NAM AMPED 2016

AMPED
NAM
…the low down on achieving happy.

A happy team is a productive, engaged and inspired team!
We consciously reinforce positive practices in our region through:
• Leadership: ‘Wins and Wins in Waiting’/’Monday Inspire’ and general ‘road-block destroyer’
are just a few examples. The inspiration and daily reinforcement from our leader is
ENDLESS here!
• Culture: We find creative ways to find the ‘Awesome’ in our day
• Small Steps: We make a daily effort to contribute in the building of a culture and
environment we want to work in
• Lunches/Retreats + workshops: We like to team-build, highly value all our working
relationships and do not like to let our team down
The following pages are visual examples of what we do to reinforce happy in NAM…

How do we ‘do Happy’ in NAM?...we like to be creative:
We get our RD to
sing on camera, film
her then get the all
NAM offices to do
the same…
…this was our
farewell gift to out
going Ambassador
Mike Moore.
We keep a gratitude board
We meditate for 10 minutes
daily
We love a to
have inspiring
offices spaces,
this is the DC
Office Refurb
(left and
above), check
out their ‘green
white board’
All our offices
pitch in to send
original
greeting cards,
this one is a
‘Get Well card’
for Rod in
Vancouver

We celebrate ‘Awesome’:
We nominate our team mates monthly for Awesome
behaviour
Lunch for our
visiting Awesome
IT Team
Captain
Mahoney
Turnbull at
your
service!
Inter-office competitiveness
is healthy in NAM: pics
shown (left and right), are
for ‘who can dress best as
Captain Awesome’. Our well
deserved winner was Erick
Our New York team celebrating Awesomeness!
Our visiting IT team gets
Captain Awesome Tees and
Bottles for their incredible
efforts visiting our west coast
teams
Catherine and Erick
looking fabulous as
Captain Awesome
Awarding Captain Awesome
Tees and Bottles to our
Awesome colleagues!

We eat together:
Pot Luck Lunches:
As a thanks to our
visiting IT team
we put on lunch.
Erick did the
main, and Claudia
the dessert.
Peta’s Birthday, with home
baking from Colleen
to our visiting IT Team, we put on lunch.
Lunch for
our visiting
Awesome IT
Team,
(courtesy of
Erick)
We lunch with our customers, here
our Mexico team are catching up
with Energy Corp
Inspire Lunches:
We bring in an inspiring
thought
Leader/colleague/contact,
they talk to the team and
we have lunch!
This Lunch was with Tobin
Watkinson,seasoned music
industry executive,
currently Director of
Music Partnerships at
‘Flipogram’
Sean,Holly and Sam popping into the
NY Public Library during lunch

We celebrate our wins!
What started as a belated Xmas lunch to celebrate a
fantastic year…ended as a team walk of downtown LA in
January.
The plan was set…
We had a blast!
Got in some great
• exercise
• sights
and further discovered the city we live in the
process!

We get out and support a cause together:
In a quest to give back, Team
Canada took a break from their
jobs to do something wonderful,
which was volunteer at Dr.
Peter’s Aids Foundation Centre
in downtown Vancouver.
Here they all are serving lunch,
supporting this great cause, and
their community in the process.
A very successful and fulfilling
team day out of the office,
thanks for organising Sean!

We highly value our relationships with our team and work at
them:
The New York team
during the cooking
event at the Santa
Barbara retreat
Our Mexico Team,
spending time with
new team member
Natalia
NZ BBD Study Tour in New
York,(with help from Sam and
Charlotte)
The NYC team,
checking out the
new food court
next to their
office. (Far more
fun experiencing
this as a team!)
Miguel and Yulia from our Mexico team,
showing their support for Rod (recovering
from surgery in Vancouver)

We do Xmas together, across offices and
with our wider NZ Inc family:
We make it a priority to
catch up with our NZ Inc
Whanau, here LA does a
Xmas meat pies lunch
with MFAT
The Mexico Team does a
traditional Xmas lunch
with their colleagues
at MFAT
The lovely Beatrice and
Leesa in masquerade at the
Welly Xmas Party
Bowling and
dinner with DC
and NYC teams

We keep the vibe HIGH,(our resident office canines are great contributors here!)
Our NAM Team Leaders
at their last team
conference in NYC
Sean and Seamus do lunch in NYC
LA does AWESOME
San Francisco and
visiting IT teams
squeeze in a phone booth
for a quick pic
Claudia’s dog Rugby
wishing he could
join in on the L.A
meditation sesh!
NZTE LA ‘s Rugby!

We Retreat:
Guided by our
charismatic leader,
(coupled with her
infectious, determined,
positive, can ‘move
mountains attitude’),
this is where some of
our greatest growth,
learning and development
is achieved!

Watch this space NZTE as we continue to find new and
innovative ways to grow as a team, achieve our goals
and have a lot of fun in the process!
One final last word from Harvard Psychologist Shawn Achor, who has argued that the
common sense understanding: (that ‘Success will bring you happiness’), is actually
backwards.
‘…Success doesn’t make you happy, so much as happiness makes you more successful….’
…we agree☺