The Amazing Race Around Perth; The TV Show Turned Into a Team Building Activity Right Here in Perth!
July 31, 2008
The Amazing Race Around Perth is a great option for a team building activity. Just like the TV show, your staff will need to work in teams to get to each required checkpoint and complete all the challenges along the way.
This team building event will begin with a pre race facilitation session in which each team member is asked to think about their individual hurdles to effective communication. Since communication is an essential part of The Amazing Race Around Perth (and smooth team functioning at the office), each staff member will need to make a commitment to work on their communication skills and overcome their self identified hurdles.
The race will begin at a pre-determined location in Perth. Once there and ready to go each team will be given a fun brainteaser. This will serve to challenge them but to also stagger their start time! They’ll also be given their resource kit containing things like a map, travel vouchers, cash, directions and the rules for the day.
The first step in this team building activity is catching the bus to Barrack St. where each team will scramble to the ferry dock in search of a facilitator who will give them the first clue. When they get their clue envelope, they’ll receive instructions, directions and a team challenge. Successfully completing a team challenge will give your team the opportunity to earn more cash so they can take faster modes of transportation!
Next, they’ll head somewhere in South Perth where they’ll be required to get their picture taken, as a group, with an American tourist! Once they do this, they’ll be given another clue envelope.
Following the directions in the next clue envelope, your team will be led to different check points on their way to Kings Park via the Narrows Interchange parkland by climbing up Jacob’s Ladder. At each checkpoint the teams will be required to collect certain items or information to show they were there.
As they keep going on this team building activity, they’ll continue to be challenged with brainteasers as well as with how to find their way to other locations such as the Ore Obelisk and a famous hotel. To make sure everyone is safe, they’ll be given a number to call if they get lost, can’t find transport, etc; but they’ll also receive a time penalty at the end of the race.
This is a really excellent team building activity, and a very popular one too! If you’d like to explore holding The Amazing Race Around Perth for your staff, just call 1 300 267 738. Your team will be talking about this event for months to come, and in addition to having a great time together, they’ll learn a lot too!
Bringing out the Best in Your Staff through Team Building Activities
July 20, 2008
When you arrange for your employees to participate in regular team building activities and events, you’ll give each of your staff members the opportunity to give their best. And, when each team member is able to see the best in both themselves and their other team members, it will increase their ability to bond and interact positively both during the team building activities and back at the office.
When your team only has the opportunity to see each other at the office they often don’t realize all the different strengths and skills their fellow staff members possess. Team building activities can help bring these positive skills out for everyone to see, and for the teams benefit as a whole.
Team building activities can also help each individual realize positive qualities about themselves they didn’t know were there before. This builds confidence and self esteem for your team members, which are both important qualities for success in the office environment.
Bringing out the best in your team is easy when you arrange for them to participate regularly in team building activities. To schedule a team building event or activity for your employees, all you need to do is call 1 300 267 738. We’ll help you arrange the optimal team building events to help bring out the hidden strengths in your team.
How Do Team Building Activities Promote Staff Bonding?
June 29, 2008
One of the benefits often touted of team building activities is that they promote bonding among team members; but how?
Well, the office environment isn’t the easiest to get to know people in. You’re not really supposed to socialize much, since you are there to get assignments done. And, the workplace can often be filled with stress and competition. These aren’t the best conditions in which to facilitate team bonds!
But, if you get your team out and into a new environment with team building activities, you provide them with the opportunity to see each other in a new light. They’ll have the chance to learn new things about each other, and in many instances new things that they have in common!
Also, the competition that’s associated with some team building activities is a really healthy way to address the competition at the office. Your team members can get these feelings out during the team building activities; so that everyone can join forces successfully back at the office.
And, last but not least, team building activities give your team the chance to build shared experiences and memories. By participating together in various team building activities, your team members get to be silly, laugh, and have an awesome time with each other, one that they will all remember positively. These feelings and experiences will follow them all back to the office where they will serve to create bonds among team members that support increased productivity and office morale.
If your team could do with some bonding (and fun) time, call 1 300 267 738 and arrange a team building day. We can help you choose events catered specifically to your team’s needs, and we offer only proven, successful team building activities; activities that will help your team function more cohesively through experiences that promote bonding.
Team Building Games in the Surf – The Corporate Surf Carnival
June 15, 2008
Getting your whole Brisbane office team out on the beach together for The Corporate Surf Carnival team building event is always a great way to build teamwork, morale, team bonding and also communication skills. All this and the fun of the sun, sand, and surf; what more could you want from a team building event?
Participants will be divided into teams and will prepare to compete in several team building games in a round robin format. They will need to communicate well and learn a lot about each other in order to make the best use of each team member’s strengths so they can win the team building games.
Once everyone is ready the team building games will begin! Your employees will participate in events like Surf Race, Beach Flags, Board Paddle, Snap-Taplin Relay and Swimming Races. These are all fun and competitive activities that everyone can participate in and enjoy.
To make this team building event safe, it is supervised by Surf Life Saving Professionals. Safety is always a primary goal with all team building events, and this one is no exception. All equipment needed for these team building games is also provided. You and your employees just show up, and get ready for a good time!
To get your Brisbane office to this team building event, just call 1 300 267 738; team building games in the surf guarantee an excellent time is had by all – and the new skills that return to the office will be the end result!
A Unique Team Building Game Idea – Sand Tobogganing
May 31, 2008
Ever been to the sand dunes? If so, then you know how amazing and how beautiful they can be. Some of the sand dunes near the Gold Coast can rise over 60 metres high! But what do sand dunes and team building games have in common? Well, sand tobogganing of course!
Sand tobogganing is done, on the sand dunes with a specially made sand board that has an ultra-slick waxed bottom. This allows participants to fly down the dune on an exciting “toboggan” run. This can make the perfect team building game in and around the Gold Coast.
This can be such an excellent team building game because everyone gets to enjoy each other’s company, in a fun, and different atmosphere. People will learn things about each other they never would have otherwise, and it’s more than likely that they will find new things in common, to unite them and thereby add to the team’s cohesiveness back at the office. Plus, a fun team building game near the beautiful Gold Coast is just good for morale!
If your team is in need of a day away, contact Sports Corp Elite at 1 300 267 738 and they’ll help you set the whole thing up. From water bottles to program design, to beach permits to sun screen – Sports Corp Elite will have it covered! You and your team need to do nothing more than to enjoy the excitement of this very unique team building game.
