Transforming Team Dynamics with Culinary Arts With An Expert-Led Approach in Milan

Milan, is renowned for its innovative spirit and highly ‘creative’ corporate culture. Its latest flair for team building takes culinary-based team building to a whole new level. Grigliare Duro (Italian for ‘cook harder’) is the latest team development company to marry cooking classes with corporate learning. They try to create a learning journey for teams in which the intense motion of cooking together literally propels team members into a joint mission to create hot delicious meals.

A Culinary Journey to Strengthen Team Bonds

Grigliare Duro: [In the] kitchen [you] can create a real playground for a team… The idea behind [it] is very simple. You create an experience which helps your teams to be more together. You cook, you communicate, in a very deep sense, you listen to each other, you share only positive words, and you work creatively. It’s based on some theories in psychology, where cooking has been proved to help people to improve their interpersonal communication, and people in a group also find they’re much more effective engaging with a cooking challenge than with something purely work-related.

Detailed Insights into the Cooking Team Building Experience

Every menu and session at Grigliare Duro is curated by chef and team-building Milano experts, dividing attendees into teams for a series of challenges based around cooking a three-course menu. A pitmaster leads the teams through courses and various ‘side-plates’ – how deeply we brown our cook, temperature of the grill, how early we salt our steak – plus competitions that include strategies and teamwork. The final session culminates in a panel of judges that demos each team’s dishes, assigning trophies for creativity and teamwork, as well as the team’s culinary technique.

This technique has been validated by feedback from many organisations who have reported improved team integration and morale following these events. It is also consistent with current empirical work in organisational psychology which shows that experiential learning is an effective route to substantial changes in professional performance. 

Why Choose Culinary Team Building?

Science supports the idea that cooking activities are ideal for team building, as research shows that cooking together improves both group bonding and collaborative skills. The whole-body nature of cooking necessitates communicating, precise functioning, and co-operation – all elements that add up to effective corporate teamwork.

Grigliare Duro’s development programmes are designed so as to reflect the needs of various companies, and therefore the proposed outdoor activities will be adapted to each organisation, offering solutions that speak to the roles and the obstacles that participants face in personal and professional spheres, so as to maximise the learning effect. The case studies and the testimonies collected from participants who have undergone previous development programmes all report improved interpersonal relationships at work and more productive workplaces.

Expert Endorsements and Proven Success

Their ‘level up’ team-building programme is favoured by HR professionals and organisational behaviour academics. According to the management literature, their process is a best industry practice. Their programmes are often exhibited at business workshops and HR conferences as ‘innovative new approaches to corporate wellness and team-building’.

Conclusion

 A clock-watching chef in Italy making cutlets in a rotary slicer cannot really be said to be a ‘chef’. However, if you are a company seeking an original, engaging, and rewarding experience that will improve your team and bring more passion to the table, then Grigliare Duro offers training and culinary services, inspired, tested and perfected through years of experience, that are fun, heartwarming and invaluable for your business. 

Grigliare Duro provides culinary team training experiences for small and large work groups that add an enjoyable break from the daily grind and lead to teamwork and communication skills that translate into demonstrable business results. Contact Grigliare Duro for a team building event that will leave your employees excited, connected, and ready to perform.