Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
Here at Catalyst Ranch, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We're just generous like that! We provide toys, puzzles, and games in our meeting rooms to help clients ignite their imaginations and have the most productive offsite meeting ever! Sometimes the giveaway prize is an inspiring book [...]
Have you ever planned and executed a meeting and then wondered "Did I get my point across?" or "Why wasn't there any action afterwards?" Have you ever attended a meeting and left with the feeling that you wasted your time? Now is your chance to find answers to your toughest meeting challenges. We've partnered with the [...]
Welcome back, Creative Juice readers! We are spotlighting different unique meeting vendors to give you a taste of who you’ll meet at the Creative Meeting Carnival on February 23 at Catalyst Ranch! Today’s blog is from Julie Ostrow of Find the Funny! Have you ever worked in an environment where laughing was frowned upon? Have you ever worked [...]
Greyed Rainbow by Jackson Pollack, 1953 For the next few weeks, we are spotlighting a variety of our partner vendors and meeting enhancements to give you a taste of who you’ll meet at the second annual Creative Meeting Carnival at Catalyst Ranch on February 23! Today, please welcome Brendan Sullivan! Mr. Sullivan is a corporate creativity coach who helps organizational teams, [...]
The Carnival is coming!! Drum roll please. . . Announcing the second annual Creative Meeting Carnival at Catalyst Ranch on February 23! Join us to explore the possibilities for your creative corporate meetings in 2015 and beyond! Meet our partner vendors and learn more about how their diverse offerings that can help you make meeting [...]
Here at Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s first creative meeting venue, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We’re just generous like that! We have oodles of toys, puzzles, books, and games in our meeting rooms to help clients ignite their imaginations and have the most productive offsite meeting ever! Sometimes the giveaway prize [...]
Welcome Guest Blogger Sue Becker of Spark Productivity! Spark Productivity is a productivity training company that lights the fire within and one of Catalyst Ranch preferred facilitators. The customized productivity training solutions from Spark can help you and your employees become more inspired, focused, and joyfully productive. IMPROVING COMMUNICATION, IMPROVING FOCUS, MANAGING YOUR TIME, REFORMING PROCRASTINATION Would [...]
Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s most creative meeting venue, is staffed by a incredible team of quirky characters known as Ranch Hands. Creative individuals are drawn to Catalyst Ranch’s colorful workspace, diverse clientele, and co-workers of similar sensibility. Ranch Hand Spotlight is an occasional blog series that invites you to take a sneak peek behind the scenes at the [...]
Welcome back guest blogger, Jon Wool! Mr. Wool is the President and Owner of JHW Hospitality Consulting and one of the hospitality industry’s foremost experts. He is also the founder of the boutique catering company, Finesse Cuisine Catering and Events. As a consultant, coach, and speaker, Jon has been applauded for his warmth, humor, and ability to [...]
Keep your spirits high as you bundle up and hunker down this winter by daydreaming about how lovely summers are in Chicago! Summer means sunny neighborhood festivals, biking on the lakefront path, movies in the park, and your company’s summer event! Beat the winter blues by thinking of all the fun you and your team are [...]