Pinnacle Pursuits combines the best of 23 years of experience with the newest and most cutting edge research to deliver experiential programs that are changing organizations for the better both virtually and in-person. Our clients are reporting stronger teams, lasting solutions and major positive shifts in their company cultures following their experiences with Pinnacle Pursuits.
Founder & Chief Visionary, Jonathan Willcocks has worked with organizations of all sizes and fame across the world to deliver transformational team building and interactive workshops to those looking to evolve and get ahead. Our clients depend on the strength, cohesion and initiative of their teams and unlocking that potential is Pinnacle Pursuits’ gift. Whether it is bringing the team closer together for a creative, thought-provoking team building program or developing skills, enacting lasting solutions to ongoing issues or adapting to change, there is a transformational experience ready to serve your aims.
Benefits of a Pinnacle Pursuits Program:
Each option is carefully designed to help your organization embrace the opportunities and challenges you are experiencing and bring out the best in your people. Here are just a few of the many benefits you can expect.
Check out Pinnacle Pursuit's virtual activities and workshops below! Pinnacle Pursuits also offers each of these programs plus a whole host of others in-person that you can find HERE.
Virtual Team Building
VIRTUAL SERIOUS PLAY
Fun activities that keep your people connected and energized while working remotely!
Virtual Serious Play is a facilitated mix of highly creative, fun, remote team-building initiatives to meet the connection needs of today’s virtual workforce. LEARN MORE
READY-SET-INNOVATE
A two-hour virtual photo and video remote ‘scavenger hunt’ that tests participants’ creativity, problem-solving, innovation, and teamwork skills!
Looking for a unique event that will fully energize your team? Imagine Amazing Race & Survivor style activities packed into a thrilling 2 hour experience! LEARN MORE
GIVE-IT-A-GO
Ongoing unique challenges, gamifying the best of life, activated on a daily or weekly basis!
This new virtual game will inspire your workforce to flourish while celebrating each other’s unique strengths & successes! LEARN MORE
Remote Learning & Skill-Development Workshops
CLEAR COMMUNICATION = CLEAR LEADERSHIP
Now more than ever, clear communication is essential for creating and maintaining inclusive, constructive, collaborative relationships while working towards your business goals. Focusing on meaningful remote connection among teams, this workshop concentrates on what is required to create positive norms, develop collaborative dialogue and manage and resolve conflicts respectfully within your environment for staff and leadership. With the help of expert facilitators, you will be equipped with a valuable set of new tools, empowered to lead group process and communicate more effectively in an open, honest and constructive way.
NAVIGATING CHANGE EFFECTIVELY
Workplaces constantly encounter change, with many leaders and businesses unsure of what direction to take next. Acknowledging the need for adjustment, addressing old thought patterns and habits to effectively embrace the path ahead, and re-configuring to capitalize on opportunities presented to us, is a must for today. This workshop will provide leaders with the tools to understand the challenge we are experiencing from a psychological standpoint, re-frame beliefs and behaviours, embrace a new paradigm, and commit to moving forward together; ultimately allowing the freedom to respond with agility to the changing needs of the current world.
UNLOCKING YOUR TEAM’S POTENTIAL
This engaging set of remote programs improves self-awareness and development while highlighting individual and team competencies and leadership styles. Our facilitators specialize in a number of approaches, such as 4Di, EQ, True Colours, DISC, 360’ and more, which help you to know your people and their strengths, celebrate the power of diversity, promote psychological safety and harness the best of your team. Using these methods will also allow you to accelerate your collaborative efforts with more effective uses of your team skill set, boost your adaptability to changing needs and quickly recognize key areas that require further development to help fast track your growth and success.
CREATING VISION AND VALUES
During uncertainty, it is important to focus on your team's foundations - why we do what we do and what makes us who and what we are! Based on the Visioning level of our Pinnacle Performance Pyramid, our remote Team Visioning and Values Program will help you clarify and reinvigorate your sense of purpose and bolster your collective identity. Through illuminating questionnaires, creative exercises and brainstorming collaboratively, this virtual session will engage participants to unite with common values, create a shared vision for the future and recognize how every member of the team can contribute to moving forward with a renewed sense of purpose and motivation.
VIDEO MEETINGS & CONFERENCES BEST PRACTICES
Studies show that over 50% of workforces are feeling incompetent, excluded and/or stressed because of their lack of knowledge or inability to communicate with their team, remotely. The biggest stress, frustration, and barrier for moving forward is not having the support, the tools ,and the ‘know how’. In order to move forward while ‘isolated’, basic communication and collaboration skills through Zoom, GoToMeeting and other virtual platforms has become an essential skill. This fun, interactive 2-part workshop will include everything you need to know to use these technologies, to once again communicate and lead your team with confidence and ease!
"The quality of your service and the passion and experience you bring to everything you do is evident in the results you attained from our team. Thanks again Pinnacle Pursuits for a wonderful job, well-designed day and an amazing experience."
- Lynda Brown; Development Director, EA Games
"The Pinnacle Pursuits team provided an amazing full day of training and team-building that went above and beyond expectations. They had all 130 of us engaged, laughing, and participating. Everyone loved it. It couldn’t have been better!"
- Denise Bosman; Director Human Resources, Nature’s Path Organic Foods
“Pinnacle Pursuits has what it takes to create premier corporate experiences…they empower participants to exceed their personal best in a challenging yet safe environment…we look forward to Pinnacle events for many years to come.”
- Mike Schauch; RBC Dominion Securities, Portfolio Manager, Royal Bank of Canada
“We bring in Pinnacle Pursuits as a key resource on many occasions to design unique custom team-building challenges and experiences for our senior students and executive guests. They are professional and competent facilitators, as well fun, considerate, well-prepared, knowledgeable, and bring out the best in everyone! It’s always a pleasure to bring them on board, work with them and recommend their services.”
- Dr. Daniel Skarlicki; Edgar F. Kaiser Chair of Organizational Behaviour, UBC Sauder School of Business