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Every employer should want to boost morale, increase communication between staff members and in the end increase proficiency, so why don’t all organisations send their staff to team development events?

Is it because some of these events can suffer from the fact they conjure up bad thoughts - many connected to the farcical events portrayed on television shows?

Certainly, the wisdom of David Brent from TV’s “The Office” have forced middle managers to look in the mirror and wonder if that’s who they resemble.

Among Brent’s many, now well-known, quotes the one that best summarises his thinking about working as a team reads: “There may be no ‘I’ in team, but there’s a ‘ME’ if you look hard enough”.

Fans of the show will remember the funny show in which a team development expert visited their offices. David Brent quickly took over, and changed the course into essentially a celebration of himself, including a rendition of his seminal 1980s pop ballad “Free Love on the Freelove Freeway” on acoustic guitar.

Yet, in real life team development events are nothing like the cringeworthy and destructive nightmare depicted in the show.

Numerous companies across the country now offer businesses the opportunity to take their staff out of the office and away on a team building day.

Team building helps employees to learn and develop the tools and skills essential to push business growth plus sustain development and improvement.

And in spite of the worldwide recession, staff development remains essential to business growth. In fact, it is even more important, as when the recession ends there will certainly be chances for the best-managed businesses to take advantage of the developing marketplace.

Team development can take different forms, from in-house teaching to getting out into the wilderness and undertaking adventure courses, high ropes trails and personal challenges - which will certainly inspire and be memorable for employees taking part.

All of these events are designed to encourage staff - regardless of age and background - to work as part of a team for the common good of your company, and they all contribute to the common long-term goals of your business.

That’s why team development events are essential to the growth of any business. Just don’t copy David Brent, a man whose policy for hiring new staff was simple: “Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them”.

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Hall was frostbitten and severely disoriented due to altitude sickness. Andrew Brash returned a hero to Calgarians. With the Chinese preparing for the impending summer Olympic Games, Bahadur Sherchan noted that the government’s actions hardly reflected the Olympic spirit. Min Bahadur Sherchan returned this week from Nepal after successfully climbing to the summit of Mt Everest. The 76-year-old man from Nepal is now the oldest person to have reached the top of the Mount Everest. They flexed their muscles this year all the in name of the Olympic spirit, but it was hardly spirited at all.”

Further, the decision to actualize a long-time personal goal left Andrew Brash with some internal uncertainties, he cited the political actions of China and Nepal as providing the greatest adversity he faced on his journey. His first found him within 156 metres of the peak when his team stopped to help a fellow mountaineer who was left for dead. later, Bahadur Sherchan, a University of Calgary alumni, returned to Chomolungma or Mount Everest to finish what he had started.

This season Anthony Loeff the French alpinist is reporting the scales for Mount Everest after he reached the top of earlier this year.

As he planned for the climb, Sherchan told reporters he wanted to inspire fellow senior citizens. He also said many Nepalese have established records on Chomolungma, so it was only fitting that the record for the oldest climber to reach the summit should also belong to a Nepali. Sherchan just 7 days away from his 77th birthday beat the age record set last year by 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa.

Indeed, he was all too aware of the potential dangers the mountain could bring. Certain parts of the climb are more dangerous than others and it is important for climbers to remain focused Min Bahadur Sherchan and four climbing guides reached the 29,035-foot (8,850-meters) summit of the world’s highest mountain early Sunday, said Ramesh Chretri, an official with Nepal’s ministry of tourism. He was reported in good health as he began making his descent. Now that Min Bahadur Sherchan has successfully scaled the tallest mountain in the world, he is once again ready to focus on his family. “The Chinese weren’t allowing anybody on the mountain. They ended up commandeering it for themselves, even though the mountain is shared by two countries. The Chinese were flying their airplanes over the mountain and had Chinese officials in Kathmandu. More than 3071 people have climbed to the summit since it was first conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary, who died in January, and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay.

Andrew Brash last attempt resulted in the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber who was left by his team in the “death zone.”

They basically coerced the Nepali government to not allow any climbers past camp two on the Nepali side. “Everest this year became a political pawn,” he said with some frustration.