Team Building Events

Team Building Events

Planning Team Building Events, or itineraries, should include all meal and refreshments, be competitive, have low physical requirements, and should be fit all ages. Modern team building activities are designed for modern people - meaning thinking games, riddles, and imagination. Quad Bikes are old news, and Amazing Race and Escape Room Team Building are trendy and popular team building events.

Example of a Team Building Event

09h00 - Arrival Coffee, Muffins, and Assorted Pastries

Start your event with a 20 minute Welcome Coffee and Pastries. Also have the Team Building Itinerary printed and visible - you want everybody to get exited about the day.

09h15 - Ice Breakers and Fun Group Activities

Start your event as one group, and finish the event as one group. You can finish the day by showing a video or photo slide day after lunch - usually hilarious to watch. The entire group stands in a circle, and are challenged with fun group activities. For example, everybody needs to grab a partner. Then you call that every with Green Shirts, have to find another partner with a Green Shirt - lots of fun!

09h30 - Dividing Teams

Divide the group into teams of about ten people per team. Everybody in the circle get a number. Then all the "1's" are in a team, all the "2's" in another team, and all the "3's" in another team, etc.

10h00 - Amazing Race Team Building

Each team will get an Amazing Race Card (printed on an A3). The card is divided into 3 challenges. First the have to complete a short detour, then the main activity, and finally end with a challenge. or in other words, the event should have an Intro, Body, and Conclusion. For example, start with a Letter Game (intro), as soon as the team is done, the get a head start, and finish with another Thinking Game, i.e. Nail Activity. 

11h00 - Refreshment Break with Bottled Water and a Snack

11h00 - Amazing Race with "Find my iPhone"

Each team get an iPhone, and all the iPhones are connected to the same cloud. Teams have to use their iPhones to find Jason Bourne. Jason Bourne will be a valenteer that also have an iPhone, and he will get a 3 minute head start to hide. Now, everybody plays tag, when Jason Bourne is caught, the next person will get a change to be Jason Bourne.

12h00 - Amazing Race Escape Room

This event is based on Angels and Demons. Teams have to solve riddles and find the four elements - earth, water, fire, and wind. Each element represents a number to open a safe, and save the world. Write clues with invisible ink, and give each team a UV torch.

13h00 - Lunch and Soft Drinks

Buffets and ordering the menu are old news. I have learned that a Greek Meze Lunch works very well. All the dishes are served in individual bowls - all the chicken strips in one bowl, all the tomato in one bowl, and all the whatever in another bowl. These bowls are passed around the table - a table buffet. People help themselves, and the bowls are passed around the table. Assorted soft drink are also placed in the middle of the table on arrival. After the lunch, the table will be scattered with many bowls, giving the feel of a real feast.

14h00 - Watch Photos of the event, and Depart at Leisure