Benefits of Team Building

Behind every successful company, you can always find a good, hardworking and dedicated team. To develop the important characteristics of a good team, it is always beneficial to participate in team building activities.

Team building activities not only develop individual skills and communication, it also strengtens the bond among the members of the team. It always ensures increased productivity, competence and increased profit. Team building activities also improve morality and leadership skills, ability to tackle barriers, clearly defined objectives and goals, and better understanding of processes and procedures. The newly achieved team spirit will not allow the team to be let down. The team members will fight obstacles and challenges as one unit.

Events such as Survivor, Race Around, Corporate Hijack, Beach Olympics & Executive Adventure, are designed to build trust, teamwork and communication skills among your people. All of these events can work as a stand alone activity or as part of major event, seminar or workshop. They can also be incorporated into a multi-day team building, team training or team development program.

It is important to provide new, exciting and dynamic team building events that your team haven’t experienced before. Team building events must provide great entertainment, just like vacations and trips. The events must provide realistic experiences that will empower members to contribute to common goals. Team building events should also provide a great opportunity for team members to know each other and establish effective working relationships.

You can get started right now by calling us on 1300 267738 from anywhere in Australia. We will provide you with the newest and most popular team building events and over 500 guest speakers you’ll be able to make great choices that will keep everyone happy!

City Scramble – Team Building in the CBD!

During this exciting team building game, your team will be challenged with gaining as many points as possible by completing certain tasks (that can either be recreational or address certain team building goals; or both).  Then, the team with the most points at the end is crowned the winner!

The best part of this unique event is that all of the tasks will take place in and around the Capital City!  Your team will be given an instruction booklet outlining where the various activity stations are.  They’ll also be given some cash as well as a camera and a few other supplies.  They must work closely together to get to the stations on time and complete the tasks to earn the points.

City Scramble isn’t only fun though, there are many fantastic opportunities to work on team building skills throughout this activity regardless of whether you decide to have the tasks be recreational or more team building oriented.  This game encourages strategy, creativity, communication and the ability to follow instructions, among other things.

To learn more about City Scramble and all the other team building games we offer just ring 1 300 267 738.

The Great Australian BBQ Challenge Team Building Activity – Fun, Unique, and Extremely Yummy!

The Great Australian BBQ Challenge is a team building activity that offers both a great time and an awesome meal to share at the end; in addition to a wide range of learning experiences.

After being divided up into smaller teams, your staff will be challenged with planning and preparing a themed menu including a gourmet salad, grilled veggies, and a tasty meat dish using the secret ingredient of the day.  And, while all ingredients will be provided, the facilitator will interject some other challenges into the day to make sure your team stays on their toes!

Also, just like at the office, there is a deadline.  Your team must have planned, prepared and presented their BBQ masterpiece on time.  It will then be judged with the others creations and the winner announced.  But the real reward comes when everyone gets to share in all the meals created for one big BBQ!

This team building activity provides great opportunities for improving staff communication, relationships and idea sharing along with frequent opportunities for processing the events with a trained team building facilitator.

If you’d like to arrange to hold The Great Australian BBQ Challenge Team Building Activity anywhere in Australia, just ring 1 300 267 738.

Organise a Fun Team Building Day with Corporate Beach Volleyball!

Setting aside a day to have some fun and flex those “team building muscles” is essential in order to create a successful team. For example, a team building activity like Corporate Beach Volleyball would be a perfect way to provide your team with an enjoyable, stress free day together, while also working on team building skills like communication, and team work.

If you’re interested, you can even arrange to hold this team building activity with one or both of these members of the 2000 Olympic Volleyball team; Kerri Potharst and Natalie Cook!

If your team is ready for a fabulous day at the beach learning new volleyball and team building skills, just ring 1 300 267 738. We can set up this team building activity anywhere in Australia, and we’ll take care of everything. Its easy, fun and most importantly, good for your team!

The Great Race – A Fun, Exciting and Challenging Team Building Game!

If your Queensland team is in need of a fun, exciting and challenging team building game, here it is; the Great Race! Not only does your team get to enjoy the beautiful city of Queensland during this team building game, but they’ll also be challenged to work together, use their decision making skills to make good but quick decisions, and use their creativity, planning and communication skills to win this team building game.

The idea of this team building game is for your team to get from country to country (symbolized by activity stations), by working together to complete challenges. The various stations set up throughout Queensland will offer different options for completing the tasks. Some will take longer, but will be easier, while others will seem quick to complete, but the method will be more difficult.

As your team works to find the activity stations throughout the city of Queensland, they’ll be given a 12 seater mini bus for transportation. But, depending on your budget and the location (this team building game can be held throughout Australia) you can have the option of spicing it up a bit and getting them on Harley Davidsons, Helicopters, Speedboats, Mountain Bikes, and other fun modes of transport.

Other challenges facing your team during the Great Race include Yields (making other teams have to wait somewhere for a certain amt of time) and Roadblocks (tasks that must be completed successfully before the team can move on). All these fun and exciting challenges help to create a very educational and exciting team building game!

To schedule The Great Race team building game for your team, just ring 1 300 267 738; we’ll help you organize every detail and make this team building game a great fit for your unique team!

Successful Team Building Activities and Exercises Require Experienced Events Organisers

If you’ve ever attempted to organize team building exercises or a team building activity day for your staff only for it to end up being a boring flop, don’t worry, your not alone.

Many businesses think that its easy to develop and organize team building activities for their staff, yet when the events actually take place, their team members aren’t inspired, don’t learn much and talk only about hoping they don’t have to endure one of those team building activity days again any time soon.

But, team building activities can be very successful, and when they are, they can leave your staff functioning at a higher level and with increased productivity when they return to the office. Many corporations have learned that the way to create successful team building exercises is to get some help from the experts.

Hiring an experienced team building company to develop, arrange, and facilitate your next team building activity day or conference exercises is a great way to make sure your team has a memorable time and that they learn the team building skills needed.

While it may seem that you might end up spending more money by hiring an outside company to organise and facilitate your team building activity, in the end with all the time you save as well as the quality and proven success of the team building exercises arranged, you’ll probably actually spend less money!

If you’d like to talk with an experienced event organiser and see what options are available for your next team building activity day, just ring 1 300 267 738. We can answer any questions you may have and help you choose team building exercises that will suit your team and meet all your team building goals.

Using a Corporate Golf Day to Work on Team Building Skills

Have you been thinking about a fun, relaxing corporate golf day for your team? Holding a corporate golf day in Brisbane, or anywhere else in Australia for that matter, can be an excellent way of engaging and/or rewarding your team.

By bringing everyone together for an enjoyable day of golf, it is also possible to create opportunities to work on team building skills. In an environment such as this, team building skills like communication, decision making and even conflict resolution can be addressed, while everyone still has a memorable and exciting day.

Another way of turning a Brisbane golf day into an opportunity to address team building skills is to use it as a fundraiser for the company’s favorite charity. Everyone can compete in mini-tournaments and raise money through pledges for how many balls they can hit in a certain amount of time, with their left (or non-dominant) hand, or other type of mini contest. Fundraising like this can address team building skills by helping to cultivate positive feelings of unity and purpose among participating staff as a result of helping others in need. Staff will then be able to take this back to the office as a shared experience that helps facilitate bonding among team members.

If your interested in finding out more about how a corporate golf day in Brisbane or any other location in Australia can give your staff an opportunity to work on their team building skills, call 1 300 267 738. The awesome staff at Sports Corp Elite can help you create the perfect way for your company to work on and develop their team building skills – while having a great time too!