Team Building Over Dinner November 8, 2011
Posted by James Coakes in team building.Tags: dinner, murder mystery, quiz, team building
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Team building over dinner can be very effective. There are a number of events that would be suitable for this; including Murder Mysteries, a Quiz or something interesting like a Generation Game tribute show.
Having some form of bonding fun activity running over dinner encourages tables to interact. The banter between tables is also team bonding and will bring the whole room together. Sometimes it’s appropriate to choose who sits where in the room in order to encourage people who don’t usually interact to get to know each other. This can help the event as if teams are too entrenched they can form a huddle over business or their shared interest and it can make them zone out of the event.
One final advantage of team building over dinner is that it can be organised after work. There is an increasing trend for organising events that don’t take away from work hours and, most of the time, people don’t want to give up a weekend day. A weekday evening is something that many will occasionally sacrifice and it can solve the problem of when to organise team building. We have often heard the remark that the cost of having people out of work far exceeds the cost of any activity they may be doing.
The Murder Mystery Fun Team Building Activity March 3, 2010
Posted by James Coakes in team building.Tags: fun team building activity, murder mystery, teambuilding
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Murder Mystery Team
Murder Mysteries are a fun team building activity which usually take place over dinner.They are ideal as social team bonding and can be very relaxed or more structured where each table forms a team which tries to solve the murder.
The event suits a mixed group as some people will want to get involved, often to the degree that they become suspects themselves. For others it’s enjoyable to sit back and watch the script unfold.
This event fits into the fun end of the team building spectrum and it would not be realistic to expect specific business linked outcomes, but as a way of getting people to relax and get to know each other outside work it is very effective.
Go Mad In The Country September 29, 2009
Posted by James Coakes in team building.Tags: Go Mad In The Country, murder mystery, team building, treasure hunt
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Go Mad In The Country was developed by Progressive Resources, The Team Building Company, as a fun activity to combine a treasure hunt with a murder mystery. The storyline is based on the Comic Strip’s parody of the famous five, Five Go Mad In Dorset.
Clients arrive to meet Uncle Quentin, a government scientist, who is fairly quickly murdered. They then go off to find suspects and clues with the aim of solving the murder. This works well in any location but it was developed in the New Forest to be done on mountain bikes. Clients get very involved, some even dressing up for the part in school uniforms. Each team has a toy ‘Timmy The Dog’who goes around with them and has to be included in the photographs.
The best events are like stages on which the clients act out their experience. This shared experience means that they get very personal highlights from the day and some still remember their Go Mad experience years after it happened.
