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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.

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!

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.

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.

Hooray for Hollywood!

Presenting a hilarious, highly customized murder mystery served with a Hollywood twist. The plot: famous director Rudy Von Hessel (actually a teambonding CharActor) arrives with his entourage of filmmaking talent. His leading lady, the gorgeous, talented and fully self-absorbed Angela Thorne, accompanies him. Von Hessel’s much married and harried producer, Barbara “Babs” Moneybaggs, spends all her time trying to keep Angela happy, but fails miserably. Rudy announces to your group that with the help of his talented staff, he’s ready to be holding auditions for roles in a film about your company.

Based on prearranged information about your organization and group, our CharActors will have the room howling with laughter as various people are called up to audition for the roles of fellow employees, or even to play themselves. The event takes a dark and mysterious turn as the cast of the film is announced –Babs makes a toast to their success, and suddenly dies! Yes, it seems someone has poisoned Babs Moneybaggs.

A detective (yet another CharActor) arrives armed with plenty of clues. But it’s going to take personalized info from your organization to really fill in all the pieces. You’ll scream (with laughter). You’ll cry (for help). Murder has never been this stylish – or this much fun.

Hooray For Hollywood is a great team building event over a lunch or dinner function, and makes for a killer party. You’ll never look at Angela from Customer Service the same way again…

In the Company of Killers

A truly custom murder mystery is the most unique corporate entertainment you’ll ever see. Which helps explain why this is our most popular mystery. Leave it to teambonding to combine comedy, mystery, music (a strolling musician) and audience participation into one exciting event completely for and about your company.

You and your guests begin by meeting four of the most outlandish and interesting characters you’ve ever seen. Motives pop up. Clues are discovered. Then, suddenly, a murder occurs! Now the fun really begins. Who committed this terrible crime? You’ll get to question suspects as you work to solve the crime, and even get questionable help of our comic detective along the way!

This mystery is custom-scripted for your company – a simple three-page questionnaire gives us all the ammunition we need to make your event a rousing success. It’s helpful to know what your guests are like. Who may want to be more “involved” in the show? What will make this an event to remember for everyone involved? It all adds up to a personalized event that’s entertaining, funny and exciting.

Just Desserts

The newest addition to our acclaimed Team Cuisine series encompasses all of the proven team building components of our popular lunch/dinner events, but concentrates on everyone’s favorite part of the meal – dessert! Just Desserts is the perfect choice for an after lunch or dinner program, or as a refreshing way to break up a day of meetings. Preparing and sharing these delicious treats offers a fabulous opportunity for bonding.

Your group is first divided into teams. The fun begins right away as each team comes up with a team name, plus a unique team cheer or rallying cry. This in itself can be quite hilarious, and helps set a tone of excitement and friendly competition for the rest of the event.

Next, each team is challenged to create desserts that look every bit as delicious as they taste. Every team prepares one or more mouthwatering treats worthy of a top French patisserie. Teambonding makes your job easy by providing all necessary ingredients, utensils and recipes. Rest assured, every dish will be made from scratch. No slice n’ bake here – your group deserves the best!

Once complete, all of the tempting creations will be showcased on a Grand Buffet. Everyone can now sample each creation. Then in come the judges. The day’s champions are chosen based on product taste and presentation, with points also awarded for the leadership and teamwork that went into each team’s effort. We can also customize additional judging categories to help underscore a conference or event theme, company goals, or anything else you’d like to emphasize.

A short debrief follows, giving teams the opportunity to share their team names and cheers, plus discuss what they’ve learned about working as a team. We find there are always important lessons that any group can implement immediately once they’re back in the workplace. How sweet it is!

Partners in Crime

Join the Bumbling Bobbies for the high-energy, laugh-a-minute team-building comedy: Partners in Crime! Their warmth and good-natured foolery invite participants to let loose and have fun! Partners in Crime is 3-scene comedy that’s designed to be performed around a three-course meal.

During the intermission, teams are encouraged to create a solution to the mystery. There is no right answer! This is an exercise in creativity, and, along with using the evidence recorded in Scene Two, teams are encouraged to incorporate details from their work environment into the solutions.

Scene Three will reveal all the solutions! As a result of creating their solutions based on the evidence from Scene Two, these solutions often contain striking similarities, reveal shared experiences from work, and serve to strengthen relationships and camaraderie within your group. A “winning” solution is chosen. Prizes are awarded to the five audience members who played parts in the show, as well as to the winning team.

Partners In Crime can work with a luncheon, dinner or any type of meeting in almost any venue including boats, trains, boardrooms, hotel meeting rooms and lounges. The suggested audience size is 20 to 60 people.

The Progressive ‘Networking’ Dinner

Tired of boring business dinners? Would you like your group to meet each other in a fun, non-threatening way on the first night of a conference, or get to know each other better while enjoying a fabulous meal? The Progressive Dinner is just the recipe: a unique combination of fun, fine dining and team building.

Our “Cocktail Party” game starts the evening off right with a fun and energetic Ice Breaker for the entire group. Then, it’s fast-paced fun as you share a different table with different people for each course: appetizer, salad, main course and dessert. Each course features a table top game or exercise for everyone to do together. It’s all carefully designed to encourage team interaction and fun while improving team skills. Depending upon your group size, each participant will dine, laugh and play with over 40 new people!

The Progressive “Networking’ Dinner can be done in the restaurant of your choice (we can help you choose), a hotel banquet room, or even in different restaurants for each course. Our energetic and jovial emcee/facilitator leads all tabletop games and exercises, coordinates the changing of the tables and even works with the restaurant on the timing of the courses. Table hosts for each table are also available at an additional cost. A fabulous way to have fun, celebrate successes together or energize your next meeting, off-site or executive retreat.

Secret Agent Man

Imagine that behind your company’s carefully crafted facade, your team is actually a fabulous international network…of spies! One of your informants has learned that 007 himself, James Bond, is finally planning to retire into a well-deserved life of leisure. Q and Moneypenny are now actively engaged in the search for the next Bond.

Does someone on your team have what it takes to lead a life of international intrigue? Can your people maintain cool heads in the face of unspeakable dangers? Are they willing to risk everything? You’re about to find out.

Things get shaken and stirred when the evil Dr. Maybe and his equally evil henchman (teambonding CharActors all) arrive to break up the fun. A full fight breaks out in front of your astounded guests. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, a murder takes place right before your eyes. Now it’s up to your group to figure out who’s behind it. And who’s that new Bond girl? Expect the unexpected as the mysterious Ivana Luvvayou and her accomplices compete to assist Bond – or die trying.

This event is incredibly effective for breaking the ice and fostering creative teamwork. Highly involving, and highly motivating. Adventure? Amusement? Assassination? All in a day’s work, right?

Survey Says

How well do you know your co-workers, company and company culture? You’ll have a great time finding out with Survey Says, teambonding’s hilarious adaptation of the classic long-running game show. Highly interactive, team-focused, unexpectedly gripping and hysterically funny, match your team’s minds to popular opinion in this corporate take on a timeless TV favorite.

Survey Says provides high-energy, wildly interactive team building. It’s invariably a unique learning experience for every participant. This event brings huge visual splash to your gathering, as all game show questions are displayed on a projection screen for everyone to see. Your high-energy show comes complete with a dynamic Master of Ceremonies, sound effects, music and animated lock-out boxes – just like the real show.

It all begins when you organize your group into teams (families) of five to 10 contestants. Divide them up by departments, or any other way you like – teambonding is happy to help with this if you choose. Remember, the more diverse your teams, the funnier the guesses – and the greater the benefit in terms of improved relationships.

Game questions can be unique to your organization (ESPN customized all their questions based on an actual company survey), or let us mix company-specific questions with other fun general-knowledge categories. Special highlights include the Buzzer Round, Get Ready to Steal, and the Final Fast Money Round.

A sure-fire winner, Survey Says works extremely well between courses of your company dinner, or as a stand-alone company event.

Team Cuisine

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we like to eat. The Team Cuisine team building experience is a fun and effective way to bring diverse team members together, bond as a group and learn more about each other through food preparation, cooking and dining together.

Working as a team, you get to prepare, enjoy and celebrate a serious multi-course gourmet meal. The idea here is to combine ingredients, dishes and styles of food from around the world onto one mouthwatering menu, to represent the diverse cultures, ethnic backgrounds and tastes of your participants. We focus on your group’s experience first, and then match the food to your specific event.

Team Cuisine is teambonding’s flagship team building experience. Through the use of food preparation, your team will experience itself realizing their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team. This program makes an especially great choice for getting everyone on board quickly on the first day of a company conference, or as a celebratory event after a successful project completion.

Choose our Teflon Chef™ variation if you wish to add a competitive edge between teams. In this version, awards are given at the end of the experience to honor every team’s contribution to the final outcome.

Team Sushi

You already know that your co-workers are capable of rising to all sorts of lofty challenges. But creating an entire sushi meal? Yes, it can be done, and in a fashion that brings people together in a delightful departure from the day-to-day dynamics of the workplace. In this sense, sushi makes a healthy meal in more ways than one.

We assemble your group into five-person teams. Group people according to company departments, sales regions, or any other approach that makes sense within your company’s culture. Allowing each team to name itself adds a nice touch. Then, an expert sushi chef guides the entire group through the preparation of this seven-part extravaganza. Delicacies include Green Tea, Clear Soup, Sushi Rice, Box Sushi, Wrapping Sushi, Rolled Sushi and Hand Roll, with beautifully cut fruit as dessert. Remember, absolutely no experience is required – even if you don’t know a hangiri from a color copier, we’ll make sure your final product is worth the effort.

As with all Teambonding programs, Team Sushi is highly customizable. If you desire, we can take care of all initial prep work in advance, adding an element of instant gratification to the whole affair. It’s also easy to work any desired company theme into the introduction and optional debrief. Depending on the overall tone you’d like to create, we can also spice things up with spontaneous Sake-Bombs (alcoholic drink) throughout the event.

Teflon Chef

Get ready for the food to start flying as your Teflon Chef teams face off against each other in a frenetic culinary battle of champions. You beforehand which Teflon Chef battleground to compete in – Italian, French, Mexican, Organic, seafood, beef, poultry or vegetarian. During the cook-off, chefs race to complete a definitive multi-course meal.

Test your cooking, negotiation, bartering, and buying skills by best utilizing the puny budget allotted you. Buy key ingredients or hire our consultant Teflon Chef (who won’t cook for you, but will be happy to help with your team process and get you going in the right direction). The competition is fun but fierce, and speed is critical.

To add to the drama, the Mystery Ingredient Du Jour must be prominently used in all of the dishes. This magic ingredient could be anything from king crab, ketchup, or lemon grass to lettuce or lobster. As you might imagine, the results can get a little crazy – around here, foie gras ice cream comes with the territory.

A distinguished group of discerning and hilariously outspoken judges determine who reigns victorious. But regardless of the outcome, you’re guaranteed one thing – nobody will go away hungry!

Trial by Dinner

Trial by Dinner is a hilarious spoof on justice that runs the length of your evening meal. The dining audience is plunged into an ongoing court session delivered by a cast of hilarious teambonding CharActors, complete with judge’s bench and witness stand in the middle of the dining environment.

Once all guests are seated, the prosecutor calls the court to order and bids the court to rise and make way for the presiding judge. The judge runs quickly over the docket for the evening, calling the prosecuting attorney to the bench. Before the various cases are heard, it is determined that a rigorous jury selection process must take place. Randomly selected members of the audience are called forward and questioned as potential juror. This process becomes a half hour of comedic interaction between actors and individual members of the audience.

All of the cases presented before the bench will be carefully contrived scenarios based on inside information you’ve provided teambonding. Each case features a damning presentation by the prosecution, followed with an extremely limited defense by the accused. The verdict is drawn from the audience by a common vote. Inevitably all accused are found guilty, and are remanded for harsh sentencing.

Throughout the evening, a three-piece musical combo neatly dovetails with the comedic proceedings, effectively creating a seamless and highly entertaining presentation.