Fun.Food.Focus... Corporate
Education and Learning
- Team Building Activities
- Leadership Development
- Management Development
- World Knowledge Cafes
- Corporate Social Responsibility Offerings
- Corporate Wellness Programmes
- Fun.Food.Focus... Entrée Packages
- Staff Incentives
- Conference and Incentive
Fun.Food.Focus is a people development and team building activity business, focused on developing high-performance teams, leaders, managers and businesses through cooking. Our 'value add' is our unique combination of high level facilitation and coaching with the universal dynamism of food and cooking.
Fun.Food.Focus offers the most delicious team building activities, corporate development, and training experiences in South Australia.
As a highly qualified corporate education and training specialist, Fun.Food.Focus blends tangible business objectives and outcomes with your own scrumptious menu, creating a scene for applied learning and 'hands-on' culinary fun.
By individually tailoring programmes, and providing event solutions that build relationships between key business stake-holders, Fun.Food.Focus fosters creativity, learning, communication and team work and uses food and cooking for corporate entertainment, and business development and networking.
Our Facilitation Team:
All of our Corporate and team building activity events are facilitated by our professional chefs/gourmet cooks, and expert team development specialists, and hosted on site by our highly experienced event hosts.
Locations:
team building activities can be arranged during work hours or after hours depending on requirements. Being fully mobile Fun.Food.Focus can arrange a suitable venue away from the workplace or on your premises.
Timing:
Like food itself, we're pretty flexible... choose from a breakfast, lunch or dinner program - and from half, full to consecutive day sessions. We design an itinerary to suit each client's needs. Our cooking programmes can be integrated into existing itineraries, for example a conference or existing developmental programme.
We have run team building activities for teams of 10-40+ cooking together, and we have capability for larger numbers. Our participants have included managers, leaders, partners, graduates, directors, board members, and all staff positions.
All of our programmes are bespoke and specifically designed to suit individual client needs. We deliver in the following key areas:
Team Building Activities:
Fun.Food.Focus - team building activities and corporate challenges has teams cooking together as a means to not only foster co-operation, communication and team work to achieve set objectives, but to encourage team spirit, bonding and a greater sense of understanding. We help the team to improve working together!
Our programs are designed with food creation as the catalyst, and show how teamwork and co-operation can create a more motivated and higher performing team. The individually designed programs combine theoretical learning sessions with the planning, preparation, cooking and presentation of a meal to share with all in the team. The program is a fusion of proven team building strategies and an overarching sense of fun and creativity.
Either you choose the pre-determined 'cooking teams' or we can!
Fun.Food.Focus works with you to produce the perfect corporate team building event matched to your choice of cuisine. The end result is a strong team dynamic that has translational benefits in the workplace. Team members gain better insight and understanding of their colleagues and develop a deep sense of camaraderie and FUN along the way.
Our experienced and qualified professionals lead and facilitate the tailored learning, with themes such as:
- Building synergistic and cohesive teams
- Effecting positive change in corporate culture
- Creating strong, successful leaders and managers
- Increasing effective and fluid communication
- Developing a problem solving organisation
- Encouraging creative and original thinking
- Discovering the Myer Briggs Personality Types within your team
The act of preparing and sharing a meal creates a positive and relaxed atmosphere, achieving greater learning and camaraderie. Combining hands-on cooking with professional development provides a fresh and novel learning experience - even for the "seasoned" professional or executive!
And we know everyone loves GOOD food! It's a fail-safe, sure-fire way of getting your team looking forward to learning, motivated to attend and participating enthusiastically!
Plan to expand your team's horizons with a unique team building activity with Fun.Food.Focus
The Fun.Food.Focus team would be delighted to work with you in designing a program to meet your specific learning needs, and to enable your team to share, bond and grow.
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Leadership Development
Fun.Food.Focus is a people and leadership development business, and we aim to challenge and extend the leadership skills of senior managers using cooking and food as the medium. We can also align these activities with the corporate leadership and development focus of their organisation.
We work with other experts in the field to plan a specific program with you, and focus on the core leadership capabilities required for the 21st Century including: thinking, flexibility, collaboration, application of diverse learning approaches, practically-based skills, mentoring and problem solving.
Using 'project-based learning' as a theme, we use the real life experience of a Fun.Food.Focus cooking experience to challenge participants into planning, managing, producing and serving a gourmet meal.
Management Development
Fun.Food.Focus is a people and management development business, and we aim to enhance the management development skills of emerging managers by using the 'experimental methodology' of 'hands on' cooking to focus on the critical issues that managers face in accomplishing their goals.
We work with our expert partners and our clients, to plan a specific program which focuses on the top skills or attributes of key managers such as communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to manage change, an ability to motivate staff, analytical and problem solving skills, the importance of strategic vision, how to manage the knowledge worker and persistence in overcoming difficulties at work.
In addition to its management development role, a Fun.Food.Focus activity such as this is an excellent forum for business networking between participants.
Fun.Food.Focus clients have used this process for multi-disciplinary, and multi-locational management teams, to share experiences through preparing food.
The frequency and duration of these programmes depends on client needs, but some clients have quarterly or more frequent events over a 12 month period, depending on organizational development needs.
World Knowledge Cafes
A World Knowledge Café is a 'learning community' that brings people in organisations together to learn from each other and to make a difference, or to introduce change in individual or organisational practices. K-Cafes provide excellent networking, knowledge sharing, knowledge harvesting and learning opportunities.
Cafes are facilitated around a topic of high importance to a group or organisation, and focus on the 3 clusters of knowledge skills - context, complexity and connectiveness. Facilitator: Dr Helen Paige, Founder and Director, The Paige Group.
We can also teach your organisation to develop 'communities of practice' and other formal and informal learning networks.
Corporate Social Responsibility Offerings
Fun.Food.Focus products are flexible and adaptable, therefore our team building activities and Bonding, Leadership Development, Management Development, World Knowledge Cafes and Corporate Wellness Programs can be applied to support our clients in achieving their corporate social responsibility objectives.
A Fun.Food.Focus Food Challenge could provide a unique format through which to support your favourite charity, fund raising or 'giving' programme, or 'food store'.
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Corporate Wellness Programmes
Fun.Food.Focus is aware that with the increase of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, that healthy eating is a challenge for some employees. Due to lifestyle, many employees do not eat a balanced diet, or they lack the time or motivation to prepare good food. These issues can result in lack of motivation at work, absenteeism and reduced performance.
Great for Employers...
Many Australian employers are beginning to understand the benefits of offering Corporate Wellness Programs (Source). For every dollar spent on a Corporate Wellness Program, the returns have shown savings in the areas of decreased absenteeism, fewer sick days, lower job turnover, reduced work cover claims, reduced health-care costs, improved physical fitness, and improvements to employee performance and productivity.
Additionally, these organisations notice increased employee morale, improved ability to attract and retain qualified and committed staff as well as more alert and productive employees.
For the Employee...
Employees engaged in Corporate Wellness Programs report a positive impact on all aspects of their work life. This translates into fewer injuries, lower levels of stress, less human error, a sense of worth, higher self-esteem and a better team environment.
Corporate Wellness Programs foster a positive workplace culture and ensure that employee's feel appreciated and valued.
Large companies like Johnson & Johnson have estimated an average saving of U.S. $224.66 per employee per year for the four years examined after a Corporate Wellness program introduction, with the bulk of the savings being in the third and fourth years (Source).
Australian organisations such as the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) in WA report "a Return on Investment (ROI) of lost time due to injury reduction by 27.5 per cent, and injuries requiring medical treatment by 38 per cent, as well as increased productivity and reduced sick leave" (Source).
At Fun.Food.Focus we believe that healthy eating habits and a regular exercise program are essential in the workplace and offer various options for companies who wish to offer Corporate Wellness Programs to their employees.
As a result we offer Fun.Food.Focus Healthy Eating Challenges where we combine 'hands on' experiential cooking and/or chef demonstrations with nutritional education, individual nutritional coaching, or consulting to your workplace on 'good food' options.
In collaboration with our 'Wellness Partners', further 'onsite' workshops include:
- Exercise and Flexibility Classes Yoga and Pilates
- Healthy 'Hands-on' Cooking Classes — including:
- Middle Eastern
- Japanese Sushi making
- Greek
- Low Fat
- Vegetarian
- Thai
- Organic
- Using a SPEED COOKING FORMAT
- Healthy Talks on nutrition and related
- Health Checks
- Stress Management and Work/Life Balance Programs
- Occupational Health and Safety checks
We'll be happy to discuss your organisation's wellness needs and provide you with a range of suitable exciting and fun options to suit your workplace.
REMEMBER - we tailor the design of these events to fit within your preferred organisational objectives.
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Fun.Food.Focus... Entrée Packages
If you're looking for something at late notice or your team is short on time, our Entrée Fun.Food.Focus packages offer the ideal solution.
This basic package is a great option for meetings, professional development days or if you only have a lunch hour to spare.
The Entrée package still retains the Fun.Food.Focus quality, using only the best and freshest ingredients, and expert cooking tuition by professional and experienced chefs or gourmet cooks. It also includes the inspired and creative menus and cooking themes recognised in any Fun.Food.Focus package.
Our Entrée packages currently include Japanese Sushi Making, Greek, Thai, Vegetarian, Low-fat and Middle Eastern. The Entrée Fun.Food.Focus packages were designed with greater simplicity in mind to fit in with your time and budget needs. So if you're short on time but still want to experience the delights of a Fun.Food.Focus package - choose Entrée!
Staff Incentives
We recognise that more and more companies are looking at creative ways to reward, motivate and retain their most important asset - their employees. And the best way to your staff's heart (and loyalty) might just be through their stomach!
So, invest in your greatest asset. Reward your top performers, recognise your team's efforts, celebrate successes, motivate and grow your people with a Fun.Food.Focus event, or a Fun.Food.Focus Gift Voucher.
Conference Offerings for PCO's Event Managers, Conference Organisers and Trainers
Fun.Food.Focus are experts in the delivery of innovative, 'hands on' culinary events to the Australian conference market. We are a member of Adelaide Convention Bureau (ACB) and an experienced provider to the Australian tourism and business events sectors.
We know how difficult it is to find something different, interesting and exciting for your group to do. That's why Fun.Food.Focus wants to help YOU!
A Fun.Food.Focus Food Challenge is applicable for our learning, training and development offerings, but it is also ideal as a PRE-DURING-OR POST CONFERENCE event as a BREAKOUT or networking activity.
Conference participants tire of 'just sitting and listening' to speakers! Nowadays they expect some sort of 'interactive' activity. This is where Fun.Food.Focus can easily assist. Our cooking activity can be integrated
- PRE - prior to the conference to start the networking process
- DURING - as part of the conference agenda
- BREAKOUT - as a 'speedy' lunchtime breakout ('hands on cooking' and then eat lunch)
- POST - for those participants who may wish to stay longer in a location and to network and further build relationships
- FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS - husbands, wives and partners who may be attending the conference with their partner and wish to join with other 'accompanying persons' for a FUN activity.
We can offer something quite special - perhaps a spectacular demonstration or 'hands on' of chocolate making (where guests can taste the goodies they made with a nice glass of SA wine!; some 'hands on sushi' or exoticThai; a market tour, visiting specialist food stores, chocolate, cheese, wine, bread or olive oil tastings and food appreciation classes; 'meet the maker' tours. Depending on the size of the group the location of these events differ.
What we do for the Conference, Event and Incentive Market
Fun.Food.Focus presents a unique range of 'hands on' culinary ,interactive experiences guaranteed to whet the appetite, stir the senses and ignite any event. Fun.Food.Focus is the perfect corporate partner for incentives, conventions, accompany partner programs and pre and post conference activities.
Fun.Food.Focus packages are as flexible as your needs and can be tailored to your individual event requirements. We work with you to create the perfect activity for your client, delegates and timeframe. We are also corporate market specialists. Our packages can be expertly customized to meet strategic business objectives such as team building activities and motivation, morale, change management or as a staff reward, or that particular conference theme.
From 3 course menus, to speed entrée packages, ideal for timely breakout sessions, we can engage your group in an exciting and different interative activity to suit your program.
We work with you to do the liaison, keep in constant contact and make sure that the client is happy!
Where we do it:
We deliver our Conference events through our partner network of venues. If you are planning a conference and have not yet booked a venue, it is useful to consult with us first, so we can suggest suitable locations where we already know that cooking is possible. If you have already booked a location, we liaise with the venue to determine facilities for our ‘hands on' cooking or demo, or tasting session on site. We can also deliver our programmes interstate.
Fun.Food.Focus has set up in a variety of locations – ours or yours; including conference centres, hotels, restaurants, marquees, wineries, boardrooms, by a lake or a bowling club or a heritage-style location. We are fully MOBILE and look after all the details. That's our point of difference.
What is included:
We do it all. Full tuition by a gourmet cook/chef, all cooking equipment and ingredients, recipes, morning or afternoon tea, music, chefs hats and aprons site visits, prizes and lots of creative FUN!
Who is it for:
We cater for all ages, levels of experience and group size. Fun.Food.Focus creates truly memorable moments of teamwork, networking, shared learning and friendship through the expert knowledge, preparation and consumption of fabulous gourmet cuisine. We are truly in the business of developing people and teams through cooking. We work in partnership with you to provide a professional, memorable event that has Fun Food and Focus!
Themes:
We can suggest innovative ideas for conference inclusion such as interactive World Knowledge Cafes which are relevant to the conference topics. Because we are strategic, we can plan with you from the start to make sure that the business goals of the conference are achieved. We partner with leading educational experts and trainers and speakers if desired. As both presenters and providers for the Conference market - we can consult with you during planning for conference agendas, with the emphasis on client need!
Food can also be used to express social values. Such as healthy eating, corporate wellness, use of client's products, and we can tailor our cuisine to suit. Our culinary options currently include – Australian Fusion, Rustic Italian Long Lunch, Exotic Thai Banquet, Northern Indian Feast, Traditional Sushi Making, Only Organic Produce, Chocolate Indulgence and Pizza with Pizzazz…and we are always adding more.
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Conference Testimonials
Conference Organisers: Encore - Crepe Making
'Many thanks – I loved your session – absolutely fun and engaging – now to trial it...'
Martin Goodrich
Director
Martin Goodrich & Associates Pty Ltd
