Okay, we know – there’s a lot to choose from. But we make it easy to zero in on your perfect event. To evaluate your favorite options, simply check the box next to each program, then click “COMPARE”.

The Art of Team Building*

Art – it isn’t just for artists anymore! Guided by one of our acclaimed teambonding facilitators, your group works together to design and paint an impressive silk banner (or series of banners) suitable for framing and permanent display at your office or facility. Participants progress through a series of fun and failure-proof creative exercises using simple art materials.

Does your managerial staff need to loosen up while still feeling productive? Would it help the accounting crew to be reminded that they also have a love of color and fun? This event has been carefully fine-tuned to successfully evoke personal clarity and expression while fostering a healthy group dynamic. The program is gently challenging, a great tool for helping team members overcome fear of failure.

In true teambonding style, we offer a million and one ways to tailor this activity to support the specific wishes and goals of your group. What theme would you like to see celebrated on the walls of your facility? How many people do you want to engage? What kind of space would you like to embellish? Your wish is our command.

Beehive Building

What if a corporate team building activity could stimulate employee teamwork while helping stimulate income generation for people in a developing country? Leave it to teambonding to find a way…in this fun and competitive team building activity, your teams test their wits as they embark a wild and wacky scavenger hunt. We at teambonding are famous for our creative, hilarious corporate scavenger hunts, having raised this pursuit to something of an art form.

Afterward, everyone settles in to the construction of beehive frames. These are donated to an enterprising women’s cooperative in Mexicali, Mexico that has embraced beekeeping as a way to generate family income. Your participation makes it possible for these women to produce and sell beeswax candles, honey-flavored baked goods, healing salves, bee pollen, hand and facial creams and more.

At the end of the day, you succeed in raising morale, stimulating cooperation and boosting motivation, all while making a meaningful contribution to a community in need. This really is one event where everybody wins.

“I learned that one must never underestimate the act of giving, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem. Building 30 beehives seemed like such a minor contribution. However, my husband and I later met a local Jamaican who provided a guided tour of the island. We saw firsthand the poverty and how so many live. We shared our Citigroup’s beehive-building activity. Our guide was so touched by our generosity and idea of Citi’s activity while we were traveling and he hoped we understood the impact and kindness of our contribution. However little it may have seemed to us, it was an appreciated gift. We wished we could have had the materials to build 100 hives!”

C.Y.
CitiCapital, Healthcare Energy Team

Build-a-Boat

It’s sink or swim time – will your team come out high and dry, or end up all wet? In this wildly wacky event, participants divide into small project teams. Teams are charged with the challenge of building a useable raft from a limited supply of resources (barrels, boards, and rope.) One key factor – all members of your crew need to coordinate their efforts to brainstorm, create and build the raft.

Once afloat, each vessel must be capable of transporting several team members, along with a team flag. Everyone will navigate through an obstacle course, out to a dock or buoy, then (hopefully) all the way back to shore. Here’s your chance to be Huckleberry Finn, except that in our version everyone wears a lifejacket!

We’ve also had tremendous success augmenting this program with an orienteering exercise in which teams must locate find the materials to build their raft. Think of it as the corporate scavenger hunt variation. Either way, our boat building extravaganza is a prime example of nurturing team spirit using levity and laughter in a safe but unfamiliar context.

Build Your Own Mini Golf Course

Whether or not you’re at home on the fairway, this is a great team building event that lets everyone get involved in a meaningful way. Your group is divided into teams, each of which will be responsible for designing and building several golf holes.

The idea here is to make each hole fun, challenging and conceptual – in many ways the overall approach is closer to miniature golf. We provide a rich assortment of tubes, pipes, boxes, lumber and other whimsical building supplies to put success within everybody’s reach. Once the final course has been constructed, teams select representatives to actually play the course. Other team members serve as official scorers and course marshals. Throughout the program, your Teambonding Master of Ceremonies and event staff keep everything moving smoothly, with sound and music adding yet another dimension.

The beauty of this program is that the entire course, as well as individual holes, can be customized to dovetail with your meeting/convention theme, company product line, etc. Customization also provides a nice opportunity to segue into a training session or group discussion.

Catapult to Success

Catapult your team to success with this highly involving design and build program. Participants are challenged to dream up and create their own fully functioning catapults, then fine-tune their ideas for maximum impact. Here, everybody needs to work together to get an idea off the ground. Your teambonding facilitators provide each team with a unique set of materials, plus a budget for buying additional items from competing teams.

Winning requires shrewd negotiation, effective brainstorming, prototyping, testing and fine-tuning. Above all, it requires teamwork! After teams compete with one another, we shift to an all-for-one mentality where everyone works together to create the most effective and efficient catapult.

Catapult to Success is a great choice when you desire an event that effectively incorporates cooperation, team problem solving, strategizing, decision making and team awareness. We offer an optional post-game facilitated discussion covering these essential topics, which of course can be customized to underscore your event theme, company positioning, etc.

Get ready to let the fun fly!

Charity Bike Build – Together We Care

We all want to make a difference in this world. Here’s a team building activity that offers a rare opportunity to actually make a difference, with immediate, tangible results built into the process. In a recent event for 1,100 people in Phoenix, our client came up with the perfect slogan, “Together We Care!”.

Armed with wrenches and enthusiasm, your teams race to construct the ultimate human-powered, no-gasoline-needed rocket – children’s bicycles. Meanwhile, other teammates are navigating fun, innovative puzzles and challenges to earn enough “money” for purchasing that last crucial part needed to make their team’s bike the first off the line.

The final bell rings. You wheel your mechanical marvels to the presentation/start line. Everyone is poised to present their bike and accompanying TV commercial when a door at the end of the room bursts open. Suddenly, you see the excited faces of underserved children from your own community! Imagine the delight and surprise that fill the room when everybody learns these kids actually get to take your new bicycles home with them. For most of the children involved, typically ages 8-12, this will be their first bicycle!

This is an extraordinary way to infuse a conference with energy, create a feeling of immense good will and a sense of meaning larger than day-to-day work challenges. We partner with charities such as Boys and Girls Club and Bikes for Tykes. Or we’re happy to partner with a local charity of your choice.

In typical teambonding style, we take care of all the logistics, making you look good while making the whole event simple and painless. Remember, keep this one a surprise for the participants – don’t spill the beans! The surprise value of the big finale cannot be overstated.

Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off

The searing flavors of this fiery festival guarantee that our Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off brings the five-alarm fun. Does your team have a fire in the belly when it comes to their chili recipe? Think they can bring red-hot heat and be crowned chili champion? Then step on up, partners! Show off that chili machismo as you vie for succulent spicy success!

Teams will start out with the basic chili necessities (the meat and tomatoes, if you will). Ye Olde General Store is open for teams to purchase more ingredients. But teams had better leave their inner-bandito at home. The sheriff keeps a watchful eye and doesn’t take too kindly to sneak-thievin’. Teams can also negotiate with the hombres from other teams for those last minute needs. But no tusslin’. Sheriff’ll ride you right out of town for that.

If your chili recipe is definitely blue ribbon material bring it on! Us judges have certainly polished our belt-buckles around a few pots of Texas Red in the past. Shucks, even got some stuck in our cookie dusters. We know good chuck. So make sure your chili is a true hot tamale! The Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off is both hot and chili con cool!

Negotiation, team building skills and good communication – not to mention singing ability – are all essential ingredients for success in this fun and engaging program.

Chocolate Company Challenge

Your group will feel like kids in a candy store throughout this delicious team builder! Every activity is built around chocolate, that magical delicacy long known as “food of the gods.”

We get everybody started with the manic fun of Full Contact Chocolate Bingo. Once your teams are properly energized, tantalize their taste buds with our unique “Chocolate Taste Test” competition, serving up everything from familiar childhood favorites to exotic flavors like green tea chocolate. The next hilarious challenge, Towering Chocolate, sharpens problem solving and innovation skills as teams work to build the tallest possible freestanding chocolate tower. Our grand finale – a wild building event that involves everyone. Defy laws of physics and gravity as you help Wonka, Inc. build a Bridge Over Chocolate Waters.

Program emphasis can either be competitive (just for fun) or collaborative (big picture thinking) depending on your group’s goals. As with all teambonding programs, there’s lots of room for customization. Tasty options include You’re in the Game of Chocolate, a fast-paced trivia game played either seated at team tables or moving around a giant game board. We can also provide a working chocolate fountain, something that always goes over well. Prizes? Aprons sporting your company logo or Giant Hershey Bars? Just say the word.

Wicked Good Chowda Cook Off

Attention chowder aficionados: you’re in for a seriously enjoyable team experience. Yes, it’s another incomparable teambonding competitive cooking event! This time, get ready for chowder: fish, clam, or corn. teambonding will bring all the groceries you need for a taste-filled teambuilding event. Working in happy, hilarious teamwork, participants turn cartons of cream, butter, onions, corn, potatoes, raw eggs, fish or clams into cauldrons of prizeworthy chowder.

Forget about calories, fat and cholesterol! We’re creating chowderous works of art here, attempting to bring rapture to the lips of each and every judge…oh, did we mention there will be judges? This is, after all, a competition. What team will capture the highest accolades? Who gets the best marks for working as a team? Answer these questions and more as you give your group an uplifting break from the day-to-day grind.

Whether you’re from South Boston, East Boston, Dorchester, Roslindale, Medford, Cambridge or anywhere else on the planet, engage your inner Bostonian and get cooking!

Clue: Live!

Clue, the classic board game, takes on a whole new dimension in this hilarious and intriguing Scaventure scavenger hunt adaptation. The mysterious Mr. X has been murdered! You have a pretty good idea when – after all, the body is still warm. But as a team of top detectives, your group still has to piece together the rest of the puzzle. Who? Where? How?

Get ready for a rollicking adventure as teams cover ten city blocks in search of all-important clues. You’ll uncover them in unlikely places like newspapers, answering machines, footprints and more. All the while, six costumed CharActors armed with even more clues are roaming the hunt area. Only by combining and comparing their cryptic statements will anyone be able to solve the crime.

Teams have to work together to succeed, but also have to cooperate with competing teams to identify the murder weapon. The first team to complete this final phase wins, basking in the glory that comes with solving a tough case.

Clue: Live! always goes over well, but for best results let us customize your event by incorporating company info, product info, conference themes and other educational topics into your program. Team building has never been more mysterious – or exciting!

DaVinci’s Museum Adventure

Now your company can experience the thrill of the search for the ancient Grail, complete with all the excitement of the best seller. This is typically staged in an art museum in your city (The Met, Getty, the National Museum of Art, etc.). Teams use detailed maps while interacting with the artwork searching for clues that will help them break the mysterious Cryptex Code. A great team building exercise that incorporates appreciation, intrigue and adventure.

Teams use maps of the museum which indicate where clues can be found. Your sleuths must first navigate to the right piece of artwork, then detect the correct answer within each piece. Once assembled, the full collection of clues helps teams find the key to the treasure chest hidden somewhere in the museum.

The climax occurs when a team finally gets to open the chest itself. This grand opening can take place within the museum, at a nearby restaurant, or at your meeting. You supply the treasure…we’ll supply the excitement.

Corporate America’s Idol

Presenting karaoke with a twist – your group, divided into teams, will actually rewrite the lyrics to familiar hits, then lead the entire group in an uproarious sing-along.

Each team receives a CD player and CD, markers and flip chart. The groups move to a secluded area, pop in their CDs and proceed to write their own lyrics to the songs they’ve been given. These lyrics will be transferred onto the flip chart for use as cue cards during the sing-along. But don’t expect love songs – as part of the challenge, the new lyrics must address specific corporate issues. Thus, teambonding can cleverly customize your event to position key product information, underscore marketing or sales initiatives, or create a highly motivational call to action.

The big evening performance features a professional teambonding Master of Ceremonies, plus all the trappings of a real concert. This can include a draped stage area, stage lights, smoke machine, etc. We also provide a large prop box filled with fun and funky performance-enhancing accessories. No wonder so many clients arrange to have their event videotaped!

The Corporate Impostor

Here’s a great way to add levity to your next event while underscoring information that’s important to you. We provide a top corporate impostor – these really are amazingly talented people – who works closely with you to create an impostor character. This hoax includes specialized content, along with a strategy designed to fool your entire group.

At the event, simply introduce our impostor to your audience as a newly hired executive, oversees director, industry consultant or expert in the field. Then sit back and enjoy the show. The speech begins very seriously, covering hot company and industry topics you’ve provided. He will be absolutely convincing, using jargon and terms specific to your business or industry. But after a few moments, the speech gradually begins sounding more and more ridiculous. The impostor starts to slip in a few jokes here and there. Then, things get down right outrageous.

Eventually, it dawns on your group that the whole thing is a clever prank. The impostor finally lets them in on the joke, revealing that he is in truth a comedian and a magician. What a relief! This is a great morale booster, adding a nice dimension the whole notion of team building.

Corporate clients who have booked the Corporate Impostor in the past include American Society of Radiologists, American Banking Association, BankEast, Community General Hospital

Compuvision, Digital Corporation, Fuji, IBM, International Medical Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance, Loan Depot, Quiznos, Reebok, Sheraton Corporation, Smart Foods, State Farm Insurance and Wendy’s Corporation.

CCSI – Corporate Crime Scene Investigation

The Game: Here’s your chance to be just like Grissom, Willows, Stokes and Captain Brass as you take on your own specially designed CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, just like the forensic experts do on that very popular TV show.

An actual CRIME SCENE will be created for you and your guests – yes, right on the premises of your meeting, dinner or special corporate event. Your group then breaks up into several smaller CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TEAMS. Each sets out in a feverish effort to be the first team to get to the bottom of crime.

Each team will get to examine the crime scene, dust for prints, sift for clues, and scout out evidence to aid in the CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION. They’ll receive information via investigation, autopsy, ballistics, and trace reports. They’ll also get opportunities to grill actual murder suspects (played by acclaimed teambonding CharActors).

CORPORATE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION is part murder mystery, part board game, and part scavenger hunt all rolled into one. But with this wildly fun event, your guests do all the sleuthing. What an excellent team builder!

As with all teambonding events, we do all the planning, creating and legwork. It’s the best way to guarantee you a fun, engaging and wrinkle-free experience.

Cell Phone Scaventure

Looking for the latest, greatest scavenger hunt? The future of corporate play – we’ve got it! The Cell Phone Scaventure is an interactive scavenger hunt with a high-tech twist on conventional paper-based scavenger hunts. Instead of receiving clues on a sheet of paper, teams will register (through their cellphones) with our server at the start of the game.

During the game, all clues and challenges will be sent back and forth (via text message) from our short text code. Cell Phone Scaventure hunts are high-tech, fast paced and fully interactive. Each team experiences a different game path with different challenges and different opportunities to score (or lose) points.

Team’s also have access to a whole host of game-play features, such as texting in “HINT” to get help with a particularly tough clue. But be careful, each hint costs your team points! Teams can also text in “SCORE” to see how they’re faring against the competition! Cell Phone Scaventure hunts require strategic thinking and clever problem solving that will challenge your teams to think fast and work together.

Signing in for a Cell Phone Scaventure hunt is as easy as texting Your Company name” from any cell phone. During play they have 90-150 minutes to complete their Cell Phone Scaventure. Along the way they’re challenged to photograph and send in pictures, interact with live characters, collect objects, or simply answer challenge questions which are designed to be solvable only when the user is physically at the correct location.

The result is fun, great team out of the office, fun! The most fun you’ll have with your co-workers and just like you and your company, you’ll be on the cutting edge with the latest, greatest team building scavenger hunt available. What are you waiting for?

Corporate Survivors

Fashioned after the smash hit reality show, Corporate Survivors challenges your group not only to survive the game, but too survive one another. Through a series of fun and challenging tasks ranging from the silly to the intense, each team works to match their skills against those of the other groups. Challenges run the gamut from physical to cerebral, with teams competing to rack up the highest scores in all categories.

As the leader in corporate team building, we have a deep grab bag to pull from when selecting the perfect balance of team building games for your specific needs. A typical program includes assorted relay races, lateral thinking puzzles, map reading, mystery food tasting plus a hilarious obstacle course. The team with the highest score at the end of the final round is crowned the true “Survivors.”

Your event can be easily customized for all ages. We take great care to insure that physical challenges aren’t overly demanding, but this program can also be enjoyable with purely mental challenges. Works well either with or without a meal.

Drumming up a Team

Imagine the power of your whole company making music together! teambonding’s drumming leader will tap your team’s creative energy while tying the music to your company’s purpose and content. Corporate drumming has caught on with a bang as companies nationwide embrace music programs to increase cooperation, develop problem-solving skills and build business harmony.

As participants arrive, each is provided with a drum or percussion instrument. The group sits in a circle and together participates in a variety of facilitated activities. As the group rhythm builds, the leader uses metaphors to illustrate how everyone’s input contributes to making music together. Key points include the concepts of listening, community building, connecting, and having fun.

This is a great opportunity for participants to exercise communication skills as they tap into a common energy that breaks down social barriers and inspires unity. It’s impossible not to become engaged. The rhythm will draw you in!

Create a global experience by adding a tribal dancer – or belly dancer to your program. Drumming up a Team is available on the East Coast and the program can be used as part of an integrated team building experience or as a stand-alone energizer.

“Fare” to Share

Fare to Share is an exhilarating teambonding experience that ends in a meaningful and worthwhile donation of food to people in need. The program includes food prepared and consumed by the participants during the event and a three-part donation to area food banks.

To help your group better comprehend the issues of hunger and homelessness in the US, the program begins with a brief quiz on the subject. Participants will work in teams to answer questions which the facilitators will review and then discuss as a group.

Fare to Share has three components, with competitions and winners from each!

The Cooking Competition includes appetizers consumed by participants, as well as the hot food preparation that will be donated to a local soup kitchen. Teams will compete to see who prepares the “best” dish in the eyes of our culinary judges.

The Great PB & J Challenge involves teams working together to make and package up to 20 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches per team. After being bagged with other nutritional snacks, they will be ready to be distributed at a local soup kitchen or street food distribution program. Part of the challenge is that the participants will be making their own peanut butter from scratch!

Food Bag Donation has participants completing three challenges to earn the supplies needed to assemble a bag of household food items for area families. Teams will need to earn a reusable tote bag to put the food in, materials to decorate the bag, and the food to place in the bag. The teams will also write a personal letter that will accompany the food bag, which is given to a local family in need.

When possible, the staff from the benefiting organization will be on hand to receive the donations and convey thanks and appreciation from the organization. What a great way to build your team – and give back to the community!

Fear Factored!

How clever, creative and courageous are your employees? Can they face their fears and still get their work done? Time to push some boundaries! Teams will be scared and scored on everything they do. We’ll get them to conquer their demons in everything from lower invertebrates to higher mathematics in this outrageous team building activity.

Divided into teams, participants compete in tabletop and light physical tasks designed to bug them in ways they’ve never experienced – sometimes using real bugs. This one-of-a-kind event is yummier than slug pudding. Harder than a Tarantula’s exoskeleton. More disgusting than a jalapeno-flavored cricket. It’s hilariously involving, and a great way to foster teamwork and thinking outside the box.

All participants interact with one another in this energetic, fun-filled and sometimes downright icky activity. Like all teambonding team building exercises, Fear Factored! is highly involving, highly motivating and highly customizable. For full details, please give us a call.

Note: This event is often played with live bugs, which can only be used if the venue allows. For some reason, many hotels and restaurants prefer that we don’t bring cockroaches into their facilities.

Game Show Mania

Every night, millions of TV viewers play along with their favorite game shows. Buying a vowel. Blurting out answers. It’s as American as baseball and apple pie. So, for 50 points, what’s a great way to make your next meeting or party a hit? Let us bring you the fast-paced live action and Hollywood-style showmanship of Game Show Mania directly to you!

Game Show Mania includes a dynamic, engaging host who will bring you and your guests up as contestants in groups of four. Once you’re up on stage, it’s a fantasy come true as you participate in a real game show. You’ll have fun answering trivia questions, playing Name that tune, Remember This and more. Questions can come from our trivia library, or we can create a show custom-tailored to your event with questions and answers based around your organization or conference theme.

This is a sure-fire way to turn an average event into something big. teambonding emcees and facilitators are the best in the business, and lend an air of unmatched professionalism to your program. As with many of our programs, we offer an optional debrief focused on recognizing and leveraging team strengths.

Go GREEN Racing

The environment and global warming have become much-publicized topics over the last several years. Given this increased focus, TeamBonding has raced to create an activity that showcases the importance of recycling and energy conservation.

READY…SET…GOOOOOO GREEN!!! Within the two-hour activity, teams will be tasked with creating solar cars from kits provided, and also building cars from materials used and thrown away everyday by millions of Americans. The solar cars will be put to the test and judged for performance, while the recycled cars will be built for speed! The event concludes with a round robin drag race tournament to determine which car is the fastest! Teams are racing against the clock to complete both cars and take home the checkered flag. The real winning team, however, is unveiled after the competition.

Teambonding partners with local schools to donate both the solar cars created during the event, as well as new solar car kits and a solar classroom curriculum to area students. These cars and new car kits will be used by the schools to further emphasize the importance of energy conservation and alternative methods of transportation as well as foster creativity and innovation within the classroom.

GPS Powered Teambonding

Presenting a uniquely high-tech team building event and scavenger hunt that makes an extremely effective team building activity. Our teambonding GPS Scaventure is an innovative adventure based on the hot new sport of geocaching. It’s a Scaventure gone high tech!

Using handheld GPS (Global Positioning System) units, your teams crack codes, solve riddles and complete mini missions. Success requires a blend of participants’ innate abilities and individual skills along with the high tech capabilities of GPS, cell phones, digital cameras, maps, and hidden clues. Customized to support and accomplish your specific goals, your GPS Scaventure will challenge creativity, intelligence and communication skills, reinforcing essential teamwork skills every step of the way.

To give you a sense of how far we’ll go, the “Build-a-Robot” GPS hunt, featured robot parts hidden throughout a conference center. Teams had to determine which parts were needed to develop a product ready for sale, create a marketing plan and more. Seriously – the sky’s the limit.

The Great Appetizer Challenge

If you are looking for an event that is similar to our other great culinary programs, but a bit shorter in duration, we’ll love our Great Appetizer Challenge. Your group will tour the world by preparing hors d’oeuvres from every corner of the globe.

As with all our Recipe For Success events, there will be many challenges to meet along the way that will require a high level of communication and collaboration to successfully complete your tasks. Through the use of food preparation, your team will realize their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team.

The group is divided into teams. Each team is challenged to create appetizers that lo