Culinary Team Building

CULINARY TEAM-BUILDING EXPERIENCE CREATES 'CORPORATE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS'

Catherine Margles
PR Newswire

Creative Cooking School and The Urban Group, LLC fuel high performance Teams with the right ingredients. The "new" recipe for Corporate Team-Building Success is in the Kitchen.

Donning aprons and chef's hats, executives in "cooking adventures" learn as much about group dynamics - sometimes more - than managers who attend traditional team-building programs.

Nevada's Creative Cooking School, founded by Catherine Margles, MBA, and The Urban Group LLC, founded by Ruth Urban, M.S., have joined forces to offer Enhanced Culinary Team-Building (www.lasvegasteambuilding.com)

Culinary Team-Building events involve creating a gourmet meal under the supervision and expertise of the Creative Cooking School's Professional Chef Instructors along with team-building exercises with The Urban Group's Ruth Urban. And of course, it's fun.

Lisa Korn, Manager, Project Office / Customer Engineers for New York-based ClientLogic Corporation, said, "The time that we spent at your kitchen, making the meal, interacting with the chefs and each other proved very beneficial to us in our continued team building efforts. The time spent in your environment truly gave each of us a much- needed break while introducing another ingredient to our team.">br>
Recent corporate clients for Culinary Team-Building have included Bank of America, Carmax, Citibank/Citicorp, Del Webb Corporation, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young and Nike International.

Doretha Easler, Community Relations Manager for the Las Vegas-based Nevada Power Company, said, "This unique approach of combining a cooking class and using a facilitator to coach us on team building, added value by paying attention to the ongoing development of our larger work organization, to team members, and to other work teams."

Catherine Margles, a professionally trained Chef, also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the prestigious Executive program at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Margles also has more than 15 years of Global Corporate experience. To celebrate her passion for cooking, she opened The Creative Cooking School in Las Vegas and began offering a Culinary Team-Building program to integrate her love for cooking with her corporate team-building savvy.

"Companies from across the country are bringing groups in from the wilderness and steering them straight to the kitchen," Margles said, adding that Culinary Team-Building provides an opportunity for group members to relax and build camaraderie"

Ruth Urban, owner of The Urban Group LLC, has worked with many groups and high performance teams, from top executive management teams, to elected and appointed public and private boards, assisting them with team-building and strategic planning. Urban is one of only 313 certified professional facilitators in the world by the International Association of Facilitators.

According to Urban, "Culinary Team-Building provides teams with a fun and non-threatening opportunity to learn new and different ways to approach challenges." ---- Please call Catherine Margles at 702-562-3900 for more information about Culinary Team-Building. or:

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