Author: Hemalatha Balakrishnan

Thank you for the seamless arrangement the offsite/ team building was a huge success. Team hated and wanted to fire me when doing the pyramid but loved me even more after they conquered the challenge individually and collectively. My chief is immensely grateful now that this leadership team is tightly bonded. Timothy is equally amazing and my team had a lot of fun! And Tessa you and Tim are my rock stars! Thank you! Contact person can make or break the event you rock it.
-Dana TENG, SAP

Dear Tessa, I would like to say a Big Thank to yoiu and the FOCUS Adventure TEAM for organising such wonderful activities. The teambuilding activities were well managed and we had a lots of fun. Your TEAM had really done a great job. Keep up the good work!
-Shirley, SMU

Tessa is a very efficient person I ever worked. What a great company you guys are! I am so happy working with you all. Thanks again and look forward to working with your in the future.
-Carrie, CHEP

Thank you for accommodating to our requests to customise The Sandcastle Challenge! so that it fits our teambuilding objectives! Tessa was absolutely helpful and we all enjoyed ourselves! Thank you!
-Shirley Bai, Administrator, Credit Suisse Group

Tessa was not only accommodating but she also anticipate to provide me 3 options. She was able to attend my request in a limited time. She is for sure a big asset to FOCUS Adventure. We’ll try to enquire again for our next year’s activity as she have recommended Bintan for us within our budget. However, I hope our budget will increase for next year so that we will be able to have 3D2N activity.
-Maricel Cantero, Damen Shipyards Singapore Pte Ltd

Hi Tessa, thanks for the great effort and hard-work displayed by your Team. Great Job! It is really fun and engaging. The participants enjoyed a lot and the Teambuilding programme was well-received too. Once again, thank you very much!
-Florence Teo, SATS Ltd

We just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and support you provided in organising our 2014 team building programme. From the feedback we’ve received from colleagues, it seems a most enjoyable day was had by all. Tessa, thanks to you for all the help and information you provided in the run up to the programme, and for making yourself so available to answer our queries throughout. We look forward to working with you again in the future.
-Lucy Cromwell, Sales Support, Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Ltd

Thanks Tessa, for your prompt responses, your accommodation to our numerous requests and the last minute contact for the bus.
-Joanne Tan, Senior Executive, Watsons Personal Care Store Pte Ltd

Hi Tessa, We’d like to say a BIG THANK YOU to FOCUS Adventures for a wonderful programme yesterday. The participants enjoyed themselves and felt that the programme was just right with the morning Geo-caching and afternoon indoor teambuilding activities. Definitely appreciated the flexibility of the facilitator who switched the morning and afternoon programme according to the weather forecast. The participants enjoyed themselves getting a bit of sun and having the opportunity to “tour” Sentosa as well. The indoor segments were great as well and the facilitator did a good job in bringing out SPRING’s ENTP core values and linking it back to workplace context.
-LIM Hui Ying, Manager, SPRING Singapore

Prompt response from Tessa as I was the main organiser.
-Brenda Tung, Principal Employability Coach, E2I

Hi Tessa,

Just wanted to say a big thank you for being a key factor in making our retreat a success. We’d like to also thank you for all the minor details that we have on so many occasions addressed and needed your help to deal with. Thanks for the patience! With the detailed planning and conscious revisions, we received an overall positive sentiment. Everyone parted happy, with good reviews.

Fabian, you were a fantastic Facilitator! Thank you for your time and dedication in helping us, despite the unique requirements and requests along the way.

Big thanks, again 🙂
-Nurul Maideen, Senior Client Relations Executive, Brandtology

Hi Tessa,

we have great fun yesterday contributed by the big portion of food and fantastic weather and of couse excellent Facilitator Teams.

We thank you guys for these excellent jobs. WELL DONE!
-Elaine Lai, Staff, Horizon Singapore Terminals Pte Ltd

Hi Tessa,

Please allow me to thank you and your Team, ANDRE, JOHN, T K & FADIL, for making our event a success. Objectives of Teambuilding bonding activities in relevance to Korn/Ferrys core values aligning all the business lines were met. Everyone had a fun time Teambuilding, learning & bonding and for me, it was a relief everything went smoothly 🙂 -Lynda Chu, Staff, KORN/FERRY INTERNATIONAL

Everything from logistics to food is well organized.
-Wendy Lye, Sales staff, SAP

Tessa has been a great help with logistics and programme flow, so much appreciation to Fabian and Tessa for everything. Fabian was effective and able to communicate well in what he would like us to take away on.Overall, it was a success for our Team-building. Thank you.
-Phua Chen Chen, Senior Financial Analyst, Pfizer

Hi Tessa,

I would like to thank you both and your Team for Facilitating such a fantastic and fun day for Volvo and I would say you guys are really good at what you do! I’m sure the experience will be the topic of the week and soon everyone will be bugging me for the video! The event went very smoothly and thanks for keeping the programme timings close to schedule as well as accommodating to our many requests and the surprises at the end of the day. Though everyone is aching and tired today back at work, they have all positive feedback on the programme and are glad to have taken the time off their busy schedule for this event. We have definitely achieved our objectives from the event! The dinner was good but some of the bbq food for the first round was not very cooked (squid).
-Zann Lee, Marketing Executive, Wearnes Automotive Pte. Ltd

We had a wonderful Team building session which really set the right tone, energy and mood for the rest of the trip. Much thanks and kudos to Dean and Team.
-Selina Lai, Assistant Director, Standard Chartered

Thanks for great organisation of the event and accommodating to all the requests.
-Sheila Chua, Singtel

We want you to know that we are very pleased with the quality of service your company has provided. We sincerely appreciate your responsiveness and the way you conduct business. I’d like to compliment Dean and his team for the excellent work. They have certainly engaged the staff well and we had a wonderful team building session. We certainly have achieved one of our objectives of building better bonding among us.The photos and the video are a wonderful final touch to this workshop and we enjoyed ourselves tremendously watching our colleagues “at play”!Thank you so much for the great job and congratulations for having such a wonderful team. We look forward to working with you for years to come.
-June Ong, Bridge Mobile

Hello Tessa, Strang and Team, I had gotten good feedback from the PHO Management Team. They had enjoyed themselves very much. Some feedback – professionally done, activities are not too strenuous, good mix of get-to-know-each-other and teambuilding games, likes the time taken for reflection of the games played. Thanks a lot and keep it up!
-Loh Wai Yee, HP

Tessa, Thanks for your effort in organizing the recent Teambuilding for EAC II. It was very successful. The reviews are encouraging and positive. We look forward to working with FOCUS in the near future
-Margaret Chua, EAC (Regional Food and Beverage)

On behalf of HSA, I would like to thank FOCUS Adventure for making the Teambuilding programme a success right from the beginning. All those whom I’ve met had positive things to say about the programme. Please also convey our thanks to everyone else in the FOCUS team who made this event a success for us all. Thank you.
– Muhammad Fareez Bin Yahya, Health Sciences Authority

Good job! I enjoyed myself and brought back with me the following meaningful insights: 1. Never assume. 2. Think & do is much better than do & think. 3. Spare a thought for others in my team – don’t be selfish.
– Mary Aw, Hong Leong

New and great learning experience!
-Hong Leong

On behalf of Corporate Services Division (HPB), I would like to thank you and your colleagues (Chew, Andrew and Jeffrey) for facilitating the team-builidng session. Judging from all the laughters, I’m sure everyone (including myself) enjoyed themselves very much!
– Lynn NG, Health Promotion Board

Everybody enjoyed the day’s activities, the Team Challenge Pyramid was a big challenge indeed. Nevertheless, we all made it and it was a great achievement. The organization of the teambuilding programme was well planned and Chew, our facilitator, was great. Also the other instructors on the Team Challenge Pyramid helped us along and we felt fully secured and safe throughout. Everybody made it sound and safe. The jetski safari activity was really thrilling! Plus, the accomodation provided was also good. I am sure, if budget allows, we look forward to having another progromme next year and we will definitely approach you to see what we can organize. Once again, a big THANK YOU from the Corporate Services of Bayer (South East Asia) Pte Ltd
– Fabrice Donnez , Bayer (South East Asia) Pte Ltd

We had a great time! Thanks.
– Liling Lim, Research In Motion

Well done to the facilitators, Ive really enjoyed myself there
– Pfizer

Excellent Learning with Fun
– Zafar Mehmood, Bayer

Good activities and link to working condition
– Rosalina Sutadi, Bayer

The programme met my expectations, ie to get energised, get to know colleagues, strengthen bond, and promote culture of inclusiveness and continuous improvement. Would be good to have it once a year to reinforce.
– Anthony Chan, Pfizer

This course helped me a lot. As a new comer at pfizer it helped me a lot to mingle with cross divisional colleagues and utilize the valuable lessons learned through group tasks. Focus Adventure formulated the goal in a right and effective way. Thank you very much.
– Sadhisan.e.k, PFIZER

Thanks for the arrangement. It looks good.Tthe comments have positive.Thanks for hosting such a successful and enjoyable progromme.
– Annie, Singapore Polytechnic

The team had good feedback on FOCUS Adventure’s services for the team activity they did last Friday 12th September. Thanks again for all your help and support and we’ll definitely keep you in mind for other upcoming programmes.
– Stacy Pereira, Global Travel Meetings and progrommes

We would like to put in record our appreciation for your fantastic organization of the activities for our Staff Outing on Friday, 29 August 2008. We received positive feedback from most of our colleagues. Facing reality, there are always a few negative participants. We are not perturb by it because that is the real world. Almost all had great fun and truly enjoyed the activities despite the “childlike” games. The minority of approx 2% found the activities “childish”, “silly”, and commented “not enough outdoor activities”. A heart-warming comment received was “I never had so much fun and laughed so hard for a very long time”.We (the committee) as well as the management, are happy with the results. In the activities, you have cleverly integrated our core values and objectives i.e. team-building, leadership development, change management and innovation.Once again, we would like to say MANY THANKS!Looking forward to working with you again for our next outing.
– Catherina Chia, Social Recreation Committee

I would like to thank you and the team for putting up such great team-building games and adventure for us that the staff were willing to participate despite my initial apprehension. They enjoyed themselves very much and would like to have more of such activities in future. On top of that, their bond between one another also got closer. This was evident during dinner and today in the office.Thanks, once again.I look forward to working with you again.
– Cindy, Fermat

Truly amazing time we had with FOCUS!! The impact of the teambuilding activities we did was much better than expected!! Who would have thought that by climbing 10 meter poles at the risk of life and limb and only with a harness between you and terra firma would produce such togetherness, but it did!! Thank you FOCUS, that day marked a significant change for our orgainzations culture and environment!
– MUNDI

A big big big thank you to you and your team for putting together a fantastic team building experience for us! Everyone enjoyed themselves tremendously and learnt a lot. Most importantly, we achieved our main objective of building up team spirit and a bond among the team! We are already looking forward to next year’s team building! J You guys have set the bench mark so high, next year’s one will have to be more exciting and more challenging!!
– Melissa, mundipharma

It was a very engaging experience led by FA TEAM. Would definitely consider doing Glamping with the TEAM the next time! Appreciate the little touches the TEAM has brought to us. They really set the bar high for our first offsite exposure as a TEAM! And thank you, Yumi for accommodating to our countless changes on our proposals.
-Neo Hui En, HR, Citibank N.A. Singapore

Thanks to the FOCUS Adventure TEAM for making the programme a successful one. The Facilitators were professional, had really great energy and enthusiasm which made the atmosphere really enjoyable. Thank you Yumi for being the maestros to make all of this happen smoothly. And also for your swift support despite our last minute changes. Our staffs definitely had a great time, hope we’ll have an opportunity to work together again!
-Zhong Sheng, DBS Bank Ltd

I am very grateful to Yumi and her TEAM (YJ, Pradeep, LOH Biao, Toro and Anto). I was taken aback by how smooth this whole programme went. From the planning to executing, facilitation, activities, food and closing. Everything was done as planned and was very professional. I am thankful for Yumi and her TEAM for giving us such a wonderful fun filled Saturday! Thank you so much all!
-Pam Cheah, AVP, Customer service, HSBC Bank (Singapore) Ltd

Hi Yumi, Thanks for the wonderful programme on 20th November 2015. We had a successful one day programme that was everything and MORE than we expected. It was fantastic programme. We really enjoyed it! Thanks for your kindly help! We Looking forward to cooperate with FOCUS next year!
-Wang Peng, HR Manager, Eastern Green Power Pte Ltd

Prompt response and assistance from Yumi on the pre-setup 🙂
-Russ, Manager, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Yumi, Joey and Sasi, please allow me to thank you for a WONDERFUL session of the programme! 🙂 GOOD JOB Joey and Sasi together with the other 2 colleagues who were busy taking pictures and videos and putting them together for viewing in a short span of time. We really appreciate the pleasant surprise of mugs for everyone. KUDOS to your team!
-Jesslyn Tan, Customer Relations Manager, Singapore Polytechnic

Dear Yumi

I would like to say a ‘Big Thank You’ to you and your Team for organizing such a wonderful event with fun, exciting, meaningful and most importantly, enriching, learning experience that you and your Facilitators had prepared for us during our Teambuilding last Friday and Saturday. The event was really well conducted and organized.

My colleagues were happy and impressed and thoroughly enjoyed the session. The day was really memorable for us.

Please convey our sincere thanks to your cheerful Team of colleagues.

Looking forward to working you guys again in our future Teambuilding exercises. You guys are great! Thank you.
-Shakinah Kuthubdeen, Asset Management Executive,Sembcorp Industries Ltd (SUT Div)

Hi Yumi,

I must congratulate your Team for the wonderful work last sunday. Almost all our member was very pleased with the activities provided by your Team. Looking forward to work with you guys in future.
-Johnny Yeo, Staff, Keat Hong C2E

Hi Yumi,

On behalf of the Organsing Committee and Members from Keat Hong would like to say a Big THANK YOU to you and all your Facilitators for making our TTX cum Teanbuilding a Success! with So much compliment and positive feedback from our Adviser and Grassroots Leaders. Once again please accept our sincere Thanks for putting such a good programme for us. Cheers!
-Eddie Wong, Vice Chairman, Keat Hong C2E

Dear Yumi

Thanks for all your efforts and assistance with the planning for our Team-building challenge over the past two days. We appreciate your professionalism, flexibility and good service. It’s been a pleasure working with you!

A big thank you to each and every one of the FOCUS Team who were there the past two days. All the best.
-Shirley Ou, Senior Corporate Development Executive, MinLaw

Hi Yumi,

Thanks so much for your Team of Facilitators to lead us in the Team building challenge. We do enjoy it very much and have still been talking about it.

Do keep in touch and looking forward to have more experiences with FOCUS adventure in the future.
-Kah Eng, Staff, ST Electronics

Our Team have great fun and bonding that day! Thanks for making it happen! Received the photo (wow din expect to be so big and so nicely done up! Have put in our lobby area!), mug, video and choco. Thanks a lot!! Hope we can get to work with FOCUS again next time!
-Vicky Lee, Eastman Chemical

Thank you soo much for all arrangements & help to make this event a success!
-Saliha Salleh, Bunge

Thanks for rendering your services to us during our meeting. Thanks for delivering the group photo and also the photo and video CD/DVD.The participants were very pleased with the your team and also for all the coordination. We are impressed with service quality and also the program.
-Teo Kim Puay, Akzon Nobel

Good support from Yumi and we have good Facilitator – Joey and Instructor Roy. We enjoyed our offsite. Thank you.
-Lew Choon Fah, IDA

Thank you for sending the picture frame, photos and video last Friday. I have received excellent feedback from all the participants and I will like to extend my appreciation to the Lead Facilitator Joey and the FOCUS Team for making our afternoon a fruitful one. I will definitely contact you again when we have such events in future.
-Cheryl Thoy, Standard Chartered

Hi Yumi, Joey & team, thanks for bringing the fun-filled games last Friday for Fisher. My colleagues certainly enjoyed themselves very much! -Yin Mei, Fisher Thanks for making the NGI Team Building offsite possible. Our folks had a lot of fun despite the Thunder-Storm on 30 July (though they are disappointed to have missed the High Elements and Low Elements on Day 2) which limited the outdoor activities. And also thanks to Andrew who have kindly offered us another shot at the High Elements with a free lunch thrown in (a 0.5 day High Element Team Building activity) at a later date.
-Choon Ong, IDA

On behalf of the Training team and the hotel, I would like to say a big thank you to you and the Focus Team for all your hard work towards each session’s preparation and execution. Our colleagues have greatly enjoyed themselves and have gained alot from it 🙂 I will be sure to contact you in the near future about continuing our partnership!
-Chloe Chan, Shangri-La

Thank you for the teambuilding that you have recommended to us, we enjoyed so much and my boss was very pleased with the Teambuilding.
-Veronica Tan, Merck

On behalf of Avenue Asia Singapore, we would like to thank FOCUS Adventure and thank you Yumi for a wonderful, fun filled and enriching teambuilding programme. We look forward to meeting FOCUS Adventure again and before that, we wish FOCUS Adventure a great adventurous time.
– Ben Yang, Avenue Asia Singapore

The Teambuilding programme went very well and everyone enjoyed it. Thanks to the FOCUS team for facilitating the programme.
– W C Boh, Emerson Process

It was an enjoyable teambuilding progromme overall and the outcome was obvious; the fact that all attempted in all progrommes was the undeniable proof of success!
– Ravinder Gour, Masterbulk

Just want to express our heartfelt thanks for a great retreat that our staff had last week. It was one enriching experience where learning comes alive! We thoroughly enjoyed the whole programme and. Kudos to you, Andy, Adam and Joey for a job well done!
– Patricia Kin, Institute of Mental Health

Once again an excellent job guys. Hope to hear from you soon. It would be great if you could keep me inofrmed about other activities coming up soon. Cheers
– Leslie Basil, Shangri-La

Thanks for helping us to organize our team building activities on 27th Feb 2009 and delivering a bag of gifts to our office recently. It is nice working with you.
– Ma Ta Nee, IDA

Focus Adventure has a learning programme that I would recommend to everybody, where the strength and team spirit of every individual can enhance knowledge and skills within the entire team. It was fun and I really enjoyed the programme a lot!
– Gail N. Hipolito, Shangri-La

The challenge was fun
– Accenture

Thank you for the meaningful games and lessons. Thank you also for creating a really fun learning environment.
– Kim-Gau Ng, HealthSTATS

Just a short note of appreciation for making the IRO Teambuilding 2008 a success and it was great working with all of you. Thanks once again for all the help rendered and assistance given throughout the whole time till the end! Do extend our thanks and appreciation for the FOCUS team at Bintan who brought us through the whole program and made it enjoyable!
– Sanjeev Tiwari, NTUC – IRD

I really enjoyed the games. Thank you.
– IT Consultant, IDA

We had a great time at Bintan and will like to say a big ‘thank you’ to your team (esp. Isaac & Adam) for making this progromme both enjoyable and memorable. All of our expectations for this progromme were achieved and we look forward to doing more with you guys in future.
– Kenneth Choo, Singapore Zoo & Night Safari

Well received the nicely framed group photo & the photos/video DVD last week. Thanks! And for that small token of yours that comes in the package, small gesture goes a long way.. You’re such a darling.. Thanks also for the arrangements of our full day team building. Despite not having motor activities, we sure had Great times during the challenges at the Arena and we sure run the whole Bintan Island during treasure hunt. Just didn’t managed to shed the pounds due to the sumptuous meals provided by the resort. ^_^
– Leomy Anastasia GAUTAMA (Anna), CMA CGM & ANL (Singapore) Pte Ltd

I’ve collated the feedback from the participants and you will agree with me that they all had so much FUN! Each time they bump onto me, first words from them will be ‘ The teambuilding is so FUN! Thanks’. Please extend my thanks to your team of facilitators – they were GREAT !
– Annie, DBS

Staff members who have attended the teambuilding challenge came back with great enthusiasm.A big thank you to you & your team for injecting this team spirit into DBS Contact Centre culture.
– Annie Tan, DBS Bank

We wish to thank you for your arrangement and amendments to make our teambuilding programme a SUCESS! We also appreciate your presence at the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal to handle our departure matters. Indeed, our team enjoyed throughout the programme…
– Ivy Wong Sook Fun, Cycle & Carriage

On behalf of Linda & the department, thank you for the wonderful programme on 14 Oct 2011. We have indeed learn more about each other through the different activities.

Yumi, thanks for the patience & coordination, even till the last minute when we changed games and timing.

Thank you for the chocolates and delivering the frame and photos within 4 days! We are truely amazed by the promise and the speed!
-Hazel Chai, Assistant Manager,Academy of Competence & Education,Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Ltd

Thanks for making the NGI Team Building offsite possible. Our folks have a lot of fun despite the Thunder-Storm on 30 July (though they are disappointed to have missed the High Elements and Low Elements on Day 2) which limited the outdoor activities.

And also thanks to Andrew who have kindly offered us another shot at the High Elements with a free lunch thrown in (a 0.5 day High Element Team Building activity) at a later date.