Top 5 original and unusual Team Building activities
Are you looking for truly original alternatives to quizzes, classic escape games or traditional after-work events? Teams Connect offers five corporate activities that are radically different from the norm: indoor alpine adventure, AI-created comics, collaborative music composition, high-impact solidarity action, cultural or urban exploration… All these experiences are designed to surprise your teams while helping you achieve your goals of cohesion, engagement and collaboration.
Assault on Mont Blanc : bringing the alpine adventure indoors
Imagine your teams in a meeting room transformed into a rope team of mountaineers, ready to (virtually) climb the highest peak in Europe. That’s the challenge of the Assault on Mont Blanc activity offered by Teams Connect.
Immersive universe: the activity begins with a briefing, then participants follow a guided ‘Tour of Mont Blanc’ using iPads, maps and video footage.
Tension and adrenaline rush: each team searches for their mountaineering equipment, tackles challenges, puzzles and photo shoots, before virtually ‘climbing’ the mountain to win the legendary ‘Golden Ice Axe’.
Marked contrast effect: the discrepancy between the traditional environment (meeting room) and the ‘high mountain’ theme is surprising and engaging; ideal for breaking out of the usual seminar setting.
Cohesion and collective role: the activity does not require any particular physical condition; it is team spirit, coordination and strategy that make the difference.
The result: a memorable collective experience that is both fun and symbolic, perfect for strengthening team spirit, confidence and commitment among your employees around a common goal.
The Great Comic Book Adventure: when your teams collaborate to write a corporate comic book
With La Grande Aventure en BD by Midjourney, Teams Connect offers a creative workshop where each team becomes a mini creative studio. The idea behind this team building exercise is to combine the power of artificial intelligence with collective imagination to produce a unique comic strip.
Collaborative process: participants use ChatGPT to structure the story and write the dialogues, then Midjourney to generate the visuals.
Various roles depending on profiles: everyone can contribute according to their strengths (storytelling, humour, visual sense, ideas, dialogue), which values diversity of talent.
Festive presentation: at the end, the presentation takes the form of a ‘corporate comic book festival’: all the works are shared to celebrate a moment of collective pride.
Innovative dimension: AI is not a gadget, but a genuine tool for collaborative creation, making it a unique, surprising and highly engaging experience. It provides inspiration for your professional (and personal) life on a daily basis, making it easy to integrate AI into your business.
This workshop promotes creativity, team spirit, communication and a sense of collective achievement… all key ingredients for strengthening corporate culture.
Creative Harmony – Suno’s melody: composing the company anthem as a team
Another original proposal from Teams Connect: Creative Harmony – The Melody of Suno. A team-building exercise where your employees work together to create a company anthem or jingle using ChatGPT and Suno.
Collaborative music workshop: lyrics co-written with ChatGPT, music composition with Suno. Each participant can contribute according to their affinities: lyrics, rhythm, vocals, ideas.
Originality and surprise: few teams expect to ‘compose a song’ in a team-building context, so the surprise and novelty effect is strong.
Emotions and collective pride: the result (a company anthem or jingle) often inspires pride, enthusiasm and sometimes even goosebumps among your employees. This piece becomes a lasting ‘company asset’ that can be reused at future events, meetings, internal videos, etc.
Sustainable and symbolic dimension: beyond the event itself, it is a lever for engagement, collective identity and shared meaning.
This corporate activity is ideal for strengthening corporate culture and commitment to values, and giving your employees a strong sense of belonging, while stimulating creativity and cohesion.
The Hour of Power: useful team building that changes lives
The fourth type of corporate activity combining solidarity and meaning offered by Teams Connect The Hour of Power, a solidarity programme offered by Teams Connect. Rather than a score or a trophy, the ‘deliverable’ of this workshop is concrete: a solar lamp, which can improve the daily life of a child in a developing country.
CSR dimension and social impact: participants assemble solar lamp kits and write letters to the children who will receive them, a concrete gesture to combat energy poverty.
Cohesion through shared meaning: working together for a common cause strengthens bonds in different ways: through empathy, meaning, and cooperation for the common good.
Employee recognition: the team is not just ‘rewarded’ for a score, but for a commitment to solidarity, which fuels motivation, pride and your company’s image. Here is an example of what we often hear at the end of the workshop: ‘We didn’t just play a game, we did something that really matters.’
This type of team building perfectly matches current CSR issues, meaning at work and collective commitment: powerful levers for companies concerned about their values.
Wall of puzzles: when your cocktail party or seminar break becomes an intellectual game
For a more playful but original approach, Teams Connect offers Mur d’énigmes (Wall of Puzzles), a team-building activity filled with investigations and puzzles to be solved as a team, ideal for livening up seminar breaks or hosting a corporate evening in an unusual way.
Intellectual stimulation and collaboration: teams work together to solve puzzles, harness collective intelligence, divide tasks and communicate effectively.
Friendly but stimulating atmosphere: far from a simple quiz, this activity combines reflection, suspense and laughter. It is perfect for rethinking after-work gatherings or corporate events in a different way.
Flexibility and adaptability: the format is suitable for both small groups and large groups, and can take place at your premises or during a seminar.
An excellent alternative to make your internal events more lively, stimulating team cohesion and engagement.
In short, these five activities offered by Teams Connect have one thing in common: they surprise, create strong emotions and leave a lasting impression. They combine creativity, collaboration, social impact, innovation and total immersion… all powerful levers for strengthening cohesion and giving meaning to your internal events.
Did you know? You can also combine several formats to create an even richer experience. Contact Teams Connect now to organise a tailor-made corporate event that will leave a lasting impression and bring your teams together for the long term.
