Catapults

Catapults, or slingshots, are very popular on team building events, people see them as they approach the field and can't wait to pick them up to relive childhood fun and games.

A professional layout is set up using colourful targets and firing mini paintballs, which give a pleasing 'splat'.

This makes an ideal element in a round robin format where teams rotate around a collection of activities in round robin format on their away day. Other activities might include archery, quad bikes, laser clay shooting and so on.

Team Building for Schools

We've done a number of team building events for schools this year and it's been very successful. The activities are enjoyable and feel novel to the participants and they promote skills that will be very useful when they move on into the workplace, for example teamwork, planning and leadership.

It's something that we'd like to do a lot more of. The current generation of school leavers need all the positive experience they can get and having something like this that they could discuss in interviews is really useful.

Roman Numerals

When I started out over 20 years ago I used to use a conundrum as a time filler, when teams finished early or for extra points. What is this word?

100010001000UN1100AT100N

It's based on roman numerals and in those days I would say that half of team members would know what they were. They might not get it straight away, but they knew the principle behind the puzzle.

Nowadays people don't know and they look at you as if you're insane when you explain it. So, after many years of faithful service I am retiring this team building conundrum.

Team Technology

Team Technology is an incredible resource, full of information about team building theory. They do not deliver team building challenges as such, but their website is full of useful information on any number of team theories and management training material.