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Helping your organisation to be a great place to work

• Cost effective
• Hassle free entering
• Teamwork
• Long term business success - retaining your good people
• Fun & social
• Passion and social competition

Business Games deliver on companies’ human resources aspirations
When it comes to ticking the boxes for meeting an organisation’s human resources requirements the New Zealand Business Games has a lot to offer, in a very cost effective way. 

• Bring staff together from different sections and different levels interacting on the playing field.
• Improve internal communications.
• Helps make organisations a fun place to work
• Promoting and proactively encouraging  active, healthy lifestyles

With 14 different 'games' to chose from there is something for everyone.

Cost effective

With budgets being cut, the Games offers a proven, cost effective way of developing team work, helping motivation and morale, healthy workplaces, and improving internal communication. The cost per participant is only $27-$80 depending on the activity, and there are no hidden costs.

Hassle free entering

Whats more it's really easy, to get staff invovled.  You just need to get one individual team co-ordinator (usuually from a social club) to enter all your teams. Everything after that is done by e-mail, making it simple for the team manager to disseminate information throughout the organisation. For more info see entering.

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Teamwork

Catherine Taylor, General Manager of Human Resources for Kiwibank, says the games are a great opportunity to reinforce the culture and some of the key values for her organisation.  “Teamwork is a critical element for a large organisation such as Kiwibank which has over 700 staff and is a big part of our culture.  The games support the notion of teamwork and working together”. “The Business Games provides an opportunity for our Wellington staff from right across the business to get to know each other better.”

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Long term business success - retaining your good people

The NZ Business Games give companies the opportunity to raise their profile as a fun organisation that gets involved and supports their employees outside of work.
Dulux aspires to be a workplace of choice, a place people want to join and don’t want to leave, says Greg.  “We work very hard on creating this kind of environment because all our staff surveys tell us that it is not the salaries that people are interested in but the work environment and the leaders and the way they engage with you as an individual and engage with the business and it’s about feeling good about yourself and the business.”

Greg says it is critical to create an environment where people want to be because a successful business and workplace is more than just about working 9am-5pm and then going home.

Fun & social

UNLIMITED magazines - Top Places to Work Awards, has had 'organisations being a fun place to work' as a critical factor, for employees, in organisations being a great place to work. 

“Fun” is the single most commonly used word when employees and managers of the Top 20 organisations in Unlimited Best Places to Work survey describe their workplace.
For more detail go to Unlimited - The 20 Best Places to Work

Passion and social competition

Competition at any level invariably results in passion. Everybody likes to win and everyone likes the opportunity to excel or simply enjoy the camaraderie of social competition. The Games offers all of this - serious competition for those so inclined as well as more social competition for those just wanting some serious fun! The passion of the Games continues into the work place as teams prepare for their events, and afterwards talk and laugh about their experiences.

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Games organised by Fordward Thinking
PO Box 7174, Newtown, Wellington 6242
E-mail info@businessgames.co.nz
For human contact - phone 04 389 4496. 

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