Are you interested in creating a unique experience for your team?

• In need of a novel team-building exercise?
• Does your team need a boost of energy?
• Are you interested to marry fun with useful? To play and to learn together?
• To connect and enhance your team’s functioning?
• To reboot or rewire your team’s mindset?
• To gain some counter-intuitive ways to spark innovation and build your business?

As I wrote in another post, play is a vital ingredient in our lives, even for the adult. Dr Jordan Peterson said in his speech entitled, “Meaning, Depression, & the Weight of the World:”

“If you’re a businessperson, a good one, you pretty much only want to enter into business arrangements with people who can play fundamentally, because otherwise you have to connive or use force or, you know, get paranoid about whether or not they’re holding up their end of the bargain.”

With the Joy of Padel program, Minter Dial has teamed up with Camille Huyghues Despointes, and they are in a singular position to provide a unique and tailor-made experience for your next offsite or team-building outing. Padel is the fastest growing sport in the world. It is notable for its social qualities, ease of play, yet challenge to get good. It combines elements of multiple other racquet sports, yet has unique strokes and shot-making, and it requires specific adaptations and a particular mindset.

About Camille Huyghues Despointes: Beside being an enthusiastic and regular padel player, Camille is a nationally ranked show jumper and a reputed and well-connected advisor, specialised in Innovation & Business Development. She’s an executive coach and speaker, based on her experience as a serial entrepreneur. Notably, Camille founded Viens Jouer à la Maison (VJALM), a startup that provides a practical, safe and fun space where parents can find whatever they need for their kids. VJALM was sold to Sodexo. She then founded World is a Village, the first collaborative platform that connects families around the world. Camille thus brings operational experience as an entrepreneur, familiar with raising funds, building a startup and exiting and integrating into another business. Camille also lectures for the Executive MBA at HEC (Paris). She runs sessions in French and English. 

About Minter Dial: Combining a longstanding experience and knowledge of padel, along with recognised business acumen (>25 years of a high-flying corporate career), Minter brings skill, joy, learning and engagement to your team-building event. Alongside being a BPCA coach and having experience in running padel events, he revels in extending the on-court play to fire up new ways of connecting, driving the business, and improving and/or transforming your culture.

We run bespoke workshops on the court (minimum of 1 and 1/2 hours) and then bring the lessons learned from padel into business with an interactive and stimulating 1/2-day all the way up to a 3-day seminar, according to the time you can allow. As a testament to our padel & business background, check out the podcasts: The Joy of Padel and Minter Dialogue (in English and French)! We are able to run sessions in English and French (and with Minter en español).

Topics and skills that can be addressed (according to your priorities):

• how to bring more play into your business
• how to connect your team and improve communications
• how to boost the team’s energy
• how to view and manage time more effectively
• how to handle mistakes and to use them to your benefit
• new ways to explore the interplay of strategy and tactics
• bringing counter-intuitive methods to boost innovation and business operations.

Ready to try something fun and off the beaten path to shake up your next team-building event? If so, please contact us or send a mail here. All sessions are customised to meet your strategic needs or the objective of your off-site. If you’d like a 15-minute call to discuss his offer, please click on the box below:

to book a video call (via Zoom) directly with Minter here.

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