Immersive Charity Guitar Build for 150 Executives with Seamless On-Site Logistics

I wanna give a shout-out to the entire team for Team Bonding's exceptional delivery, exceptional planning. My name is Tiya Bolton. I am based here in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I am the CEO of a global consulting agency. I have a client that we plan their annual meeting every single year, and we love, love, love the work that Team Bonding did. We wanted an immersive experience for 150 executives, and Team Bonding did not let me down. The planning process once I engaged Team Bonding was really, really easy. It was very much in sync with how we do business. They reached out with the deliverables that we told them that we wanted. We basically told them, we looked at the online offerings and we said, "These are the ones that we want to consider." We then figured out which one we were gonna go with, and we were able to customize it. So I love that we were able to do that. We also then were referred to the person who was gonna come on and be on site with us, and then we were able to communicate with that individual as well. But every detail of the logistics from who we were gonna have a charitable component with in our local area, what time they needed to be there, what room they needed to be in, when we were gonna kick off, when things were gonna be set up, all of those details were there, including the shipping of the materials for the actual team building activity. What stands out for me with Team Bonding is just the level of detail. It's funny, people always tell me how I operate with both a bird's eye view, but also the high level of detail, and I can say that they are very much aligned with that. They shared every little detail about when things would be there, about how things would run, and they allowed us to customize it. I saw them as an immersive partner because they didn't give us a cookie cutter approach. That was just the foundation for what we would do, but we were able to build on that and integrate what the client's needs were to make sure that these executives were very well entertained. Event day was smooth. Derek arrived on time. We were able to get in that room. We actually needed to reconfigure the room based on the number of people we had and so forth. We were able to work with the hotel under his guidance to tell us how he needed us to divide those teams, and we were able to get that done pretty seamlessly. We had 19 teams and 150 leaders on that particular instance. I would say that the entry was an opportunity for us to do an adjustment, and we were able to make that happen seamlessly before the client even got into the room. The room wasn't quite configured the way that they needed it to be, and so that set up him communicating that to us early on and him arriving early enough for us to make that change was really, really critical. Um, and the example of what we did is we did the charity guitar build. So we had the 19 groups with the 150 leaders. We wanted them not only to be able to build the guitars that we would then donate to a local charity, we wanted them to have a full on experience. We wanted them to be able to use AI. We wanted them to decorate those guitars. We wanted them to perform a song and compete with one another. And so every time they kinda checked the box off of one other level of what they needed to do, then they got more points to move on to the next level. The level of attention to detail was really important as it compares to other vendors that we worked with in the past for team building, but also the way that they communicate. The communication was, like, nonstop. We had cell phone numbers, email addresses. There was no limit to when we could reach out to them, and that just made it... It put us all at ease. We had a few event team members on site, and it just made it so much easier for us to be able to communicate throughout. If you're considering partnering with Team Bonding, I wanna say don't even think about it. Just do it. There's such a wide variety of offerings on the website. No matter what you are, your business does, no matter who your team members are that are gonna be participating, there is something for everyone, whether you're a smaller group or a bigger group, and they will help you to think through all the logistics from start to finish. They are great implementers, and they are very, very open to feedback. It was just an amazing experience, and I plan to use Team Bonding year over year, especially for this one client. But if I can integrate them into others, I definitely will make it my business to do that.