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Business Benefits

Helping your organisation to be a great place to work

“It’s fun. There are loads of different sports to play so there is something for everyone. It’s an excellent way to get to know your work mates and we find it great for team building.”
Jonathan Aumonier – Ward, AJ Park – winners Top Law Firm, 2005.

  • Being the Best
  • Fun
  • Passion and social competition
  • Business Games – helping to engage staff
  • Teamwork
  • Good for the budget
  • Hassle free entry

Business Games delivers on companies’ Human Resources aspirations!

When it comes to ticking the boxes for meeting an organisation’s Human Resources requirements, the New Zealand Business Games has a lot to offer in a very cost effective way:

  • Bring staff together from different sections and different levels interacting on the playing field.
  • Improve internal communications.
  • Helps make organisations a fun place to work
  • Promoting and pro-actively encouraging active, healthy lifestyles

With 15 different events to choose from – there really is something for everyone

Being the Best

Research from the JRA Best Places to Work shows that there are 8 key factors to focus on of which fun and sense of belonging and ‘cooperation between teams’ consistently come in the top 5 most important drivers of employee satisfaction.

Catherine Taylor, GM HR for Kiwibank, says “the games are a great opportunity to reinforce the culture and some of the key values for her organisation. “Teamwork is a critical element for a large organisation such as Kiwibank which has over 700 staff and is a big part of our culture. The games support the notion of teamwork and working together”. Winners Overall Top Organisation 2008

Fun

“Fun” is the single most commonly used word when employees and managers of the Top 20 organisations in Unlimited Best Places to Work survey describe their workplace and FUN is certainly a key to the Games success.

Passion and social competition

Competition at any level invariably results in passion. Everybody likes to win and everyone likes the opportunity to excel, or simply enjoy the camaraderie of social competition. The Games offers all of this – serious competition for those so inclined as well as more social competition for those just wanting some serious fun! The passion of the Games continues into the work place as teams prepare for their events, and afterwards talk and laugh about their experiences.

Business Games – helping to engage staff

John Robertson ‘JRA’ says his research shows a powerful link between being a good workplace with an engaged work force and business success. Research on companies who were in the Top 20 organisations in the 2004 Best Workplace reported a 91% increase in growth compared to 80% of the others who entered. This also translated to increased profits with 74% of the top 20 reporting an increase in net profit compared with 60% of the others.

Dulux aspires to be a workplace of choice, a place people want to join and don’t want to leave, says Greg. “We work very hard on creating this kind of environment because all our staff surveys tell us that it is not the salaries that people are interested in but the work environment and the leaders and the way they engage with you as an individual and engage with the business and it’s about feeling good about yourself and the business.”
It is critical to create an environment where people want to be because a successful business and workplace is more than just about working 9am-5pm and then going home. Engaging and retaining key staff is vital in the functioning of ALL organisations, regardless of size!

Teamwork

The NZ Business Games is now in its 18th year and is the largest single business house event in the country and a big part of its success is the emphasis on team work and fun.

Catherine Taylor, GM HR for Kiwibank, says the games are a great opportunity to reinforce the culture and some of the key values for her organisation. “Teamwork is a critical element for a large organisation such as Kiwibank which has over 700 staff and is a big part of our culture. The games support the notion of teamwork and working together”. Winners Overall Top Organisation 2008

Good for the budget

With budgets being cut, the Games offers a proven, cost effective way of developing team work, helping motivation, encouraging healthy workplaces, and improving internal communication. The cost per participant is only $27-$80 depending on the activity, with teams of 3–10 people.

Hassle free entry

We are also more than happy to have a quick meeting with you and or your social club in your offices to go through the Games, how to organise teams etc!

What’s more, it’s really easy to get staff fully involved. You just need to get one individual team co-ordinator (usually from a social club) to enter all your teams. Everything after that is done by e-mail, making it simple for the team manager to disseminate information throughout the organisation. For more info on entering click here.