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Culinary Team Building Experience Creates
'Corporate Recipe for Success'
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Team Building Gourmet (TBG) Fuels High Performance Teams With the Right Ingredients

LAS VEGAS /PRNewswire/ -- Donning aprons and chef's hats, executives in "cooking adventures" learn as much about group dynamics -- sometimes more -- than managers who attend traditional team-building programs.

Team Building Gourmet (TBG), founded by Catherine Margles offers Enhanced Culinary Team Building (www.lasvegasteambuilding.com).

"Companies from across the country are bringing groups in from the wilderness and steering them straight to the kitchen," Margles said, adding that Culinary Team Building provides an opportunity for group members to relax and build camaraderie.

Culinary Team Building events involve creating a gourmet meal under the supervision and expertise of the Team Building Gourmet (TBG)'s Professional Chef Instructors along with team-building exercises. And of course, it's also about fun.

Lisa Korn, Manager, Project Office/Customer Engineers for New York-based ClientLogic Corporation, said, "The time that we spent at your kitchen, making the meal, interacting with the chefs and each other proved very beneficial to us in our continued team building efforts. The time spent in your environment truly gave each of us a much-needed break while introducing another ingredient to our team."

Recent corporate clients for Culinary Team Building have included Bank of America, Carmax, Citibank/Citicorp, Del Webb Corporation, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young and Nike International.

Doretha Easler, Community Relations Manager for the Las Vegas-based Nevada Power Company, said, "This unique approach of combining a cooking class and using a facilitator to coach us on team building, added value by paying attention to the ongoing development of our larger work organization, to team members, and to other work teams."

Margles, a professionally trained chef, also holds a masters of business administration degree from the prestigious Executive program at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business. Margles also has more than 15 years of global corporate experience. To celebrate her passion for cooking, she opened Team Building Gourmet (TBG) in Las Vegas and began offering a Culinary Team-Building program to integrate her love for cooking with her corporate team building savvy.

"Culinary Team Building provides teams with a fun and non-threatening opportunity to learn new and different ways to approach challenges."

For more information about culinary team building, visit www.lasvegasteambuilding.com.

Media Contacts: Catherine Margles, Team Building Gourmet (TBG) (702) 562-3900

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