of the hunt
and
many
people stopped me to tell me it was the best activity we
had ever had at any of our retreats. I
was able to manipulate the hunt and tailor it to the location
and to our company very easily. The download was smooth
and the directions were complete, accurate and simple to
use. I was very
pleased with literally every aspect of your product. Just
an FYI on some of the things that worked well for our group: I
changed one of the projects to have each of the teams create and
recite a love poem dedicated to our vice president (the hit of
the day as the hidden Shakespeare appeared in several people),
I also gave each team three pages of newsprint with instructions
to build a paper airplane using all three sheets. We then
had a "fly-off" in which each team flew their
plane off the top of a small hill - the winner was the team
whose plane
went the farthest distance. The resort had two golf courses
so teams had to find logo golf balls for their collections
and the
most unusual collections included a TV set (loaned by hotel
maintenance) and the top hat of the head bellhop (also loaned).
I will certainly keep your company in mind as I do planning
for training
workshops and future retreats - based on these results you
do great work. Thank you! Dr. Corby A. Myers Ed.D., Director,
Professional Development and Performance Improvement, Cornell Companies
Eastern Region, South Mountain, PA
Thank you for the follow up offer of assistance. I was able to download The Mafia Murders mystery game and was able to follow the directions on modifying the script to fit our office event. And just to let you know, your script/product/service has been wonderful! I intend to recommend your company to anyone that mentions they are looking for some type of entertainment for their company event! Great job! Tina M. Bengs, HOEPPNER WAGNER & EVANS LLP, Merrillville, Indiana
Susan you made my day. I could only praise God when I found your website. I'm using your team building hunt for my management & marketing class mid-term. The students are having a lot of fun and are putting into practice the very components of their textbook. Your facilitators' guide was straight forward and I had no problems. I see about 90 students a week and they are all running around the campus with their balloon animals (some have put baby clothes on their mascot). For the challenges, I used the same concepts, but placed our campus in your challenges. Students have been emailing me about this experience it is awesome. This campus has not been so alive! I've even had to stop students from the hunt and make them go to their other classes which are giving mid-terms as well. The only thing my students are complaining about with this mid-term is the fact they are learning about themselves, behavioral issues that they need to address, how quick they dislike dynamics of change. I am also using your assessment tools the teamwork assessment & the grading criteria. Students have been required to keep their animals & bags with them at all times. Students from other classes can steal their bags if it is unattended. Every team has play money, so they are using their critical thinking skills, team building, decision-making, implementing strategic & tactical planning. It has really been great. Thank you very much for making this easy for me. Bowie State University is a Historical Black College with a lot of history and now my students know all about their campus. Thanks again! Dr. Petrina Shatteen, Bowie State University, Ft. Washington, MD
My accounting firm had a BLAST doing your team-building Our Town Hunt as our tax-season “kick-off” last January. To see a bunch of accountants running through a mall and taking photos of their teams acting silly was really cute...and we kept our collections books on display during tax season to lift us up when we were overworked, tired, and in bad moods – the books never failed to evoke laughter! Lisa Haffer, Cincinnati, OH
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