The City is the Stage for Adventure Hunt:  

THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE

   “…like nothing you’ve ever experienced.”

Charlotte, NC –October 4, 2004– Cool Spring Center, Inc., an innovative training company, announces an exciting new corporate teambuilding program:

Adventure Hunt: THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE

Adventure Hunt engages corporate Team members around the dynamic setting of uptown Charlotte: its green spaces, fountains, art and sculpture, the historic trolley, gold rush bus routes, streets and plazas. The city is the work environment where the Team is challenged and tested. They are given locations to find, clues to follow, and specific learning activities that will test them, all of which provide the opportunity to earn or lose rewards. Team members encounter unpredictable, multi-tasking challenges and seemingly impossible tasks. The opportunity is there to lead change—to be the best of the best.

Thoroughly engaging for up to 100 team members, this new urban team challenge is like nothing you’ve ever experienced.

John Berkley, founder and team facilitator says, "This dynamic program will energize teams and the city itself with adventure and excitement. There’s nothing else like it.”

 By providing easily used tools that support the Team’s unique goals, a foundation for change and improvement is laid. And, by practicing these new skills together as a team, the impact and effectiveness of training is strengthened. The debrief will bring the day into perspective by identifying strengths the Team has to build on, developmental opportunities and relevance back to the workplace. Mission Goals will be reviewed and assessed for success and future possibilities. The opportunity is there to have as much success as a Team as possible; you can win as much as you can!

• Tools (simple elegant tools – easily used tools)
• Forming relationships – understanding co-workers 
• Building trust within the team
• Owning ethics
• Adapting and responding to change quickly and effectively
• Team alignment – understanding the team and developing team competency
• Plan development and implementation
• All in a fun and unforgettable experience (who ever likes a classroom lecture.

Adventure Hunt: THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE is a partnership program of John Berkley, Adventure Hunt founder and president of Competitive Edge, Inc., and Charles Page, president of Cool Spring Center, Inc., who together bring 50 years of combined experience in helping businesses and organizations increase profits and productivity, decrease costs, and recruit and retain quality employees as key business assets.  Cool Spring Center offers Adventure Hunt as a truly unique addition to Charlotte’s corporate training offerings.

“We are partnering with uptown cultural, educational, sports, and community organizations to provide something for everyone and bring groups of diverse people together in a totally new milieu,” said Berkley.

Cool Spring Center’s guiding maxim is to train people to become more than they believe possible.

Marsha Treacy, Marketing Director, says, “By getting folks up and out from behind their desks or work stations, we show them how to enjoy their work and experience co-workers in a new light. I think that businesses fully understand the value of taking care of their most valuable assets—their people.”