Epic list of great team building ideas
Team building activities are a great way to thank your staff for all their hard work and making them feel part of the team. It’s an opportunity to help your staff feel more connected. Working together to solve challenges will help everyone feel in sync with one another as well as enhance efficiency and team work. Team building is a great way to learn more about fellow colleagues on a more personal level. All these elements are very important to ensure a successful productive team that can help your company grow from strength to strength, which will also help with any seminars, conferences and exhibitions that you will have in the future.
Here are our top 9 team building activities that increase motivation and promote cooperation, whilst your team is having a lot of fun! (To find out more about these activities, click on the photo)
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Adventure days are your team’s chance to hit the pause button. Mental and physical challenges will cement bonds and improve key skills. Add fresh forest air and laughs aplenty, and you’ve got the essential tonic for any hardworking team. From leaping off Tarzan Swings to solving giant puzzles, an active day in the forest is a brilliant solution for your team building day.
Everyone loves chocolate… but have you ever tried making it? Well you’ve won the golden ticket! You’ll be shown how to create some delectable chocolate delights by a ‘Master Chocolatier’ before having a go at making your very own artisan delicacies. You are spoilt for choice as you mix your own succulent truffle centres from a huge range of delicious flavourings and ingredients. This is likely to please your team!
Loved by young and old, this giant inflatable course is high energy, colourful and supreme fun. The result is a spectacular event that often becomes an annual contest with companies coming back year after year. Teams go head to head to battle it out on activities that include our Human Table Football, Giant Inflatable Volleyball, Human Demolition and Sumo Relay, to name just a few.
Prepare to be amazed at what can be achieved with drums, enthusiasm and a professional conductor guiding you along the way on a team building drumming event! At your seat you’ll find your drum, no musical skill is required. After a couple of miss-hits you’ll find it second nature. Each team learns a signature rhythm – the conductor then layers the rhythms like an orchestra to create a truly powerful sound.
Bring your team on an adventure of challenging clue solving as you escape the world you know and take on live-action team games full of mystery, colourful characters and ludicrously twisted puzzles. Immersive escape room and street game experiences provide a fun fueled race against the clock with mind bending clues and contraptions, rigged for your pleasure!
For this scavenger hunt, teams of 5-6 people compete against each other, pursuing 100 intriguing missions at a location of your choice. The missions are designed to bring out team work and lots of laughter. This is a great way to make your team work together!
Paint balling is the ultimate team building exercise. Separate into teams and go into live combat with a paintball gun as your weapon. This exercise encourages working together as a team to provide strategies and unity, making for the ultimate battle of the workplace.
Murder Mystery Team Building events are a fun and powerful way to bring together members of staff in solving a unique puzzle – who is the murderer? Team building murder mystery events will get your staff both thinking, and working together to start solving clues and interacting.
Try something new with the team and enjoy cocktail making in London, a favourite when it comes to a team event in the capital. London is the best place to let your hair down with the team and try a unique experience, and cocktail making is the best way to do so! Get to know your team while you create your very own cocktails from scratch, all with the help of your very own bartender and expert tools and utensils to curate your cocktails to perfection.
We hope these 9 teambuilding activities have helped you with some great ideas for your next team adventure! For easy access to these top tips, why not download the PDF version here.
If you are interested to find out more about any of the above team building ideas, do get in touch either by email or call us on 020 8905 2908.
Blog originally published here.
Submit your blog to Laurel Leaf Networking.
Join the Laurel Leaf Networking Facebook group.