Cookery team building to build, retain and reward teams
by Kate Hartley
Cookery team building to build, retain and reward teams
Empower your team in the kitchen for renewed vision, creativity and success!
6 top reasons to book a cookery team building event to build, retain and reward teams from leadership level to senior management, and graduate recruits.
Helps with mental health – Empower your team in the kitchen with creativity!
It gives your team a reward – Incentivise them, cooking rewards work!
Creativity makes your team feel good – Encourage clear focus for renewed vision!
Cooking improves work performance – Cooking together, brings teams together!
The Altruism Of cooking for others is good for you – Charity Events are good for us!
Stay healthy for “Brainy” teams and on point! Fresh is best to for clarity in thinking!
1. Cookery team building helps with Mental Health
Counselor Nicole Lambert of Movement Counseling Services tells Bustle, “Cooking helps mental health in that it can be a creative outlet. It’s a way to channel energy, can be used as a distraction, help build mastery in a skill, and a way to express emotions through a different medium.” Our Strictly Come Dining Event is our most popular cookery team building event and is a wonderful way to boast the mental health of your team Strictly Come Dining – Food Therapy? | Hartley’s Events
Our cookery team building recommendation is our highly popular: Strictly Come Dining
2. Cookery Team Building gives your team a reward
Cooking and baking present two different aspects for mental health: the activity and the result. And both have benefits. Psychologists told Eater in 2014 that the reason that therapeutic baking courses work so well is because participants get something tangible for their efforts. It’s called “behavioral activation,” which means finding meaning in the things you do rather than just drifting through them. The benefit of the process of cooking is partially the fact that it results in tasty food — a good “reward” for doing a task, and a demonstration that your actions have resulted in something real. For a real reward and a sweet treat for your teams our Luxury Belgian Chocolate Making Workshop is a winner for many companies Belgian Chocolate Making – Perfect for Corporate Events | Hartley’s Events
For team rewards we recommend our: Luxury Belgian Chocolate making Workshop
3.Cookery team building encourages creativity
Easy recipes in particular seem to be carry strong mental health benefits because the process doesn’t create anxiety, but it does encourage focus — and, according to a study from 2016, it also boosts creativity and happiness. The study followed the movements and actions of 658 people closely and noted that when they did small, meaningful, calming things like baking over the course of their daily lives, they felt happier overall. The creativity involved in baking, the scientists behind the study thought, meant that people felt more grounded and capable. And that’s linked back to a lot of research on how creativity helps happiness. Team Bake is still our top seller, we were first company in the UK to bring this event to the market and so proud to have had Sue Perkins and Michelle Roux Junior as judges on an event we ran for Samsung. Team Bake Off – Competitive Baking Challenges | Hartley’s Events
For Corporate Baking success our recommendation is our: Team Bake Off is the UKs to selling event
4. Cookery team building improves work performance
“Cooking is self-care at its most basic and nourishing,” Meg Bowman, a clinical nutritionist at Nourish Integrative Solutions, tells Bustle. “It is alchemy — you take ingredients and transform them into something delicious that feeds body and spirit.” And that, she says, gets us in touch with our physical selves. “Nourishing our bodies with food is one of the most fundamental ways that our outer world (what we can see, touch, and taste) communicates with our inner world (our physical body).”
This is backed up by science. A study in 2018 wanted to look at all the science that’s ever been done on specific cooking therapy for patients and communities, and it found some interesting conclusions. Therapeutic cookery, the scientists noted, “yielded positive influences on socialization, self-esteem, quality of life, and affect”. Being around others in cookery programs and classes was a big help for the participants when it came to feeling comfortable in groups, while they themselves felt more capable and better overall after a bit of time cooking. Experience Sushi making is a colourful event full of variety, technical skill and flavor. Team Sushi – Learn Sushi Making Skills | Hartley’s Events
To promote health and well being our; Team Sushi is a winning company experience
Aside from the process of cooking and the delicious end result, there’s another aspect of making food that’s beneficial to mental health: doing it for others. Altruistic cooking, research has shown, has a strong part in many cultures as a way to bond with others; you cook to show you care in a time of crisis, to celebrate, to entertain, or just to nourish. And those social bonds in the kitchen are beneficial AF. There is no doubt then that our Team Bake off and Charity team building events really make a difference to mental health.
“Cooking can be a doorway to connection,” Wawrzonek tells Bustle. “Food brings people together, there’s no question about this. For someone who struggles with social contact, the act of sharing one’s creation of a home cooked meal can be really powerful. Positive feedback and just seeing someone else enjoy, appreciate and value your creation (the meal) has major implications for rebuilding one’s self of worth and value.” Our Charity Team Building events have seen an increase in sales during the last 5 years. CSR is high on companies agendas. Charity Team Building – Making a Difference to Others | Hartley’s Events
Charity events and CSR is so important to the workforce our: Charity Team Building Events are more popular now then ever!
6. Help your team Brains Stay Healthy and on point
Many mental health organizations emphasize that proper nutrition is a fundamental part of maintaining brain health. Dr. Andrew McCulloch, former CEO of The Mental Health Foundation, wrote that “nutrition should become a mainstream, everyday component of mental health care”. And cooking and baking for yourself allows you to be more aware of what you’re putting in your body, and how it reacts to different foods and dietary staples.
Nutrient-dense diets including lots of dark leafy greens, legumes, oily fish and berries have been conclusively linked to better outcomes when it comes to mood disorders. But not everybody reacts to food the same way; intolerances and gut microbiomes influence our reactions and therefore our moods. And cooking for yourself, experts say, is one of the best ways to take care of your own mental health, provided you have enough time to do it.
As if you needed another reason not to order delivery for the eightieth night in a row, doing it for the mental health boost can really come in handy. While there’s no shame in not cooking if you just aren’t feeling up to it, it’s worth noting the science behind taking this small step to nourish yourself. We have plenty of Health and Wellbeing options and nutrition advice to help your teams stay top of there game Health and Wellbeing – Promoting Health | Hartley’s Events
Cookery team building to encourage: Health and Wellbeing in your team
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