Corporate Groups

Strom’s Farm welcomes organizations and groups to our family farm. We have an on-site market & bakery and acres of outdoor space to experience.

CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING "FROM THE GROUND UP"

AN A-‘MAZE’-ING TEAM BUILDING EXPERIENCE

With careful cultivation, a farmer’s field will be without weeds, stones, and rough terrain. With the same careful attention, a team can eliminate personal politics, communication barriers, and unhealthy interactions. Farmers have always known that growth takes place from the ground up. Teams can grow together in the same way.

Does your team need to cultivate some fresh perspective and plant some healthy seeds of promise?

Bring them to “From the Ground Up!”
an innovative team building exercise at Strom’s Farm in Guelph.

THE EXPERIENCE

This amazing event will feature the “From the Ground Up!” team building experience, an interactive debriefing time, lots of fresh air, and a country mile of fun.

“From the Ground Up” invites each team member to become an employee of the Korning Korporation. They will work together in navigating the pathways of Strom’s 5 acre corn maze, striving to overcome obstacles along the way to achieve their mission.

The event will also include interactive debriefing time facilitated by Martti Pajunen from IGNITE Leadership, wagon ride farm tour and a bakery snack.

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Specifics & Pricing

SPECIFICS & PRICING

Corporate Groups

– Participants: 15 – 40

– ½ day experience (2 ½ to 3 hours)

– Wednesdays thru Fridays Sept 20 – Oct 27

– Includes team building exercises

– Wagon ride farm tour and bakery snack

– $45 per person

Call Amy to book your team building event: 519-822-1070

Bring Your Corporate Team To The Farm And Experience Real Growth... FROM THE GROUND UP! FROM THE GROUND UP!

Call Amy to book your team building event: 519-822-1070

FACILITATOR BIO

Martti has facilitated the team building exercises at Strom’s Farm since 2007 through IGNITE Leadership – a company he founded dedicated to designing leadership training for adolescents and adults. In the past 20 years, Martti has spoken to over 100,000 Senior Elementary, High School, University and College students, as well as community, education, parent, church, youth, and leadership organizations in Canada and the U.S.A. He has organized hundreds of big events involving up to 4,000 people and has worked with the Toronto Raptors, Toronto Argonauts, Toronto Blue Jays, Ottawa Inner-city Ministries, Tyndale College, Seneca College, Scott Mission, and Muskoka Woods Sports Resort.

As a Life Celebration Professional and Certified Relationship Coach, he has served over 3,000 couples and families by leading new life celebrations, coming of age ceremonies, weddings, and memorial services. His warmth, humour and practical wisdom are the hallmark of his communication. As an Amazon bestselling author, His book, uniquely titled “The Thirteenities”, is a valuable guide for parents of tweens (9-12 year olds) helping them to ignite and infuse virtuous values into the lives of their children. Martti (Scandinavian version of Martin) is the proud father of three children, and five grandchildren. He enjoys hockey, motorcycling, the blues, and golf.

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THE FACILITATOR

Martii Pajunen

For the past two decades, Martti Pajunen has been an interactive facilitator, informative trainer, and inspirational communicator for education, business and non-profit organizations in Ontario and beyond.

He has crafted and conducted training seminars in a wide variety of related skill areas, such as communication, personal leadership, creative thinking, conflict resolution, strategic planning, customer service and self-directed work teams.

Martti’s sincere and humorous seminar style puts his clients, students and participants at ease, enabling them to take full advantage of his extensive experience as a youth worker, college professor, event planner, and small business owner.

TESTIMONIALS

The Guelph Chamber of Commerce Staff and Board of Directors visited Strom's Farm in August to participate in a problem solving and team building exercise. The opportunity to get out of the meeting room into the fresh air and have some fun together launched us into a tremendous autumn season. For the first time the Guelph Chamber of Commerce staff and our volunteer Board of Directors interacted one on one to get to know each other and to have many laughs as we built a corporation together. Lessons learned around looking for and leveraging strengths of team members, and succeeding together with all departments winning instead of competing against each other were lasting take aways. And the supper was outstanding! Strom's really knows how to provide a unique and memorable experience!”

“Our experience at your farm was nothing but amazing. The feedback from the entire team was positive; they only had good things to say. Everyone enjoyed their time there. The team building exercises were fun and we learnt a lot about each other and working as a team to get the job done efficiently and effectively. You and your staff were helpful and accommodating to our needs. We appreciate that very much and look forward to having more activities at your farm.”

“We held our staff appreciation event at Strom’s in October 2012 for 80 people. Strom’s supplied everything we needed; the location, the equipment, the entertainment and the home-cooked meal – everything was amazing and there wasn’t one complaint. The team building activities were humorous, interactive & engaging and all of the staff at Strom’s were cheerful & accommodating. The afternoon we spent at Strom’s was a great opportunity for our staff to get to know one another better and also to be reminded how important they are to our organization. Thank you Strom’s!”

"Our staff really work well together, yet it's amazing that we didn't instinctively pull together until the end of the exercise. It was a real eye opener to realize the areas where we can improve our working relationship, no matter how good it was already. Communication really is key."

“Thank you again for a great experience, we will definitely be back in future... Also the fee you charged us was very reasonable - I would have paid double that without blinking an eye. The events were great and the food was definitely a hit!"

"I want to thank you very much for a fabulous day at the farm. All our team members had a wonderful day, the team building events were fun but very insightful. Martti is a very talented facilitator, he made everyone feel very comfortable and they all walked away with at least one- what we call "a golden nugget" or should I say "golden kernel". The staff, events and food were fantastic, we will definitely be back for future events. Thanks again for a great afternoon."

“My team and I really enjoyed our time spent at Strom's. The food was wonderful and Marti was great. It was just what I was looking for in a teambuilding event, and it was just the right mix of fun and learning. I really don't think that I can think of any areas for improvement. The word is spreading about our positive experience so I hope that you will be contacted next year with other groups from here. Thank you both very much for a great day."