persoana: min. 30

In Fever Pitch, participants are divided into 2 teams. Each team becomes a group of adoring fans cheering on their football team. The coaches lead their team in practicing specific sounds like group cheers, the ooh of a missed shot, the thud of the ball against a post. Their challenge is to deliver these sounds at times appropriate to accompany the on-screen action. The first team is encouraged to react to the action in a video clip shown on the screen. The next team follows. The challenge builds as each team must deliver an increasing range sounds to accompany the match action. The match climaxes in a penalty shootout. The winning team celebrates with a Mexican wave across the room.

Results: Fever Pitch is a fun, motivating icebreaker that energises a conference and creates an instant rapport among the group through a fun shared experience. Fast, physical, and highly entertaining, taking on the role of a passionate football fan engages participants, gets them up and moving and puts a smile on their faces. Participants focus on process improvement with the repetition of the Mambo actions. Full participation is encouraged in this wonderfully uplifting and memorable shared experience.

Synergyk is a series of “Hall Games” played in a conference room. Participants are assigned to a team table, and the host guides the teams via a series of audio-visual media through a series of minigames. Interactions with the game are done via electronic components such as buttons, joysticks, or LEDs, creating a unique user experience. The different minigames, which combine puzzles, coordination, and other skills, give every player a chance to use their abilities and have a great time. The 8-bit music and the minigames’ style have a nostalgic 80s feel.

Results: This game format enables players to enjoy the experience together, sharing one same setting and, therefore, a level playing field. The game mechanics encourage cooperation; players cannot play alone, and they must rely on their team to move forward. Small group sizes demand participation from everyone. The game analyses the score obtained by teams in every minigame, evaluating competencies that result in a team report. By doing so, SYNERGYK becomes more than a fun experience that helps build strong team dynamics: it also provides employers and managers with helpful feedback regarding their strengths and weakness in teamwork and problem-solving.

In Creative Juices, teams represent divisions of a global smoothie company facing logistical issues, setting up international deliveries and planning ahead under tight deadlines. Each team is given the recipe for a smoothie. They need to source the ingredients required from other teams. Through collaboration across teams they set up trade agreements that redistribute resources allowing every team to create their smoothie. Once teams have blended and tasted their smoothies they develop a marketing campaign and strategy to sell their product. The teams present their marketing campaigns to the group. Teams must resolve complex distribution issues and demonstrate how together they can reduce their carbon footprint.

Results: Creative Juices is a fun, fast and furious business simulation. Teams must apply effect business management skills and strategic thinking to a real world supply chain situation. Relaxed and informal participants are free to take risks as they apply network and improve their communication skills over the course of the game to ensure the goal of the group is achieved. Collaboration is key. Creative Juices lays bare the pitfalls of working in silos. It is a great metaphor for cross functional cooperation as teams work towards a common goal managing the project in order for every division to have the correct ingredients at the end of the activity, ensuring that their smoothies or juice blends are as they market them to be.

The challenge takes place in the Trucial States back in the 1800s. Families negotiate to increase their wealth, trading in dates, camels, fish, spices, pearls, water, money and the all important information. Split into ‘families’ and armed with a pouch of Arabian themed trading goods the teams are challenged with the objective of maximising their families’ wealth. Teams need to understand what other families need using questioning and negotiation skills. Reinforcing that information is power only when shared. Teams negotiate and trade to maximise their returns. Final scores reflect the teams interaction and approach.

Results: Arabian Market is a fun and interactive challenge, that is powered by communication, reinforces networking and the importance of positive relationships. It maximises on clearly understanding the value of information. Working on a win/win solution will be essential to succeed.

Although this is a competitive exercise, the most successful teams are those that collaborate with others to build win-win outcomes while at the same time focusing on their own bottom line results.

Trading Post is set in the wild and lawless town of Dodge City in the 1860s – a time of great opportunity, and yet where disaster awaits the unwary and the ill-informed. The game takes place over 4 years. Each year commences with teams trading and ends with them returning to returning to their respective wagons for a payout on certain goods. Here families share knowledge.

As the game progresses, teams develop relationships with other teams and share gained knowledge. A versatile activity it can be played by 12 to 800 people as a company training activity, during a conference, pre-dinner or after dinner activity.

Results: Trading Post is a supercharged game of information gathering, haggling and building trust – an excellent icebreaker or conference interlude. A quick and clever activity where teams negotiate and trade to maximise their returns. Although this is a competitive exercise, the most successful teams are those that collaborate with others to build win-win outcomes while at the same time focusing on their own bottom line results.

It is particularly successful as an event that will break down barriers and unite groups while reinforcing the key principles of negotiating. During a review process, winning strategies are shared and pertinent learning is applied to the workplace.

In Bridging the Divide teams build a bridge a section of a bridge to required customer specifications while overcoming limited resources, communication barriers and strict timelines. Bridges are creatively designed, decorated and branded by each team, with awards being given for the most creative engineering design, best branding, and most efficient use of resources.

The final construction component of the event sees each teams’ bridge being installed as part of the huge, extended company bridge . The exciting grand finale involves driving a remote controlled vehicle over the total length of the extended bridge.

Results: Bridging the Divide is a challenging and engaging team building exercise where each team is both a supplier and a customer. The end goal is fully collaborative, and success requires ongoing customer relationship management and an understanding of the knock-on effects of communication.

With limited time and resources, teams utilize clever project management in order to succeed. This fun, hands on event has very powerful metaphors. It highlights the importance of cross-functional cooperation to big picture goals.

Each team is told the core ingredient, the location, type of clientele and time of operation of their Food Truck. With this information, they are required to consider every aspect of the business, including, the brand, signature dish, side dishes, food presentation and pricing.Planning time commences, teams strategise, ideate and allocate responsibilities. They then get to action creating their real live Food Truck.Times up! Teams present their signature dish to the Master Chef. Meanwhile a judging panel decides on which is the best food truck business.

Results: Food Truck is a collaborative activity that assists employees in learning and improving their ability to work as a team, effective communication and time management. The number and variety of tasks that must be completed, encourages participants to realise the importance of planning and organisation. It helps individuals to recognise their strengths and be responsible for tasks assigned to them, knowing the importance of their role in the overall mission.

Teams solve fun and active problem solving challenges and puzzles to “earn” tools and bicycle parts for their team. When teams have enough resources, they begin the challenging task of creating an efficient assembly process to produce a variety of different bicycles in a limited time. Strict quality standards are imposed with formal quality control inspections conducted.

As the final deadline approaches, teams wheel their creations to a “start” line and prepare to present their products and a short commercial to the other teams who represent their customers.

Results: An extraordinary team event that creates impactful learning and lasting shared memories. Teams learn to move from competing with other teams to collaborating – sharing equipment, tools, best practice, expertise and resources – developing a collective goal of producing the maximum number of bicycles from available resources.

Brand National is a creative and fun team building exercise that explores the issues of brand and identity, by challenging delegates to create a national brand identity from scratch.

Teams invent their countries based on a given set of national characteristics. They define and create elements that will identify their nation – a country name, flag, anthem, dance, and national clothing.

The event ends with a high-energy, Eurovision-style show, where each nation launches its new identity in a choreographed extravaganza with flags, songs, dances and national costumes.

Learning Outcomes:
Like a nation, company mission, vision and values are the foundation of every organisation. Corporate culture, the beliefs and behaviours of employees are a manifestation of company values but is often implied not specifically defined.

Brand National is a great way to explore the importance of a company culture and how its influence extends far beyond the company logo to the behaviour of each and every member of the organisation.

Body Rap starts with an energy raising warm up where participants are guided through body sound exercises.

Once invigorated, participants are invited to put their gloves on as they will be stomping, body slapping and singing vocals in synergy to create a colourful and absolutely fun musical. The audio and visual feast will be sure to have everyone in fits of laughter as they do the Body Rap together.

Quick, quirky, and incredibly effective, Body Rap is an off-the-wall energizer for any event.

It will inject life and energy, ensuring participants are ready once again to focus on important messages.

Body Rap uses the power of humour, rhythm and shared experience to energise and unify teams with positive memorable results.