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With summer well and truly behind us and the faint jingle of sleigh bells creeping up on us, it's time to think about your Christmas corporate event and how you’d like to treat your hard-working employees at this year.
There’s plenty to consider when trying to book a Christmas party - where you are going to go, will it be an overnight stay, what will your employees eat and what sort of entertainment you want to include. Whether you book a scheduled Christmas party night at a nearby venue or you put together your own night of entertainment, there are plenty of options to choose from. If time is tight or you are struggling for inspiration, why not take the stress out of the occasion and let Team Challenge Company plan the event from start to finish?
We can provide everything from a venue finding service to catering and entertainment - we can even make the room completely themed! If you love a good theme for your corporate parties, consider the following inspiration for your end of year festivities...
For a traditional Christmas party, choose a festive theme, including seasonal classics like snow-decked trees and gorgeous tabletop poinsettia displays to twinkling lights and hanging stockings. We will transport your guests to a magical winter wonderland that will bring about nostalgic feelings of exciting Christmas Eves spent as children eagerly waiting for the following day! Complete the night with your own Bucking Rudi! Our reindeer-themed answer to the Bucking Bronco, have your guests try their luck as Rudi bucks, twists and jumps to escape his rider.
Themed around elegance and style, a black and white party theme sees a striking colour scheme perfect for creating a more formal setting. Relax on prestigiously-decorated tables and finish off the night with our Big Quiz or even a Murder Mystery!
Black and white but with a less formal, more fun approach, our casino theme nights can be accompanied by our fantastic casino tables and professional croupiers who endeavour to wow and amaze your guests with their tricks and skills straight from the Las Vegas strip. We will provide your guests with fun casino money and chips to play on any of the fully-sized tables and the big winner of the night will be given a winners’ trophy to take home.
Step right up! Head through the exciting circus tent doors where your guests will be greeted by their ringmaster for the evening. For a night full of delight and thrilling experiences, consider a circus theme for your next party evening. With incredible props and spectacular themed settings, a circus theme is sure to take your employees' breath away as they step into a whole new world.
Have you had any successful themes in the past that employees would like to see again? Maybe you’d like to keep it simple with an evening of good food, great company and some live entertainment? Whether you are currently planning or still need to plan this year’s Christmas corporate event, get in touch with our friendly team who will be thrilled to help you plan something exciting for your employees.
Give us a ring on 03300 04 09 03 or contact us via our online contact form.
At its core, team building is designed to bring an organisation and the teams within it together, working harmoniously towards a common goal. With the excess of the seasonal holiday now firmly behind you, returning to work in January can feel quite tiresome for many employees.
For many, over-indulgence during the Christmas and New Year break can leave staff members feeling more sluggish and lethargic than usual, with the grey, cold and often rainy weather certainly not helping to lift the mood within the workplace. January can feel longer than other months, too, because many businesses are paid early before Christmas – all of this combined can leave your team flagging a little more than usual as a result. If this sounds familiar, then it could be that you have some January blues to beat before you can really kick the year off as you mean to go on.
Much like the lull that comes at the end of summer, January and the middle of winter can make it feel like the much-needed sunshine and respite from the colder weather are almost too far away. If you are looking for ways to motivate your team to get through January with a smile and a vigour for the new year, then keep reading. We have some top tips to help inspire your team to get back to their best.
With these small changes in place, you can then look at how you can help to inspire and motivate your team collectively for the year ahead. When you have an idea of where your team are looking to be in the next 12 months to five years, it can really help you, as a business manager or owner, to assess how best to drive the team forward for the benefit of the company.
Once you have your individual strengths and weaknesses addressed on a one-to-one basis, the process of reviewing the effectiveness of your teams is much easier. It may be clear that issues that need ironing out are as simple as improving working relationships and communication channels, or it could be more of a conflict of personalities that is holding your team back from excelling in the way they should.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we have a range of activities that are designed to help you get the most out of your employees. We have team development plans including psychometric profiling to help identify personality types that could be causing rifts and ways to help you coach your team through this.
With these areas addressed, you can then look at how to bring your team back together, working towards their common goal once more. Our range of team building services are available across Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales – with such a vast range of challenges, events and experience to choose from, we guarantee that you will be able to beat the January blues with just a little bit of teamwork.
Want to know more? Get in touch with our event management team today on 03300 04 09 03 to discuss your needs for the year ahead.
Team building days, events and activities are part of life for many organisations up and down the country. Of course, there can be many different reasons for organising a team building event, ranging from successfully integrating new starters to actively working to resolve any issues.
As a result, there should be no one-size-fits-all approach to team building or the results you hope employees will take away from the experience. Therefore, if you are thinking of planning a team building event, it’s important to outline clear goals and objectives to ensure that you and your team get the most out of the occasion.
Whether it is fostering positive workplace relationships or helping to change attitudes within the team, setting goals can ensure that your objectives are met. However, if you are struggling to identify and define goals for your team building event, we can help you get started.
For many employers, the main objective is to develop and maintain a team that is happy, confident and performing well. Cohesiveness and strong relationships are key to achieving this, which is one of the reasons why team building days have been proven to be so effective.
However, this is a significant objective – it’s important to break things down into more easily manageable steps.
If you oversee a team, there are certain questions that you should be asking yourself when setting goals. Firstly, you must establish where your team is realistically at now. Whether it is as a whole or on an individual level, identifying weak points or potential issues early can help you to resolve them more effectively. Next, you need to set an objective for yourself, look into the future and visualise where you want your team to be. The final step is the most important – how can you help your team get from A to B?
Even if you don’t share this goal with your team, it’s still important to do what you can to help everyone achieve the shared objective. After all, good teamwork is essential to the success of the entire team, which is where team building comes into the equation.
Over the course of a team building day, your employees will be faced with several situations and scenarios designed to test their abilities, encourage teamwork and communication, and push them outside of their comfort zone. When managed effectively, the results of your team building event can be transferred directly across to the workplace, helping you to work towards your team’s overall goal together.
Team building days are beneficial for a wide variety of reasons, but we are well placed to be able to offer a variety of services to suit your team’s individual requirements.
Please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us if you would like more information – what are your team building goals?
TMS recognises the importance of gaining understanding and self-awareness through the experiences other team members have of your skills and traits.
Similarly, through means of the Risk Orientation Model, you can measure the inherent responses of an individual to risk-taking and overcoming obstacles through their assessment of risk versus reward situations. This allows teams to achieve balance in the skills and working preferences within their group.
At Team Challenge Company, we pride ourselves on delivering the best team building events in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, but what exactly goes into hosting an event?
Over 400 incredible team bonding events are hosted every year, helping businesses big and small to achieve their goals by breaking down boundaries and bringing colleagues closer together. Our reputation speaks for itself, and it is understandable to see why - when you consider all of the hard work that is put in behind the scenes, by Team Challenge Company.
“At Team Challenge Company our vision is to be the leading corporate team building and entertainment provider throughout the UK and Ireland. We strive to attract, develop and retain the best team whilst working in a positive and productive environment."
“We consistently seek to provide and deliver services and products that are recognised as market-leading, we endeavour to exceed our clients' and guests' expectations with creativity, individual design and unforgettable delivery of all our events mixed with our own passion for teamwork and leadership. We aim to inspire everyone we encounter, whilst enjoying our work along the way.”
All of our valued members of staff adhere to our company mantra each and every day, ensuring the best possible experience for all involved in any of our corporate events.
Everyone who helps to host any of our hundreds of unique and successful events is 100% professional and every bit as dedicated to ensuring that all of our guests come away better for the experience. Over the 15 years, our team has devised some of the best corporate entertainment ideas, offering the complete package and unrivalled experience.
Our amazing team will not only make sure that your event is the place to be, but they will also ensure that all guests are comfortable and are having an unforgettable experience.
When you call on Team Challenge Company to host your corporate event, you do safely in the knowledge that whatever your chosen theme, we will work with you to offer a bespoke experience for your business. Regardless of the size of your team, we value each and every one of our clients and combine our knowledge and experience with your objectives and ideas to offer a truly unique event.
If you would like more information on hosting a team building event for your company, please call us on 03300 04 09 03 today.
Done right, a vision, mission and values for your company can play a significant part in its success. A vision, setting clear expectations and a common purpose, in a desired future state helps direct and motivate a team. It is the culmination of all of your goals into a single ultimate goal.
Your mission describes your company's function and the how you achieve your goals. Values are the traits which represent how you want to be known as a company and can guide behaviour in the workplace. Values can drive our decision-making and lead you to summon up energy to preserve what you believe in and act accordingly. Within a company, commitment to values becomes the route to achieving your vision.
Time and time again, our staff team building games and events prove to be incredibly rewarding for the individuals involved, as well as for the team and company as a whole. This is because our expert event management team do their utmost to challenge the groups participating in our activities, creating team development events that are engaging, highly beneficial and fun. In fact, many of the activities we host are new experiences for those in attendance, which only amplifies their effectiveness by increasing interest and focus during the event.
We believe that taking your team out of the normal workplace environment helps to challenge staff to develop skills that may otherwise go unnoticed or not utilised effectively. By temporarily removing professional roles during an activity and taking on other responsibilities as part of a group, team development activities for work colleagues champion communication and developing solutions.
Time and time again, our staff team building games and events prove to be incredibly rewarding for the individuals involved, as well as for the team and company as a whole. This is because our expert event management team do their utmost to challenge the groups participating in our activities, creating team development events that are engaging, highly beneficial and fun. In fact, many of the activities we host are new experiences for those in attendance, which only amplifies their effectiveness by increasing interest and focus during the event.
We believe that taking your team out of the normal workplace environment helps to challenge staff to develop skills that may otherwise go unnoticed or not utilised effectively. By temporarily removing professional roles during an activity and taking on other responsibilities as part of a group, team development activities for work colleagues champion communication and developing solutions.
We have designed and developed a diverse portfolio of staff development games and programmes, enabling us to offer a comprehensive range of solutions and products for your ongoing team development strategy. Each of our activities is unique and engaging, designed with the intention of intriguing attendees while developing unity and team cohesion. Working closely with you, we will carefully tailor a bespoke agenda of distinctive, absorbing and motivating events to encourage the continued growth and development of your team.
From our ground-breaking 4-step Vision and Values programme through to world-renowned psychometric profiling tools, our custom-made range of events can improve a vast range of company metrics, from employee retention to organisation and efficiency. Our team development programmes don’t just teach soft skills, they grow a team mentality that promotes ownership, responsibility and harmony. Our programmes are not designed just to improve your staff members’ performance in their current roles, but also providing them with all the tools they need to climb the company ladder, therefore developing tomorrow’s leaders today.
We can offer a range of beneficial analysis throughout our team development activities including valuable insights to be utilised in company recruitment or restructuring activities. Regardless of your needs, we have a programme that can help you create a cohesive work environment where everyone is working towards the same common goals with a mutual understanding of each other’s roles.
Our team of innovative and passionate team development facilitators are highly experienced in delivering corporate training programmes in the real world, having worked with some of the biggest businesses across all industries. We have created a blend of theoretical, educational and practical team development products that can be designed to focus on your key learning objectives, working with industry-leading practices to deliver tangible results back into your workplace.
Our ethos centres on experiential learning and we place great importance on involving and including employees throughout the learning process. We believe that people learn best when there is clarity on what the organisation is trying to achieve and so we share this with attendees from the outset, using engaging, motivating and entertaining practical team exercises to highlight and underline the key theoretical teachings. Ultimately, this gives participants a greater ability to translate what they learn during our team development programme into the workplace.
Team Challenge Company’s team development programmes are suitable for any business looking to drive unity and growth throughout their organisation. By combining exceptional, scientifically-backed events with highly-qualified event managers, we have created a complete team development solution capable of adapting to you and your needs.
We work with world-leading businesses to deliver continued team growth, producing positive results for companies everywhere. Our team development programmes are specially designed to encourage growth at all levels of the organisational structure, accelerating team growth and cohesion. Whether you have a newly formed team that lack clarity in their purpose and core principles or are refining a high-performing executive team looking to stimulate innovation and effectiveness, we have a range of options that will help you tailor our activities and events to your group.
We have the skills, experience and tools necessary to develop a bespoke team development programme that will assist and guide you on your path to successfully achieving your objectives. With a passion for delivering high-level results for our clients, our team development facilitators will work with you every step of the way to build a better team for you and your business.
Regardless of the current stage of your team’s cycle of growth, our experience and knowledge can create a memorable and impactful team development event for your organisation. Scroll below to learn more about our psychometric profiling, team coaching and innovative Vision and Values programmes, or download one of our brochures for further information on what we do and how we work.
If you feel like you’re almost there and just have a few questions, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us and we will gladly talk over the options with you.
When people think about team building days they may not consider all of the benefits that these activities can bring. Not only do they help to improve key skills, but they can also be fun and enjoyable events.
However, what many people may not know is that team building can dramatically improve communication between both employees and clients or customers. Communication is important in any business, whether it's in-house or with customers. Which is why it’s something that we think employees should work on. If you need some help improving communication in your workplace, here are some ideas to get you started.
The most important reason to improve communication skills in your business is to help it run in a smoother and more efficient way. Rather than working alone, everyone should be clued up and aware of what is going on.
Not only will this help the office to run more smoothly, but it will also help to limit any confusion and effectively deal with issues that may arise.
Activities such as “Puppet Masters” and “Flat Out Formula One” are ideal for this as they are both great examples of activities where teams need to work together and communicate in order to win. You can ensure that the teams are full of a range of people from different areas in the workplace, as this will help employees to get to know one another and understand the importance of communicating effectively at work.
Another good reason to improve communication skills is to ensure that customers get the right information. In some businesses, this is more important than having good in-house communication. When customers get in contact with your business, they want to speak to someone with good communication skills and someone who can tell them exactly what it is they need to know without having issues.
However, not only do they want to be able to easily talk to you, but they also want you to talk to them. If they have any issues, questions or queries, they will want to be clearly informed. Team building activities will assist with developing these essential skills and may even give you an insight into what it’s like to be the customer. To do this, activities such as “Bridging the Divide” are ideal as teams are required to produce a product to a customer's exact specifications in order to win, ultimately meaning that they have to communicate with the customer.
Now you know exactly how our team building activities improve communication, but that’s not the only reason why you should look at team building days for your office. No matter what skills need improvement, we can help. So, take a look at all of our activities and see what will best suit you and your business. Contact us today.
Psychometric profiling allows for quicker and more dependable Human Resources decisions, as well as aiding in predicting performance. Being able to predict performance improves accountability and harmony in an office environment. In turn, a positive environment leads to collaboration and enables a productive atmosphere.
A greater understanding and appreciation of your workforce can improve productivity and help your team reach the company's common goals. And whilst psychometric profiling may sound intimidating it has been proved to be a useful tool in a professional environment.
As we approach the end of another year, senior management and business owners up and down the country will be spending time evaluating progress over the last quarter, as well as looking back at the year as a whole. With so many technological advances in recent years, the workplaces that our staff members work in today are a much more exciting place to be than the offices of years gone by.
As businesses adapt to changes in the wider world, so, too, must the approach to employee training and development. Whether a small business or corporate, team building activities are still part and parcel of the workplace, albeit in varying forms and guises. We’ve waved goodbye to stuffy meeting rooms with trust falls and welcomed in with open arms much more exciting and innovative ways of developing team members outside of the office environment.
For some businesses, there is still very much a need for internal team building activities – games and challenges within the workplace that encourage team members to work together and understand their strengths and weaknesses. However, much like our workplaces have evolved to changing times and technology, team building has, too.
The influence of television and pop culture is hard to ignore, and while we may not realise it, this has permeated into the world of team building – corporate or otherwise – and this is reflected in the types of events that are now on offer.
At their core, these events still serve the same purpose, encouraging interaction between team members and leading to better methods of communication through improved relationships, but they are delivered in a much more exciting manner.
You can now expect to take part in team building activities that are fun and challenging both physically and mentally, incorporating technology and smartphones and giving employees a day away from the office that truly feels like a break, not an exercise that used to be considered an afterthought.
Here at Team Challenge Company, we are constantly evolving with the world around us to ensure that the events and activities we provide businesses (from SME through to corporate level) are high quality, well-organised and highly beneficial to all involved.
The benefits are numerous; from boosting morale, helping to highlight future leaders within your team and inspiring your workforce to remain loyal to you, team building can also give a much-needed boost to communication and creativity levels within the team.
What’s more, we are very proud to announce that we have partnered with Catalyst Global which means that you and your business are guaranteed world-class team building activities. We have a wide range of activities to suit the modern world, such as a GPS Treasure Hunt,, Highland Games, Soapbox Derbies, and much more.
In short, is team building still relevant? Had the industry not adapted to the wider world that we now reside in, then it may well have been left behind. However, the changes that have been made ensure that there will always be a place for team building and development in today’s digital world.
For more information about any of our events and activities, please contact our event team today on 03300 04 09 03.
