What Activities Can We Do For Team Building?

Studies have shown that team building or reward days motivate staff, bring teams closer together and create a happier more productive work force, but it can be hard to choose something that suits everyone in your business. So here are my top five ideas to make your team building day go with a bang.

First in the round up is the team building stalwart, orienteering. Taking a team into the middle of nowhere and making them find their own way back to base might seem like a terrible idea, but orienteering puts a team in a foreign situation where they have to work together, compromise and make decisions. Splitting into teams, with a prize for the first team back, makes the process more competitive which not only appeals to the competitive team members but also makes the day more entertaining. In this situation you can really be surprised by skills and qualities people have and then this can be applied in the workplace.

If your workforce needs to laugh together more, then nothing will give them a good giggle like taking part in an ‘It’s a knock out’ contest . You could go for a full day tournament with gladiator podium fights, blow up apparatus, water slides and silly costumes, or just choose a couple of activities. Round the day off with a BBQ or buffet and by hometime your team will be best of friends.

If your colleagues fancy a more sophisticated activity, then cocktail making cant come highly enough recommended. Offered by various bars, your group will be able to shake, rattle and roll their own cocktails, learning to make a variety of classic cocktails ( and drink them too!) This informal team building event appeals to both men and women and usually people can get involved as much, or as little, as they like.

Another more leisurely way spend a corporate reward day is with a day at the races. What could be more fun than getting your fanciest summer outfit on, having a few drinks and heading to Aintree Ascot or York. You could go all out and book a private box for your team, or if they’re a more informal bunch head to the open course, with a deluxe picnic and some deck chairs. A little flutter or two will add even more excitement to the day, but even the none gamblers will enjoy the people watching, glamour and bubbly!

Last on the list, but certainly not my last choice, is a quiz night. It may sound run of the mill but a quiz night appeals to most team members, is cheap to organise and is informal enough to not seem like work. Either go to a recommended local pub quick, or hire a function room and organise your own. If you organise one yourself you can lay on some food, and maybe do a themed quiz, but if you go to a local one then it may become a regular thing that some team members carry on themselves, carrying on the effect of the team building benefits.

Cheshire Business Tourism can help if you would like to do someteam builidng in Cheshire and can arrange a number of events for corporate entertainment in the North West.