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Your employees need a break every now and then, allowing them to clear their minds and start afresh - ready to take on anything. Whether this is by taking annual leave, finishing early once a month or spending more time bonding with their team, this is essential to ensure employees are happy in the workplace.
You can help this along, too! By taking your team outside of the normal work environment and taking part in team building events in Scotland, your employees will be raring to go when they get back to their desks for days, weeks and months to come.
All management teams recognise the importance of a strong team; it is vital for any organisation. A team building event is highly beneficial in bringing the best out of employees for a number of reasons. First and foremost, however, it is a great way of enhancing an employees skill set of working within and as part of a high-performing team.
In order to take your team outside of the usual working environment, there is no better activity than a treasure hunt - a favourite team building event for businesses based in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Keep reading for the key reasons why so many teams like yours have benefited from team building events like this, week in, week out, year after year.
Bring out Leadership Skills
Every team needs a competent leader who can drive their group towards success while making sure everyone participates and gets involved. It is a job that comes with responsibility, and the best leaders are those that take to it naturally.
In a game like this, every team member needs to have their own area of responsibility. This will give them the chance to test the waters in terms of leadership skills and come into their own.
Team building events in Scotland are planned by our team of experts in order for participants to enjoy themselves, and come away with a better understanding of not only their own skills but their colleagues, too.
A team needs to communicate with each other, discuss possible solutions and exchange ideas. On our treasure hunts, colleagues are asked to work together to achieve a common goal - acting as a catalyst in helping the subordinates and superiors break the ice and appreciate each other as a team all while having fun.
Treasure hunts require the team to think outside of the box as well as part of a team. Clues may be are related, they may be bogus to throw you off the scent - either way, the team needs to think smart to reach the finish line. This not only promotes creativity within the team, but it also encourages those who may not be as vocal within the workplace to come forward with their own ideas.
A treasure hunt is not always as simple as it sounds. A team could face several challenges before reaching the end point, throwing teams into difficult situations and giving a practical lesson in problem-solving to overcome the challenges faced.
As our treasure hunts are designed to encourage participants to think outside of the box, your team will be encouraged to approach adversity and setbacks in a way that they may not have considered previously.
As well as improving communication, our team building events in Scotland are great at boosting morale. If you have noticed a slide in results and that your team is suffering from a lack of motivation, taking the time to step away from what may have become a negative environment can make the world of difference.
If you would like more information on how you can book a treasure hunt or any of our other team building events, please get in contact with Team Challenge Company by calling 03300 04 09 03 today.
Planning your company’s next team building event is a fun and exciting time – you’ve got everything organised, from the venue to the activity to the participants, and you’re all good to go. So when the heavens open and the great British weather decides to spoil the party, this can understandably put a bit of a downer on the occasion.
As the weather can be so unpredictable at this time of year, you should always make sure to keep a contingency plan in mind, just in case. Indoor team building activities are the perfect way to ensure that your next corporate event can go ahead as planned, no matter what the weather chooses to do on the day!
Granted, indoor team building activities may not be the first thing to come to mind when you’re busy planning the ideal team building day.
Traditional outdoor activities and events like trust exercises, classic sports day events, and treasure hunts may seem more exciting, but this is because indoor team building activities have developed an unfair and unfounded negative reputation over the years.
When you think of indoor team building, most people will get a vision of a group of miserable-looking employees sitting on hard plastic chairs in a circle in a draughty marquee while the rain drums down on the roof outside. Well, we’re here to help you banish that notion once and for all.
In actual fact, indoor team building can be just as fun, exciting and enjoyable as the traditional types of outdoor team building that you may be more used to participating in. The opportunities for different events and activities are endless – just because you are limited to an indoor space doesn’t mean that you are limited in terms of choice.
Activities perfect for indoor team building days range from tried-and-tested favourites to brand new and innovative ideas.
Divide your group into teams and participate in a quiz night, or go head-to-head and work to beat the clock or compete against one another in one of our classic games mania events. With plenty of choices, finding the perfect activity to suit the individual requirements of your group has never been easier.
Each of our team building events has been designed with both fun and functionality in mind. Choose indoor team building activities to challenge your employees in an entertaining and memorable way, allowing them to try their hand at something new in a refreshing change from the day-to-day office environment.
For more information about our range of indoor team building activities, please get in touch with a member of our team today.
Winter is finally over and it looks like spring is here to stay - hooray! We all know what that means – Easter is just around the corner! Easter is traditionally a time for chocolate eggs, bunnies, spring time and family fun, but that doesn’t mean the entertainment should stop at the door of the office.
Embrace the excitement of the season and allow the Easter spirit into your workplace. The weather at this time of year can be unpredictable at best, so if you don’t want to take your chances with the great British weather, you can always plan some digitally enhanced team building activities instead this spring.
Since it is Easter, what better activity to organise than an Easter egg hunt?
You may think that Easter egg hunts are an activity specifically reserved for children, but there is no reason why you can’t make the most of the holiday within your workplace too. In fact, a digital Easter egg hunt could be the perfect way to celebrate the occasion while having fun and bonding with your colleagues.
Take your team bonding afternoon to the next level with some tech based team building and put a brand new spin on this seasonal classic! A digital Easter egg hunt is not only ideal for those looking for a quick chocolate fix but is a great way to bring the whole office together, too.
A digital Easter egg hunt works in much the same way as a traditional hunt, just updated for a modern audience. Using state-of-the-art technology, eggs can be hidden in a location of your choice. Then, when participants get close to the locations during the hunt, a clue about the hidden egg is revealed thanks to GPS triggered software. Once it has been found, hunters are then directed towards the location of the next hidden egg.
With tech based team building challenges, interactive Easter events have never been more fun!
Another popular seasonal alternative is an Easter-themed quiz night for you and your colleagues. Divide the office up into teams and really ramp up the competition! Whether your theme is about Easter or even just chocolate, there is always a way to make your next team building event more interesting. And what could be more perfect than gifting the winning team with a nice chocolate egg?
For something different, why not organise a fancy dress day in your office this Easter? Get everyone on board and see who can come up with the wackiest Easter themed costume. Make it even better by fundraising and donating all your profits and proceeds to a nominated charity of your choice.
If you’re really feeling adventurous, why not make a day of it? Plan a series of fun team building events for your colleagues that tie in with the theme to keep the Easter spirit going all day long.
Of course, if your Easter event has given you a taste for the success team building can bring, you may want to look into other team building events. From indoor team building activities with a digital influence to corporate days out, we have a wide range of team building events perfect for the individual requirements of your employees.
Contact us today for more information about the indoor team building activities that we can offer you.
In the workplace, creativity and innovation are at the forefront of success. New ideas have the potential to refresh your business and provide new motivation for employees struggling to stay driven and focused on the task at hand.
However, good ideas don’t always come easily.
Team building days are one of the best ways to encourage those ideas to flow, as well as providing a whole host of additional benefits to your team as a whole.
But what is International Ideas Month all about?
March marks International Ideas Month, an occasion designed to celebrate the importance of ideas. It may sound simple, but ideas are actually incredibly important and vital additions to both society and our individual lives.
Without ideas, it would be impossible to move forward and make progress, find alternative ways of doing things, and improve our lives for the better.
Sometimes, even the smallest of ideas can end up making a massive improvement to someone’s life – once you have an idea, there’s nothing to stop you from taking advantage of the possibilities and running with it.
Ideas are also essential in the workplace. They can lead to finding more efficient ways of doing things, refining processes, and working better with colleagues.
Creativity is also important – sometimes the best ideas are the ones that initially seem completely wild and off the wall. Think outside the box and allow your creativity to inspire your drive to success.
Team building days can help with the generation of ideas, promoting creativity, and helping your employees to bond and promote the sharing and development of ideas. Often, something as quick and easy as a simple brainstorm can lead to many various benefits for the entire team – bouncing ideas off one another is a fantastic way to develop them further.
Choose team building days to re-energise your employees and encourage them to get to know one another better.
Promote the building of positive working relationships through fun activities and challenges designed to test your team and allow them to develop new skills which are then directly transferrable across to the professional environment.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we offer a broad range of team building days encompassing a variety of challenges and activities.
This means that it is incredibly easy to choose a team building experience that suits your team, allowing your employees the freedom to get creative and start generating ideas to benefit your business.
For more information about our team building days and experiences, get in touch with us today.
Colour Code Analysis is one of the simplest yet most effective ways of developing a team through understanding individual personalities. Not only do you identify your own 'colour' but also that of your team members, allowing for the practise of realisation, reaction and response as you learn how you should treat other people with whom you interact on a daily basis in a working environment.
Through acting upon simple steps you can develop yourself and your team as a specific unit who understand each other's needs in the workplace and have the skills to provide for them.
The process involves the identification of individual colours of the four distinct personality profiles. Once you have identified the colour of a colleague you will undergo a process of realisation as you understand what their colour means about their personality and can assess their likely behaviour as a result of knowing their specific traits.
The next step in the process is to react to this knowledge and alter your own behaviour in a small way as you anticipate their actions and can then put this understanding into action and respond in a way that will be conducive to completion of the task and in a way that your colleague will understand allowing for effective communication.
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.
A means of classifying oneself and gaining an insight into the type of individual you are, your strengths and working preferences
Our MBTI workshops begin using a self evaluation questionnaire in order to define which of the psychological 'types' each individual is.
This allows identification of similarities and differences between individuals who work together, allowing teams to improve their working and personal relationships in a positive and constructive way, to avoid conflict and become more efficient.
A self evaluation questionnaire in order to define which of the psychological 'types' each individual is
Coupled with our own Experiential Learning Methodologies, the MBTI technology provides a balance of theoretical and practical knowledge. We believe it is precisely this fusion of styles which affords participants in our programmes the chance to apply theoretical learnings and individual development into the workplace with visible results.
The Myers Briggs Programme provides psychology based solutions to common issues within the workplace based on both individual and team levels.
A psychology based solutions to common issues within the workplace on individual and team levels.
The MBTI instrument provides a common language for interpreting interpersonal differences and with over 50 years of research behind it, provides one of the most relied upon methods of Team Development there is.
Call Team Challenge Company today to book your consultation for you and your team, with our fully accredited MBTI facilitators. We will work closely with you to create your ideal programme of Team Development to get you and your team where you want to go, this can be based on a morning, afternoon or full day programme.
In any professional workplace environment, you are always going to encounter a diverse range of people with different personalities.
In some cases, these personalities can end up contrasting greatly - leading to possible issues within your team. It is important to recognise these issues and head them off before they become serious, as this has the capability to divide your team and create a negative atmosphere.
Targeted team building events have the ability to combat such issues and ensure that your entire team is working together to their full potential.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we aim to appreciate different personalities and celebrate the varied roles that they can play within the team as a whole. After all, diverse personalities boast varying benefits as these personalities all come with different skill sets.
If everyone within the team had a similar personality, you would probably find your team being incredibly strong in certain areas but severely lacking in others. This is why it is so important to embrace variety and ensure that your team has a broad array of personalities across the spectrum.
Introvert or extrovert; expert salesperson, receptionist extraordinaire or IT whizz – regardless of each team member’s distinct strengths and weaknesses, once you begin to classify personality types, it then becomes much easier to start working towards creating a stronger team overall.
Psychometric Profiling allows you to identify the personality type of each member of your team, using a variety of different classification methods. We offer specific team building events focused around Psychometric Profiling in order to help you make the most of your team.
So how does having a team of people with different personalities work in your business’ favour?
People with one specific personality type will automatically be better at different tasks than others with a contrasting personality type. Therefore, if your team contains members with each different personality type, you should have an equal coverage, resulting in an even spread of strengths and weaknesses. This then makes it easier to play to each individual’s strongest points, allowing you to divide out tasks in the workplace accordingly.
Team building events that utilise techniques such as Psychometric Profiling are also essential for ensuring that team members understand one another’s strengths and weaknesses.
This leads to a greater sense of unity within the workplace and should help your team to work together and distribute tasks more efficiently.
Embrace variety and welcome the differences - with team building events this spring.
Give us a call on 03300 040903 to book your team building event today.
It is a universal truth that family is one of the most important aspects of life. After a long, tiring day out at work, coming home to your loved ones is the best reward there can be.
But what if you could go one better?
What if you could bring your family along to work with you?
Plan one of our exciting family fun days for your team to enjoy a day of entertaining activities with your loved ones and the whole office.
Create the perfect corporate family fun day, combining classic team building events with exciting activities that everyone will enjoy. The benefits of family fun days and team building challenges are many – they serve to motivate your team as well as teaching team members new skills that can be directly transferred across to the workplace environment.
In addition, team building is the perfect way to encourage your employees to develop workplace friendships; getting to know one another better and therefore creating a happier, more positive working atmosphere.
If your employees are bonding and working together well as a team, they are much more likely to collaborate on everyday tasks in the office, which can be a massive help when it comes to problem-solving and generating ideas.
Similarly, the same benefits apply when it comes to corporate family fun days. Family activity days are great for boosting morale and maintaining positivity in the workplace. Plus, if you choose to hold your family fun day at your place of work, it can be interesting for family members and children to see where you work and meet your colleagues.
Activities for All the Family
Our family fun days are completely flexible – we will work around your individual requirements to create the ideal event for your company’s needs. Our experienced, professional staff will be on hand throughout the entire process to help you plan your event.
From start to finish, we will assist you in the planning of your day, aiming to make the event run as smoothly as possible. If you don’t want to hold the event at your workplace, you can take advantage of our free venue-finding service, offering the potential to hold events in locations such as hotels and picturesque country houses.
When it comes to the actual activities, we offer an extensive selection for you to choose from. Including both indoor and outdoor activities, you will easily be able to find something for everyone in our selection, from classic games to modernised technology-based fun. We are always adding new events to our activity portfolio, so take a look at the activities on offer and start planning your next corporate family fun day!
To enquire about our family fun days or to book your next team building event, please give us a call on 03300 040903.
In the business or corporate environment, it’s a sad truth that often too much emphasis is placed on progression and competition. This is usually at the cost of getting to know your colleagues and co-workers, resulting in a lack of meaningful office friendships.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we aim to change this. We think that corporate events are important to enable people to make friends with their co-workers, as this promotes a healthy, friendly working atmosphere.
Colleagues that are also friends work more closely together, which can help with problem solving and in the creation of new ideas and strategies. It’s important to make sure every member of your team is valued and appreciated, and friendships can go a long way towards improving the general morale of the workplace environment.
With that in mind, you may not know that the 11th of February is international ‘Make a Friend Day’. This is the perfect time for your employees to escape the stress and struggles of work, and take some time out to get to know one another. Building and developing new friendships can help to boost productivity and make your employees happier while going about their daily tasks, meaning that you should soon see a happier, more positive working atmosphere.
Take advantage of Make a Friend Day and book your employees in for a team building experience with us this February. We have a wide range of different experiences available for you to choose from, including both indoor and outdoor activities so you needn’t worry about the unpredictable British weather!
Our team bonding activities and corporate events will allow your employees to develop new and existing positive relationships while encouraging more effective communication which can be carried across to the workplace.
Your team will be entertained and motivated, equally taking part in exciting challenges. Our experiences actively encourage teamwork and reward colleagues for working together to overcome obstacles.
A Wide Range of Choices
Depending on the type of team building experience that you go for, your team will be faced with a variety of physical and intellectual challenges. As they go about the problem-solving process, they will demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses, both individually and as a group. This will help you to identify which areas need to be focused on in the future, and ultimately will help your team to become more successful in the future.
Whether you decide to opt for a Crystal Challenge, Soapbox Derby. an interactive treasure hunt, indoor games, or something else entirely, the choice is completely up to you. Choose a team building event that will allow your team to get to know each other and develop friendships for Make a Friend Day this year.
For more information about our team building activities and corporate events, please give us a call on 03300 040903.
When you work in an office or an industrial environment, it is important that you collaborate and communicate with those around you in instances such as meetings, brainstorms and conferences, communication.
However, in the everyday office setting, people can come across as (unintentionally) unapproachable due to poor body language.
Here Team Challenge Company explains five approachable body language steps.
When we run our team building events, emphasise the importance of communication in teams.
Long before verbal communication begins though, teams and individuals need to encourage one another to open the communication channels; this is best done by emanating approachable body language.
You and your team need to make a conscious effort to appear approachable, and knowing the best examples of open body language will help you do just that.
So read on to see the five steps to approachable body language at work.
People notice eyes when they look at someone, and they instinctively try to make eye contact with whoever they are looking at or whoever they want to speak to.
If you avoid eye contact or make it impossible for others to make eye contact with you, you will come across as standoffish, anti-social or even shifty.
You need to be careful that you don't stare people down, but you need to look at them long enough to establish a connection and encourage further communication.
As they say, it is all in the eyes, so make eye contact a priority if you want to be considered approachable.
The easiest way to catch a co-worker's attention and let them know you are friendly, approachable and open to communication is to smile at them.
When you flash a smile, your face opens up, and your expression brightens, instantly making you seem approachable.
Subconsciously, we are attracted to cheerful expressions and smiling faces which are associated with happy and sociable dispositions.
It doesn't matter how much you sit at your desk willing your colleagues to wander over for a chat; if you don't look like you're available, you won't see a soul.
Now, looking available and approachable doesn't mean you need a neon sign offering free hugs. You just need to make sure your posture is open; don't sit slumped with your head in your hands or your nose in your smart phone.
Look up, smile and make sure people know they are not an interruption.
How you present yourself in terms of non-verbal communication and body language can determine whether or not you are seen as approachable or aloof.
Appearing approachable is not all about big smiles and wide eyes, it is about ensuring your body doesn't build itself walls. If you sit at your desk with boxes piled high, obstructing people's view of you, they will consider their presence to be an imposition.
Similarly, if you sit with your arms folded in front of you, your legs crossed and your head down, people will assume that means you want to be left alone. Remove these barriers and you will no doubt see a jump in traffic to your desk.
At some point, you will end up speaking to someone, whether you are answering a question or engaging in small talk.
When this happens, you need to ensure your body language reinforces how approachable you are. Don't shut down the conversation by avoiding eye contact or mumbling, and make sure you look invested and engaged in everything that is being said.
Nod to show you are listening and paying attention, and ask questions to demonstrate interest and encourage further conversation.
These five steps are just the start of how to be approachable at work. Some people are particularly introverted or shy, and thus use props such as a jar of sweets, to encourage co-workers to stop by. Others will simply smile and wave people over. It is really a matter of personal preference.
Of course, if you want to make a concerted effort to improve communication, collaboration and approachability in your team, you can book a team building event with Team Challenge Company.
