Team Building Activities – Team Building Games & Exercises

Team Building Activities
and Challenges

Team Building

Essendon Airport - Amazing Race
	Company: Essendon Airport / Essendon Fields Objectives: Team Bonding, Communication and have fun. Program: The Amazing Race Venue: Melbourne, 3^rd April 2009 Group Size: 24 Summary: Arriving in Melbourne early on Friday 3^rd April Andy, Kingsley and Oliver made a quick transition from Tullamarine to the CBD, allowing plenty of time for final preparation for the days Amazing Race. 10:00am ticked over and the race was on, with the four teams from Essendon Airport and Essendon Fields completing their first challenge successfully, they headed off across Melbourne towards their next check point, on what was at this point a perfect Victorian morning. The Amazing Race can be as challenging to us as facilitators as it is for those competing, this particular race would keep the BeChallenged team on their toes to the very end. As the teams progressed across the CBD and headed towards St Kilda, Andy, Oliver and Kingsley firstly endured the theft of a BeChallenged bag. Leaving Oliver with no equipment and not for the first time clues less, teams approached for their next challenge. Successfully overcoming this hurdle with some improvisation and quick thinking, Mother Nature then joined the party with a spectacular thunder storm and tarantula rain. Melbourne's Luna Park provided a brief interval and the opportunity for teams to momentarily dry out as we headed into the final stages of the race. At this point it was becoming increasingly obvious that our intended finishing location and BBQ lunch were perhaps not suited to the current conditions! A few phone calls later and plan ‘B' was put into action with Oliver ensuring all teams boarded the correct tram and headed back towards the CBD and Flinders Street. The following 10 minutes was a mini Amazing Race in itself! With the teams completing challenges as they travelled towards the city by tram, Andy and Kingsley battled Melbourne's back street attempting to stay one step ahead of the pack. Stuck in traffic and only seconds ahead of the teams, Andy took to the streets, finishing mat under one arm as he sprinted to the final location. The finishing mat was barely in place before the Canadian team arrived and were proudly crowned the Essendon Airport & Essendon Fields Amazing Race Champions. A challenging day for all, it truly was an Amazing Race. Special thanks to the guys at Luna Park and Young & Jacksons for their flexibility and quick execution of plan ‘B' !! The team from Essendon Airport and Essendon Fields were a fantastic bunch to work with, they were totally committed to the Amazing Race and all activities and challenges they faced, notability at no point did anybody mention the weather. Andy Johnson Company: Essendon Airport Pty Ltd/ Essendon Fields Pty Ltd Event: The Amazing Race Outcome: To provide staff with an opportunity to engage in activities outside the workplace in a fun environment, whilst also building a stronger long term bond. Comment: The Be Challenged experience was exciting, fun and most of all delivered team dynamics. Weather conditions changed throughout the day and the wet weather brought new challenges for both the facilitators and staff members. The facilitators were professional, motivating, resourceful and flexible, as venues had to change and wet weather attire was supplied. Overall it was a great day that all the staff enjoyed and I would certainly recommend Be Challenged to anyone looking to run a team building session. Wendy Coghlan

Team Building

Team building Programs:

- Human Scrabble
- Crossing the Spit
- Quarantine
- Crack The Cube
- Sydney Safari
- Team Opportunity
- The Amazing Race
- Community Challenge
- Beach Olympics
- Civilisation
- The Italian Job
- Raft Race
- Metro Mayhem
- Carmen Sandiego
- Treasure Hunters
- Survivor
- The Wall
- Sailing
- Mini Olympics
- Mission Possible

Evening Events:

- Olympic Mastermind
- Vegas Nights
- The Italian Job
- Mastermind
- Grape Expectations
- Crack The Cube

Motivation:

- The Tony Mowbray
Experience
- Crossing the Spit
- The Brigade

Energisers:

- The Name Game
- Photo Challenges
- Juggling
- Catapult

Workshops

- Winning Teams

Some testimonials for some of our team building activities and team building games:
(Bankwest on 'Sydney Safari' team building activities)

"Since returning to the office, the team moral has definitely increased and we attribute this to the great team building activities from Be Challenged, creating a fun and energetic day whilst focusing on the fundamentals of working together as a team."

(Macquarie Bank on 'The Amazing Race' team building activities)

"Our team had a fantastic afternoon competing in the Amazing Race. What a great way to truly show team dynamics in a fun and challenging way! A big thanks to BeChallenged who were fantastic! We'll be back for their team building activities and team building games!"

(Freedom on 'Raft Race' team building activities)
"The 'BeChallenged' guys really listened to what we wanted and delivered team building activities and team building games that met and exceeded our expectations in every way. The entire team on the day of the activity were professional, friendly and extremely well organised. In fact, the team building activities were noted as being the highlight for many of our delegates. I would have no hesitation in recommending 'BeChallenged' to anyone and I would look to using them again for any future team building activities and team building games we hold."

The team at BeChallenged love what they do and are committed to making your next team building activities and team building games enjoyable and constructive.