Featured Program

Song Division

Song Division is a unique team building experience, uncovering individual creativity as your team works toward a common goal.

What our clients say:

“Once again, I want to take this opportunity to express our delight in the outcome of the Song Division event. It truly provided the perfect setting to allow the team to show their great creativity and obviously their inhibited talent! It added a most special component to the meeting!”

G.P. - Publicitas Americas

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The “Art” of Giving

Here’s a wonderful philanthropic team building program that enables your group to create beautiful multi-panel murals for placement in local children’s hospitals, nursing homes, family shelters, etc. It’s an opportunity to foster important team building skills among your own employees, while brightening the lives of others in your own community. We manage to instill a great sense of accomplishment while making the final artwork itself pretty much foolproof (this in itself is something of an art).

TeamBonding has created a series of graphics specifically to look great on six- or eight-panel murals. Each framed canvas panel measures 24” square. Once completed, these designs never fail to bring smiles to every face in the room. Your group can choose from a variety of nature-inspired scenes. You may also want to assign one team a teamwork-themed mural for your own workplace. Or let us custom-design something using your company logo.

Once teams and images are selected, we project outlines onto a wall. Teams trace the outlines, then paint them, checking with other teams to insure good alignment. Next, they choose a color scheme, another step that encourages cooperation between groups. Naturally, we provide all materials and are happy to help with any and all steps of the process.

While completed panels dry, all team members participate in a series of fun and exciting team builder challenges. Don’t let the laughter fool you – the powerful skills and tools learned here will go a long way toward increasing productivity and communication back at the office. At your request, we’ll try to arrange for a representative of the facility to accept your mural donation and thank your group.

When done right, corporate citizenship is a beautiful thing indeed.

Beehive Building

What if a corporate team building activity could stimulate employee teamwork while helping stimulate income generation for people in a developing country? Leave it to teambonding to find a way…in this fun and competitive team building activity, your teams test their wits as they embark a wild and wacky scavenger hunt. We at teambonding are famous for our creative, hilarious corporate scavenger hunts, having raised this pursuit to something of an art form.

Afterward, everyone settles in to the construction of beehive frames. These are donated to an enterprising women’s cooperative in Mexicali, Mexico that has embraced beekeeping as a way to generate family income. Your participation makes it possible for these women to produce and sell beeswax candles, honey-flavored baked goods, healing salves, bee pollen, hand and facial creams and more.

At the end of the day, you succeed in raising morale, stimulating cooperation and boosting motivation, all while making a meaningful contribution to a community in need. This really is one event where everybody wins.

“I learned that one must never underestimate the act of giving, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem. Building 30 beehives seemed like such a minor contribution. However, my husband and I later met a local Jamaican who provided a guided tour of the island. We saw firsthand the poverty and how so many live. We shared our Citigroup’s beehive-building activity. Our guide was so touched by our generosity and idea of Citi’s activity while we were traveling and he hoped we understood the impact and kindness of our contribution. However little it may have seemed to us, it was an appreciated gift. We wished we could have had the materials to build 100 hives!”

C.Y.
CitiCapital, Healthcare Energy Team

Build-a-Boat

It’s sink or swim time – will your team come out high and dry, or end up all wet? In this wildly wacky event, participants divide into small project teams. Teams are charged with the challenge of building a useable raft from a limited supply of resources (barrels, boards, and rope.) One key factor – all members of your crew need to coordinate their efforts to brainstorm, create and build the raft.

Once afloat, each vessel must be capable of transporting several team members, along with a team flag. Everyone will navigate through an obstacle course, out to a dock or buoy, then (hopefully) all the way back to shore. Here’s your chance to be Huckleberry Finn, except that in our version everyone wears a lifejacket!

We’ve also had tremendous success augmenting this program with an orienteering exercise in which teams must locate find the materials to build their raft. Think of it as the corporate scavenger hunt variation. Either way, our boat building extravaganza is a prime example of nurturing team spirit using levity and laughter in a safe but unfamiliar context.

Build Your Own Mini Golf Course

Whether or not you’re at home on the fairway, this is a great team building event that lets everyone get involved in a meaningful way. Your group is divided into teams, each of which will be responsible for designing and building several golf holes.

The idea here is to make each hole fun, challenging and conceptual – in many ways the overall approach is closer to miniature golf. We provide a rich assortment of tubes, pipes, boxes, lumber and other whimsical building supplies to put success within everybody’s reach. Once the final course has been constructed, teams select representatives to actually play the course. Other team members serve as official scorers and course marshals. Throughout the program, your Teambonding Master of Ceremonies and event staff keep everything moving smoothly, with sound and music adding yet another dimension.

The beauty of this program is that the entire course, as well as individual holes, can be customized to dovetail with your meeting/convention theme, company product line, etc. Customization also provides a nice opportunity to segue into a training session or group discussion.

Catapult to Success

Catapult your team to success with this highly involving design and build program. Participants are challenged to dream up and create their own fully functioning catapults, then fine-tune their ideas for maximum impact. Here, everybody needs to work together to get an idea off the ground. Your teambonding facilitators provide each team with a unique set of materials, plus a budget for buying additional items from competing teams.

Winning requires shrewd negotiation, effective brainstorming, prototyping, testing and fine-tuning. Above all, it requires teamwork! After teams compete with one another, we shift to an all-for-one mentality where everyone works together to create the most effective and efficient catapult.

Catapult to Success is a great choice when you desire an event that effectively incorporates cooperation, team problem solving, strategizing, decision making and team awareness. We offer an optional post-game facilitated discussion covering these essential topics, which of course can be customized to underscore your event theme, company positioning, etc.

Get ready to let the fun fly!

Charity Bike Build – Together We Care

We all want to make a difference in this world. Here’s a team building activity that offers a rare opportunity to actually make a difference, with immediate, tangible results built into the process. In a recent event for 1,100 people in Phoenix, our client came up with the perfect slogan, “Together We Care!”.

Armed with wrenches and enthusiasm, your teams race to construct the ultimate human-powered, no-gasoline-needed rocket – children’s bicycles. Meanwhile, other teammates are navigating fun, innovative puzzles and challenges to earn enough “money” for purchasing that last crucial part needed to make their team’s bike the first off the line.

The final bell rings. You wheel your mechanical marvels to the presentation/start line. Everyone is poised to present their bike and accompanying TV commercial when a door at the end of the room bursts open. Suddenly, you see the excited faces of underserved children from your own community! Imagine the delight and surprise that fill the room when everybody learns these kids actually get to take your new bicycles home with them. For most of the children involved, typically ages 8-12, this will be their first bicycle!

This is an extraordinary way to infuse a conference with energy, create a feeling of immense good will and a sense of meaning larger than day-to-day work challenges. We partner with charities such as Boys and Girls Club and Bikes for Tykes. Or we’re happy to partner with a local charity of your choice.

In typical teambonding style, we take care of all the logistics, making you look good while making the whole event simple and painless. Remember, keep this one a surprise for the participants – don’t spill the beans! The surprise value of the big finale cannot be overstated.

Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off

The searing flavors of this fiery festival guarantee that our Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off brings the five-alarm fun. Does your team have a fire in the belly when it comes to their chili recipe? Think they can bring red-hot heat and be crowned chili champion? Then step on up, partners! Show off that chili machismo as you vie for succulent spicy success!

Teams will start out with the basic chili necessities (the meat and tomatoes, if you will). Ye Olde General Store is open for teams to purchase more ingredients. But teams had better leave their inner-bandito at home. The sheriff keeps a watchful eye and doesn’t take too kindly to sneak-thievin’. Teams can also negotiate with the hombres from other teams for those last minute needs. But no tusslin’. Sheriff’ll ride you right out of town for that.

If your chili recipe is definitely blue ribbon material bring it on! Us judges have certainly polished our belt-buckles around a few pots of Texas Red in the past. Shucks, even got some stuck in our cookie dusters. We know good chuck. So make sure your chili is a true hot tamale! The Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off is both hot and chili con cool!

Negotiation, team building skills and good communication – not to mention singing ability – are all essential ingredients for success in this fun and engaging program.

Chocolate Company Challenge

Your group will feel like kids in a candy store throughout this delicious team builder! Every activity is built around chocolate, that magical delicacy long known as “food of the gods.”

We get everybody started with the manic fun of Full Contact Chocolate Bingo. Once your teams are properly energized, tantalize their taste buds with our unique “Chocolate Taste Test” competition, serving up everything from familiar childhood favorites to exotic flavors like green tea chocolate. The next hilarious challenge, Towering Chocolate, sharpens problem solving and innovation skills as teams work to build the tallest possible freestanding chocolate tower. Our grand finale – a wild building event that involves everyone. Defy laws of physics and gravity as you help Wonka, Inc. build a Bridge Over Chocolate Waters.

Program emphasis can either be competitive (just for fun) or collaborative (big picture thinking) depending on your group’s goals. As with all teambonding programs, there’s lots of room for customization. Tasty options include You’re in the Game of Chocolate, a fast-paced trivia game played either seated at team tables or moving around a giant game board. We can also provide a working chocolate fountain, something that always goes over well. Prizes? Aprons sporting your company logo or Giant Hershey Bars? Just say the word.

Wicked Good Chowda Cook Off

Attention chowder aficionados: you’re in for a seriously enjoyable team experience. Yes, it’s another incomparable teambonding competitive cooking event! This time, get ready for chowder: fish, clam, or corn. teambonding will bring all the groceries you need for a taste-filled teambuilding event. Working in happy, hilarious teamwork, participants turn cartons of cream, butter, onions, corn, potatoes, raw eggs, fish or clams into cauldrons of prizeworthy chowder.

Forget about calories, fat and cholesterol! We’re creating chowderous works of art here, attempting to bring rapture to the lips of each and every judge…oh, did we mention there will be judges? This is, after all, a competition. What team will capture the highest accolades? Who gets the best marks for working as a team? Answer these questions and more as you give your group an uplifting break from the day-to-day grind.

Whether you’re from South Boston, East Boston, Dorchester, Roslindale, Medford, Cambridge or anywhere else on the planet, engage your inner Bostonian and get cooking!

Clue: Live!

Clue, the classic board game, takes on a whole new dimension in this hilarious and intriguing Scaventure scavenger hunt adaptation. The mysterious Mr. X has been murdered! You have a pretty good idea when – after all, the body is still warm. But as a team of top detectives, your group still has to piece together the rest of the puzzle. Who? Where? How?

Get ready for a rollicking adventure as teams cover ten city blocks in search of all-important clues. You’ll uncover them in unlikely places like newspapers, answering machines, footprints and more. All the while, six costumed CharActors armed with even more clues are roaming the hunt area. Only by combining and comparing their cryptic statements will anyone be able to solve the crime.

Teams have to work together to succeed, but also have to cooperate with competing teams to identify the murder weapon. The first team to complete this final phase wins, basking in the glory that comes with solving a tough case.

Clue: Live! always goes over well, but for best results let us customize your event by incorporating company info, product info, conference themes and other educational topics into your program. Team building has never been more mysterious – or exciting!

DaVinci’s Museum Adventure

Now your company can experience the thrill of the search for the ancient Grail, complete with all the excitement of the best seller. This is typically staged in an art museum in your city (The Met, Getty, the National Museum of Art, etc.). Teams use detailed maps while interacting with the artwork searching for clues that will help them break the mysterious Cryptex Code. A great team building exercise that incorporates appreciation, intrigue and adventure.

Teams use maps of the museum which indicate where clues can be found. Your sleuths must first navigate to the right piece of artwork, then detect the correct answer within each piece. Once assembled, the full collection of clues helps teams find the key to the treasure chest hidden somewhere in the museum.

The climax occurs when a team finally gets to open the chest itself. This grand opening can take place within the museum, at a nearby restaurant, or at your meeting. You supply the treasure…we’ll supply the excitement.

Corporate America’s Idol

Presenting karaoke with a twist – your group, divided into teams, will actually rewrite the lyrics to familiar hits, then lead the entire group in an uproarious sing-along.

Each team receives a CD player and CD, markers and flip chart. The groups move to a secluded area, pop in their CDs and proceed to write their own lyrics to the songs they’ve been given. These lyrics will be transferred onto the flip chart for use as cue cards during the sing-along. But don’t expect love songs – as part of the challenge, the new lyrics must address specific corporate issues. Thus, teambonding can cleverly customize your event to position key product information, underscore marketing or sales initiatives, or create a highly motivational call to action.

The big evening performance features a professional teambonding Master of Ceremonies, plus all the trappings of a real concert. This can include a draped stage area, stage lights, smoke machine, etc. We also provide a large prop box filled with fun and funky performance-enhancing accessories. No wonder so many clients arrange to have their event videotaped!

The Corporate Impostor

Here’s a great way to add levity to your next event while underscoring information that’s important to you. We provide a top corporate impostor – these really are amazingly talented people – who works closely with you to create an impostor character. This hoax includes specialized content, along with a strategy designed to fool your entire group.

At the event, simply introduce our impostor to your audience as a newly hired executive, overseas director, industry consultant or expert in the field. Then sit back and enjoy the show. The speech begins very seriously, covering hot company and industry topics you’ve provided. He will be absolutely convincing, using jargon and terms specific to your business or industry. But after a few moments, the speech gradually begins sounding more and more ridiculous. The impostor starts to slip in a few jokes here and there. Then, things get down right outrageous.

Eventually, it dawns on your group that the whole thing is a clever prank. The impostor finally lets them in on the joke, revealing that he is in truth a comedian and a magician. What a relief! This is a great morale booster, adding a nice dimension the whole notion of team building.

Corporate clients who have booked the Corporate Impostor in the past include American Society of Radiologists, American Banking Association, BankEast, Community General Hospital

Compuvision, Digital Corporation, Fuji, IBM, International Medical Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance, Loan Depot, Quiznos, Reebok, Sheraton Corporation, Smart Foods, State Farm Insurance and Wendy’s Corporation.

CCSI – Corporate Crime Scene Investigation

The Game: Here’s your chance to be just like Grissom, Willows, Stokes and Captain Brass as you take on your own specially designed CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, just like the forensic experts do on that very popular TV show.

An actual CRIME SCENE will be created for you and your guests – yes, right on the premises of your meeting, dinner or special corporate event. Your group then breaks up into several smaller CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TEAMS. Each sets out in a feverish effort to be the first team to get to the bottom of crime.

Each team will get to examine the crime scene, dust for prints, sift for clues, and scout out evidence to aid in the CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION. They’ll receive information via investigation, autopsy, ballistics, and trace reports. They’ll also get opportunities to grill actual murder suspects (played by acclaimed teambonding CharActors).

CORPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION is part murder mystery, part board game, and part scavenger hunt all rolled into one. But with this wildly fun event, your guests do all the sleuthing. What an excellent team builder!

As with all teambonding events, we do all the planning, creating and legwork. It’s the best way to guarantee you a fun, engaging and wrinkle-free experience.

Cell Phone SCVNTR Putting together a great team building event that will get people excited, motivated and having fun has never been easier. With the the Cell Phone SCVNTR we customize a dynamic high tech interactive event that will keep your colleagues talking all year! This hunt is a high-tech twist on a conventional paper-based scavenger/treasure hunt.

Instead of receiving clues on a sheet of paper, teams will sign up, receive clues, riddles and time challenges and send in answers all though their very own cell phone. (Yes, any cell phone)

Using our intuitive online software, we build an exciting multi-player high-tech mobile game. Our technology works using text-message or picture-message technology already on every cell phone. Teams play via text message on mobile-web or even the iPhone.

It’s nothing like they’ve every played before! Players will be immersed in in a fast paced game linking real world clues and virtual interactions. Our technology will keep track of the scoring, routing, hints and dynamic game play.

This hunt has been successfully run for dozens of companies (including MetLife, Princeton, MIT, CGI, UPENN, Harvard, Campbell’s Soup, FSU, Robbins Diamonds and more) who’ve used the Cell Phone Scaventure to engage their colleagues, get people talking and working together and having fun.

Use the Cell Phone Scaventure to introduce a new product line, enhance team building efforts, or just reward your employees with an adventure they will never forget.

Change Management

Change is inevitable. In a challenging global environment, companies and teams need to evolve or die. This program gives you the ingredients for a successful change initiative and lets you navigate the tricky emotional waters when change happens, whether you’re in the driver’s seat or not. Help your people view change as a blessing instead of a curse by exploring practical tools and techniques to inspire them to become change agents.

This program encourages your team to collaborate when driving change and sets the stage for partnering on all levels to both take ownership of the change and unleash the collective wisdom and energy of your people.

In the Change Management Workshop you will:

• Learn why some change initiatives fail while others are successful
• Discover how to create a sense of urgency that energizes people
• Find out how to empower your people to take ownership and be change agents
• Discern what you have power to change and what you don’t
• Uncover ways to help people with the emotional side of change
• Learn what kind of communication is key to successfully navigating change
• Develop a change action plan that leaves room for unexpected change

Conflict Resolution Workshop

Edward Deming, the father of quality management, has said that people can face almost any problem except the problem of people. They can work long hours, face declining business, even the loss of a job, but they can’t deal with the difficult people in their lives. When individuals work together closely on difficult projects or to meet tight deadlines, it is only natural for conflict to develop. However, managing conflict appropriately can be the difference between a simple “bump in the road” or lost productivity and long-term animosity.

From conflict to connectedness, The Thomas Kilmann Inventory conflict resolution workshops assess styles of conflict in the workplace. Using the results of this inventory, the facilitator will show how natural conflict-handling styles can be refined. Conflict resolution strategies are introduced and honed to engender a workplace culture equipped to handle conflict.

The Conflict Resolution Workshops WILL:

• Initiate dialogue to prevent conflicts from peaking
• Encourage individuals to address rather than avoid conflict
• Show the progressive steps that most conflicts follow and demonstrate how individuals can identify these steps
• Provide detailed information about when a natural conflict-handling style is beneficial or inappropriate
• Identify proven conflict resolution strategies and methods
• Alleviate the fear, anger, and frustration associated with conflict
• Illustrate how to manage differences quickly and effectively

Corporate Survivors

Fashioned after the smash hit reality show, Corporate Survivors challenges your group not only to survive the game, but too survive one another. Through a series of fun and challenging tasks ranging from the silly to the intense, each team works to match their skills against those of the other groups. Challenges run the gamut from physical to cerebral, with teams competing to rack up the highest scores in all categories.

As the leader in corporate team building, we have a deep grab bag to pull from when selecting the perfect balance of team building games for your specific needs. A typical program includes assorted relay races, lateral thinking puzzles, map reading, mystery food tasting plus a hilarious obstacle course. The team with the highest score at the end of the final round is crowned the true “Survivors.”

Your event can be easily customized for all ages. We take great care to insure that physical challenges aren’t overly demanding, but this program can also be enjoyable with purely mental challenges. Works well either with or without a meal.

“Day” at the Museum Scaventure

Combining fun, adventure, culture and team building, here’s a wonderful indoor program that works exceptionally well on many levels. In true teambonding fashion, your customized museum scavenger event will prove both highly interactive and highly entertaining.

Once we divide your group into teams, we provide each with a detailed map leading to clues located throughout the museum. Working together, team members solve a series of challenging brain teasers as they work their way to the big payoff, getting the most points. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way! Brimming with intrigue and friendly competition, the “Day” At The Museum Scaventure brings history to life as it encourages teamwork and boosts morale.

Offered in a variety of cities, the indoor nature of this event makes it a perfect choice any time of year. Give teambonding a call and find out how we can customize your event to dovetail perfectly with a corporate theme, new product introduction, etc. It’ll make for a day your employees won’t soon forget, and the benefits will continue to energize your workplace long after the clues are solved.

DiSC Profile

Learning how to understand and respond to co-workers’ habits is essential to the success of a team. The DiSC Model provides non-judgmental language for exploring behavioral patterns across four primary dimensions. Having diverse traits within an organization is invaluable. The most prolific and efficient groups are comprised of individuals possessing a range of assorted behavioral styles; however, this does not often come naturally. Learning how to understand and respond to co-workers’ habits is essential to the success of a diverse group.

The DiSC Model provides non-judgmental language for exploring behavioral issues across four primary dimensions. This program, designed to evoke self-discovery, serves as a vehicle for open discussion and conversations that will transcend participants’ professional life. This program gives participants a guiding framework for understanding the behaviors of others and how to best utilize these relevant differences in the workplace.

DiSC will:

• Identify the strengths of the group and explore avenues for diminishing weaknesses
• Teach individuals to identify and appreciate the traits of their peers
• Show how it is possible to adapt our behaviors in the workplace
• Minimize unproductive conflict
• Show participants how a strength overplayed can be a weaknesses and how to work on finding a balance in their lives
• Replace poor habits and patterns with empowering strategies for communicating openly, honestly, and directly to get positive results
• Explain why you react to particular styles the way you do, and why others react to you in certain ways
• Reinforce the positive foundation of the group

Drumming up a Team

Imagine the power of your whole company making music together! teambonding’s drumming leader will tap your team’s creative energy while tying the music to your company’s purpose and content. Corporate drumming has caught on with a bang as companies nationwide embrace music programs to increase cooperation, develop problem-solving skills and build business harmony.

As participants arrive, each is provided with a drum or percussion instrument. The group sits in a circle and together participates in a variety of facilitated activities. As the group rhythm builds, the leader uses metaphors to illustrate how everyone’s input contributes to making music together. Key points include the concepts of listening, community building, connecting, and having fun.

This is a great opportunity for participants to exercise communication skills as they tap into a common energy that breaks down social barriers and inspires unity. It’s impossible not to become engaged. The rhythm will draw you in!

Create a global experience by adding a tribal dancer – or belly dancer to your program. Drumming up a Team is available on the East Coast and the program can be used as part of an integrated team building experience or as a stand-alone energizer.

Effective Communication

This program gives you the tools and insights you need to communicate effectively at work and communicate more clearly and persuasively with everyone on your team. You’ll improve both verbal and non-verbal communication skills and gain new techniques to help you communicate more clearly and persuasively in any situation. Unique communication challenges such as email and other virtual communication, as well as group settings such as meetings and presentations will be addressed. And you’ll learn which type of communication is most effective for different situations. Find out when and when not to use email, when to pick up the phone, and when it’s crucial to talk face to face. Build a more effective team by examining what your team’s communication triumphs and challenges are and brainstorm an action plan to get you all communicating more strongly.

In the Communication training you will:

• Hone your communication skills and help you communicate more effectively
• Learn how to match different situations with the most effective mode of communication for each one
• Develop an action plan for communicating more effectively within your team
• Learn how to make your case, whether you’re talking with a co-worker, your boss, or your customer
• Discover how to use body language to reinforce what you verbally say
• Discern what is being silently said when someone is talking
• Get a tool-kit of different communication strategies and techniques to help you be a better communicator at work

“Fare” to Share

Fare to Share is an exhilarating teambonding experience that ends in a meaningful and worthwhile donation of food to people in need. The program includes food prepared and consumed by the participants during the event and a three-part donation to area food banks.

To help your group better comprehend the issues of hunger and homelessness in the US, the program begins with a brief quiz on the subject. Participants will work in teams to answer questions which the facilitators will review and then discuss as a group.

Fare to Share has three components, with competitions and winners from each!

The Cooking Competition includes appetizers consumed by participants, as well as the hot food preparation that will be donated to a local soup kitchen. Teams will compete to see who prepares the “best” dish in the eyes of our culinary judges.

The Great PB & J Challenge involves teams working together to make and package up to 20 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches per team. After being bagged with other nutritional snacks, they will be ready to be distributed at a local soup kitchen or street food distribution program. Part of the challenge is that the participants will be making their own peanut butter from scratch!

Food Bag Donation has participants completing three challenges to earn the supplies needed to assemble a bag of household food items for area families. Teams will need to earn a reusable tote bag to put the food in, materials to decorate the bag, and the food to place in the bag. The teams will also write a personal letter that will accompany the food bag, which is given to a local family in need.

When possible, the staff from the benefiting organization will be on hand to receive the donations and convey thanks and appreciation from the organization. What a great way to build your team – and give back to the community!

Game Show Mania

Every night, millions of TV viewers play along with their favorite game shows. Buying a vowel. Blurting out answers. It’s as American as baseball and apple pie. So, for 50 points, what’s a great way to make your next meeting or party a hit? Let us bring you the fast-paced live action and Hollywood-style showmanship of Game Show Mania directly to you!

Game Show Mania includes a dynamic, engaging host who will bring you and your guests up as contestants in groups of four. Once you’re up on stage, it’s a fantasy come true as you participate in a real game show. You’ll have fun answering trivia questions, playing Name that tune, Remember This and more. Questions can come from our trivia library, or we can create a show custom-tailored to your event with questions and answers based around your organization or conference theme.

This is a sure-fire way to turn an average event into something big. teambonding emcees and facilitators are the best in the business, and lend an air of unmatched professionalism to your program. As with many of our programs, we offer an optional debrief focused on recognizing and leveraging team strengths.

Give & Let Give Scaventure

The More you Give, the More you Get

As a longtime pioneer in the art of corporate team building, we at TeamBonding are in a unique position to spot important trends in our industry, even as we help steer and define those trends. Showing up front and center in our crystal ball right now is a whole range of fun stuff known as “philanthropic teambuilding.” A classic win-win, this approach provides countless benefits to your organization and coworkers while allowing you to give back to your community in meaningful and satisfying ways.

Facing new challenges together can provide incredible boosts in morale, creative problem solving and ability to embrace change as a team. The fact that a charity benefits from your event is icing on the cake.

As with all TeamBonding events, each Give and Let Give hunt is very much a customized affair. Let us know exactly what you want to accomplish, and we’ll recommend two or three of the following activities. Each builds on events that have already proven themselves as winners time and time again.

Random Acts of Kindness

Teams complete challenges of Random Acts of Kindness, each with a point value creating a real win-win situation.

Bartering It Up for Charity

This one was inspired by the Canadian fellow who began with a single red paper clip and, through series of trades, ended up with a house.

Sing For Your Supper!

In another refreshingly different experience, this event raises money and awareness for the charity of your choice by having members of your organization perform in public.

Paint The Town Green

This really encompasses a range of fun and eco-friendly activities.

Your Give & Let Give Philanthropic Scaventure includes friendly competition, the use of our digital cameras, an expertly-moderated debriefing session, plus a downloadable slide show.

Go GREEN Racing

The environment and global warming have become much-publicized topics over the last several years. Given this increased focus, TeamBonding has raced to create an activity that showcases the importance of recycling and energy conservation.

READY…SET…GOOOOOO GREEN!!! Within the two-hour activity, teams will be tasked with creating solar cars from kits provided, and also building cars from materials used and thrown away everyday by millions of Americans. The solar cars will be put to the test and judged for performance, while the recycled cars will be built for speed! The event concludes with a round robin drag race tournament to determine which car is the fastest! Teams are racing against the clock to complete both cars and take home the checkered flag. The real winning team, however, is unveiled after the competition.

Teambonding partners with local schools to donate both the solar cars created during the event, as well as new solar car kits and a solar classroom curriculum to area students. These cars and new car kits will be used by the schools to further emphasize the importance of energy conservation and alternative methods of transportation as well as foster creativity and innovation within the classroom.

GPS Powered Teambonding

Presenting a uniquely high-tech team building event and scavenger hunt that makes an extremely effective team building activity. Our teambonding GPS Scaventure is an innovative adventure based on the hot new sport of geocaching. It’s a Scaventure gone high tech!

Using handheld GPS (Global Positioning System) units, your teams crack codes, solve riddles and complete mini missions. Success requires a blend of participants’ innate abilities and individual skills along with the high tech capabilities of GPS, cell phones, digital cameras, maps, and hidden clues. Customized to support and accomplish your specific goals, your GPS Scaventure will challenge creativity, intelligence and communication skills, reinforcing essential teamwork skills every step of the way.

To give you a sense of how far we’ll go, the “Build-a-Robot” GPS hunt, featured robot parts hidden throughout a conference center. Teams had to determine which parts were needed to develop a product ready for sale, create a marketing plan and more. Seriously – the sky’s the limit.

The Great Appetizer Challenge

If you are looking for an event that is similar to our other great culinary programs, but a bit shorter in duration, we’ll love our Great Appetizer Challenge. Your group will tour the world by preparing hors d’oeuvres from every corner of the globe.

As with all our Recipe For Success events, there will be many challenges to meet along the way that will require a high level of communication and collaboration to successfully complete your tasks. Through the use of food preparation, your team will realize their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team.

The group is divided into teams. Each team is challenged to create appetizers that look great and taste even great (no pigs in a blanket here). We provide all of the necessary ingredients, utensils, and recipes.

Once completed, all of the tempting creations will be showcased on a Grand Buffet for all participants to share and enjoy. In the events finale, the judges will select a champion based on taste, presentation, team work, and leadership.

The Great Limousine Scaventure Hunt

Ready to ride in style while fostering employee morale and teamwork? Hop in! Your group is divided into teams of six to eight. Armed with digital cameras and a custom-designed scavenger list, each team navigates their personal stretch limo as they set out to capture themselves on film with as many items from their list as the three-hour time limit allows. Will your team choose the easy finds, or those that are worth more points? Will you go the extra mile and create an item of your own?

At the end of the adventure, your whole group comes back laughing, ready to share great stories and great morale. A team-building module can be added to the hunt as a way to incorporate additional team challenges, custom corporate information and/or conference themes. A trained facilitator can tie it all together in an optional debrief. As an added bonus, you’ll have fun photos to post in the office or on a company web site.

This popular team building exercise is cleverly disguised as pure fun, but there are countless lasting benefits your team will bring back to the workplace. No wonder the Ringling Bros circus clowns chose this freewheeling event when they decided it was their turn to laugh!

Habitat For Humanity

Teambonding offers an innovative and exciting activity that allows corporate groups to give back to Habitat for Humanity and its new home beneficiaries. This is for companies that cannot travel or do not have a full day to donate to Habitat to build a home. This task-oriented activity calls on teams to use financial management, time management, and skills analysis to complete their tasks and earn the most money, while simultaneously designing and constructing home décor items for new Habitat homeowners that will soon move into their first homes. These gifts will be the first housewarming gifts families will receive, and will go a long way toward turning a beneficiary’s new house into a home!

This is a fun, competitive team building activity, involving a series of team-oriented challenges that result in the construction of mailboxes and birdhouses for donation to Habitat for Humanity. Teams of 10 will arrive at their tables to find a picture (if available) and last name of a family that will be benefiting from a Habitat home in the coming year.

teambonding is delighted to help support Habitat for Humanity with this innovative program and a cash donation per team. Your employee involvement also supports via a financial investment in its operations, ensuring that it can continue to provide homes to those in greatest need.

*If you’d like to contribute to a local Habitat affiliate in your community, ask about how this activity can be adapted for you.

Hair Razing Race

Inspired by the popular TV show “Amazing Race,” this fast-paced team building event challenges team to navigate a series of ‘detours’ and ‘roadblocks’ as they race to complete the circuit. This involves solving clues, collecting bonus items and completing humorous team tasks along the way, all with healthy doses of laughter thrown in.

Highly customizable, the Hair Razing Race works well with forms of transportation ranging from public transport, trolley, or chauffeured limousine to participants’ own feet. Whatever you end up choosing, your fun-filled program will effectively encourage team planning, communication, problem solving, strategic thinking and observation skills. The routes can be themed to include historic sites, major landmarks, and other places on of interest. Or let us design it in your company’s own backyard.

The Race is set up so that teams can choose those best suited to perform each task. This means nobody is forced to do anything they’re not comfortable with, yet everyone gets the opportunity to try something new and challenging. Teams really have to pull together, communicate and rely on each other’s strengths to emerge victorious. But teamwork has never been so fun and easy!

Hooray for Hollywood!

Presenting a hilarious, highly customized murder mystery served with a Hollywood twist. The plot: famous director Rudy Von Hessel (actually a teambonding CharActor) arrives with his entourage of filmmaking talent. His leading lady, the gorgeous, talented and fully self-absorbed Angela Thorne, accompanies him. Von Hessel’s much married and harried producer, Barbara “Babs” Moneybaggs, spends all her time trying to keep Angela happy, but fails miserably. Rudy announces to your group that with the help of his talented staff, he’s ready to be holding auditions for roles in a film about your company.

Based on prearranged information about your organization and group, our CharActors will have the room howling with laughter as various people are called up to audition for the roles of fellow employees, or even to play themselves. The event takes a dark and mysterious turn as the cast of the film is announced –Babs makes a toast to their success, and suddenly dies! Yes, it seems someone has poisoned Babs Moneybaggs.

A detective (yet another CharActor) arrives armed with plenty of clues. But it’s going to take personalized info from your organization to really fill in all the pieces. You’ll scream (with laughter). You’ll cry (for help). Murder has never been this stylish – or this much fun.

Hooray For Hollywood is a great team building event over a lunch or dinner function, and makes for a killer party. You’ll never look at Angela from Customer Service the same way again…

Ice Cream Making Challenge

Turning raw ingredients into sweet and delectable ice cream requires expertise, precision and creativity. It’s a fascinating process that will require all of your team and leadership skills to be put into action.

The Ice Cream Making Challenge combines the knowledge gained from various expert workshops with the unique experiential facilitation of Teambonding to produce an unforgettable and delicious team-building adventure.

The large group will be divided into competitive teams of 4 to 6 participants. Participants must leave their team to gain expertise in one specific ice cream making skill including recipe basics, waffle cone making, equipment instructions, and marketing fundamentals. Teams will then be challenged to bring together their new skills and develop a brand new ice cream flavor. Teams must present their new flavor to our panel of judges and one team will be recognized as the “Ice Cream Making Champions.” All participants will be “winners” as they enjoy their ice cream and homemade waffle cones during the awards ceremony

Ice Sculpting

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: no, we don’t do ice sculpting with chain saws. teambonding is known for stretching the boundaries of fun, but even we have our limits. What you do get is an interesting, out-of-the-ordinary team building experience that serves as a great…uh…icebreaker. Seriously, this is a cool thing most people have never done before, and everybody tends to really enjoy it.

So how does it work? Participants to split up into teams, their ultimate goal being to sculpt a big block of ice into a masterpiece, demonstrating just how powerful frozen water (and teamwork) can be. Once teams are assembled, everybody gets to watch an impressive demonstration by a genuine Mater Ice Sculptor. Your group will learn all about the tools and techniques required. Teams then get right to work. Each group is charged with the task of planning, designing, building, displaying and lighting their very own ice sculpture.

The results are fun, funny, and sometimes pretty impressive. As with all of our events, you get the famous teambonding touch – our facilitators are very good at engaging hearts and minds, and laughter is one of our secret weapons. For an additional fee, you can even have the Master Sculptor carve special sculptures like your company logo, a bust of the CEO, or whatever. Note: this event is surprisingly flexible and portable!

In the Company of Killers

A truly custom murder mystery is the most unique corporate entertainment you’ll ever see. Which helps explain why this is our most popular mystery. Leave it to teambonding to combine comedy, mystery, music (a strolling musician) and audience participation into one exciting event completely for and about your company.

You and your guests begin by meeting four of the most outlandish and interesting characters you’ve ever seen. Motives pop up. Clues are discovered. Then, suddenly, a murder occurs! Now the fun really begins. Who committed this terrible crime? You’ll get to question suspects as you work to solve the crime, and even get questionable help of our comic detective along the way!

This mystery is custom-scripted for your company – a simple three-page questionnaire gives us all the ammunition we need to make your event a rousing success. It’s helpful to know what your guests are like. Who may want to be more “involved” in the show? What will make this an event to remember for everyone involved? It all adds up to a personalized event that’s entertaining, funny and exciting.

Indianapolis Jones and The Golden Idol

Based loosely on the Indiana Jones story, The Golden Idol is a fun, high-energy team building adventure that sends your group scurrying for specific items and clues, all of which eventually reveal the location of a priceless stolen treasure. A true team activity in every sense of the word, participants are called upon to use their deductive skills, clear communication and effective teamwork in order to succeed.

This program is hosted by two professional corporate comedians (playing Indianapolis and the evil Baron) who also act as facilitators. Their animation and interactive comedy bring this to life and make it yet another one-of-a-kind teambonding event.

Challenges include interpreting cryptic clues, gathering key information and locating specific destinations. The comedic format is driven by the threatening arrival of Baron Otto Matic, the villain who has stolen and hidden The Golden Idol. The first team back with the correct location will be celebrated as the winners. A fitting reward awaits, once Indiana Jones has neatly dispatched Baron Von Otto Matic once and for all.

This event has been developed to fit into a specific urban area, although it can be customized to meet specific client requirements. We can also tailor this event to highlight key product information, or to dovetail with marketing or sales initiatives.

It’s Not Rocket Science

Astronauts and Ground Control work together on this white-knuckle mission to rescue the stranded astronauts and safely bring them back to Earth. Remember – in deep space, failure is not an option!

We begin by dividing everybody into teams. Everybody tackles a quick series of problem solving games and communications training exercises. Next, teams are further divided into Ground Control and Space Capsule Crew, with walkie-talkies providing the only means of communication. Each team must complete a series of mind-boggling missions, earning points based on their performance in each event.

Brainstorming and problem-solving skills are required throughout, as teams work their way through hilarious challenges like Team Juggling, T-2 Tower, The Electric Fence, and The Great Escape. The big finale, “Houston, We Have A Problem,” requires teams to draw upon everything they’ve learned together thus far in order to deliver six fragile astronauts (okay, actually they’re raw eggs) back to Earth unharmed.

Teambonding provides everything needed to make your program a memorable success – all materials, supplies and staff, plus video, sound and music to really bring the event to life. Cosmic danger has never been this much fun!

Just Desserts

The newest addition to our acclaimed Team Cuisine series encompasses all of the proven team building components of our popular lunch/dinner events, but concentrates on everyone’s favorite part of the meal – dessert! Just Desserts is the perfect choice for an after lunch or dinner program, or as a refreshing way to break up a day of meetings. Preparing and sharing these delicious treats offers a fabulous opportunity for bonding.

Your group is first divided into teams. The fun begins right away as each team comes up with a team name, plus a unique team cheer or rallying cry. This in itself can be quite hilarious, and helps set a tone of excitement and friendly competition for the rest of the event.

Next, each team is challenged to create desserts that look every bit as delicious as they taste. Every team prepares one or more mouthwatering treats worthy of a top French patisserie. Teambonding makes your job easy by providing all necessary ingredients, utensils and recipes. Rest assured, every dish will be made from scratch. No slice n’ bake here – your group deserves the best!

Once complete, all of the tempting creations will be showcased on a Grand Buffet. Everyone can now sample each creation. Then in come the judges. The day’s champions are chosen based on product taste and presentation, with points also awarded for the leadership and teamwork that went into each team’s effort. We can also customize additional judging categories to help underscore a conference or event theme, company goals, or anything else you’d like to emphasize.

A short debrief follows, giving teams the opportunity to share their team names and cheers, plus discuss what they’ve learned about working as a team. We find there are always important lessons that any group can implement immediately once they’re back in the workplace. How sweet it is!

Keys to Success

This high-spirited, one-of-a-kind hunt challenges teams to locate and open several special lock boxes hidden throughout the event area. Each box contains an essential clue needed to solve the big puzzle and locate the final treasure. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, there’s one slight catch: each box is secured with a different lock, and each team begins the event with only a couple of keys.

So exactly how do you collect all the keys necessary for victory? If you’re alert and have an eye for detail, you’ll discover some on your own. Others can only be secured through shrewd trading with other teams. You’ll have chances to win still more keys in a wild and wacky series of physical challenges. Past events have included rock-paper-scissors, three-legged races, even paper airplane throwing contests – as far as we’re concerned, the sky’s the limit.

This popular team building event helps bring out participants’ sense of humor and spirit of adventure, but you’ll also find yourselves drawing on important skills like organization, negotiation, and teamwork. It’s an extremely effective way to foster esprit de corps while challenging your people to rely on their brains – and their teammates – in a non-threatening, fun and funny context. In short, it’s a change of pace with a purpose.

“Make-a-Movie” Film Festival

There’s nothing quite like a camera to bring out peoples’ expressive side. And nothing like movie making to bring your team together and get them working as a team.

In this highly involving cinematic adventure, participants are divided into groups representing competing film production companies. The challenge: create the next Hollywood blockbuster. In some ways, making movies with teambonding is a lot like doing it in the real world – each team has cameras, a budget and a deadline. After a short briefing, everybody gets down to business. Teams need to allocate themselves to the many roles required to produce a hit movie. Who will be the actors? Who’s going to direct? And what about a camera operator, props and costumes, even a movie-house marketing group? Clearly, serious teamwork will be essential for success in this anything-but-serious event.

The excitement is contagious as each team screens their masterpiece for the rest of the group. It’s fun. It’s funny. And you can literally stand back and watch people loosen up, genuine smiles bubbling to the surface. It all comes to a delightful climax with a glitzy award ceremony, hosted by none other than Bill Colons, esteemed head of the Canned Academy Committee.

And the winner is…

Mission Possible

This fun interactive team building program is loosely based on the legendary 60s TV favorite Mission Impossible. The event begins with arrival of Agent Phelps, who enters with news of a top-secret conspiracy to undermine the group’s success. He conducts a witty “security screening,” asking participants to answer unusually probing security clearance questions. The group is next divided into Mission Possible task forces. Each is presented with a series of top-secret directives, along with all equipment required to complete their mission.

After a short but crucial planning session, everyone embarks on the missions. These involve a series of funny challenges such as clothing exchanges, jingle and slogan writing, fanciful logo design and providing superior “customer service” to strangers (documented on Polaroid film). Although the premise suggests a competitive event, these missions are designed to be group supportive, and the various task forces develop a sense of interdependency early in the activity.

Once the missions are complete, everyone returns for a chance to present their successes to the group. This is followed by a summary talk by Phelps, who draws appropriate analogies and lessons from the mission achievements. The key message: working as a team ensures that your group will never again face a Mission Impossible. Loads of fun, and right on target.

Understanding Personality Traits: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to Enhance Teamwork

Having diverse personalities within an organization can be a tremendous asset, and capitalizing on the types of personalities in your group can enhance productivity, efficiency, and creativity while decreasing unproductive conflict and radically improving team dynamics. Often times we see that the most prolific groups are comprised of individuals possessing assorted traits. Understanding and capitalizing on the types of personalities in your group can enhance productivity, efficiency, and creativity while decreasing unproductive conflict. When a group has a clear picture of the personalities of its members and harnesses the potential, you can radically improve team dynamics.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) begins with an assessment which indicates various personality types. It will determine the big picture composition of your group and highlight how different people react to the circumstances around them.

The Understanding Personality Traits (MBTI) Workshop will:

• Increase awareness of the types of personalities that make up your group
• Demonstrate how awareness of personality styles can translate into positive behavior and better understanding
• Show how a group is more successful if there is balance among members
• Clearly define personality types so that the terminology can be implemented regularly in the workplace, allowing individuals to address differences respectfully and productively
• Explain thinking, processing, organization, and decision making associated with each personality style
• Describe how self-knowledge of an individuals’ learning style and communication preferences can affect others

Openers, Energizers & Initiatives

Start up your meeting with a rocket booster of good group energy, and keep it going with Teambonding’s Ice Breakers, Openers and Energizers.

Openers are high energy, brief exercises that get everyone pumped up, mingling around the room, and quickly connected in ways that might take days to accomplish otherwise. Openers also set a positive tone immediately, and let people know that this meeting will be nothing like the traditional meetings of days past. Depending on the meeting’s key themes and audience dynamics, there are scores of Openers that are sure-fire successes for kicking off your meeting right.

Energizers are brief, interactive exercises and surprising games that you can Plug n’ Play at key points throughout your agenda, and keep everyone guessing about “What the heck is going to happen next?”

Energizers work best when they are pre-planned, and thematically linked to meeting topics or principles, and get people actively involved in expressing that topic through fun and upbeat sounds, voice, movement, and interpersonal contact. Also, Energizers give people a needed physiological boost, and a mental break from the usual meeting format.

Operation Military Care

Operation Military Care is an impactful program that will put your group through an engaging, team-building activity leading up to the final challenge – the care package assembly for our military heroes!

It all begins with the entire group broken up into sub-teams and placed in different starting locations. From the start, these teams are required to gather items and materials that will comprise the care packages. These items are spread over a large area. Travel is difficult as the team must use “stepping stones” (walking pads) during the journey. From competition to collaboration, teams realize that only a shared, concerted effort will allow the project task to be completed on time.

You’ll be amazed at how energizing and uplifting this event can be for everyone involved, and what your team can accomplish back at work after an event that pulls everyone together for such a rewarding cause. We offer an optional post-activity facilitated discussion, which of course can be customized to underscore your event theme, company positioning, etc. This is one project that will be talked about for months in the workplace!

Outrageous Olympics

Welcome to the quintessential corporate Olympic program. We’ve staged literally thousands of these events over 20 years. No wonder we’re considered the Zen masters of fun. Simply provide the playing field, and let teambonding take care of everything else, down to details like optional customized t-shirts.

From the opening ceremony (complete with nine-foot Olympic torch) to the presentation of coveted Bronze, Silver and Gold medals, teambonding delivers continuous high-energy fun. Teams compete head-to-head in ten wacky, wild, non-athletic relay races. All games are designed to build team strength, facilitate communication and develop problem-solving skills.

Imagine field day with all the bells and whistles. The games take approximately 2 hours to complete, beginning with the opening ceremony (including the lighting of the 9’ Olympic torch) and ending with the closing ceremony where the Bronze, Silver and Gold medals are given. The entire event is run in continuity and we even offer 2 hours of DJ service for FREE for your picnic.

We conduct these team building games as a highly polished interactive production like something you might see on ESPN. The event is hosted by an Experienced Emcee who provides hilarious play-by-play commentary throughout. We also provide a Head Coach who will meet and train members of your team before the event to be coach/officials. We will provide them with shirts as well.

We can also provide professional Outrageous Olympics coach/officials who come dressed ready to assist your teams and judge the results on the field. Every event also features music provided by an on-field DJ.

Partners in Crime

Join the Bumbling Bobbies for the high-energy, laugh-a-minute team-building comedy: Partners in Crime! Their warmth and good-natured foolery invite participants to let loose and have fun! Partners in Crime is 3-scene comedy that’s designed to be performed around a three-course meal.

During the intermission, teams are encouraged to create a solution to the mystery. There is no right answer! This is an exercise in creativity, and, along with using the evidence recorded in Scene Two, teams are encouraged to incorporate details from their work environment into the solutions.

Scene Three will reveal all the solutions! As a result of creating their solutions based on the evidence from Scene Two, these solutions often contain striking similarities, reveal shared experiences from work, and serve to strengthen relationships and camaraderie within your group. A “winning” solution is chosen. Prizes are awarded to the five audience members who played parts in the show, as well as to the winning team.

Partners In Crime can work with a luncheon, dinner or any type of meeting in almost any venue including boats, trains, boardrooms, hotel meeting rooms and lounges. The suggested audience size is 20 to 60 people.

Great Pizza Challenge

It’s official: pizza is the single most popular food in all the world. There are a million ways to make it, and almost as many ways to enjoy it. Now this delectable dish also provides the perfect vehicle for a fun, festive and delicious hands-on team building experience. Communications? Teamwork? Leadership skills? We serve ‘em up fresh daily.

Your fabulous teambonding facilitators divide everyone into groups as you ease into two or three hours of friendly competition. But there’s more to this than simply teams tossing fresh ingredients on a crust – your teams earn money by competing in a series of gentle mental challenges based around pizza trivia. It’s the perfect warm-up.

And once the goods are in the oven? Teams each get to name their Pizza, do a Pizza toss with our unique “throw dough” and even design a logo to adorn the box. They also create a 30-second commercial to perform for the entire group. As always, creativity and originality are essential ingredients! After everyone gets to sample each unique pizza, one team will be crowned champions. But this really is an event where everyone wins.

Whether your taste buds lean toward Chicago, New York or Sicily, or even something as adventurous as sushi pizza, everyone will come away smiling (and full). And the newfound team building skills will start paying dividends back in the workplace from day one.

Ask about having a member of the US Pizza team at your Upper Crust Team Building event.

Play to Win!

Play to Win is a half-day program featuring a customized combination of Ice Breakers, Energizers and fun Team Challenges. The idea here is that you speak with one of our facilitators about the specific approach that’ll work best for your team building. After we conduct a needs analysis, we will present you a detailed recommendation. From your perspective, the process will be both quick and easy.

Whatever we come up with together, Play to Win will have you moving around, but none of the activities will require anyone’s feet to leave the ground. All of the exercises present difficult mental challenges designed to help you achieve the desired outcomes regardless of physical ability. Each person will always have choices about how they want to participate. A very successful Grand Finale to Play to Win is the popular Pipeline game.

This is a perfect choice for creating team spirit and excitement while helping participants get to know each other better. A debrief led by our facilitator uncovers group dynamics, team strengths and communication issues. The group then brainstorms ways to formalize and maximize your communication and total team potential. A proven winner!

Icebreakers: These or others (but not all) may be incorporated in your customized program.

Playing Favorites

The facilitator gives topics such as favorite music and favorite pastime. Players quickly find everyone else who shares the same tastes. A mix of high-energy fun and discovering commonalties with colleagues helps people expand their relationships beyond day-to-day work roles.

Have You Ever?

Everyone is given a Bingo card with characteristics and hobbies personalized for your company on a grid. Find others who fit these descriptions, write their names in the appropriate boxes and get cry Bingo before your coworkers do! One of our favorite mixers!

Full Contact Bingo

The facilitator gives topics such as favorite music and favorite pastime. Players quickly find everyone else who shares the same tastes. A mix of high-energy fun and discovering commonalties with colleagues helps people expand their relationships beyond day-to-day work roles.

Quick Line-Ups

By height, by hair length, in alphabetical order by name in less than 60 seconds. Fast moving fun.

Cocktail Party

Pairs are given questions to ask each other and report out on later. These generate a mix of interesting facts and humorous stories. This exercise can be used with any desired depth of questions to help people get to know each other better.

Team Challenges

• Develop critical team performance competencies. The participants must work together and communicate well in order to succeed at the activities
• Create team spirit, excitement and help participants get to know each other better

These or others (but not all) may be incorporated in your customized program.

On Target

The group is divided into separate groups and given a task, efforts to deliver a maximum number of balls into specific buckets within strict time deadlines in the midst of a rapidly changing environment. As the activity progresses the participant’s find that they must challenge their own assumptions about competition, problem solving, and “the way it’s always been done,” in order to reach their goals. Critical performance competencies such as innovation, effective brainstorming, finding win-win solutions with co-workers and vendors, etc., are practiced and refined.

Picture This

You have some of the information but can you communicate what you know? Who will see the big picture?

Each person gets images that are part of a larger sequence. Together the group must decipher the sequence and get them laid out in order without any person seeing anyone else’s images while the clock ticks! Will the group see the big picture in time or will they get bogged down in details…or worse yet, fail to notice a crucial part of the image in time? This complex verbal communication skill builder has a powerful “a-ha” factor that makes the grand unveiling unforgettable!

Multi-task Madness

Participants develop a system to keep a record number of objects in the air as they move them between group members

Info Swap or Bust

Two sub-teams must work to achieve success in two separate activities; however, each team’s success is directly connected to their abilities to share their best practices with the other team.

Better Get Better On Target

In this high-energy exercise, teams are given a task with a tight deadline. They must develop and improve a solution through successive attempts. As the activity progresses, participants find that they must assign roles, clarify rules, and find ways to improve their score repeatedly. They also learn from watching other teams, and must decide whether competition or collaboration with others will achieve their goals more effectively.

Islands

The participants are divided into Managers, Experienced Employees and New Hires in this simulation. Each sub-group has its own tasks to perform, along with its own goals to reach. Just as in real organizations, they eventually begin asking questions like “What is the common goal?” and “Why are we not reaching it?” The conflict involved closely mirrors real-life dynamics participants face at work.

Playing the Blues

What’s a great team building event for boosting creativity and improvisation in the workplace? Learning to play the blues harmonica like the masters in just two hours! Our fun and friendly instruction teaches everything you need to know to get started playing the blues.

The fun begins when each participant receives a harmonica, Blues Harmonica book and multi-media play-a-long CD. Starting with the basics of how to hold the instrument correctly and breathe properly, Play the Blues Harmonica guides you all the way to playing with a convincing classic blues sound. Within minutes, everyone on your team will be playing a real blues song together. We even include the ancient bluesy secrets of bending notes, vibrato, vocal effects and more. The grand finale features your group as the stars: perform an original blues song that you’ve created, and even take home a recording of your performance captured on CD!

This seminar is specifically designed to help people realize that they can accomplish things they weren’t previously aware they could do. It’s an excellent way to bring co-workers together while injecting passion, confidence and fun back to the workplace. Retro sunglasses optional.

Power Presentations

It’s no secret that the ability to speak effectively in front of groups is imperative to success in the corporate world. In fact, research shows that doing it well can be the difference maker pertaining to promotions and upward movement. A successful presenter opens doors to countless opportunities.

Our Power Presentation workshop uses innovative techniques to instill confidence in even the most timid of presenters while honing the skills of the most experienced. Anyone who needs to stand up in front of crowd to share information, compel others to action, or to be persuasive will benefit infinitely from this workshop.

The Power Presentation workshop will:

• Teach you the specific skills vital to powerful and compelling presentations
• Establish the difference between “sharing” information and “presenting” it
• Demonstrate how you can deliver an action-provoking presentation on even the toughest of topics
• Use video as a tool for understanding how your audience perceives you
• Show how you can asses your audience and tailor your presentation accordingly
• Allow participants to define individual style and delivery
• Recommend the most effective audio visuals including PowerPoint, hand outs and more, and illustrate how these can be customized to your presentation goals
• Address the use of “special touches” including analogies, statistics, quotations, and more
• Offer tips for maintaining composure and staying on track when the unexpected occurs
• Identify and define the keys to keeping your audience involved

Product Pipeline

This spirited interactive business simulation encourages participants to work together within their small teams, as well as within the larger “company.” Each small team or “department” of 4 to 8 people works in an 8’x8’ area that is connected to the working areas of other teams.

Groups must use limited supplies (PVC, balloons, bamboo stakes, rubber bands, etc.) to construct a device that will safely transport the maximum number of marbles. The real clincher: each team’s section of the pipeline must interface with those before and after it. Your pipeline has minimum marble “revenue” requirement to meet. Pipeline departments also have a budget that they can spend on additional materials. Your designated marketing department presents a wonderfully creative pitch for the pipeline product before the final moment of truth. This diversity of roles gives everyone a chance to be included.

This is a great way to emphasize big-picture thinking, and clearly demonstrates how individual contributions add up to overall group success. Product pipeline includes a customizable debrief focusing on team effectiveness, communication, seeing the big picture, and time and resource management. Come on, let’s get the ball rolling!

The Progressive ‘Networking’ Dinner

Tired of boring business dinners? Would you like your group to meet each other in a fun, non-threatening way on the first night of a conference, or get to know each other better while enjoying a fabulous meal? The Progressive Dinner is just the recipe: a unique combination of fun, fine dining and team building.

Our “Cocktail Party” game starts the evening off right with a fun and energetic Ice Breaker for the entire group. Then, it’s fast-paced fun as you share a different table with different people for each course: appetizer, salad, main course and dessert. Each course features a table top game or exercise for everyone to do together. It’s all carefully designed to encourage team interaction and fun while improving team skills. Depending upon your group size, each participant will dine, laugh and play with over 40 new people!

The Progressive “Networking’ Dinner can be done in the restaurant of your choice (we can help you choose), a hotel banquet room, or even in different restaurants for each course. Our energetic and jovial emcee/facilitator leads all tabletop games and exercises, coordinates the changing of the tables and even works with the restaurant on the timing of the courses. Table hosts for each table are also available at an additional cost. A fabulous way to have fun, celebrate successes together or energize your next meeting, off-site or executive retreat.

Pub Crawl Scaventure

First, there was the pub crawl. Then came the scavenger hunt. Now, for corporate groups in search of treasure on and off the rocks, teambonding has morphed these two popular concepts into the only and one Pub Crawl Scaventure. Unlike other pub crawls, which focus mainly on imbibing, our journey includes mind games, scavenger hunting, plus delectable trivia.

Your teams visit up to five bars, learning fascinating facts about spirits (did you know that in Fairbanks, Alaska, it is illegal to serve beer to a moose?) and unique drink recipes. Teams will also be on the hunt for treasures like mermaid-shaped swizzle sticks and other bar memorabilia. After completing hilarious challenges at each pub, teams race to the next venue, where progress is rewarded with spirits and other prizes. At the final destination, each team creates and names its own signature cocktail, with samples of the winning drink provided for the entire group.

Pub Crawl Scaventure can be tailored to your city of choice, and further fine-tuned to fit any other specific needs or requests. We also offer a non-alcoholic version of the game, Grub Crawl Scaventure, which incorporates most of the same elements as the Pub Crawl Scaventure. Either way, you’re in for some serious team building fun!

Pump it Up – Corporate Team Building

Turn your next team building event into a whole lot of inflatable fun at a Pump It Up location near you. With over 150 locations across the US, this one-of-a-kind TeamBonding program is different than all of our other TeamBonding events as you come to us. Our professionally developed program is specifically designed to get co-workers functioning as a cohesive unit. We break new ground in exploring new relationships and challenging old ways of thinking.

As participants compete and play on state-of-the-art inflatables, they get a real sense of accomplishment and bonding. Teams explore the possibilities of learning outside the cubicle – where inflatable fitness, fun and team building are combined to promote teamwork, build trust and create space for new and innovative ideas.

Prior to your event, we will send you a questionnaire and our program designer will have picked the games and activities based on your group’s goals and objectives. When you arrive, your facilitator will be there to guide the activities, optimize outcomes and debrief your team’s discoveries.

There are dozens of team building activities available so it’s easy to customize a program for your group. Here are a few examples:

• Indoor Scavenger Hunt
• Build Your Own Game
• Carrying the Load Together
• Changing Places
• Team Juggling
• Trust Obstacle Course

So come on. It’s time to laugh, slide with Team Bonding At Pump It Up

Quest for the Holy Grail

Even after all these years, the search for the fabled Holy Grail continues. Give your teams a chance to find this elusive cup once and for all. This event does a fabulous job combining riddle solving, negotiation, scavenger hunting and strategy into one highly involving quest.

It seems King George has a problem. The Holy Grail, which is of both sentimental and financial significance, has been stolen and hidden by the evil Lord Kinsale. King George must protect the Grail and the secrets it contains, so he has requested assistance from your company. Naturally, the team that finds the Grail earns a valuable reward.

The magical Grail Game Board has 21 mysterious doors. Behind one lies the Grail. Using a variety of clues, teams work together using the process of elimination to guess which is the correct door. The catch? Choose the wrong door, and your team is out of the competition. Clue categories include The Written Word, Foreign Languages, Multimedia and Potpourri. Some involve trivia questions, while other pose mind-bending riddles. True to its name, the Multimedia category even requires careful listening to audio clues.

The whole event is challenging on many levels, loads of fun, and a great way to engage the minds of everyone present. This works well to create friendly bonds within diverse groups, and in the end everyone comes away a winner.

Let the Quest begin!

Go for the Gold – Record Breakers

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to capture the energy, passion and fervor of the Olympics within your own work team? Presenting a high-energy teambuilding event unlike anything you’ve ever seen before – 30 brazenly hilarious competitive events, 30 records to break – all at the same time!

Your group is divided into teams, each of which is given an extensive list of records to set and beat (regardless of physical ability, everyone is able to participate). Teams pull together as they strategize, plan and decide which records to go for. But there’s a catch – each team is attempting to beat the very same records. This means no top score is safe for long, because the team next to you may be working to break the record you just set! As the event draws to a close, teams gather around the Official Record Board to learn who scored the fastest, longest, funniest, zaniest, etc.

This laugh-a-minute program is definitely designed for groups who like measurable results, as every score is clearly posted for all to see. We can easily customize events to fit your company (example: integrate specific company brands or products into some records).You can also let different departments compete on different days, or even raise the stakes by competing against other companies!

Rickey Rackety Car Derby

This event is the ultimate in teamwork, skill development, use of resources and trust as teams build various styles of cars.

PVC CAR DERBY

NASCAR has nothing to compare with these racers! Your teams will build and decorate a car that will race against time and other entries to see who will get to the Winner’s Circle.

Teams are provided tires, axles, limited lumber and some tools. Teams develop a blueprint, build a car complete with chassis and body, pass a safety inspection and then “Let the Race Begin.” For the less physical folks, there is also a racing suit to be designed, as well as a team chant.

After the construction is complete, people-powered car race for the gold. Ingenuity and teamwork are the focus of this fast-paced event that puts the “T” in Teamwork!

PIMP YOUR RIDE

Everyone has a dream car: that one special automobile that is fashioned for style, comfort and speed. Just like on the television series, you’ll get a chance to “pimp” someone else’s ride. Your group will be divided into teams made up of planners, supervisors and builders. The goal: to build a model car to the “owner’s” specifications.

Each team receives a unique owner profile which outlines the car’s look, speed and budget. Planners will develop the construction budget, timeline and materials list for purchase. Supervisors will insure the team follows the timeline and budget guidelines, as well as assign various tasks and supervise the project. Builders will pimp the ride (perform the actual hands-on labor).

Teams will be judged not only on their teamwork, but meeting budget and building within specification. The final challenge will be a series of races on a downhill plywood track. Do you want to build consensus in your group? Do you want to strengthen communication skills while promoting a sense of camaraderie? Then ‘Pimp Your Ride’ – it’s the best deal on wheels!

Your program comes complete with sound, music, decorations and awards for the top two teams, plus all necessary car building supplies and tools. We also provide an engaging Master of Ceremonies, and enough courteous event staff to ensure that all goes smoothly.

Teambonding’s School for Spies event is our enhanced, totally up-to-date evolution of our original “Spy” program. This hilarious new version features more spies, super high-quality production values, plus improved spy exercises with the kind of innovations you’ve come to expect from Teambonding upgrades.

The nation’s most prestigious espionage training academy, the School for Spies, is about to hold its annual graduation. Everyone attending has invested years of grueling effort to become part of the elite group that gets all the glamorous assignments. These lucky few are also the spies who get all the cool new gadgets.

The problem is, there’s only room at the top for a few outstanding spies. So think of this as your final exam – the chance to prove once and for all who really deserves those international assignments, flying cars and big expense accounts..

Your group is divided into teams representing high-level intelligence organizations from around the world. Each team is armed with a briefing package including coded messages, top-secret passwords, audio tapes, electronic bugging devices and things too highly classified to mention here. Participants must break codes, follow clues, and retrieve sensitive information, all while pushing their mental acuity (and their scruples) to the limit. Some challenges require stealth and cunning. Others call on creativity and imagination. At least one features guns loaded with genuine rubber suction darts. Almost all require that you leave honesty and integrity at home.

We know of no better way to help your team get to know one another. This event is a wildly exciting step away from the day-to-day routine, and always filled with surprises. It’s also really effective at pushing out-of-the-box thinking. Let’s face it, success as a high level international spy these days requires a lot of right-brain ingenuity.

There’s a reason Teambonding is widely acknowledged as the absolute leader in corporate team building (lots of reasons, really). After just one School for Spies encounter, you’ll see for yourself why we’re considered the best at what we do.

The Story behind School for Spies

Back in 1998, Teambonding introduced Spy School, a radically innovative concept in corporate team building. In almost no time, the event became wildly popular. We found ourselves staging programs throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe, Australia and Canada.

Believe it or not, our client list soon grew to include the U.S. military, along with several real U.S. government intelligence agencies. We admit it – we were shocked too. Insurance companies wanted in. Credit card companies. Defense contractors.

In late 2004, our writer left and while he created the original program, we’re happy to report that in true Teambonding fashion, we have continued, to grow, enhance, and fine-tune this highly effective concept. As a result, today’s School for Spies client roster includes the National Reconnaissance Office, Goldman Sachs, Verizon, ThermoFisher and dozens of other teams representing many of the world’s largest and most successful companies.

Is your company ready to enroll in our School for Spies?

Secret Agent Man

Imagine that behind your company’s carefully crafted facade, your team is actually a fabulous international network…of spies! One of your informants has learned that 007 himself, James Bond, is finally planning to retire into a well-deserved life of leisure. Q and Moneypenny are now actively engaged in the search for the next Bond.

Does someone on your team have what it takes to lead a life of international intrigue? Can your people maintain cool heads in the face of unspeakable dangers? Are they willing to risk everything? You’re about to find out.

Things get shaken and stirred when the evil Dr. Maybe and his equally evil henchman (teambonding CharActors all) arrive to break up the fun. A full fight breaks out in front of your astounded guests. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, a murder takes place right before your eyes. Now it’s up to your group to figure out who’s behind it. And who’s that new Bond girl? Expect the unexpected as the mysterious Ivana Luvvayou and her accomplices compete to assist Bond – or die trying.

This event is incredibly effective for breaking the ice and fostering creative teamwork. Highly involving, and highly motivating. Adventure? Amusement? Assassination? All in a day’s work, right?

Song Division – The Sound of Teamwork

Everyone loves music – it transcends age, gender, class and culture. Guided by Song Division’s amazing musicians and facilitators, participants will enjoy the creative buzz of a song-writing competition, coming up with all the music and lyrics. No musical experience is required and the resulting collaboration will be performed and recorded with the support of our professional band.

Teams compete as they write their songs – who will write the next hit? The focus is not on the performance or singing (no-one is made to sing on their own, unless of course they want to!), but about creative, collaborative songwriting. It reveals new employee talents that many people may not have known existed. Get the senior exec to bring out her Janis Joplin alter ego, reveal the new Timbaland from accounts!

It’s ‘interactive entertainment’ so it’s a team activity that’s not too obvious about being team building. Great for the cynics and gen yer’s… The recorded song is the perfect takeaway and memento of the event and can be played on the company intranet or as a back drop at other events.

Forget the group hug at the end. We prefer to destroy guitars! Well, ok, not really…

Spy Hunt – Mission Accomplished

Spy Hunt is a high-energy team building event that encourages teamwork while boosting morale and camaraderie. Divided into teams, your group moves between a series of destinations by finding and following wacky clues, deciphering challenging puzzles and receiving information via tape, fax and voice mail. Each team is also armed with a top-secret attaché filled with maps, clues, schedules and crucial information. They’ll need to take photos, purchase merchandise, beg or borrow other required items and more.

But life as a spy is never easy – scattered throughout the route teams will encounter assorted secret agents, spies, hit men and informants (all teambonding CharActors) who may help or hinder their progress.

We begin and end your event in private area large enough to accommodate your full group. Teams can set off on foot in a wooded area, on bicycles, skates, rafts or even canoes helping them fulfill their missions. Spy Hunt is also great fun in a city environment, where public transportation can be incorporated into the challenges. Or choose to do it with cars, vans or limousines – the variations are nearly limitless.

Danger and intrigue have never been so much fun!

Survey Says

How well do you know your co-workers, company and company culture? You’ll have a great time finding out with Survey Says, teambonding’s hilarious adaptation of the classic long-running game show. Highly interactive, team-focused, unexpectedly gripping and hysterically funny, match your team’s minds to popular opinion in this corporate take on a timeless TV favorite.

Survey Says provides high-energy, wildly interactive team building. It’s invariably a unique learning experience for every participant. This event brings huge visual splash to your gathering, as all game show questions are displayed on a projection screen for everyone to see. Your high-energy show comes complete with a dynamic Master of Ceremonies, sound effects, music and animated lock-out boxes – just like the real show.

It all begins when you organize your group into teams (families) of five to 10 contestants. Divide them up by departments, or any other way you like – teambonding is happy to help with this if you choose. Remember, the more diverse your teams, the funnier the guesses – and the greater the benefit in terms of improved relationships.

Game questions can be unique to your organization (ESPN customized all their questions based on an actual company survey), or let us mix company-specific questions with other fun general-knowledge categories. Special highlights include the Buzzer Round, Get Ready to Steal, and the Final Fast Money Round.

A sure-fire winner, Survey Says works extremely well between courses of your company dinner, or as a stand-alone company event.

Tabletop NASCAR

You might remember the famous Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Now teambonding offers the same car kits, plus a four lanes racetrack with all the fanfare and regalia of a NASCAR event. Tabletop NASCAR is a competitive team building event that gets the entire crowd involved as teams design and build model cars to race against one another.

First, teams participate in challenges that earn them “money” to spend at the Auto Parts Store. They purchase the basic car kit, and can rent woodworking tools by the minute. Together, they must design a car, shape and customize it, and paint it. But the highlight of the day’s activities is the actual racing: heats which fold teams into three finals, so even losing cars have a chance at glory. The suspense builds as cars screech down the track in a series of heats, Semi-Finals and Final Championships.

Action throughout is narrated by our Track Announcer, backed with exciting music. Once final victory is claimed, trophies you’ve chosen and provided are handed out at a hilarious Awards Ceremony. In the end, everyone is a winner.

For team building at its best…ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!

TeamProv – Improvising for Success

“A course in Improvisation is the closest thing there is to a class in how to collaborate.” Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and president

TeamProv uses improvisational theater games for Team Building. Your group will play with your collective imagination through activities that involve creating simulated circumstances and relationships, throwing in some high stakes and making strong, detailed choices – as a whole group, in pairs, in teams, and solo within teams. You’ll support one another to achieve the goal of each game, cheer each other on, and succeed in a more creative way than you ever could have imagined. It’s the ultimate chance to learn by doing, explore choices and outcomes, practice for real life in a safe and fun environment, take risks in a fictional world, and succeed (and fail) confidently (while laughing).

Teamprov has been enhanced! This highly interactive new version features more small and large group activities including collaborative pair and team games, plus improved theatrical exercises for non-actors with the kind of innovations you’ve come to expect from Teambonding upgrades.

Clear the way for breakthrough thinking in every facet of your company’s operation. Remember – if you can think on your feet, you can also do it at your seat.

As with all Teambonding events, we’ll be delighted to customize the theme and content to support your specific goals, agenda and/or event theme. See – we actually apply the same creativity, flexibility and improvisation that we teach so effectively!

Team Cuisine

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we like to eat. The Team Cuisine team building experience is a fun and effective way to bring diverse team members together, bond as a group and learn more about each other through food preparation, cooking and dining together.

Working as a team, you get to prepare, enjoy and celebrate a serious multi-course gourmet meal. The idea here is to combine ingredients, dishes and styles of food from around the world onto one mouthwatering menu, to represent the diverse cultures, ethnic backgrounds and tastes of your participants. We focus on your group’s experience first, and then match the food to your specific event.

Team Cuisine is teambonding’s flagship team building experience. Through the use of food preparation, your team will experience itself realizing their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team. This program makes an especially great choice for getting everyone on board quickly on the first day of a company conference, or as a celebratory event after a successful project completion.

Choose our Teflon Chef™ variation if you wish to add a competitive edge between teams. In this version, awards are given at the end of the experience to honor every team’s contribution to the final outcome.

Team Teddy Rescue Bear

This is the original teddy bear team building event! Each team has puzzles to solve, codes to decipher, and secrets to unlock in order to acquire the resources that they need (part by part) to build a series of custom teddy bears.

Team Teddy Bear is a unique way to bring your own team together while providing priceless comfort to children who experience a car accident, house fire or injury. More than 11 million children are transported for medical care each year. A Rescue Bear given by a police officer or firefighter can be a powerful way to help ease pain and worries, calming a child significantly at a potentially frightening time.

Participants divide into small work teams. Each group must complete a series of games/challenges to earn team points. For the final thirty minutes or so, teams use their accumulated points to “purchase” all parts and accessories necessary to build a high-quality Rescue Bears. Teams choose shoes, clothing and props to add life and personality to their furry new creations. Even the bear assembly itself is served up as friendly competition, with groups racing to complete yet another novel but highly engaging task. Each group also makes a cape, handbag, or some other piece of clothing, which will be personally signed by each team member.

Once the bears are completed, they are presented to your local police or fire department. To maximize the event’s positive emotional impact, you can even arrange for a fire truck and/or police car to show up. The stories these local heroes tell can really bring your newly created bears to life.

Participants in this fun, challenging program exercise critical thinking and problem solving skills while taking part in a wonderfully altruistic event. For everyone involved, the benefits are truly priceless.

Teamwork Poker™

In the words of Bobby Baldwin (CEO of Mirage Resorts) “The only difference between a boardroom table and a poker table is the shape.” Leave it to TeamBonding to create a unique combination of Texas Hold ‘em Poker and team building. We’ve taken the solo pursuit of poker and turned it into a great team event that can be enjoyed by both novice and experienced poker players. This high-end program comes complete with professional poker tables, chips, dealers, a TeamBonding facilitator and a poker expert.

Teamwork Poker is an exciting, video taped, tournament event that will teach your group the popular game of Texas Hold ‘em while challenging them as teams and team couples. Your group will be divided into four teams and taught the basics and strategies of Texas Hold ‘em. Players will receive our Poker Guide to follow the training and to refer to during the tournament.

Face-up practice follows the training. Teams are then divided into pairs who will sit side-by-side at the poker table. Players will be moved periodically during the tournament to create new team pairs and to change the mix of players at each table. Players will also be issued Pro Cards they can use to get help from our poker expert during the tournament.

All participants will play in the tournament from start to finish. The final table of eight players will determine the winning player and winning team with prizes awarded in a variety of categories.

Teamwork Poker: Shuffle Up and Deal!

Teflon Chef

Get ready for the food to start flying as your Teflon Chef teams face off against each other in a frenetic culinary battle of champions. You beforehand which Teflon Chef battleground to compete in – Italian, French, Mexican, Organic, seafood, beef, poultry or vegetarian. During the cook-off, chefs race to complete a definitive multi-course meal.

Test your cooking, negotiation, bartering, and buying skills by best utilizing the puny budget allotted you. Buy key ingredients or hire our consultant Teflon Chef (who won’t cook for you, but will be happy to help with your team process and get you going in the right direction). The competition is fun but fierce, and speed is critical.

To add to the drama, the Mystery Ingredient Du Jour must be prominently used in all of the dishes. This magic ingredient could be anything from king crab, ketchup, or lemon grass to lettuce or lobster. As you might imagine, the results can get a little crazy – around here, foie gras ice cream comes with the territory.

A distinguished group of discerning and hilariously outspoken judges determine who reigns victorious. But regardless of the outcome, you’re guaranteed one thing – nobody will go away hungry!

Time Flies

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

Peter F. Drucker

Do you regularly find yourself saying “there are just not enough hours in the day”? Do you find yourself torn between the demands of work and your personal life? You’re not alone. People feel busier now more than ever before. Advanced technologies create new challenges by allowing us to be contacted 24 hours per day, seven days per week via PD, email, and cell phones. Shorter deadlines, competing priorities, and global business exacerbate the problem. There are, however, steps you can take to regain control of your “to do” list.

Our Time Flies workshop was developed after years of researching and studying the techniques and strategies of successful individuals and corporations. We provide the tools and resources necessary to place control back into the hands of even the busiest and overwhelmed individual.

The Time Flies workshop will:

• Define “efficient” and “effective” and discuss the importance of each
• Ask participants to ponder the question “Is this the best use of my time?”
• Show how to manage interruptions such as phone calls, visitors, and emails
• Reveal the remarkable impact of a proactive approach to time management
• Accentuate the benefits of long-term planning
• Provide insight for determining whether or not something is “important” or “urgent”

Treasure Hunt Adventure

This exciting new team building activity fosters group effectiveness in a fun, unique way. We’ve based it on the Scandinavian sport of orienteering (now an Olympic event), where participants use a detailed map to find flags in the forest. The teambonding version is built around a custom-made map of your conference center, and includes an industrial-strength dose of fun. This program can be skewed to be more physical or more cerebral per your direction.

The object is to find the key to the treasure chest. Your full group is divided into sub-groups, each with its own set of clues to find. Individual teams soon realize that the only way to locate the treasure is by working together. Some clues can only be acquired when the group completes a fun challenge. These clues can be presented as either Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy-style questions. We can also add customized questions about your company. Each sub-group’s immediate goal is assembling their part of the riddle. When combined, these add up to reveal a final riddle. The excitement builds to a crescendo as all sub-groups now join forces to find the key.

Since everyone contributes to the success of this search, all get to share in the treasure. This can be a token or memento of your seminar, a T-shirt emblazoned with your company or event slogan, or whatever you desire.

Trial by Dinner

Trial by Dinner is a hilarious spoof on justice that runs the length of your evening meal. The dining audience is plunged into an ongoing court session delivered by a cast of hilarious teambonding CharActors, complete with judge’s bench and witness stand in the middle of the dining environment.

Once all guests are seated, the prosecutor calls the court to order and bids the court to rise and make way for the presiding judge. The judge runs quickly over the docket for the evening, calling the prosecuting attorney to the bench. Before the various cases are heard, it is determined that a rigorous jury selection process must take place. Randomly selected members of the audience are called forward and questioned as potential juror. This process becomes a half hour of comedic interaction between actors and individual members of the audience.

All of the cases presented before the bench will be carefully contrived scenarios based on inside information you’ve provided teambonding. Each case features a damning presentation by the prosecution, followed with an extremely limited defense by the accused. The verdict is drawn from the audience by a common vote. Inevitably all accused are found guilty, and are remanded for harsh sentencing.

Throughout the evening, a three-piece musical combo neatly dovetails with the comedic proceedings, effectively creating a seamless and highly entertaining presentation.

Trumped: You’re Hired!

Donald Trumped himself has cooked up this exciting team building competition for your company. Are you up to the challenge?

The Donald apparently has acquired a controlling an interest in your company, and wants to see how smart, fast and competitive his new employees are. Your group will be divided into teams, and after naming themselves, will launch into a series of outrageous tasks. This involves a combination of wacky table-top exercises and some moderately physical tasks.

We’ve taken great care to insure that none are overly taxing, but all will definitely push the limits of any apprentices’ resourcefulness and creativity. Just wait till you see what your teams have to build the next Trumped tower out of. And top fashion designers have never had to make outfits out of this before! The Donald will judge everything the teams do. As the competition draws to a close, teams will be cut one by one until somebody hears those two beautiful words: “You’re Hired!”

Bigger than Trumped Towers. Brighter than Melania’s Jewelry. This is one team building event that promises to pay big dividends back at the office for a long time to come.

Urban Scaventure

There’s almost nothing more fun than a really good scavenger hunt, and this one’s brought to you by the Zen masters of fun. The experience is highly entertaining on so many different levels. It makes for a powerful team building event, encouraging strategy, communication, navigation and the ability to follow instructions.

Your group is divided into teams. Each is supplied with a Safari Kit including a highly original scavenger hunt list, digital camera, a map of the area and even a team mascot. We set your group loose on the streets of the city of your choice, completely customizing the whole wild adventure to your specific location and agenda. Throw in history, trivia and other customized corporate information, and you have all the makings of an engaging and memorable event.

Far from a garden-variety corporate scavenger hunt, Urban Scaventure features a liberal sprinkling of clues, trivia and hilarious team challenges. Based on your direction, teambonding provides a selection of fun and appropriate prizes for the winners, losers, or everyone involved. Bring it all to a wonderful close with an optional post-hunt *debrief by experienced teambonding facilitators or entertaining comedic performers.

This is a perfect way to see for yourself why teambonding is considered the acknowledged leader in the crazy world of corporate team building.

Virtual Teambonding

A vacation free from e-mail, cell phones, beepers and voice mail may sound like a dream come true. But imagine a workday without them – yikes! Whether we like it or not, the business world has moved way beyond pink message pads and weekly meetings. Welcome to the virtual world, where business is conducted via phone and computer and PDA. A big part of this world? The Virtual Team. We define this as any group that works together to accomplish goals without close physical proximity. Or, for that matter, any team whose main means of communication are electronic.

Virtual teambonding simulates a day in the life of a virtual team. From conference call meetings to e-mail agendas, your team must work together, though physically apart, to reach a common goal. Under the guidance of teambonding facilitators, teams race against the clock, sharing ideas and information electronically, in order to meet deadlines. As with any real-life Virtual Team, your teams will face financial and time limitations.

We offer several distinct variations on the virtual theme. These fun simulations range from toxic spill cleanup to building different parts of a bridge without being able to see the parts other teams are creating. Give us an idea of what you want to accomplish, and we’ll offer up a suggestion for the best approach to meet your goals. Whether it’s production deadlines, marketing plans or budget reviews, this real-time simulation helps your team develop new and innovative ways to increase productivity and profitability.

Note: many other teambonding team building activities can also be customized as virtual activities. Ask us about details.

Wine – From Good to Grape

Leave it to the team building geniuses at teambonding to come up with a competitive wine drinking event. Actually, it’s way more than that – imagine a competitive wine drinking event. One that actually imparts lasting lessons on teamwork and communication while improving company morale. But then, that’s pretty much why we’re here.

Hosted by a TeamBonding facilitator and wine expert , this program is a great way to learn more about wine in a fun yet controlled atmosphere. Your group will enjoy a combination of essential wine knowledge, informative tastings (white and red) along with friendly competition. A carefully chosen selection of wines is typically complimented with cheese, crackers, hors d’oeuvres and lots of enthusiastic questions. There’s even a spirited wine trivia contest.

And the big competition? Subdivided into teams, your group competes to see who can blend up the most alluring batch of Sangria. Teams also develop their own Sangria brands, complete with label design, ad campaign and jingle. It all makes for hilarious good fun and a refreshing break from the day-to-day work world.

Each batch will be subject to a blind taste test. Prizes go to the team with the best Sangria, best winery name, label design and ad campaign. This is a great team building event that encourages creativity, experimentation, and team support in the race to come up with the best product and marketing plan.

X Marks the Spot

It is now an undisputed scientific fact: everybody everywhere loves a good scavenger hunt. Each of our own highly original Scaventures is completely customized to mesh with a specific conference, meeting or management agenda. This is a competitive event that always goes over extremely well, regardless of the theme.

We typically begin with a briefing by your teambonding facilitator. This person often appears in character, helping to set a fun tone right from the very beginning. Generally we warm everybody up with one of our popular Ice-Breaker activities, an effective way to get everyone in the mood for play and competition. Next we divide everybody up into teams, supplying each team with the essential tools of the scavenger trade: official rules, answer sheets, maps, Polaroid or digital cameras and more.

Depending upon the theme of your conference, the group can search for trivia, clues, photo opportunities and more. We can also arrange for your teams to encounter hilarious CharActors along the way – anything from pirates to astronauts to archaeologists.

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of tailoring your scavenger hunt to help underscore your own goals. In fact, the fee for this event covers a full scouting day to custom-write the event for your specific location and theme.

You’re In The Game

Presenting fast paced, high-energy fun where it’s actually okay to feel like a pawn in the game of life. Imagine a giant, colorful game board – one that’s actually large enough to accommodate your entire group! Now imagine the music kicking in. The size XXXL dice start to roll, and game play begins. Your teams work their way around the game board, furiously trying to answer trivia questions as they complete a wild and wacky series of “team challenges”. But there’s more to life than being right – they’ll also earn points for team spirit, creativity, even enthusiasm.

It’s important to remember that You’re In The Game is completely customizable. We’ll work with you to incorporate any company trivia or other specific information you provide. Or simply let teambonding provide all the questions (and answers). We offer a number of specific themes, for example: You’re In The Game Of Chocolate, You’re In The Game Of Wine, or spice up a wedding with You’re In The Game Of Love. Or hit us with something totally new (we can take challenges just as well as we dish them out).

If you’re interested in helping your group soar to new heights of fun, frantic energy, this is your chance. This memorable team building event makes a perfect choice to kick off an off-site, celebrate a recent success or break up a long series of meetings. Get ready to roll!