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Need a Company Culture Facelift? Evergreen Team Concepts Announces New Business Workshop *HAMFLAP* to Bring to Your Site

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Training conglomerate Evergreen Team Concepts is taking the training world by storm with their continuous innovation. Evergreen Team Concepts’ new release of HAMFLAP (acronym for Have As Much Fun & Laughter As Possible) is bringing the principles of fun and laughter into the workplace.

This new training workshop will be customized to your organization’s needs. HAMFLAP promises to increase creativity, employee morale, performance and productivity. Program writer Henry Beeland states, “This program is unique. It is designed in a format that makes it a tailored workshop to your organization that teaches companies how to increase performance, increase morale, and increase productivity with the promotion of fun and laughter; which allows for greater creativity and more innovation within the organization. Most importantly this program fosters the creation of an environment that your employees want to be in, which leads to greater retention and numerous other measurable benefits.”

HAMFLAP’s new workshop rolls out in three phases. First, there is the consulting phase. Evergreen Team Concepts trainers and consultants conduct a professional pre-assessment of your organization’s performance and productivity goals. This will include analysis of current team dynamics and company culture as well as the leadership's vision for the company's culture. Evergreen Team Concepts staff will make recommendations to assist the organization in finding enjoyment, excitement and fun within their corporate environment.

Second phase. Evergreen Team Concepts professionals will prepare a customized program designed to enhance your team's ability to find simple ways to effectively communicate with other team members and to learn and lead where they are within your organization, as well as promoting activities and newly agreed upon tactics to increase your HAMFLAP culture while promoting the principles of fun and laughter. A HAMFLAP workshop is guaranteed to be a fun-packed, content-rich, practical and immediately applicable workshop.

The third phase of the HAMFLAP program is support for those who want to join a fun-filled community that is promoting greater growth and enhanced workplace cultures at www.hamflap.com. This is a community of supervisors, leaders, CEOs, trainers, consultants and educators of practically every sector who are currently applying the principles of fun and laughter within their organization. The forum allows you to ask questions to trainers, consultants, educators and others who are applying the HAMFLAP principles within their work environment.

The HAMFLAP site will also be used by your leadership team as a resource for team-building activities, icebreakers, workshop games, many meeting tips. The HAMFLAP community allows you the ability to post your own blog to share with others what is happening within your organization and allows you to post pictures of you and your coworkers HAMFLAPping.

Videos will also be posted that are theme-based to be used for promoting ideas and subjects when giving speeches or doing meetings.

Mike Ridpath manager of Evergreen Team Concepts products states, “HAMFLAP was developed for one purpose-to convey the principles of fun and laughter into the workplace through onsite education and online community involvement. HAMFLAP is fun, it’s motivating, it raises awareness, it’s practical, it leaves a positive change. I personally believe this will be a world class business workshop with participation similar to the demand for our Lean Leadership Certification that is sponsored by the Lean Leadership Institute (multiple classes filled up monthly).”

Evergreen Team Concepts’ HAMFLAP event guarantees increased employee morale and participation, increased employee productivity and performance, as well as workplace environment and culture enhancement. Call one of Evergreen Team Concepts’ training consultants today to bring a HAMFLAP event to your workplace (866) 559-9222. Join the HAMFLAP community at www.hamflap.com and give your corporate culture a literal facelift and start reaping the benefits of a culture that Has As Much Fun & Laughter As Possible.

Joel Baker chief operating officer for Evergreen

Joel Baker has been appointed chief operating officer of Evergreen Team Concepts, which specializes in training, consulting and staff development for companies.
Baker has more than 30 years of experience in operations management, sales, marketing and financial management. He also founded three high-tech companies. Baker came to Whatcom County as president and COO of Ferndale- based PRWeb from 2005 through the end of 2007.

“My biggest task at Evergreen Team Concepts is installing organizational structures and systems that can handle rapid business growth,” Baker said. “I believe we're poised for tremendous achievements at regional and national levels and may be doubling or even tripling our staff in 2008.”

Evergreen Team Concepts offers seminars and Web forums led by professionals from throughout the country, as well as onsite training and online consulting. Its Bellingham Team Development Center is at 3600 Meridian St. For more information, call 647- 6922 or visit http://www.etcwa.com/

Evergreen Team Concepts Business Startup of the Year

Being named a finalist for Startup Business of the Year after being open just a few months would seem to confirm that statement. The Bellingham-based company specializes in on-site trainings, consulting, Web-based forums, training DVDs, and an assortment of innovative tools for assisting business clients with their staff development needs. Since opening in September 2007, ETC has made quite a mark. According to Beeland, the company – whose motto is “building teams outside the box” – has worked with more than 500 students and 50 different businesses.


By partnering with the National Seminars Group in Kansas City, ETC is bringing nationally known business speakers to Bellingham to present all-day workshops at greatly reduced costs. Already, Beeland said, folks have come from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Vancouver, B.C., as well as Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane to attend ETC’s on-site seminars. By offering attractive packages that include two days of training, hotel, meals and airport shuttle service, ETC is attempting to make Bellingham one of the Northwest’s premier business training destinations. Recognizing the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., as a golden opportunity for local businesses, ETC kicked off a campaign on February 21 with the tagline: “Is your business ready for the 2010 Olympics?”


ETC has also developed its own “Lean 5S Leadership Certification” program to assist businesses in reducing waste and increasing efficiency. Based on Toyota’s famous principles of business organization, ETC has added its own signature features to the model, Beeland said. The first group to take ETC’s six-day training last fall immediately implemented cost-saving projects at their home companies. Within just four months time, Beeland boasted, those projects saved their organizations a combined $1.2 million.


ETC is also patenting a new tool called “Team Growth Matrix.” This Web-based application, according to Beeland, will allow human resource managers to accurately track and assess staff training needs and follow each employee’s progress. By entering an employee’s zip code, the system will list all upcoming national level trainings offered in that area for which participants can register directly via the Web site. This young startup is already working to make an impact in the community as well. Among its good works, team members donate a minimum of 40 personal hours per year to assist charities or community organizations, and donates its interactive computer lab to local school groups for tutorial assistance in preparing students for college level work.


With growth taking off, ETC expects to increase its current staff of nine by 50 percent in 2008, and to open a second office location (probably in Seattle) within the next three years. Always thinking big, Beeland said his dream is to have more than 20 ETC facilities up and running across the United States and Canada in the next 10 years.


But no matter how big ETC grows over the coming years, he promised, “Bellingham will always stay our corporate office.”

HAMFLAP - The Principles of Fun and Laughter

Join the HAMFLAP community today at www.hamflap.com and start learning techniques and principles to enhance your workplace and get your company culture facelift!

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