Historic Boathouse Row provided the setting for the AstraZeneca Appropriate Pharmaceutical Care Division (APC) Managers’ Training Day. The APC Division, which is a marketing division, works with doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to ensure that medications are being administered as they were meant to be.  The APC Division  provides an important and necessary service to the medical profession that values the power of inspirational leadership and effective management skills.

AstraZeneca, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, believes strongly in the power of teamwork and inspirational leadership. The Management training seminar, lead by Olympic rower and Team Concepts founder Dan Lyons, taught AstraZeneca’s APC management team how to be more effective managers, and to increase employee effectiveness and loyalty within their division. The Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership provided the basis for the day’s seminar and breakout sessions, helping these managers take away lessons that they can provide to the workplace.

AstraZeneca divided into two teams. Each team came up with a team name, mascot, logo, and goal for the day. This first team building exercise demonstrated the first secret of the Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership: Everyone Wants to be Part of Something Bigger Than Themselves. After an on land rowing demonstration and distribution of team shirts and hats, it was time for the teams to get on the water! Guided by Team Concepts coaches, that consist of national and international champion rowers and coaches, the AstraZeneca team directly learned teamwork and teambuilding concepts by learning to pull together! Their second rowing outing of the day, after a series of seminars and breakout sessions, was ended by the day’s grand finale: The AstraZeneca Regatta!

Team Champion is a premier leadership training and teambuilding program that uses rowing as a metaphor for building high performance teams.  This program can accommodate groups from four to two hundred people, and can be held anywhere where there is a body of water nearby. Since 1995, Team Champion programs have been an integral part of corporate, government, non-profit, and educational organizations’ training. Organizations have used our Team Champion programs to meet the following goals: new hire training, conflict resolution, company mergers, senior and regional management retreats, new student orientation, sales training, ‘training the trainers’, leadership training, team building and bonding, communication skills training, and more.

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Campbell ’s Soup Spends a Teambuilding and Leadership Training Day with Team Sailing!

Historic Annapolis provided the setting for the Campbell ’s Soup teambuilding and leadership training day this summer. Campbell ’s Soup, the largest soup manufacturer in the world, is also, one of the finest AstraZeneca Appropriate Pharmaceutical Care Division (APC) Managers’ Training Day. The APC Division, which is a marketing division, works with doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to ensure that medications are being administered as they were meant to be.  The APC Division  provides an important and necessary service to the medical profession that values the power of inspirational leadership and effective management skills.

AstraZeneca, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, believes strongly in the power of teamwork and inspirational leadership. The Management training seminar, lead by Olympic rower and Team Concepts founder Dan Lyons, taught AstraZeneca’s APC management team how to be more effective managers, and to increase employee effectiveness and loyalty within their division. The Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership provided the basis for the day’s seminar and breakout sessions, helping these managers take away lessons that they can provide to the workplace.

AstraZeneca divided into two teams. Each team came up with a team name, mascot, logo, and goal for the day. This first team building exercise demonstrated the first secret of the Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership: Everyone Wants to be Part of Something Bigger Than Themselves. After an on land rowing demonstration and distribution of team shirts and hats, it was time for the teams to get on the water! Guided by Team Concepts coaches, that consist of national and international champion rowers and coaches, the AstraZeneca team directly learned teamwork and teambuilding concepts by learning to pull together! Their second rowing outing of the day, after a series of seminars and breakout sessions, was ended by the day’s grand finale: The AstraZeneca Regatta!

Team Champion is a premier leadership training and teambuilding program that uses rowing as a metaphor for building high performance teams.  This program can accommodate groups from four to two hundred people, and can be held anywhere where there is a body of water nearby. Since 1995, Team Champion programs have been an integral part of corporate, government, non-profit, and educational organizations’ training. Organizations have used our Team Champion programs to meet the following goals: new hire training, conflict resolution, company mergers, senior and regional management retreats, new student orientation, sales training, ‘training the trainers’, leadership training, team building and bonding, communication skills training, and more.
 

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The sun has barely risen. Even the early bird is asleep, yet on the river is a Dragon Boat team. As they lower their boat into the water, the preparation to race along the surface of the river, in a symphony of effort and coordination, begins with careful effort. This team knows that as a team they can move this heavy boat very quickly but if some don't perform their roles in unison, they'll be dead in the water. What makes this group of rowers unique is that they are not only on the same boating team; they also work together at the same company. They are participating in this Dragon Boating exercise to learn more about team building and leadership development.

On a contemporary Dragon Boat you'll find a crew of around twenty-two people. There are twenty paddlers in pairs facing toward the bow of the boat, a drummer or caller at the bow faces toward the paddlers, and one person at the helm steers the boat. Smaller Dragon Boats may have as few at ten paddlers and more massive boats can have up to fifty.

Each person on the Dragon Boat has a part to play. Together the boat operates smoothly, but when management and participation are poor, the performance of the boat suffers. It's no wonder why Dragon Boating can be such a fun and effective exercise for team building. Instead of waiting for quarterly numbers to indicate progress, team performance is nearly in real-time and enjoyment is directly related to effective team participation as well as effective management. Lessons are learned much more quickly and no stockholder gets upset over mistakes.

When this weekend is over, this team will start a new week with a different perspective on their role in the workplace. Olympian Dan Lyons, and CEO of Team Concepts, Inc., knows from his own personal experience and from years of team building exercises similar to his "Team Dragon Boat" program, that great teams are found everywhere and when those teams are given better skills and knowledge of how to work with each other, they feel more empowered and experience greater satisfaction in what they do. Indeed, great companies are made from motivated teams of talented individuals. Team Concepts knows they can change the face of team building, one boatload at a time.