Team effectiveness.

It's better together.

Collaboration.

The route to amazing.

When brilliant minds with big ambitions, work towards a common goal, amazing things happen. Employees are able to compliment each other’s strengths and weaknesses and become unstoppable.

This is why collaboration and teamwork play such a crucial role in the success of any business. But in a recent study, 86% of employees and executives cited lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures.

Let’s set you on the route to amazing.

Together Everyone Achieves More

Real value. Real fun.

Sessions that challenge and excite.

High Energy

Learning is about having fun! We’ll get your team having fun together and learning about each other.

Experiential

We’ll get your learners on their feet with unique challenges to change the way they work together.

Dynamic facilitation

We’ll pull everything together to highlight the key learns and relate it back to business.

We deliver.

Your perfect session.

Choose from our popular activities or speak to us about your objectives and we’ll create a session specific to your requirements.

You get.

Collaboration.

Not sure what you need?

No problem. Talk to us and we'll guide you.

What can team building do for you?

Connection and collaboration.

Accountability

Communication

Creative thinking

Cross-functional working

Idea sharing

Logical thinking

Striving for excellence

Psychological safety

Values & culture

Inspire confidence and collaboration.

With our most popular activities.

Trust us to design and deliver your day.

With more than 20 activities up our sleeves, just tell us your objective, and we’ll do the rest.
We can create bespoke activities or use a mixture of those featured.

Introducing ProfilesUnboxed.

Everyone is different.

We all see things differently, we view the world from difference perspectives, it can be tough to see other’s perspectives but when we do, it can change our views entirely.

ProfilesUnboxed helps you understand your own working styles and preferences, then learn how to spot qualities in your teammates. 

Then together, you can explore how to adapt your approach to bring out the best in each other. Discovering how to build a team culture where people grow and succeed together.

A colourful infographic spells out the acronym TEAM, with each letter representing a different quality: T – Thoughtful Green background with an icon of two hands holding a heart. Word: Thoughtful E – Energetic Yellow background with a lightning bolt icon. Word: Energetic A – Assertive Red background with a target and arrow icon. Word: Assertive M – Methodical Blue background with an icon of a clipboard and pencil with a planning diagram. Word: Methodical

 

For a real deep dive into how your team thinks, communicates and connects, we offer Insights® Discovery and Whole Brain® Thinking sessions to unbox powerful self-awareness and boost collaboration:

Coaching Culture.

Discover your path. Impact more lives.

Coaching offers the opportunity to look at things from a new or different perspective, to challenge yourself and the beliefs and actions you hold and realise your true potential. 

By increasing your self-awareness, through coaching, you become able to identify your own solutions, better manage personal frustration and tap into your resourcefulness.

2 people sat behind a desk looking at the same computer screen, they are working together.

Team & Group Coaching

Quite often the loudest are heard first, and the quietest not at all.  We give everyone a voice.

We ‘hold the mirror up’ to how the group is working, and challenge the behaviours currently being experienced, to will offer the team a perspective that will help them perform at their best to ensure future success.

Our approach empowers the team to solve the issue themselves, leading them to becoming unstuck and able to perform and realise their collective potential.

Individual Coaching

Helping you tap into and realise your own potential.

At times everyone can benefit from taking a moment to look at what they’re doing and the impact they’re having from a different perspective.

Our individual performance coaching can do just that. We support individuals to look at where and how they can do things differently. Our goal is to help them realise their own potential and use that new insight to act. 

Ready to make a difference?

Bridge the Gap

Closing the gap between mediocracy and excellence is only possible with effective, inclusive teamwork.

Teams must work together to build a bridge using only wooden sticks! 

This activity tests your teams ability to actively listen, involve everyone, cross-pollinate ideas from team to team and springboard off each others ideas to reach the best solution. Teams must come together at the end to achieve the ultimate goal! Requires space – get in touch for details.

Can you Bridge the Gap?

Learning focus:

  • Clear communication and active listening
  • Creative and logical thinking
  • Cross-functional working
  • Idea sharing
  • Inclusive teamwork

Break the Box

Innovative thinking and creative problem solving with a twist. Break the rules and think outside the box.

A series of seemingly random tasks are set for each team. Teams must work together to find innovative ideas, think outside the box and really push the boundaries of the rules to win. The more extreme, the more likely they are to succeed! 

This activity tests your team’s ability to work together, brainstorm ideas and really push creative problem solving to the limit!

Learning focus:

  • Clear communication
  • Creative and innovative thinking
  • Effective teamwork
  • Idea sharing
  • Striving for excellence

Numbers: 8 - 64

Escape the 'Room'

Thinking on your feet and working together under pressure wins the day.

Teams must work together to solve a sequence of logical puzzles. Simple right? Wrong. 

This activity really puts communication, listening and ability to work together under pressure, to the test. Made up from a series of table top challenges, this activity can be tailored in duration and complexity, with a multitude of puzzles up our sleeves. Particularly good for large groups. 

Will your teams crack the code and escape?

Learning focus:

  • Communication and listening skills
  • Creative and logical thinking
  • Idea sharing
  • Thinking on your feet
  • Working under pressure

“Hands down, one of the best team days we’ve ever had!”

Numbers: 4 - 200

Reality Check

Tests individual's perception of reality in order to build the bigger picture.

Individually, we don’t have the answer. However, when we work together we can reach our overall goals. 

Teams must determine the sequence of a story, but each person only has visibility of one piece of the puzzle, so working together is essential to success. This activity illustrates the impact of sender and receiver, ambiguity of messages, active listening, and communicating our individual model of the world. 

Can your teams work together to build the bigger picture?

Learning focus:

  • Active listening and not talking over each other
  • Big picture thinking
  • Clear and precise communication
  • Cooperation
  • Working towards a higher goal

Numbers: 6 - 20

Collaboration Stations

Do your teams work in silos or collaborate to share ideas and improve performance?

This activity helps them recognise the benefits of idea sharing and marginal gains.

It involves a series of mini-challenges that teams complete in rotation. After each rotation, teams share their learns and top tips with incoming teams to enhance future results.

High-energy activity that combines fun with genuine light bulb moments.

Learning focus:

  • Collaborative working
  • Creative and logical thinking
  • Idea sharing
  • Thinking on your feet
  • Working under pressure

Numbers: 16 - 64

Tower of Power

Top teams build great things together. But achieving or even exceeding set goals places high demands on everyone involved.

In this activity, teams work together to stack a series of wooden blocks in a tower. This requires great communication and alignment.

Can you balance the tallest tower? And how will you react when it falls and you have to start over?

Learning focus:

  • Clear and precise communication
  • Cooperation
  • Collaborative working
  • Working under pressure
  • Resilience

Numbers: 4 - 24

SysTeam

Can you communicate effectively to support those in the dark to succeed?

A movable board with figures on it is balanced on a stand. This immediately focuses the group’s attention and captivates them. 

A metaphor with many possible interpretations opens up: bringing something into balance, creating equilibrium, experiencing interactions, but also dealing with risk and change.

Teams are tasked with removing pieces without losing the balance of the board. Blindfolded! 

Learning focus:

  • Clear and precise communication
  • Cooperation
  • Trust
  • Working under pressure
  • Resilience

Numbers: 4 - 12

Roll The Dice

How do you respond to change?

In this activity participants compete against each other to react to a dice roll as quickly as possible.

But just when they get comfortable, the rules are changed!

 How do they respond when their competence and confidence levels are reset?! 

Learning focus:

  • Change management
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Working under pressure
  • Resilience
  • Supporting others

Numbers: 6 - 200

PerspActive

Let's be honest: who really has an overview?

In the battle of everyday tasks, it can often happen that we lose sight of the goal. Then everything goes haywire and no one knows which direction to take. 

How can we refocus on what is really important? PerspActive maps these everyday challenges for teams and their leaders. 

Teams must collaborate to navigate a ball through a maze as quickly as possible.

Learning focus:

  • Clear and precise communication
  • Cooperation
  • Collaborative working
  • Working under pressure
  • Big picture thinking

Numbers: 4 - 12

Stack Man

An engaging activity for anyone interested in coordinating processes and changing structures.

In this activity, teams must collaborate to create a physical structure that matches exactly the guide they are given, in the fastest possible time.

How well will you be able to streamline your process over time?

It is also an excellent way to illustrate topics such as teamwork, leadership and change management.

Learning focus:

  • Process optimisation
  • Shaping change 
  • Working towards a common goal
  • Team communication.
  • Growth mindset

Numbers: 4 - 16

Team²

Are team members focussed on working together to achieve company goals, or are they too focussed on their own ones?

This challenge explores this question by setting a task that can only be solved through effective cooperation, support, and at times, sacrifice.

Will the team collaboratively to fit all the pieces together and enjoy shared success? 

Learning focus:

  • Big picture thinking
  • Collaborative working
  • Creative and logical thinking
  • Idea sharing
  • Working under pressure

Numbers: 6 - 12

Big Picture

Do your teams work in silos or collaborate towards higher organisation goals?

This activity gets them thinking about the bigger picture!

It involves solving a series of puzzles to unlock pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, which are then put together to form a personalised message such as the team’s mission or values that can be signed by everyone in the team.

Interactive with a grand finale to remember, and you can even take the signed puzzle back to hang on the office wall afterwards!

Learning focus:

  • Big picture thinking
  • Collaborative working
  • Creative and logical thinking
  • Idea sharing
  • Working under pressure

Numbers: 8 - 200

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The 4Ps of Candid Conversations

eLearning

The “Four Ps” model can help us to plan for a difficult or candid conversation so that both parties find it beneficial.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn how to plan for a difficult or candid conversation so that both parties find it beneficial
  • Understand how to use the 4Ps to deliver a difficult message
  • Consider how this can help manage under-performance in a structured manner

Assertive Disagreement

eLearning

When you disagree with someone, it is often best to be direct and clear, as it avoids an unfortunate misunderstanding. People can shy away from disagreement as it can sometimes feel confrontational. The assertive approach introduced in this module helps you to express your disagreement in a professional, constructive manner.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn what assertiveness is
  • Learn a process to put your case across without getting emotional
  • Provide context for how to use the model in a real-world environment

Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument

eLearning

Because no two individuals have exactly the same expectations and desires, conflict is a natural part of our interactions with others. This self-test assessment will tell you more about your predominant style of handling conflict and what this means.

Learning Outcomes

  • Provide a starting point for your development
  • Identify your conflict handling style
  • Learn about the five conflict handling modes

AID Feedback Model

eLearning

Providing feedback that encourages open dialogue and communication enhances your credibility as both a teammate and as a leader. AID is a simple feedback model that can be used for positive moments and those that need corrective action.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn a simple model for providing feedback
  • Identify your own role in each of the stages
  • Discover the benefits of creating a feedback culture

Action-Centred Leadership

eLearning

Good managers and leaders should have full command of the three main areas of the Action-Centred Leadership model and should use each of the elements according to the situation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover John Adair’s action-centred leadership model
  • Learn how to adapt the model for your own work situation
  • Investigate the danger of becoming out of balance

Question Types

eLearning

Asking the right question is at the heart of effective communication and information exchange. Using the right questions can improve a whole range of communication skills; the information we receive back (the answer) will depend very much on the type of question we ask.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn why asking the right question is at the heart of effective communication and information exchange
  • Discover why the right questions in a particular situation can improve a whole range of communication skills

Dr. Mehrabian’s Communication Model

eLearning

We are always communicating, even when we are not speaking. Other factors communicate what we really think and feel, which can be explained by looking at Albert Mehrabian’s communication model.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn the impact of mixed messages when communicating
  • Understand that communication is a blend of words, body language and tone

Situational Leadership

This course will explore situational leadership as an adaptive leadership style. It’s about choosing the leadership style that best fits the individuals goals and circumstances.

Learning objectives

  • Understand Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership model
  • Recognise directive and supportive behaviours
  • Understand the four leadership styles, based on directiveness and support
  • Understand the development levels of team members, based on competence and commitment
  • Become confident with flexing your leadership style to the individual and the situation