Ideas needed: Team Building events

[Connie]

I've been lumbered with arranging a team building event for our company of 15 employee's with the grand budget of 25 pounds per person

Please help me out guys and girls, I need some good idea's

I want to avoid the obvious going to a meal/p**s up, and I do not want us to go Bowling. I still have nightmares about the last time we did that!

[David Bailey]

Well, the obvious one is a Ceroc party night - Ceroc has teachers for hire at corporate events; get a hall, put some music on, and you're sorted.

[Beowulf]

Paintball. not so much team building but a good excuse to really vent your spleen on any employees that P**s you off !!

Take it from me.. PAINT BALLS HURT !!

[Gav]

Give everyone £20 each and tell them it's because they're all such a great team and you love working with them and you get £75 because you're even better.

[Connie]

Well, the obvious one is a Ceroc party night - Ceroc has teachers for hire at corporate events; get a hall, put some music on, and you're sorted.

I did think of that, but as there is only 15 of us will be quite hard to get an athmosphere going.
Maybe we can pop along to a regular night, and pay for an "exclusive" review session?

But my colleagues might enjoy it too much and start dancing. Dont wanna see them after work

[Dreadful Scathe]

• strip club
• paint ball
• theatre and snacks
• touristy event - like a literary tour of a city
• quad biking
• rambling
• munro bagging
• a good restaurant meal
• online game such as ConterStrike or WoW in your local net cafe
• comedy club heckling
• dwarf throwing
• ok i cant think of anymore....

[Gav]

But my colleagues might enjoy it too much and start dancing. Dont wanna see them after work

[Twirly]

The Underground Cookery School in the City often advertises team building courses - no idea what they're like though.

[Daisy Chain]

We did a very successful virtual walk using pedometers from Lands End to John O'Groats. Took us 12 weeks mind and boy did it get competitive.

Daisy

(A Team Playing Little FLower)

[David Bailey]

But my colleagues might enjoy it too much and start dancing.

You know, I'm not sure you're the right person to organise this type of event...

Or maybe you are

[Connie]

The Underground Cookery School in the City often advertises team building courses - no idea what they're like though.

Just called them, a bargain at 110 pounds per person

Great idea but just a tad over my budget

[Twirly]

Just called them, a bargain at 110 pounds per person

Great idea but just a tad over my budget

Ouch! City prices..

Trouble is, with a budget of less than £400 for the day, I suspect that you're going to have problems finding anything where you have to buy in someone else's services.

[Barry Shnikov]

Team building exercise - best thing I ever did was in Sussex somewhere where we were given a whole bunch of outdoor exercises which required trust, co-operation and overcoming fear. But for good fun, how about a karaoke night - you pay £1 to pick the song you want (raising money for charity, or something) or if you refuse to pay you have to sing a song that is chosen for you.

[Feelingpink]

Coo, what an ill-mannered response.

It's because your English isn't as good as mine that I thought I would help out. More fool me.

The fact that you can communicate in other languages doesn't make you it OK for you to ignore the rules of english. If I was posting in french on a french site I'd be pleased to have my grammar corrected. ...

I'd love it if you would join the American-based photography forum I'm on and correct them please - I'm so used to 'closeish' spellings and random apostrophes that the odd extra on here scarcely registers.

But back on topic, how about a ropes course for team building? Might that be possible on your budget? A night at a ceilidh?

[David Bailey]

Ooh! Actually, I just thought, 15 people is a great size for an Argentine Tango course.

And the bonus is, you get to watch them all suffer - there's no chance they'll enjoy themselves by accident, believe me

[Connie]

Ooh! Actually, I just thought, 15 people is a great size for an Argentine Tango course.

And the bonus is, you get to watch them all suffer - there's no chance they'll enjoy themselves by accident, believe me

Sounds good. This them not enjoying it bit

Now I just need a venue, some music and a teacher. For a budget of 390 pounds

Maybe the office car park, an ipod with speakers, and a Tango DVD from Amazon.

I'll be in the pub across the road......

[Dreadful Scathe]

Ooh! Actually, I just thought, 15 people is a great size for an Argentine Tango course.

And the bonus is, you get to watch them all suffer - there's no chance they'll enjoy themselves by accident, believe me

i have done a couple of AT classes. No other dance classes are quite like it Really its a sort of anti-salsa innit

[David Bailey]

Sounds good. This them not enjoying it bit

Oh yes, no-one's ever knowingly enjoyed a proper AT class, I can guarantee that.

Now I just need a venue, some music and a teacher. For a budget of 390 pounds

If you're serious, then use the Dome in Tufnell Park, Kicca Tomassi, on Mondays. I'd guess that the price will be much much less than £390, half that at most.

i have done a couple of AT classes. No other dance classes are quite like it Really its a sort of anti-salsa innit

Um, yeah...

[JonD]

"Command Task" type exercises are good for this kind of thing. They are also amongst the finest spectator sports in the world - up there with watching someone learning to windsurf in a freezing lake.

We've got Ashcombe Adventure just up the road that organises the right kind of events - this sort of stuff. There might be someone close to you that does the same. I've no idea how much it costs but you might get half a day for £375 (I fear you need to get the budget doubled at least).. The trick will be finding somewhere close to you so you don't have to pay for transport.

[Connie]

How about paint ball

No bleedin way, I have no desire to end up in hospital.

I am due to publish the Christmas/New Year rota a week before the day of the Team Building event. I do not want to arm the ones who is still peed at me for making them working the early shift on Xmas day or the night shift on New Years eve with a paint gun