Work Retreat Gifts

"I'm going to tell them our number one way to be stress-free is taking a day off to go fishing."

"To think—this meeting, which turned into the perfect day, filled with spontaneous adventures that will become priceless memories, could have been an e-mail."

Business acquaintances on holiday

"For quality control purposes, this phone call may be recorded and replayed for laughs at various office parties throughout our company."

"You're invited to our management excursion. Come dresses as a pinata."

"Looks like we found the issue."

'Why is it that nothing ever gets done at these meetings?'

'If I had to use one word to describe our strategy.'

"This position has become very important to the company."

'Do you remember when our time away from the office was our time...'

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

The Department of Blind-Side Bias, Knowledge Gaps and Really Great Coffee.

"Let's start with an icebreaker..."

"The meeting will come to order."

'I've learned a lot about myself at these meetings...like, I can fall asleep with my eyes open!'

'How can we solve this problem by eating?'

Group Think Time

'Who folded the annual report into a paper airplane?'

"Be careful what you wish for, Bob, because you just might get it. And if it happens to be what I was wishing for, things could get pretty ugly around here."

A presenter with a very complex chart to explain a business plan - 'And it's as simple as that!'

Teamwork!

'He was only reaching for his powerpoint presentation pointer.'

A business that thinks alike...sinks alike.

'Our problem is how to lower quality while raising prices...'

"Look at them smiling. They've reached their comfort zone."

We're cutting the forest in half, so I'm going to need you to make the oxygen of two trees.

Steamed Room: "Man, I feel so much lighter."

"Always remember...it takes teamwork to get me that promotion!"

The Corporate Ladder and the Corporate Elevator.

"And best of all, it comes fully loaded!"

"Work hard, make the sacrifices and in 25 years you could be just like me!"

'Well, I must say I never thought team-building exercises could be such fun.'

"He thought this would illustrate the company hierarchy more clearly than the organizational chart."

Teaching a Sunday school class didn't end the way John imagined.

Corporate Team Building. Team. Hey, everybody, I've just been told our CEO fled the country while we've been doing our truth exercises.