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    11 Original Team Building Activities

    Are you part of an SME or a large company? It’s important to implement actions to strengthen cohesion among your employees! It’s no longer just about leaving the office for a well-deserved break, but about forging strong bonds, encouraging creativity, and stimulating team spirit.

    But how can you get your teams out of their routine and truly strengthen bonds? This is where team building activities come into play, transforming standard meetings into memorable and enriching experiences.

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    Here are 10 original team building activity ideas, from outdoor adventures to artistic and creative challenges. They are designed not only to break the ice but also to improve trust, collaboration, and team spirit.

    Whether you’re leading a startup or an established company, these ideas will help you create unforgettable events that will leave a lasting impression and unite your teams. Get ready to transform your group dynamics by embarking on a team building activity like no other!

    Team Building Activity 1: Multi-Challenges to Work on Communication, Creativity, Leadership, and Collaboration

    Improve your team’s communication, creativity, and leadership with our original team building concept Multi-Challenges!

    This team building activity strengthens bonds between your employees who work on developing key skills such as communication, creativity, leadership, and sense of responsibility, all in an entertaining atmosphere. With 15-minute challenges each, participants explore their strengths and weaknesses, fostering cohesion and team spirit.

    The challenges, adapted to your group, are ideally suited for teams of 5 to 10 people. Offered exclusively by PPS CANADA, this team building activity includes a facilitator and necessary materials, with activities adjusted according to available time. Duration: 1.5 to 3 hours.

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    Team Building Activity 2: Inspired by the TV Series Squid Game

    New original team building activity for your company! For 3 intense hours, your teams will compete in a series of thrilling challenges. Skill games, mental challenges, speed and observation tests await you to test your collective and individual abilities. Each challenge is designed to test group cohesion while offering moments of suspense and self-improvement.

    Strategy, communication, and composure are essential to accumulate maximum fictitious money for your team and win the big jackpot.

    The immersive decor and deadpan humorous animation will fully immerse you in this intense adventure!

    Thus, you can say I played Red Light, Green Light and still managed to go to work the next morning!

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    Team Building Activity 3: A Criminal Investigation to Analyze a Crime Scene as a Team

    Transform yourself into a police officer for a day with our team building activity Criminal Investigation. Dive into a universe where every clue counts and where your team strives to solve a mysterious criminal case. Analyze the crime scene, find evidence, and even create a composite sketch!

    In this immersive activity, cohesion, communication, and team spirit are essential. Our professional actors, dressed as real police officers, make the experience realistic while adding a touch of humor. The set faithfully reproduces a police station, with an interrogation room, an armory, and a simulated crime scene.

    Inspired by police training techniques, this stimulating and playful investigation will strengthen bonds between colleagues and reveal lesser-known aspects of everyone’s personalities. So, are you ready to put on the uniform, even if it’s just for a day?

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    Team Building Activity 4: TOP SECRET: Team Spirit, Leadership, and Ability to Make Quick Decisions

    Are you ready to defuse a bomb and save your colleagues under pressure? Discover the team building activity Top Secret, inspired by spy movies and the series ’24’. You’ll be recruited as an agent in the midst of a crisis. Your leadership and ability to react quickly will be tested.

    In this improvised anti-terrorist atmosphere, you’ll face espionage challenges: code decryption, crime scene analysis, and much more. Your composure and decisions will determine the team’s fate. Our ‘top secret’ agents will guide you with seriousness and humor through this immersive adventure.

    Will you succeed in joining the Special Agency so special that no one has heard of it (S.A.S.S.T.N.O.H.O.I)? Stay vigilant, your recruitment could happen at any moment. In this team building activity, team spirit and courage will be your best assets!

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    Team Building Activity 5: Military Boot Camp: Strategic, Physical, Tactical, Humorous, or Even Artistic Challenges

    Get ready for a Boot Camp like no other! Corporal Cervel, a zany military instructor, awaits you for a dynamic and hilarious team building activity! In 2.5-3 hours, you’ll experience something worthy of a military movie, where emotions and action intertwine.

    Indoors or outdoors, you’ll face various challenges: strategic, physical, tactical, and even artistic. Discover your colleagues in a new light and follow the precise orders of the corporal, who leads his battalion with humor and firmness. Work as a team to win this challenge and join the corporal’s regiment. Or, in case of failure, return to mommy with your tail between your legs. Are you ready for this team building activity and to take on challenges?

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    Team Building Activity 6: An Amazing Race with Challenges to Complete

    Our Amazing Race is a team building activity full of adventures and hilarious challenges! Step off the beaten path and dive into an experience inspired by the show Amazing Race.

    Upon arrival, form teams and select the challenges you think you can accomplish. Travel to different points where animators await you with additional challenges to earn points.

    It’s an amazing race team building where fun and intensity make you forget you’re in a team building activity as the pleasure of playing and surpassing yourself occupies your entire mind.

    This crazy course stimulates teamwork, communication, leadership, and mutual aid. Will you dare to take on unusual challenges, like convincing a firefighter to pose for a photo or finding a five-leaf clover? Whether you’re confident or not, the team building activity La Rocambolesque is made for you. After all, as the saying goes, ‘If you can’t take a joke, you’re not worth much.’

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    Team Building Activity 7: Become Vikings or Valkyries as a Team and Set Out to Conquer the World

    Transform into Vikings or Valkyries for an epic 2.5-3 hour team building activity. Embody Björn Ironside or Gorm the Old and prepare to conquer!

    Activity Process:

    – Clan Creation: Form your clan by finding a distinctive battle cry, designing your coat of arms, and choosing your colors. Express your creativity with Viking tattoos. Your image should reflect your personality and cohesion.

    – Weapon Construction: Build your weapon of war (catapults, inventive machines) using the provided materials. Use your cell phones for strategic planning. A technician ensures your safety during construction.

    – Final Battle: Use water balloons and foam balls to face off against other clans. Test your strategies, communication, and creativity. Teams battle until the final victory.

    Vikings, prepare to conquer the north!

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    Team Building Activity 8: Survivor

    An intense challenge for the brave! Explore your survival instincts with the team building activity Survivor.

    Immerse yourself in engaging scenarios, test your endurance, and strengthen team bonds, whether in the forest, mountains, or elsewhere. Discover your colleagues’ strengths and weaknesses, form a solid team, and face challenges, such as creating totems with the natural elements surrounding you.

    This 2 to 3-hour course, regardless of weather, will test your ingenuity and team spirit. Which totem will win the ultimate reward? It’s up to you to prove your worth and emerge proudly from this experience.

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    Team Building Activity 9: Olympics

    An outdoor team adventure to strengthen bonds and aim for the podium! The team building activity Olympics offers an experience focused on basic physical skills and, above all, the joy of play. As a team, compete friendly with your colleagues to reach the highest step on the podium. Cohesion, team spirit, and communication are essential. Although the quest for medals is satisfying, the main objective of the Olympics is to have fun and promote networking.

    Our professional animators, experts in team building and trained at the National Comedy School, guarantee a memorable experience. The dynamic games of the Olympics are an exaggerated version of traditional games. The benefits of an outdoor team activity are numerous.

    At the end of this team challenge, the quest for the podium, regardless of the flag you raise, you will feel a sense of accomplishment, relaxed and smiling. You may not go to the Olympic Games, but you can say: “I tried!”

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    Team Building Activity 10: DNA

    Choose D.N.A., our brand new team building concept inspired by a popular American science series! This interactive and immersive activity strengthens communication and team cohesion by leading participants to make strategic choices. Whether it’s designating members for key roles or taking a stand on dilemmas, their decisions are then analyzed and compared to globally recognized statistics.

    The goal is to highlight team spirit by forming different groups that will have to collaborate to solve given situations. By observing the participants’ choices, colleagues and leaders can discover deep aspects of the identity and behaviors of those who make up the company. Whether it’s differences by age, gender, skill, or other criteria, D.N.A. reveals the unique DNA of your company.

    This humorous team building activity is ideal for all types of companies looking to improve collaboration and better understand internal dynamics. The results can be used to identify areas for improvement such as communication, leadership, or even more concrete aspects like working conditions.

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    11. Construction Team Building Activity

    In this team building activity, you will create your structure with various materials that we will provide. Humor and creativity will be essential! The winning team will receive medals.

    This activity helps everyone identify their strengths and weaknesses to better serve the team. The goal is to strengthen cohesion and teamwork, prioritizing the collective over individualism.

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    In conclusion, team building activities are much more than simple games or distractions; they serve to strengthen cohesion and communication within teams.

    Whether it’s to break the ice, improve collaboration, or simply to share a moment of fun, these activities have the potential to positively transform your team’s dynamics.

    Organize original team building activities for your company with PPS CANADA

    Don’t hesitate to take action! Plan an original team building activity for your team now. Whether you’re a small startup or a large company, we have activities tailored to your needs. Contact us for a quote!

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