The Integrating Teams team building event does exactly what its name says:

It helps teams to understand that whilst a strong sense of competition is crucial for successful 21st century businesses, a clear understanding of the importance and power of collaboration is also imperative.

This is one of our most popular team building events, and one that we have delivered in a range of different formats all over Europe since 1997.

It may be one of our oldest event structures, but the messages it conveys and reinforces never grow old and are as fresh today as they were back in 1997.

The aim of this activity is to focus on two team behaviours:

Competition

Teams need to be able to compete both within the team to maximize performance by all team members, and also outside the team as they strive to win new business and retain that from existing customers.

Collaboration

Teams need to understand that in order to compete successfully, especially outside the team, they need to be able to collaborate and work together to ensure that all resources are maximized.

Team Challenges

The event starts off with a verbal briefing, following which each team will be provided with a set of briefing notes. At this first stage of the event all the information provided will make teams think that they are taking part in a competitive team building activity.

This is reinforced by the first challenge which all teams will undertake together, at the same time, if space permits. This opening activity is a great way of getting the teams up and moving, and effectively communicating to achieve success.

Teams will then go separate ways to work round a series of challenges set up around the venue, some cerebral and some physical. As teams work around the challenges they will earn pieces of information.

The more pieces of information teams earn the more they will start to understand that to move to the second stage of the team build the information they have been earning will, on its own, be insufficient to progress.

Communication is the key, and as time goes on teams will realise that the only way to solve the impasse is to start to talk to other teams, and share information with them.

Through this process teams will start to link up and work together, until all the teams have joined forces and are working together for one common goal, which culminates with the successful completion of one big final challenge!