Corporate Team Building Ideas

Let’s face it, the usual corporate team building exercises are bland and boring. You’ve been put in charge of coming up with something that will bring your co-workers together and ultimately boost productivity within the workplace. However, you don’t want to be responsible for a boring day that was expected to be fun and light-hearted. Finding that balance of a constructive yet fun team building game isn’t easy and entirely depends on the people involved. Thankfully, we’re the experts. We’ve written this guide to unique and productive workplace team building games that are always a hit. Here is the ultimate Applause Entertainment guide to corporate team building ideas…

Table Sports

For Collaboration Skills & Team Bonding

If you’re looking for a fun and engaging series of team building games – Table Sports could be the competitive teamwork office game for you!

Table Sports consists of a collection of table and cup-based competitive mini-games otherwise known as drinking games or party games. Players compete for points that go towards an overall Table Sports champion team. Some of these games are…

• Flip Tac Toe: Players must flip cups until they land upside down before choosing a slot to put their cup on the tic-tac-toe board. It’s tic-tac-toe with a cup-flipping twist!
• Balloon Cup: Players must use a balloon to release air that pushes the cup through a series of obstacles and past the finish line before the opposing player gets their cup there first!
• Walker Bottle: Two players flip cups with each successful flip pushing the bottle closer towards the opposing player in a tug-of-war like minigame.
• Face the Cookie: Players must place a cookie on their forehead with their head leaning back and use their face to navigate the cookie from their forehead to their mouth. Each cookie to successfully enter the mouth counts as one point! If the cookie falls the player must start again.

If you’re looking to have your team mingling, engaging in a project and working more productively, a team building exercise might be for you! What better way to have your staff get to know each other and be relaxed among their co-workers than to captivate them with a competitive team building experience.

Murder Mystery

For Problem Solving & Trust Exercise

Why are Murder Mystery Corporate Team Building parties so popular? We can tell you why! Murder Mystery events encourage teamwork, deduction, analysis and listening. They’re also incredibly fun.

Give your team the opportunity to dress and act according to a unique theme/era like they’ve never experienced before. Nothing encourages mingling and team engagement like a compelling murder mystery work party. Give your staff a challenging problem solving game that forces them to work together but also pits them against each other! A corporate team building day can be productive AND fun, and a Murder Mystery team building game is exactly that!

Learning Workshops

For Team Bonding & Icebreakers

A workshop is a brilliant and often incredibly fun form of corporate team building activities. The problem is, there are so many different types of workshops to choose from. You need a workshop that offers values and skills that you want to rub off onto your team. Each workshop has its own personal development factor, but a great workshop will cover both personal and team-based development. A workshop that can get individuals developing a new skill while also encouraging them to work together is the best workshop. Here are some ideas of the best workshops we’ve found to be most effective…

• LEGO Team Building Activities & Workshops
• Ukulele Tutorial Workshops
• Team Anthem Musical Recording Workshop
• Silent Team Building Yoga Workshops
• Magic Skills & Magician Training Workshops
• Team Juggling Workshops

Corporate Trivia Night

For Team Bonding & Group Collaboration

Corporate Quiz Nights are a proven success in the group bonding, and more importantly, teamwork scene. These incredibly fun trivia nights are probably more on the entertainment side of things. However, corporate trivia nights still uphold a lot of the team building values you’ll find in the ideas above. The brilliant thing about a work trivia night is that it’s relatively easy to organise! All you need is a venue (a bar or restaurant will do), a host who can provide the game, and you’re ready to go! Quiz night hosts are professional public speakers who’ll come ready with a trivia night game ready to go.

We recommend Game Show LIVE! for all your quiz night needs. Our Game Show LIVE! packages make the process of planning even easier. With automated team scoring using an electronic answering tool (see below) Game Show LIVE! is the ultimate ready-to-go quiz night experience. Talk to us over the phone today to plan your trivia games night with the right host (or themed host) for your event!

Get in touch for more Corporate Team Building Ideas

Whatever it is you need to boost productivity on your staff team building and personal development days – Applause has you covered! Let us know the specifics of your event over the phone because we’d love to hear about it! For example, direct communication with our entertainment specialists will help us figure out which entertainment would best suit your event.

We offer high-quality and professional team building services in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Tasmania & Canberra. Available across Australia – we’d love to hear about your event and how we can help. To be sure your entertainment makes your event memorable, consult with us today!

As with all Applause Entertainment events, the entire planning process is simple! Consult with us today over the phone as to what you need at your event. We want to make it happen! Call 1300 261 545