Use Chocolate to Boost Team Communication Skills
Boston, MA (PRWEB) January 31, 2014 -- Did you know that eating chocolate regularly can help you live longer? It’s true! Chocolate helps lower your blood pressure, according to a Harvard Study. It’s proven that healthy employees are more productive and enjoy their jobs the most. Encouraging healthier lifestyles boosts employee performance.
Chocolate is not only good for you, it'll boost your mood and your brain power when you really need it. A University of Nottingham researcher found that drinking certain types of cocoa increases blood flow to key parts of the brain for 2 to 3 hours.
Swiss scientists have found that when very anxious people ate an ounce and a half of dark chocolate every day for two weeks, their stress hormone levels were significantly reduced. Other long-term researcher in Oxford University and Norway found that those who consumed flavanol-rich chocolate, wine, or tea scored significantly higher on cognitive tests than those who didn't.
Studies have shown that time pressure and mood have several specific impacts on the way that teams communicate. The quantity and efficiency of communication increased under time pressure. Teams in happy moods also have enhanced team awareness, more anticipatory communication patterns and more detailed verbal responses to teammates than those in sad moods.
Just Desserts – a Recipe for Success program - combines time pressure through team building exercises and mood enhancement through chocolate themed treats. This enables teams to practice heighten communication – higher quantity, more efficient and anticipatory.
"Everyone had a great time and it was great to see people working together that wouldn’t normally do so. I will definitely give you a call in the future if we are planning on doing this again. I have also forwarded your information to some of my colleagues. Thanks for a great time!" —S.F., Thomson Reuters
The program is customizable with additional judging categories to help underscore a conference or event theme, company goals, or anything else clients would like to emphasize.
Samantha McDuffee, TeamBonding & Recipe For Success, http://www.teambonding.com, +1 (617) 600-4460, [email protected]
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