Amazing Race
Have you seen the TV reality show The Amazing Race? We have developed our own team building version based on this very popular program. Teams compete in this unforgettable race, complete with detours, fast forwards, pit stops, roadblocks, route markers, and yields. Drawing from our extensive list of physical and mental team building challenges, our race experts will design a program that best accommodates the abilities of your group.
Over The Top Olympics
For countless millennia, the Olympics have created a sense of community, camaraderie and healthy competition throughout the world. This year our Over The Top Olympics will take that one step further and include side splitting laughter, wild and crazy competitions, and huge dose of team spirit!
The over the top Olympics will begin with the formation of teams, colorful flags and anthems. Once our Olympic community has been created, we will have an official torch lighting ceremony and let the games begin!!!
Charity Bike Build
Bicycle Building is an incredibly satisfying way of practicing the skills characteristic of high performance teams while having fun and helping others at the same time. The goal is to build bicycles that will be donated to deserving children within the allotted time and with the instructions and tools provided. The level of instruction will vary from team to team and bike to bike. Some of the skills that are utilized during this exercise include: team dynamics and communications, problem solving, focusing on quality versus quantity, and sharing data.
When all of the bikes are completed, the children are brought in and their bikes (plus helmets for safe riding!) are presented to them. The looks on their faces are worth more than anything money can buy! Charity Bicycle Build is a great way to get to know each other and work together as a team while leaving the participants with a profound sense of accomplishment.
The Great Scavenger Hunt
Each team in this fun, energizing activity is supplied with a list of various objects and a camera. They earn points by finding and returning the various objects on the list, maximizing photo opportunities, showing unique skills, and overall team enthusiasm. Teams are given a small window of planning time and sent away to earn as many points as possible within a very tight time frame.
BYOB- Build Your Own BBQ
In this sizzling team challenge, your group will have to literally build their own BBQ. After a brief warm-up, groups will have to catch fire as they are presented with a series of exciting challenges, ranging from mild to spicy, that they will absolutely eat up! Each challenge allows them the opportunity to secure more ingredients for their part of BBQ. What’s at steak you ask? Once the challenges are done being served up, each group will have to quickly formulate their shopping list to create a culinary delight to appease the appetites of the judging panel. Crowning the Charcoal Champions will be the last order of business before the smorgasbord starts.
Bridge Building
Here's the challenge: Your materials include cardboard, a tape measure, a knife, and of course, duct tape! Now, build a bridge using only these materials that will be able to sustain the weight of a golf cart driven across it!! Sound impossible? Most teams believe it is when they start the activity, but it can be done. This event creates a truly exciting experience for all involved and the celebration that happens as the golf cart drives across the bridge, is unbelievable! It presents teams with a next-to-impossible challenge that will leave them with a “you won't believe what we did” story that will last for a long time. The final team photo of the entire group standing with the bridge is priceless!
Formula 1 Go-Kart Classic
This is an event that people will remember for a long time! The group is divided into teams and supplied with materials to build a go-kart in a limited amount of time. The winner is decided in a hilarious race around the track.
Fusion Regatta
Here's the chance to see what's more important: Having the right people on the boat or making sure everyone is rowing in the right direction! A key customer with specific requirements has just placed an order for a fleet of boats. Each team must work together to build a boat for the fleet. The customer will be looking for a fleet of boats that meets their specifications, looks good and goes fast. In fact, each boat will be tested for its seaworthiness in a race around a series of buoys. Ships ahoy!
Catapult Building
Each team has to use their combined creative brain power to build a catapult while at the same time making decisions around investments in market research, equipment and inter-team collaboration. The task is further complicated by a limited budget, multiple scenarios and a tight time frame (just like work!). The activity has multiple levels which add to the challenge and fun. The pressure to perform is high, but so are the laughs as each team attempts to win new customers while maximizing profits and launching objects far into the distance.
The Mystery of da Vinci
Experience the thrill of the ancient search for the Grail with all the excitement of the bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code. Typically staged at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, teams will be given dossiers filled with maps, clues and secret decoding envelopes. Then, they're off…on a hunt through the world's most beloved art collection. Can your team succeed on their quest to solving the mystery by opening the cryptex and finding the treasure? This is sure to be a wild ride filled with intrigue and adventure.
U Build it, U Hit It Mini-Golf
Golf balls, putters and greens, oh my! Here's a golfing activity that everybody can participate in and feel like Tiger Woods. Create your own St. Andrews or Augusta National mini-golf course using materials such as cardboard, duct tape, cans, PVC pipes, plungers, sand, broomsticks, wooden dowels…and whatever else you can think of. Afterwards, all of the holes are connected and the mini-golf tournament begins! Anything goes as long as the hole is no more then a par 4.
The Hunt for the Golden Gorilla- Bronx Zoo
Early this morning our zookeepers were shocked to notice that the infamous Golden Gorilla and his family have been removed from their podium within the confines of the Congo Gorilla Forest here at the Bronx Zoo. At first, they were under the assumption that the items were taken for cleaning and care, which would be unusual in and of itself, but soon found there was a more devious explanation to the sudden vanishing.
Upon reporting the missing treasure to the Zoo Intelligence Agency (ZIA) they were informed that no cleaning was scheduled for this week. Through further investigation, the ZIA painstakingly combed through footage across the zoo covering the past 24 hours.
To their amazement, the ZIA’s surveillance footage revealed an individual who is well know within this realm; Dr. Fred Jones!!! Dr. Jones has been suspected masterminding some of the most heinous crimes in zoological history including stealing the infamous Sterling Seal from the San Diego Zoo and Platinum Platypus from the Houston Zoo…
Corporate Masterpiece
The challenge is for each team to recreate their portion of a customized masterpiece utilizing their artistic, networking and communication skills. We'll work with you to design a meaningful piece of art that incorporates your meeting theme, company message and/or logo – the possibilities are limitless!
Treasure Hunt Mission Impossible
With your carefully selected team of treasure hunters, you will trace a puzzling set of clues, find landmarks, overcome challenges, answer questions, and solve the mystery of the treasure. All in the quest to find the golden coin and hopefully, the key to the treasure chest.
Corporate Game Shows
Great fun and lots of laughs. TV game shows are adapted to reflect your company. Emcee and contestant consoles with electronic scoring and lockout signaling are included.
Fusion Chili CookOff
Who makes the best chili? You and your team will have the opportunity to participate in this great debate and unleash the fire of your restless and ornery chili soul. The Fusion Chili Cookoff combines physical activities and brainteasing tasks with a cooking competition that tests the team’s culinary talents. Teams are faced with a series of competitive activities where they earn “grocery money” that will be used to purchase ingredients needed to create the world’s greatest chili.
Drum Works
This event has been called: “A brilliant, electrifying and high impact team unifying session!”“An unforgettable experience!” and “Amazing! It left us with a buzz!” Of course it has, because music has the power to transform, inspire, move, and motivate us both as individuals and groups. It is one of the oldest forms of communication and a shaping force in our world. Imagine the effect of your entire company making music together! Drum Works is guaranteed to add energy to your conference, team building event, celebration, product launch, awards dinner, or training program. This interactive team building drumming process breaks down barriers, reduces stress, and has a great unifying effect... and most of all, it is completely unforgettable.
So You Want to Be a Star
Lights, camera, action! You and your crew will be making your own rendition of a Hollywood classic movie. There are numerous roles that need to be filled from, directing, camera man, and acting, just to name a few. To add more pressure to your “big break,” your movie is up for a series of awards including, Best Film. You've been handed a chance to become a star…will you shine?
Music Video Awards
So you want to be a rock star? We can make it happen! Teams write, produce, direct, and act in their very own music video using karaoke music, costumes, make-up – and of course- their creativity and imagination. Later, after all the videos are shot, the Music Video Awards ceremony begins. The videos are premiered, people cheer and prizes are awarded. Music Video Awards is truly an individual and team transforming team building activity that people will be talking about for a long time.
Record Breakers
Imagine a team building event unlike anything you have ever seen before--30 brazenly hilarious and competitive events and 30 records to break...all at the same time!!! Regardless of physical ability, everyone can participate.
Ultimate Fusion
Imagine a team building event unlike anything you have ever seen before – a competition combining the best elements of Jeopardy, Let's Make a Deal, and Guinness World Records. Teams must work together to complete a variety of mental and activity-based challenges to earn the golden key that will unlock their treasure chest. Nobody knows what is in the chest. Is it a reward or is it the gag prize? However, they may opt to trade their key to seek bigger and better prizes or another surprise. There's no room to watch from the bleachers, because everybody can play, regardless of physical ability. This activity combines competition with collaboration and creativity. Hysterical, outrageous, uproarious, side-splitting fun is guaranteed!
The Ultimate Game
Imagine a giant game board, large enough to accommodate your entire group. Divided into sub-teams, they work their way around the game board, furiously trying to answer company-specific trivia questions and complete "team challenges." Teams earn points for new team records, team spirit, creativity, and enthusiasm! The Ultimate Game can be played with 50-300 people.
Raft Building
A great event is guaranteed! Raft building is a great team building event, guaranteed to separate the floaters from the lead balloons! Which of your friends and colleagues would you rather be marooned with?!
Raft Building focuses on group dynamics, communication skills and leadership. The group is presented with the challenge of building rafts out of limited resources. They must work together on all stages from selecting their materials, to designing, building, and finally paddling their rafts.
This is a safe and incredibly enjoyable event!
Fusion Chef
There is something about cooking a meal and breaking bread that brings groups and teams together. Add a little competition into the recipe and you have a fantastic team building culinary experience. Playing the role of some of their favorite gourmet personalities, teams will compete against each other to select ingredients and prepare a gourmet entrée that will be judged by professional chefs.
A Night At The Improv
Modeled somewhat after the TV show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? this hysterical performance is performed by a seasoned troupe of improvisational comedians. Audience participation is highly encouraged. A Night at the Improv audience will provide a wonderful opportunity for people to laugh at themselves and each other in a fun and friendly environment. Guaranteed to provide non-stop, side-splitting laughter!
Bar Wars
Bar Wars is an event that’s guaranteed to raise everyone's "spirits". This competition combines cocktail mixing, bar flare and creativity into a rip roaring good time. Teams vie for the title of Bar War Champions while learning highly valuable skills that will make them in demand for any future parties or events. Once the champions have been crowned, participants can peruse the premium spirits and share in the exotic creations of the other groups.
Ice Sculpting Challenge
This activity is the ultimate "ice breaker"! Small teams will work together to carve, saw and chisel their way through blocks of ice to form some of the most creative, dynamic and innovative ice sculptures possible. This activity can be brought to any venue and is great any time of year. Our master sculptor will guide the group through this creative process and provide them with the resources needed to create a masterpiece. If you wanted your team to think outside the “block”, this is the event for you.
Quest For The Ancient NYC Treasure Chest
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned “quest” to keep things interesting. Our quest, like the quests of old, is not for the timid of mind. Teams must work their way through secret codes, ciphers and historic maps to find the location of the ancient treasure chest, hidden somewhere in the labyrinths and canyons of the city. It is a challenge like none you have ever experienced before. Treasure awaits those lucky few who solve the mystery and complete the quest.
Making Something Out of Nothing
In this extraordinary and unique program your team will find themselves immersed in a bustling urban location. The challenge: to generate as much revenue as possible in a limited amount of time through lucrative ventures. Propelling the group into this profitable program, teams will compete in an exciting initiative. Based on the results of the challenge, teams will get to select their first venture kit, each equipped with a limited amount of start-up money and unique items. Now the discussions ensue as the decisions begin, do they choose the musical instruments or the costumes, the carnival games or the cameras?
The Ice Cream Ball
I scream, your scream, your entire team will scream for ice cream! In this super sweet team building event, teams will be challenged to create a delectable and delicious masterpiece, an ice cream sundae! Through interactive and energetic initiatives, each team will earn ingredients to add flavor to their tasty treats. Now it’s the condiments the groups must earn, while their ice cream continues to churn. The grand finale is the sweetest part of this challenge as the teams present their mouth watering masterpieces to the judging panel and share each others tasty treats.
Raft Building
Participants build a make-shift raft that can support two or more people. Each team is provided with resources to design and build their vessel. Healthy competition provides for a fun and exciting activity as each team attempts to paddle their raft out to the dock and back. Individuals choose how they would like to participate. Inevitably, one or more rafts, though sturdy in theory, do not prove seaworthy--and it always provides for a laugh!
High and Low Ropes
High-rope activities take place on wires strung across a course 15-50 feet in the air. Low-rope activities take place close to ground level. Individuals are required to complete a series of maneuvers on the ropes. There are usually 1-6 people off the ground at a time, each wearing a harness and helmet and connected to a safety rope. A safety system is manned on the ground by members of the team and under the close scrutiny of a trained instructor. Critical team competencies such as trust, effective communication, risk-taking, goal setting, leadership, and collaboration are practiced and refined. Some participants have claimed that their participation in a rope course was life altering.
Geocaching Fusion
This worldwide phenomenon has individuals, families and teams using hand held GPS’s and their eyes and intellect to search for hidden treasure all over the world! Our custom designed event is based on the sport of geocaching but with an emphasis on the importance of working as a high performing team and thinking on your feet.
The Survivor Challenge
Sure your organization can survive the pressure of meeting deadlines, early morning meetings, and a daily barrage of emails, but do they have what it takes to make it through the Survivor Challenge? This collaborative challenge will draw on the most primitive survival skills your group posses and rest assured, no one will be voted off of our island.
Shao-lin Kung Fu
Looking for a program with a kick? Then you are looking for Shao-lin Kung Fu. Focus the mind and body in an exhilarating program that combines eastern philosophy with western. Participants practice the balance of hard and soft that is at the root of Shao-lin training. The program concludes with a demonstration by the masters. The participants have an opportunity to see that focused, efficient and consistent training over a longer period of time will yield dynamic and powerful results.
Mystic River Challenge
How’s your poker face? Can you keep a straight face while running around on land and water searching for your best possible 5-card hand? Your challenge if you choose to accept will be to earn as many chips as possible in order to purchase playing cards through a series of challenges. These playing cards will be used to try to make the best 5-card hand of poker. The team with the best poker hand wins the event.
Fusion Regatta – Water Version
Here’s the chance to see what’s more important: Having the right people on the boat or making sure everyone is rowing in the right direction! A key customer with specific requirements has just placed an order for a fleet of boats. Each team must work together to build a boat for the fleet. The customer will be looking for a fleet of boats that meets their specifications, looks good and goes fast. In fact, each boat will be tested for its seaworthiness in a race around a series of buoys. Ships ahoy!
Canoe Orienteering Challenge
Looking for an adventure that requires as much brains as brawn? Where what you do is as important as who does it? Then you are looking for Canoe Orienteering! Canoe Orienteering is a canoe and/or kayak race with a map and compass.
Rock Climbing
What goes up, but could fall down? Someone climbing a vertical wall. But don’t worry, your team mates will be handling the safety belays to make sure you don’t fall far. Rock climbing is an exhilarating and effective activity for forging high performance teams. It captures the essence of "individuality" combined with "team" to achieve the extraordinary.
Norwalk Islands Canoe & Kayak Treasure Hunt
Arrgh! There is pirate booty buried off the coast of Norwalk, CT and it’s your mission to find it! Man the boats, grabs the paddles, don the life vest and unravel the clues to find the treasure. But which island is it on?
Team Orienteering
Team Orienteering requires participants to navigate through a series of checkpoints using a map and compass and is set in a beautiful and natural setting. Team members are required to work together in an activity that simulates many of the issues faced by teams daily. Effective communication, collaborative problem solving, working with conflict, real time planning and processing, and leadership are practiced and refined.
Bridging the Gap
Imagine building you own bridge over water and crossing it! This is a team building metaphor we could wax lyrical upon for hours. But it’s real and your team can make it happen! We have combined two of our most popular events, bridge and raft building, into an exciting new program.
Custom Adventures
Fusion Associates can provide adventures that will challenge the mind and body, including hiking, camping, and white water rafting, as well as multi-day expeditions. Multi-day adventures are a very effective means for forging the tight bonds that lay the foundation for high performance teams.
Charity Bike Build
The Charity Bike Build is a wonderful example of play combined with purpose. The activity leads to the building of bicycles that are donated to needy and deserving children in the local area. The expressions of excitement and joy on the children’s faces when they receive their bikes are matched by the expressions of satisfaction and joy on the faces of the bike givers.
Super Sized Teddy Bear
This unique and exciting program is a super sized team challenge that is sure to end in warm fuzzies!!! Groups will build a giant teddy bear, over 6 feet tall! The bear(s) is donated to local rescue workers working with children, special care programs, hospitals, and families in need during the holidays.
Kitchen Angels
It is said that the only thing better than cooking a gourmet meal is cooking a gourmet meal for a cause. Teams make the best use of their resources to create a culinary delight that will be served at a charitable location of your choice. Our clients have brought delicious delight to many groups including local homeless shelters, nursing homes, halfway houses, after school programs and orphanages.
Building for the Future
Move over Bob Vila! Grab your tool belt, flannel shirt, and get ready to build something great for your team and community. Construct a new playground or an addition to an existing one. How about a playhouse. Perhaps you’d like to renovate a house for an elderly couple. Or even building bird houses. The options are as endless as the imagination.
Headbands
In this highly interactive and powerful activity your team will be challenged to relate to each other in an assortment of engaging activities. Unbeknownst to them, each member of your team will be donned in a headband that will give others insight into the rules of engagement they must abide by through the activity. What follows is powerful exploration pertaining to the influences of interaction and effects on individuals.
Project Egg
The group is presented with a simulation in which they develop and market a new product under stringent parameters. They must coordinate their efforts to create a device that will protect eggs from breaking after being dropped from a significant height. However, this is not the typical eighth grade science project. To be successful, the team must delegate assignments, manage within a tight time frame, set appropriate milestones, communicate, and collaborate across functions while also paying attention to shifting customer needs and other significant changes.
Magnifying Glass
In this challenging activity every member of the team holds an integral piece of the big picture, literally! Creating an atmosphere of mystery, each of the participants are handed a single picture that no one else can see. Within three rounds of information sharing, the entire team must determine the sequence the pictures in the correct order. Will the shared vision develop into the big picture book?
Islands in the Stream
The group is divided into sub-groups representing line workers, middle management, and executive management. They are charged with the task of all reaching the same destination from various locations. Each group must overcome certain obstacles while assisting each other in achieving the project goal. This complex activity will provide insight into the roles and responsibilities of executives and management in working with co-workers and subordinates while emphasizing the necessity of understanding the competencies of individual team members and the critical value of effective communication.
Information Swap
Attempting and completing a team initiative will allow your group experience, thus becoming a great resource. But when the success of others becomes the burden your team must bear, will you have all the right information? In this highly engaging activity, no team can stand alone. Every group’s ability to ultimately succeed is contingent on another team’s experience and how they relate it.
Customer Connection
Your team needs to get their new product out of the warehouse to the costumer as quickly and efficiently as possible. The demand for this product is enormous and it is up to you to streamline quick and efficient techniques which will ensure safe handling while meeting the growing demand. Knowing the competition can’t be too far behind; time is of the essence.
4-Station Structure
Each team is equipped with engineers, project managers and builders. The engineers will be given detailed information on the new project which other team member will be privy to, a view of the specialized 4 Station Structure. The goal of the team is to recreate the original structure as quickly as possible following very detailed and often confining guidelines. Movement is limited, communication is challenging and roles are continuously redefined.
Object Retrieval
The golden egg will need to be rescued and returned to the museum, preserving its pristine condition, and your team has been charged with successfully swiping it from the un-rightful possessors. Your specially trained tactics team will need to draw up a flawless plan to put an end to the treachery only making use of their limited resources. In this extraordinarily challenging initiative, time factors in as plans are constructed, roles are defined, trust reaches peak levels and stealth is the name of the game.
Using Your Noodle
In this exciting sequence of energizers, activities, group challenges and initiatives, participants will surely learn how to use their noodle. Each activity utilizes colorful and versatile pool noodles. Challenges vary from moderate pace and highly interactive, to fast paced and riddled with energy! Our Noodle Professionals will create a colorful sequence of noodle based challenges that are designed to meet your team’s needs and to enhance their team skills.
Team Transfer
The objective is for the team to transport the investments of their "number one" client from one account to another. However, all electronic equipment is temporarily down. Team members will have to transfer a series of objects from one site to another, using limited resources. This collaborative initiative will challenge your team from start to end as practices are continually refined.
Kaizen
Time is of the essence, the deadline is looming and completing tasks in a carefully designed sequence is critical. The pace is quick and the pressure is thick. Your team must step up to the challenge and develop techniques that will lead you along the path of continuous improvement.
Cycle Time
Cycle Time provides a unique challenge that draws forth remarkable effort and unparalleled performance. It requires an interesting blend of mental and physical skills to create a solution. Clear communication, well-defined roles and responsibilities, organization, effective planning and teamwork are factors needed to complete this problem.
Spider Web
Your team, on a continuous quest to efficiently move in a forward direction, now faces one of its greatest challenges. A web of set-backs is blocking the path to progress! Having only each other to rely on, they must determine how best to navigate through the obstacles they find on their path. As the team progresses, the obstacles grow bigger. Utilizing the strengths within may be the only way to get through this delicate challenge.
Stepping Stones - Islands Version
This challenging and multi-faceted initiative is enough to make anybody rearrange their travel plans. Groups must maneuver their personnel though a sequence of islands while completing a series of challenges. As the adventure starts, groups will soon realize that getting their team to each island may be the biggest challenge of them all.
Bull in the Ring
Teams will be challenged to transport their product to the marketplace using a highly specialized tool designed to streamline the delivery system. Each member of the team plays an integral role to ensure the quality of the transport allows for successful delivery of your product before the competition catches up. The demands continue to grow and the deadlines get closer as this exciting initiative continues to get more complex.
On Target
After painstakingly researching and developing your new product, it is finally ready to hit the market, now is the critical time to see if your team is On Target! Your department will be challenged to have your product (tennis balls) reach the targeted consumers (buckets) as often as possible, but unless each department in your organization is reaching their targets, your ability to dominate the market will be stifled.
Group Juggle
In this fast paced and hilarious activity, your team will be juggling an assortment of different objects while trying to ensure they don’t drop the ball. As the activity progresses and the skill level increases, success depends on being able to multi-task and to avoid the continuous distractions. The definition of quality now plays a large role in determining the number of tasks which can comfortably be managed by the team.
Cable Synergy
The team is divided into separate "departments" and given the objective of making "money" by crossing thin cables one to two feet off the ground securely strung between trees. Participants must rely on others--first teammates within their own departments, and then eventually on colleagues in other departments--to reach their goals. Effective brainstorming, collaborative problem solving, and finding win-win solutions with co-workers are practiced and refined.
Two Way Acid River
A divided team separated by a large chasm with each team needing to transport personnel to the other side. In this challenging activity the team will be provided limited resources in their attempt to cross the wide span of the divide within a very specific time frame. Drawing on their strengths and depending on each other, the teams must construct a plan before it is too late. As the time ticks, groups must move forward and put all the pieces in place as they try to successfully bridge the gap.
Balanced Success
Sub-teams are given what at first appears to be a simple task. As the activity progresses, the participants find that they must challenge their own assumptions regarding competition, problem solving, and "the way things have always been done." In order to reach and surpass their goal, teams must maintain their cohesiveness under pressure; achieve consensus across multiple work groups; adapt to changing conditions; share best practices; and rotate leadership within the group.
Iceberg
Now here's a tip for a great team building activity that has more to it than the eye can see. To be more specific, the tip of an iceberg! Picture this: Your team has booked a two-day conference at a remote coastal hotel, so far from civilization that it doesn't even have a telephone and no mobile phone has ever been known to find a signal. Ideal for ensuring a concentrated meeting without any distractions…or so you thought. The hotel's radio has picked up a distress call from a small cruise ship. The ship is adrift and it seems that it is heading into iceberg territory. Your team is their only hope. Can you calm the passengers down? Can you help them regain control of the ship? Can you find out where they are and help them steer a course to safety? Unusual and challenging, Iceberg will involve everyone. Participants will work together for a common goal, but the sad truth is…they might never have ice in their drinks again.
Cube
As in your organization, all teams share a single, common, organization-wide goal in this team building activity. In this case: to build a 5 foot cube out of smaller 15 inch cubes. Tailored to your event, the stunning centerpiece that is the Cube has your imagery and branding. The cube faces can be brand logos, product images, site photographs, icons of your organization’s values, portraits of your people - in fact, the options are infinite. Teams will compete to contribute the most to the common goal. To earn the smaller cubes, teams will collaborate with other teams to tackle a wide range of fun and challenging activities—mental conundrums galore in fact. Cube delivers a great buzz from start to finish with a hilarious finale!
Romanbar
What would it take to run a bar like Tom Cruise did in the movie Cocktails? Hard work! But don’t let that scare you away…there’s also tons of fun to be had! In this flavorful team building activity each team gets to startup a wine bar within the franchised Romanbar family. Collectively, they must be competitive enough to wrestle business away from the pre-existing competition. Individually, each team will want to be the best. And what does that take? Entertainment and skills! Learn bar flair from our trainer extraordinaire. Watch those bottles fly! Mix "traffic light" cocktails and learn about many more. Entertain with karaoke. Volunteer for your bar's cheese rolling team and take on the other bars. Your new-found expertise will convert prospective customers into revenue. Romanbar is ideal when you want to mix business with pleasure in a challenging and motivating activity that people will really enjoy. And if you want to add spice to the competition, we recommend rewarding the winning team with a prize. Bottles of wine, of course!
Liberation
Expect the unexpected as you are transported into one of the most realistic and involving team building activities you will ever have the opportunity to test yourself against. A "smash and grab" raid on a research laboratory has gone wrong, and 10 people have been taken hostage. Their only chance of salvation is - you! Your group will be split into teams, undertaking a challenging series of tasks that stand between them and success. As in real life, sometimes each team is on its own. Other times, despite the pressures, teams must collaborate to succeed. Expect sudden twists and real life action. Quality decisions need to be made fast! Can your team prioritize? Can you deliver on the various tasks and overcome the obstacles that you are presented with as the situation develops? You are the hostages' only hope. Can you set them free?
Dropzone
Selecting an activity for sales and customer service people that has real relevance to their frontline roles can be difficult. Dropzone offers you a great solution as your group is organized into frontline teams. Each team is tendering to a biopharmaceutical research company for a specialist piece of equipment to go into what they call their "dropzone."You will earn points by tackling key tasks set for you along the way. Only one team can win. The element of competition between teams generates complete involvement. As always we finish with a grand finale in which all teams get to demonstrate their models and how well they work. Or how well they don't work! Expect cheers for each team. Loud ones from themselves if their model performs well and even louder from the other teams if their model fails! Never has the sales person's creed been more appropriate. Second is nowhere.
Wild West
Strap on a real western holster and pick up a special rubber Colt 45 replica. Now you're ready to enforce the law in your very own town! But you’re not alone…there are other competing towns that also want to be the town of choice for new settlers. But that really isn't the half of it. Teams also get the chance to increase the effectiveness of their decisions through tackling a wide variety of challenging and fun activities. Learn gunplay from the movies. Pan for real gold using our real gold pans. Create a wigwam village with our realistic Native American kits. Win the railroad race! In this fun and exciting competition participants will have a fantastic time and take away real team improvements.
Team Building Basics
Team Building Basics is ideal for individuals and teams wanting to gain a better understanding of why teams succeed. It focuses on the essential elements of team dynamics, process and organizational barriers to success. This workshop combines powerful content, models and theory with high-impact experiential learning activities to teach the skills demonstrated by high performing teams. Participants are provided with tangible methods for effecting positive change and process improvement within their team.
Team Accelerator
Team Accelerator has been designed around Dr. Meredith Belbin's extensive research into team roles. Dr. Belbin's research indicated that there are nine possible roles a person can assume on a team. Certain team roles are more important than others and some are simply indispensable. Participants will complete the Belbin Self-Perception Inventory and Observer Assessment tools to determine their team role preferences. Once defined, the workshop combines content and experiential learning activities. Matching individuals to their natural team role creates a balanced team and a foundation to maximize team productivity and performance.
Understanding Team Dynamics
High performance teams have established a rapport with each other that helps them to communicate and collaborate more effectively to achieve their goals and objectives. Understanding Group Dynamics will accelerate this process. It begins with participants completing an assessment and profiling tool. When experiential learning activities, content and theory are added, participants gain a better insight into their behavioral strengths and weaknesses; likes and dislikes; and favored style for learning, communicating, managing conflicts and decision making. They develop an appreciation for individual differences and how to use the differences in a constructive and productive manner.
Virtual Teams in the 21st Century
In the last 20 years business has transformed from a local and regional model to a global and virtual one. While technology has enabled us to connect to each other across the planet almost instantaneously, we have not managed to keep pace with the critical processes and tools to effectively manage a virtual team.
Cross-Functional Teams
Cross-functional teams comprise the majority of teams in many organizations. Cross-Functional Teams is delivered with a blend of interactive experiential learning activities and customized content that will provide cross-functional team members new awareness of how people and functions are intertwined in an organization. This awareness will lead to a higher level of performance and genuine solidarity.
Effective Communication
Effective communication is universally regarded as a key ingredient of success. Yet there are many teams that suffer from some form of communication deficit. This workshop explores the role of communication within and between teams and team members, individual's preferred styles of communication, interpersonal perception, levels of communication, and how to communicate effectively. It is delivered utilizing a combination of highly interactive experiential exploration, facilitated sessions and powerful content.
Improvisation Workshop
We improvise 99% of every day. Even within organized meetings and client conversations, the free interaction between two or more individuals creates thousands of unforeseen variables that require all parties to absorb verbal and physical information and quickly respond in an intelligent, efficient, forward moving fashion.
Leadership, Power and Influence
Being influential means that people listen when you talk; your ideas are taken seriously; your opinions matter. Some researchers argue that the ability to be influential is at the heart of getting things done in an organization. But how does one become influential? Leadership, Power and Influence explores the dynamics of influence and making an impact in your organization. It focuses on the mindset, skills and strategies required to be influential. Learn about the 9 Immutable Laws of Influence and how to influence up, down and across the organization. Discover the competencies, tactics and tools that optimize individual and organizational performance and unleash the untapped potential.
Giving & Receiving Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback is one of the most challenging skills to master. Giving & Receiving Feedback works with participants to explore the importance of listening as it relates to giving and receiving feedback and identifies the feedback style that works best for them. It will provide an opportunity to actively participate and role-play true-to-life workplace scenarios and learn new techniques for giving and receiving feedback. Participants will leave with new skills they can put into action immediately.
Coaching for Performance
Developing people is one of the most significant ways to constantly improve results. Developing people is about developing their competence and confidence in pursuit of desirable results. The three most significant ways people gain competence and confidence are experience (assignments), coaching, and formal training. The goal of this program is for managers to learn to coach people to increase performance in others.
The main emphasis is lively experiential learning, using material from the lives of the participants. Descriptions of theory are brief and followed by illustrations of concrete examples. Most of the time is spent practicing. Part of that practicing is participants coaching other participants to be more effective coaches. The most effective means of retention of learning is having the learners become teachers.
Managing Difficult Behavior
Managing Difficult Behavior provides participants with a keen understanding of what motivates people and what their underlying needs are. Tools are introduced that will help identify the underlying needs associated with specific difficult behaviors. New techniques to address the behavior in a constructive and non-defensive manner will be explored. Participants will have an opportunity to role-play common situations and to bring their own specific challenges into the workshop. They will leave with a new set of tools and techniques to better equip themselves for handling difficult behavior in a range of workplace situations.
Project Management 101
In today's challenging business environment, projects are being initiated with smaller budgets and tighter time lines. Moreover, the criteria for success are far stricter. It is imperative that every project clearly contributes to organizational goals lest it suffer a loss of critical management support. The Project Management 101 workshop shows you how to apply essential project management tools and techniques to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Running Effective Meetings
Running Effective Meetings will provide skills and techniques for the effective planning and running of meetings of all kinds and will help attendees contribute to the success of meetings. It will address the different types of meetings and how to determine whether or not a meeting is even required. We will focus on how to prepare for, hold and conclude meetings and the roles of the meeting leader, facilitator and participants.
Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills focuses on the critical steps for presentation preparation and delivery including overcoming barriers and common pitfalls. Through interactive exercises and role-plays, participants utilize techniques to deliver a presentation and receive feedback from peers. Participants leave with an expanded awareness and specific tools that equip them to take on the most challenging of presentations. Video-taping can be included and is an extremely rapid and powerful tool for self-discovery and learning.
Consensus Building
Consensus Building reviews the definition of consensus and identifies where it can be best utilized in an organization. It begins with an introduction to a model for reaching consensus. Participants will then partake in experiential learning activities designed to teach new techniques to effectively facilitate a group towards consensus. They will leave with an increased appreciation of when consensus is appropriate and how to effectively manage the consensus-building process.
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Like it or not, problems occur on a regular basis in all companies. It is important to take a step back, resist jumping to conclusions, and put in place a structured approach as an aid to finding effective solutions. Equally important is good decision making. Good decision making should result in getting the most out of a situation with as little risk as possible. It requires that we include the right people and use a process that encourages participation. Problem Solving and Decision Making blends powerful content with highly interactive experiential learning activities. Current real-life case studies can also serve as the basis for activities and discussion. Participants leave the workshop better equipped to turn problems into opportunities.
Innovation Brain Bank
Have you tapped into your team's true creative potential and ability to innovate? The Innovation Brain Bank is a unique interactive brainstorming process that maximizes the creative output of a group so they will be better able to generate solid solutions to important business challenges. The Innovation Brain Bank process will ignite any team's creativity and generate thinking that is truly "out-of-the-box." Current business situations can serve as the focus of this workshop. Innovative solutions will be identified!
Team Start-up
To become productive, teams typically go through a discernable developmental process. The classic rendition of this is Bruce Tuckman's forming, storming, norming, and performing stages. Business teams are units of performance, and the challenge is to reduce the amount of time for a team to move from a collection of separate individuals to a cohesive unit efficiently achieving desirable goals. The forming or start-up stage is critical because it sets the trajectory for the team. Our considerable experience with helping to launch new teams has led us to focus on three core issues:
1. Purpose: Why are we here? (aspirations)
2. Membership: Who is here and why? (individual assets and needs)
3. Process: How are we going to proceed? (work processes and norms)
Teams that successfully address these core issues have a much greater likelihood of achieving desired results sooner than those that do not. We work with sponsors, team leaders, and team members to achieve successful start-ups in pursuit of long-term success.
Teams in Trouble
Our experts in team dynamics work with people to help them understand the impact of their behavior on the team and then help them develop plans to make necessary adjustments. Experiential learning activities are used to highlight important elements of high performing teams in a very fun and engaging way. Our facilitators work with a healthy sense of humor to create a safe, trusting, and relaxed environment where participants feel comfortable to talk about their issues and want to put forth the effort into creating a better working climate. This eventually helps a group leave with a strong sense of "team" and a desire to keep that momentum going.
Vision and Mission Creation
Is everyone in your department or company on the same page? Do they know why their organization exists? Do they know their mission and vision and the action steps that need to be accomplished to achieve it? Do they share a basic set of beliefs? A vision conveys a compelling, conceptual, and unifying image of your desired future. It should be purposefully articulated to bridge the present and the future and to serve as a critical impetus for change. The mission statement represents a current statement of what your group is really trying to do; it keeps everyone focused and on track, and it mobilizes each person to get the right things done. The purpose of a mission statement is to convey to others, both internal and external, an understanding of why you exist and what you do. We can skillfully guide your planning team through the process of answering these important questions and help them develop a renewed vision and mission that provides inspiration and a challenge to all members of your organization.
Strategic Planning
Whether you are a Board of Directors, an Executive Team or any group of corporate leaders, our meeting facilitators, topical experts, ideation specialists, and speakers will assist you in planning for the future in a setting conducive to producing the most successful results. We will help you define your objectives, set the agenda, assist in the meeting preparation, facilitate the meetings, and record the event. Strategic Planning will stimulate your team and bring new energy and verve to the planning effort. Decisions that used to take weeks and months of effort can occur in only a few days.
Ideation, Brainstorming and Innovation
With Ideation, Brainstorming and Innovation, brainstorming is no longer a random stream of thoughts, but a guided growth of ideas. Ideation experts and skilled facilitators lead organized discussions and simulations that allow for maximum efficiency in the development of ideas. Using methods that encourage creativity and risk-taking, experienced facilitators inspire participants to uncover some of the best and most unique ideas possible. Creative workshops and activities enhance the process and allow creativity to thrive. Ideation can revitalize your team to bring new and incredible ideas to your organization.
Problem Solving
Often times, having a non-team member in the role of the meeting facilitator will produce better results faster, while allowing the program sponsor the freedom and flexibility to be a more active participant in the meeting. We will work with you to design an agenda that will take advantage of the most productive facilitation tools and techniques available to ensure your meeting's goals are achieved in the most effective and efficient manner.
