10 Electrifying Team Building Ideas for Corporate Events

Ever dreamed about participating in the Master Chef? Fulfill your culinary dreams with this corporate team-building activity. Participants are split into teams. They will be provided with ingredients and decorative materials to design their food cart. Recipes will be not provided to the contestants. Teams will be judged on the dish they invent and the presentation of their food cart. Through this culinary adventure, participants will attempt to out-cook, out-market, and out-score their competition, to win.

Team building lessons: Encourages creativity and improves leadership skills.

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The pixel challenge is a mega art project. Participants are split into teams to showcase their skills through a splash of colors. Team members are given multiple canvases where the artwork will be divided into canvas grids. Each team member will work on their canvas. Once completed, the canvases will be framed forming a big picture. The picture brings a feeling of belonging and commitment as it reflects the company values and brand image.

Team building lessons: Encourages creativity and delivers a message. For an organization to triumph, an individual must be successful.

Are you ready to become the next ACP Pradyuman or Sherlock Holmes? Put on your thinking caps as you will be introduced to a murdered character. Teams will be taken to the scene of the crime where they will be introduced to clues to help solve the murder. They can also receive results from the crime lab on the evidence they have gathered. Upon completion, teams must hand in their evidence on the suspect. The fastest team to solve the murder mystery wins the challenge.

Team building lessons: Engages participants in an intense challenge that calls for teamwork and critical thinking ability.

Acid River is a popular corporate team building activity where teams are divided into groups of 4-8 members. The participants must imagine walking through an acid river. Teams are in a race against each other or time. The team leaders must transport all their team members across the river using wooden planks and ropes. In case a group member falls off a plank while crossing the river, the group must start all over again.

Team building lessons: Encourages coordination/synchronization, cooperation, and leadership.

Like the pixel challenge, each team member is challenged to build a small pyramid with the materials provided to them. Each small pyramid will have a particular design on a pre-defined theme. Stationery items will be handed over to them before the competition. Finally, each small pyramid is brought together to form one larger pyramid that will exhibit the overall theme.

Team building lessons: Engages innovativeness, resource management, coordination, and communication.

Inspired by the TV show The Amazing Race; teams head out in their cars around the hotel/city. Each team leaves the starting point with a map and a clue to the first checkpoint. At each checkpoint, they will have to complete their ROADBLOCK tasks. Once they have completed the task, they will be handed over a clue to the next checkpoint. The challenge is won by the team that solves all the clues and completes the tasks in the shortest time.

Team building lessons: Encourages leadership, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork.

Starting in small groups, your team will be taught the basics of samba beats and breaks. By using rhythm-based warm-up exercises, teams soon move onto real instruments. Each group will learn different rhythms. As teams build up their confidence, the groups are finally brought together for the finale and showcase a pulsating rhythm.

Team building lessons: Excellent activity for stress release and group bonding.

Based on Olympic ideals, teams compete in a round-robin series of games. Some of these fun-filled actives include tug o war, human wheelbarrow, sculpting sand, beach football, and so forth. These challenging tasks ensure maximum participation. The games are a mix of athletic and non-athletic competitions so that there is something for everyone.

Team building lessons: Motivates teamwork, builds loyalty, trust, and mutual respect for one another.

Body Zorb balls are huge balls made of a flexible plastic material that the participants can easily wear. They have an air valve making it a lot more comfortable. The game commences by members being divided into two teams. Participants of each team are then required to tackle each other while wearing the Zorb Fighting Ball. Contestants who succeed in tackling down all other members of the opposite team win the game.

Team building lessons: Encourages teamwork, decision-making, and your balance will be put to the test.

Teams are provided with a set of raw materials with which they have to create a model of a man-powered car. The process begins with perfecting the design and ends with the implementation phase. The complexities of this challenge include designing, modifying, and testing. Teams will soon come to realize that the race is not just about making a glamorous car. It involves a lot of micro-tasking, which involves designing a brand for your team using fiery logos and colors. Finally, the cars are all lined up for a head-to-head race down the track where the teams prove their mettle.

Team building lessons: Encourages time management, multi-tasking, and collaboration.