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Every business has to contend with the dreaded January blues when their employees come back into the office off the back of a well-earned break, missing the mornings they did not have to answer to an alarm clock.
In order to restore the morale in your office - as well as the smiles and enthusiasm - it is important to kick off the year as you mean to go on and there is no better way to blow away any cobwebs than to organise a team building day in January!
A well-planned team building event will bring your team members closer together by working as a collective unit away from the usual office surroundings.
Organising an event that will require employees to work as a team, requiring them to assign tasks to one another, will bring a group together. Also, taking employees out of the office in a completely new setting will eliminate barriers that may be present among the group holding them back in the workplace.
This will see new, positive relationships formed that will then be carried over to the office.
Planning a fun team building day in January will give your employees something to look forward to at the beginning of the year, helping to banish that post-Christmas slump that many offices suffer from in the opening month.
Many successful businesses develop an approach to team building that sees personal recognition acknowledged, while the real plaudits are awarded to team members who achieve more by working together. In turn, this solidifies that the value of the team is greater than the sum of its individual parts and that everyone - no matter their role - has a key part to play.
Team dynamics will, of course, vary based on the personalities within the team, and even if there are one or two clashes, it doesn't mean that they are unable to work together towards a collective goal.
Setting a team building task in a fun and relaxed environment will help build trust between team members, with everyone's strengths and weaknesses becoming more apparent.
Less confident individuals will also gain a confidence boost when noticing that they may be stronger in areas where others are less so - all of which are important to the individual as well as the team.
The balance of the team will become more apparent with all members able to see where they can improve, both individually and collectively, as they learn more about their group and about themselves as a person.
After spending a rewarding and morale-boosting day together, your team will become a well-oiled machine that is ready to race out of the starting blocks.
Want to know more? Contact us today to organise your team building day to kick off 2017 in style!
Whether you are a business based in London or Glasgow, the build up to Christmas and New Year will inevitably be one of the busiest times of the year. In terms of work to be done, social events and the holidays in general, the next three months will most likely be jam-packed. So with Christmas projects well underway by now and the biggest shopping month of the year ahead of you - are you ready?
These days, it takes more than a simple pep talk to keep teams engaged and focused on the task at hand, as employees are often looking for something more; they aren't happy to settle for okay - as they want the best for themselves, and tend to demonstrate this through the work they produce.
As a result, they are often much harder to satisfy in terms of job satisfaction, and personalities can clash as a result. Reduce stress this holiday period - the busiest time of year - with some team building activities.
Although employees within teams and departments are inundated with deadlines at all times, there are a few tell-tale signs to look out for that indicate that the stress might be getting to some team members.
These include days taken off work at short notice, conflict between team members and dropped performance levels; ultimately leading to reduced customer satisfaction, which can and will impact your business if no action is taken.
So, How Can You Rectify This?
As well as wanting to do what you can to reduce the stress in your workplace, employees will feel much better if they feel valued and important within their role, department, and the business as a whole. The best way to ensure that your employees aren't reeling from stress before the Christmas holiday season gets underway is to address any existing issues with morale building team building activities.
No matter where you are based, our event managers can organise a team building day with activities of your choice in a location of your choice. Activities are recommended based on the key areas where you think your team would benefit, whether it is problem-solving, communication, or breaking down and resolving personal issues between colleagues.
Ultimately, all organised activities will encourage all participants to work together more effectively - which is exactly what you need just before Christmas and New Year festivities.
For more information on how our events can help inject a little Christmas spirit into your workplace, please give our team a call today on 03300 04 09 03.
With summer well and truly behind us and the faint jingle of sleigh bells creeping up on us, it's time to think about your Christmas corporate event and how you’d like to treat your hard-working employees at this year.
There’s plenty to consider when trying to book a Christmas party - where you are going to go, will it be an overnight stay, what will your employees eat and what sort of entertainment you want to include. Whether you book a scheduled Christmas party night at a nearby venue or you put together your own night of entertainment, there are plenty of options to choose from. If time is tight or you are struggling for inspiration, why not take the stress out of the occasion and let Team Challenge Company plan the event from start to finish?
We can provide everything from a venue finding service to catering and entertainment - we can even make the room completely themed! If you love a good theme for your corporate parties, consider the following inspiration for your end of year festivities...
For a traditional Christmas party, choose a festive theme, including seasonal classics like snow-decked trees and gorgeous tabletop poinsettia displays to twinkling lights and hanging stockings. We will transport your guests to a magical winter wonderland that will bring about nostalgic feelings of exciting Christmas Eves spent as children eagerly waiting for the following day! Complete the night with your own Bucking Rudi! Our reindeer-themed answer to the Bucking Bronco, have your guests try their luck as Rudi bucks, twists and jumps to escape his rider.
Themed around elegance and style, a black and white party theme sees a striking colour scheme perfect for creating a more formal setting. Relax on prestigiously-decorated tables and finish off the night with our Big Quiz or even a Murder Mystery!
Black and white but with a less formal, more fun approach, our casino theme nights can be accompanied by our fantastic casino tables and professional croupiers who endeavour to wow and amaze your guests with their tricks and skills straight from the Las Vegas strip. We will provide your guests with fun casino money and chips to play on any of the fully-sized tables and the big winner of the night will be given a winners’ trophy to take home.
Step right up! Head through the exciting circus tent doors where your guests will be greeted by their ringmaster for the evening. For a night full of delight and thrilling experiences, consider a circus theme for your next party evening. With incredible props and spectacular themed settings, a circus theme is sure to take your employees' breath away as they step into a whole new world.
Have you had any successful themes in the past that employees would like to see again? Maybe you’d like to keep it simple with an evening of good food, great company and some live entertainment? Whether you are currently planning or still need to plan this year’s Christmas corporate event, get in touch with our friendly team who will be thrilled to help you plan something exciting for your employees.
Give us a ring on 03300 04 09 03 or contact us via our online contact form.
People learn in four different ways – from what they see (visual), what they hear (auditory), what they read (reading/writing) and what they do (kinaesthetic) – and, typically, a person may fall into one of those categories. Crossovers commonly happen, but there will be one dominant style of learning which a person will identify with.
This can create a challenge for our team who aim to deliver a team building session that caters for each of the four learning styles; it is essential that every person attending the event can take something away from it. Equally, our events are designed to demonstrate the strength of having a team of varied individuals all working together to achieve a collective goal.
In this post, we will explore how each of the different learning styles is accommodated in our range of team building events.
Visual learners benefit most from being able to see the subject matter in front of them. Rather than sitting and listening to someone standing in front of a group or reading a book full of text, this type of learner will take more away from seeing a demonstration and/or imagery to accompany an explanation to help visualise a task and/or end goal.
At Team Challenge Company, the large majority of our events incorporate a visual element to appeal to participants. Our Country Pursuits events make for a fantastic experience for visual learners, with the inclusion of aiming at targets such as laser clay pigeons and archery boards. Teams compete against one another in a series of challenges that bring out the competitive side of participants in a fun and engaging environment.
Where some members of the team benefit more from visual aids, others find that they take in more by listening. Boasting a team made up of different learning styles can only be to the strength of the business, but only if the team can blend each of those skills together. Each of our vast array of events is presented by instructors that communicate clearly and efficiently the objectives of each task.
It is important for teams to be able to communicate with each other, and that doesn’t just mean talking to one another, they also need to be able to listen to each other effectively, too. Many of the activities on offer from Team Challenge Company demand that participants listen carefully, as well as possessing high attention to detail, such as those that fall under the Music and Rhythm category.
We suspect this is where auditory learners may excel as they listen to the music and rhythm of the music, whilst also ensuring that the entire team is in time with one another. This may also appeal to kinaesthetic learners (more on this later), but for an auditory learner, this will play to their strengths of being able to actively listen to the instructions of the instructors and the music
As two of the core skills that we learn early on in life and continue to develop throughout the rest of our lives, it’s not hard to see why so many people identify as a reading/writing learner. Such learners commonly delve into analytical detail, pulling out highly relevant pieces of information and using it to create and/or deliver their own analyses. These team members are incredibly important as they often decide on the direction of the team, or indeed the business as a whole.
Being able to understand and decipher what is in front of you is important in business, especially as the world moves towards remote work with members of staff working away from the central office. With a range of interactive games forming part of Team Challenge Company’s offering, participants are able to engage their reading and writing capabilities and develop them effectively.
Project management games such as Chain Reaction call on reading and writing skills, as teams utilise detailed game cards and create a plan.
Kinaesthetic learners are doers - those who learn best on the job. There is a lot of trial and error that comes in to play with kinaesthetic learners, but these participants are highly likely to go away and review their mistakes before altering their approach based on the previous results. This type of learning style can easily be applied to all our products, with those that fall into the kinaesthetic learning category being challenged to take on board information from other learning styles.
One of the types of events that kinaesthetic learners can really thrive in is Music and Rhythm, where participants are encouraged to get stuck in to the activity on hand. Even if they do not play an instrument, the learner can soon adapt and take onboard a process that they can practice and perform – this is one skill that can certainly be taken into the workplace.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we take great care and pride in offering an event that not only challenges all those who participate but also allows for everyone to take something tangible away from the experience. When colleagues possessing a range of skills and learning styles can collaborate effectively and efficiently, it makes for a well-oiled machine that helps the business to grow.
For more information on the team building events we offer and how they can help your team-building efforts, please get in touch with us today via our contact page today.
At its core, team building is designed to bring an organisation and the teams within it together, working harmoniously towards a common goal. With the excess of the seasonal holiday now firmly behind you, returning to work in January can feel quite tiresome for many employees.
For many, over-indulgence during the Christmas and New Year break can leave staff members feeling more sluggish and lethargic than usual, with the grey, cold and often rainy weather certainly not helping to lift the mood within the workplace. January can feel longer than other months, too, because many businesses are paid early before Christmas – all of this combined can leave your team flagging a little more than usual as a result. If this sounds familiar, then it could be that you have some January blues to beat before you can really kick the year off as you mean to go on.
Much like the lull that comes at the end of summer, January and the middle of winter can make it feel like the much-needed sunshine and respite from the colder weather are almost too far away. If you are looking for ways to motivate your team to get through January with a smile and a vigour for the new year, then keep reading. We have some top tips to help inspire your team to get back to their best.
With these small changes in place, you can then look at how you can help to inspire and motivate your team collectively for the year ahead. When you have an idea of where your team are looking to be in the next 12 months to five years, it can really help you, as a business manager or owner, to assess how best to drive the team forward for the benefit of the company.
Once you have your individual strengths and weaknesses addressed on a one-to-one basis, the process of reviewing the effectiveness of your teams is much easier. It may be clear that issues that need ironing out are as simple as improving working relationships and communication channels, or it could be more of a conflict of personalities that is holding your team back from excelling in the way they should.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we have a range of activities that are designed to help you get the most out of your employees. We have team development plans including psychometric profiling to help identify personality types that could be causing rifts and ways to help you coach your team through this.
With these areas addressed, you can then look at how to bring your team back together, working towards their common goal once more. Our range of team building services are available across Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales – with such a vast range of challenges, events and experience to choose from, we guarantee that you will be able to beat the January blues with just a little bit of teamwork.
Want to know more? Get in touch with our event management team today on 03300 04 09 03 to discuss your needs for the year ahead.
Team building days, events and activities are part of life for many organisations up and down the country. Of course, there can be many different reasons for organising a team building event, ranging from successfully integrating new starters to actively working to resolve any issues.
As a result, there should be no one-size-fits-all approach to team building or the results you hope employees will take away from the experience. Therefore, if you are thinking of planning a team building event, it’s important to outline clear goals and objectives to ensure that you and your team get the most out of the occasion.
Whether it is fostering positive workplace relationships or helping to change attitudes within the team, setting goals can ensure that your objectives are met. However, if you are struggling to identify and define goals for your team building event, we can help you get started.
For many employers, the main objective is to develop and maintain a team that is happy, confident and performing well. Cohesiveness and strong relationships are key to achieving this, which is one of the reasons why team building days have been proven to be so effective.
However, this is a significant objective – it’s important to break things down into more easily manageable steps.
If you oversee a team, there are certain questions that you should be asking yourself when setting goals. Firstly, you must establish where your team is realistically at now. Whether it is as a whole or on an individual level, identifying weak points or potential issues early can help you to resolve them more effectively. Next, you need to set an objective for yourself, look into the future and visualise where you want your team to be. The final step is the most important – how can you help your team get from A to B?
Even if you don’t share this goal with your team, it’s still important to do what you can to help everyone achieve the shared objective. After all, good teamwork is essential to the success of the entire team, which is where team building comes into the equation.
Over the course of a team building day, your employees will be faced with several situations and scenarios designed to test their abilities, encourage teamwork and communication, and push them outside of their comfort zone. When managed effectively, the results of your team building event can be transferred directly across to the workplace, helping you to work towards your team’s overall goal together.
Team building days are beneficial for a wide variety of reasons, but we are well placed to be able to offer a variety of services to suit your team’s individual requirements.
Please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us if you would like more information – what are your team building goals?
TMS recognises the importance of gaining understanding and self-awareness through the experiences other team members have of your skills and traits.
Similarly, through means of the Risk Orientation Model, you can measure the inherent responses of an individual to risk-taking and overcoming obstacles through their assessment of risk versus reward situations. This allows teams to achieve balance in the skills and working preferences within their group.
At Team Challenge Company, we pride ourselves on delivering the best team building events in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, but what exactly goes into hosting an event?
Over 400 incredible team bonding events are hosted every year, helping businesses big and small to achieve their goals by breaking down boundaries and bringing colleagues closer together. Our reputation speaks for itself, and it is understandable to see why - when you consider all of the hard work that is put in behind the scenes, by Team Challenge Company.
“At Team Challenge Company our vision is to be the leading corporate team building and entertainment provider throughout the UK and Ireland. We strive to attract, develop and retain the best team whilst working in a positive and productive environment."
“We consistently seek to provide and deliver services and products that are recognised as market-leading, we endeavour to exceed our clients' and guests' expectations with creativity, individual design and unforgettable delivery of all our events mixed with our own passion for teamwork and leadership. We aim to inspire everyone we encounter, whilst enjoying our work along the way.”
All of our valued members of staff adhere to our company mantra each and every day, ensuring the best possible experience for all involved in any of our corporate events.
Everyone who helps to host any of our hundreds of unique and successful events is 100% professional and every bit as dedicated to ensuring that all of our guests come away better for the experience. Over the 15 years, our team has devised some of the best corporate entertainment ideas, offering the complete package and unrivalled experience.
Our amazing team will not only make sure that your event is the place to be, but they will also ensure that all guests are comfortable and are having an unforgettable experience.
When you call on Team Challenge Company to host your corporate event, you do safely in the knowledge that whatever your chosen theme, we will work with you to offer a bespoke experience for your business. Regardless of the size of your team, we value each and every one of our clients and combine our knowledge and experience with your objectives and ideas to offer a truly unique event.
If you would like more information on hosting a team building event for your company, please call us on 03300 04 09 03 today.
Done right, a vision, mission and values for your company can play a significant part in its success. A vision, setting clear expectations and a common purpose, in a desired future state helps direct and motivate a team. It is the culmination of all of your goals into a single ultimate goal.
Your mission describes your company's function and the how you achieve your goals. Values are the traits which represent how you want to be known as a company and can guide behaviour in the workplace. Values can drive our decision-making and lead you to summon up energy to preserve what you believe in and act accordingly. Within a company, commitment to values becomes the route to achieving your vision.
Time and time again, our staff team building games and events prove to be incredibly rewarding for the individuals involved, as well as for the team and company as a whole. This is because our expert event management team do their utmost to challenge the groups participating in our activities, creating team development events that are engaging, highly beneficial and fun. In fact, many of the activities we host are new experiences for those in attendance, which only amplifies their effectiveness by increasing interest and focus during the event.
We believe that taking your team out of the normal workplace environment helps to challenge staff to develop skills that may otherwise go unnoticed or not utilised effectively. By temporarily removing professional roles during an activity and taking on other responsibilities as part of a group, team development activities for work colleagues champion communication and developing solutions.
Time and time again, our staff team building games and events prove to be incredibly rewarding for the individuals involved, as well as for the team and company as a whole. This is because our expert event management team do their utmost to challenge the groups participating in our activities, creating team development events that are engaging, highly beneficial and fun. In fact, many of the activities we host are new experiences for those in attendance, which only amplifies their effectiveness by increasing interest and focus during the event.
We believe that taking your team out of the normal workplace environment helps to challenge staff to develop skills that may otherwise go unnoticed or not utilised effectively. By temporarily removing professional roles during an activity and taking on other responsibilities as part of a group, team development activities for work colleagues champion communication and developing solutions.
We have designed and developed a diverse portfolio of staff development games and programmes, enabling us to offer a comprehensive range of solutions and products for your ongoing team development strategy. Each of our activities is unique and engaging, designed with the intention of intriguing attendees while developing unity and team cohesion. Working closely with you, we will carefully tailor a bespoke agenda of distinctive, absorbing and motivating events to encourage the continued growth and development of your team.
From our ground-breaking 4-step Vision and Values programme through to world-renowned psychometric profiling tools, our custom-made range of events can improve a vast range of company metrics, from employee retention to organisation and efficiency. Our team development programmes don’t just teach soft skills, they grow a team mentality that promotes ownership, responsibility and harmony. Our programmes are not designed just to improve your staff members’ performance in their current roles, but also providing them with all the tools they need to climb the company ladder, therefore developing tomorrow’s leaders today.
We can offer a range of beneficial analysis throughout our team development activities including valuable insights to be utilised in company recruitment or restructuring activities. Regardless of your needs, we have a programme that can help you create a cohesive work environment where everyone is working towards the same common goals with a mutual understanding of each other’s roles.
Our team of innovative and passionate team development facilitators are highly experienced in delivering corporate training programmes in the real world, having worked with some of the biggest businesses across all industries. We have created a blend of theoretical, educational and practical team development products that can be designed to focus on your key learning objectives, working with industry-leading practices to deliver tangible results back into your workplace.
Our ethos centres on experiential learning and we place great importance on involving and including employees throughout the learning process. We believe that people learn best when there is clarity on what the organisation is trying to achieve and so we share this with attendees from the outset, using engaging, motivating and entertaining practical team exercises to highlight and underline the key theoretical teachings. Ultimately, this gives participants a greater ability to translate what they learn during our team development programme into the workplace.
Team Challenge Company’s team development programmes are suitable for any business looking to drive unity and growth throughout their organisation. By combining exceptional, scientifically-backed events with highly-qualified event managers, we have created a complete team development solution capable of adapting to you and your needs.
We work with world-leading businesses to deliver continued team growth, producing positive results for companies everywhere. Our team development programmes are specially designed to encourage growth at all levels of the organisational structure, accelerating team growth and cohesion. Whether you have a newly formed team that lack clarity in their purpose and core principles or are refining a high-performing executive team looking to stimulate innovation and effectiveness, we have a range of options that will help you tailor our activities and events to your group.
We have the skills, experience and tools necessary to develop a bespoke team development programme that will assist and guide you on your path to successfully achieving your objectives. With a passion for delivering high-level results for our clients, our team development facilitators will work with you every step of the way to build a better team for you and your business.
Regardless of the current stage of your team’s cycle of growth, our experience and knowledge can create a memorable and impactful team development event for your organisation. Scroll below to learn more about our psychometric profiling, team coaching and innovative Vision and Values programmes, or download one of our brochures for further information on what we do and how we work.
If you feel like you’re almost there and just have a few questions, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us and we will gladly talk over the options with you.
