The Archway Contract

This exciting business-based Team Building challenge revolves around intellectual problem-solving and innovation, with a primary focus placed on exceptional team management as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of your team's planning process.

Objective

The scenario begins when your team are awarded a £250,000 contract to design and construct an archway. This archway has very strict specifications, and using only the limitied materials that you may purchase with your start-up capital, your team must develop and build the structure so as to secure as much profit from the contract as possible.

The Challenges

The dynamics of each individual team often give rise to the primary challenges that must be overcome in this Team Building task to achieve success. However, we have added a few more which include:

• Limited resources
• Strict time constraints
• Archway must be free-standing
• Archway must meet all specifications
• Costs must be kept as low as possible
• Competitive Environment

Skills Required

This business-based Team Building task will give rise to a number of challenges as your team work through the problem-solving process. Limited resources, limited time and an overflow of ideas will all have to be managed and controlled to gain the highest results. Some of the key skills that this challenge focuses on are highlighted below:

• Task and Team Management
• Planning
• Creativity
• Foresight
• Time Management

Team Building Activities are Inclusive of

• £5M Public Liability Insurance
• Full trained and uniformed staff
• All equipment necessary to run the event successfully
• Engraved winners trophy
• Required safety equipment to carry out the activity safely
• Full team briefing before each activity
• Safety brief to the team before the event begins

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