Tips and team building ideas for 2022

Corporate team-building events: plan ahead!

Team-building events must be discussed within the team, lest they be perceived as a corporate imposition. The best course of action is to investigate your employees’ preferences regarding the amount of time they are willing to spend together and the type of activities they would prefer to engage in. Once there is agreement on this, planning a specific event will require a few more steps, for which you should look at professionals specializing in bespoke team-building activities to help you. Experienced event planners will take care of shaping and implementing the right idea for each client, creating projects that are designed to engage specific groups at specific times.

The ideal team should consist of different personality types and people with skills and backgrounds that complement each other. You want your team to be able to approach every problem from multiple angles. Of course, you also need team leaders, who will take a larger share of responsibility. Moreover, bringing an element of fun and competitiveness into training courses, seminars, or workshops (the so-called gamification) will make it easier for everyone to learn while having a good time in a playful context.

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From in-person events to virtual events: you have plenty of team-building options

In-person experiences, either outdoors or indoors, are extremely important for your team. Sports challenges, treasure hunts, hiking trips, or strategy games such as escape rooms and murder-mystery dinners are always a great idea, as well as creative activities, such as painting, group cooking, or improvisation theatre.

Incentive programs are also outstanding catalysts and motivators for productivity: use them to inspire team members to improve their performance. Incentive team trips, awards, gala events, theme parties, or exciting and unusual activities such as balloon rides always work.

The perks of virtual events

Virtual team-building activities are excellent alternatives if in-person events are not an option. If properly planned, they can create a strong sense of connection within the team and they have the advantage of being open to participants from all over the world, with no need for anyone to travel to a specific destination. Therefore, virtual events are less expensive, can be carried out at shorter notice, and still provide the opportunity to engage your employees in fun activities. Of course, professional team-building event planners can help you find the best option when it comes to remote team-building.

Some of the most popular in-person activities in our portfolio, for instance, are also available as online games. Among others, Escape Rooms, Speed Dating, and our timeless classic Chain Reaction.

Other options are Virtual Pub Quizzes, online beer or wine tastings, with external experts sharing interesting information and insight, and virtual movie events, in which participants watch a short movie clip and then have to reenact the same scene. Company Battle is a fun strategy game, in which players must “expand” their business and compete against one another.

Finally, virtual Kick-off meetings are an excellent option when starting a project while working remotely, because they motivate and inspire teams for the year ahead and get them off to a great start.

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