{"id":26925,"date":"2023-08-17T07:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2023-08-17T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T12:11:42","slug":"thursday-update-where-to-do-team-building-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/thursday-update-where-to-do-team-building-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update: Where to do team-building exercises?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my longtime regular blog readers texted me yesterday and asked an excellent question:<\/p>\n

Where is there Downtown that would be a good place for a corporate team-building exercise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a couple of answers on my own, but decided to crowdsource the question to Facebook. Here’s the list we came up with:<\/p>\n

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Memphis Escape Rooms<\/a><\/li>\n
Civil Axe Throwing<\/a><\/li>\n
BRIDGES<\/a><\/li>\n
Bowling at Uncle Buck’s Fishbowl and Grill<\/a> at Bass Pro at the Pyramid<\/li>\n
Virtual golf at Birdie’s<\/a><\/li>\n
A shuffleboard tournament at Longshot<\/a><\/li>\n
STIX<\/a> offers sushi-making classes for groups<\/li>\n
National Civil Rights Museum<\/a><\/li>\n
Kookamonga Challenge at Kooky Canuck<\/a> – I never thought of eating a giant burger as a team-building exercise, but co-owner Lana says large corporations and sports organizations book this for team-building all the time<\/li>\n
A Backbeat tour of Memphis<\/a> – in particular, I recommend the Memphis Mojo Tour<\/a>, which has a musician performing right there on the bus.<\/li>\n
Memphis Scavenger Hunt (Backbeat can organize this as a group activity<\/a>)<\/li>\n
Amazing Memphis Race\u00a0(Backbeat can organize this as a group activity<\/a>)<\/li>\n
A HIIT workout at Shred415<\/a> (There is a 100% chance I would call in sick that day if a company I worked for scheduled a workout as a team-building activity)<\/li>\n
A ride on one of those horrible 16-person party pedal bikes (I think the commenter who suggested this may have been joking)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Muggin Coffeehouse at 606 N. Main in Uptown will have a soft opening<\/a> on Saturday, August 26 from 8 AM to 1 PM. Visit the Muggin Whitehaven website<\/a> to get a feel for what the new coffeehouse will be like.<\/p>\n
The Peabody will host a Jack Daniel’s tasting and dinner<\/a> on September 21. Master Distiller Chris Fletcher will lead a tasting of<\/p>\n
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“Peabody Select” Single Barrel<\/li>\n
Bonded<\/li>\n
Triple Mash<\/li>\n
Bonded Rye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The whiskeys will be paired with a 4-course dinner<\/a> by Peabody chefs. The cost is $200 per person, plus tax and service charges.<\/p>\n
St. Jude is hiring a Program Coordinator, Research Education & Training Grants Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Terrible news: Jennifer Biggs, food writer for The Daily Memphian, has died<\/a> of cancer complications.<\/p>\n
Today is National I LOVE My Feet Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n
WMC reports that Downtown tourism is being impacted by ongoing and rising crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A company that deploys K-9s to sniff and detect weapons<\/a> may become part of the plan to fight crime Downtown.<\/p>\n
The Orpheum seeks a box office patron services associate<\/a> and also a production manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism seeks an administrative assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n
LEO Events seeks a marketing manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n
MLGW has an Accountant II<\/a> position open.<\/p>\n
There is a specialty ticket for tonight’s Memphis Redbirds vs. Norfolk Tides game: Use promo code PBR when buying tickets online<\/a> to receive a Pabst Blue Ribbon T-shirt and 2 free beers. It’s Throwback Thursday with $1 hot dogs and $2 PBRs for all. The first pitch is at 6:45.<\/p>\n
Rice and Donna play Live at the Tracks<\/a> tonight from 5-8 PM at Central Station.<\/p>\n
Guitarist\/vocalist Jad Tang plays the Summer Acoustic Series<\/a> at Caption by Hyatt tonight.<\/p>\n
Alexis Jade<\/a> plays Slider Inn Downtown tonight at 7.<\/p>\n
That’s it. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my longtime regular blog readers texted me yesterday and asked an excellent question: Where is there Downtown that would be a good place for a corporate team-building exercise? I had a couple of answers on my own, but decided to crowdsource the question to Facebook. Here’s the list we came up with: Memphis … Continue reading “Thursday update: Where to do team-building exercises?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26926,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions\/26926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}