Pickleball Tours Corporate Events & Team Building

As companies and organizations come to understand the importance of engagement with employees to improve health benefits, reduce stress and limit sick days, while increasing productivity, there is more emphasis than ever to be creative and innovative.

Beyond productivity, wellness programs can generate better relationships among colleagues and management. These programs can also drive recruiting initiatives to attract top talent that identifies with a vision around corporate wellness.

At times, these initiatives around work-life balance and wellness can be perceived as just lip service and marketing. However, corporations that prioritize employee’s health have been shown to reduce their health care expenditures, improve job satisfaction scores and lower attrition rates.

Now, with a paradigm shift around remote work and a push to get employees back to the office, there are evolving dynamics within teams and the approach to managing offsite employees. We live in an era where workers have never been to the corporate HQ, met their manager or fellow colleagues. However, you can’t grow your career without spending time with coworkers, learning by osmosis, picking up cues from others, and bonding with teammates.

How many work dinners and happy hours get labeled as “Team Building?” Likely, after sitting at a desk all day, you sit at a team dinner. A better solution to this sedentary rut is to get your team moving! Even better, have them learn a new skill, develop communication, discuss strategy and work as a team on a pickleball court.

Pickleball requires coopetition, collaboration, and is competitive. It’s like chess. And you work as a team to solve problems. The perfect Team Building experience!

Maybe you have HR take on Accounting, or the Sales Team finally gets to show up Marketing. Will the Engineers crush the Customer Service Team? You can have managers play direct reports. Or play within your own business unit. And, by the way, it’s social, fun, active and healthy.

I have heard from so many of my students that have worked in corporate desk jobs that told me after they retired, “I want to learn how to use my body again” This is because they sat their entire career. At desks, on airplanes, in hotels, and commuting in their car. Add in the time they were sleeping and sitting while having meals, these people weren’t upright for more than a couple of hours each day.

I recently had a client ask to change up their client appreciation event from their usual, catered, social gathering to a fun evening of learning pickleball for their customers. They had a blast! Happy customers and employees make for happy leaders, business owners and executives.

So why not try it out, and Pickleball Tours will be your guide to put all the necessary measures in place to make it happen. From marketing support, instruction, venue recommendations, equipment and vendors, hand it over, and we’ll run with it. We’ll work out an all-inclusive quote for you.

To get the process started, please email me to schedule an assessment.