And the hits just keep on coming! Check out our top performing programs below. To evaluate your favorite options, simply check the box next to each program, then click “COMPARE”.

Corporate Crime Scene Investigation -the Scaventure

Here’s your chance to be just like Grissom, Willows, Stokes and Captain Brass as you take on your own Crime Scene Investigation, just like those forensic experts do on a very popular TV show.

New this season:

We’ve taken our immensely popular CORPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TEAM GAME and now made it into an intensely fun COPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION: SCAVENTURE!!!

In this unique, hands-on, action packed SCAVENGER HUNT your co-workers, guests, clients and friends will set out on a race against time to seek out the suspects that are hiding out in various locations throughout the designated CRIME SCENE AREA. The suspects locations will be revealed by deciphering a series of CRIME SCENE CLUES AND DECODER PUZZLES. Then through questioning, fingerprint lifting, suspect ID’ing and investigative speculation you will begin to determine the who’s, what’s, when’s and why’s of this specially designed CORPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION: SCAVENTURE. An actual CRIME SCENE will be created for you and your guests right on the premises of the place that you’re having your meeting, dinner or special event. Your groups then break up into several smaller CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TEAMS and take to the streets to retrieve as much information to solve the crime.

Each team will get to examine the crime scene, dust for prints, sift for clues, and find evidence to aid them in the CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION. They will receive information via suspect, investigation and other reports. They will also get an opportunity to grill the suspects if they can locate them. Each team then meets back at the original location to put the pieces of their investigation together and then they will get the chance to offer their conclusions and timeline of the events leading up to, during and after the crime was committed. The team that has the most correct information and the best presentation is the game’s winner. This event is scored on a subjective judging basis.

CORPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION: SCAVENTURE is part murder mystery, part board game, and part scavenger hunt all rolled into one only with this fun game your guests do all the sleuthing in this excellent team building event!

Cell Phone Scaventure

Looking for the latest, greatest scavenger hunt? The future of corporate play – we’ve got it! The Cell Phone Scaventure is an interactive scavenger hunt with a high-tech twist on conventional paper-based scavenger hunts. Instead of receiving clues on a sheet of paper, teams will register (through their cellphones) with our server at the start of the game.

During the game, all clues and challenges will be sent back and forth (via text message) from our short text code. Cell Phone Scaventure hunts are high-tech, fast paced and fully interactive. Each team experiences a different game path with different challenges and different opportunities to score (or lose) points.

Team’s also have access to a whole host of game-play features, such as texting in “HINT” to get help with a particularly tough clue. But be careful, each hint costs your team points! Teams can also text in “SCORE” to see how they’re faring against the competition! Cell Phone Scaventure hunts require strategic thinking and clever problem solving that will challenge your teams to think fast and work together.

Signing in for a Cell Phone Scaventure hunt is as easy as texting Your Company name” from any cell phone. During play they have 90-150 minutes to complete their Cell Phone Scaventure. Along the way they’re challenged to photograph and send in pictures, interact with live characters, collect objects, or simply answer challenge questions which are designed to be solvable only when the user is physically at the correct location.

The result is fun, great team out of the office, fun! The most fun you’ll have with your co-workers and just like you and your company, you’ll be on the cutting edge with the latest, greatest team building scavenger hunt available. What are you waiting for?

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.

“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!

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.

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!

“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…

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 currently available on the East Coast with full sets in Boston, New York/New Jersey and Richmond, VA. We’ve staged literally thousands of these events over 18 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.

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.

Ask about our New “Indoor Winter Olympics” available with new games including: Balloon Blizzard, Ski Team, Locked Snowman, Luge, Win, Lose or Draw, and the ever popular ‘Sled Dogs’. Looking for that hot fun in the cool of the winter? You’ve found it!

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.

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.

School for Spies

Teambonding’s School for Spies event is our enhanced, totally up-to-date evolution of our program formerly known as Spy School. 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?

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.

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!

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!

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.