Enjoy Food, Fun and Fellowship with Sundial Teamscapes Indoor Team Building Activities

March 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Sundial Teamscapes is offering a series of innovative indoor teambuilding activities, perfect for forging closer bonds and encouraging greater productivity during the cold winter months. The indoor team building programme allows participants to keep warm indoors while developing communication skills and trust at the same time as enjoying challenging culinary tasks.

Each team building activity has been purposefully designed to get colleagues and employees working better together, as well as getting them to work within resource constraints, such as budgets restrictions and impending deadlines.

With the weather not looking to improve anytime soon, indoor activities can fast track the business benefits of team work without the need to wait for the arrival of summer. Sundial Teamscapes indoor team building activities use the same set of 36 hand crafted hardwood blocks to create a series of challenges in three unique scenarios. Each team is required to work together to solve the challenges within the boundaries set, helping the identification of individual strengths and weaknesses as well as facilitating better work practices between the unit as a whole.

For teams new to team building, Blockheads is an ideal starting point. This exercise begins with each team member selecting a card to discover what their task is. They must then collect particular combinations of blocks from the ones provided and trade or discard blocks they don’t need to achieve their goal as quickly as possible. This activity is ideal for those wanting to gently ease their staff into being able to work collaboratively whist also encouraging them to shine as individuals. Conflicting demands will force them to decide whether they should focus on their own needs or those of the team. The activity takes a mere 20 minutes and is given a complexity rating of five out of 10. It is most effective if repeated throughout the day to improve team performance.

The hardest indoor activity is Block Exchange, rated nine out of 10 for complexity. It involves participants jointly owning their own public company and wanting to increase their shareholding by exchanging blocks. However, customer orders throw things off balance as fulfilling the orders to a high standard would result in the company’s value increasing but the individual shareholders shares reducing due to the demand. A delicate balance is needed to be able to fulfil the needs of the customers as well as the organisation, and this is what determines the final score.

For teams sporting a healthy appetite and generous dose of creativity, Sundial Teamscapes culinary teambuilding activities are designed to add a splash of fun and a pinch of competitiveness to your team’s way of working. Testing timing, planning, task allocation abilities, creativity, resource planning, invention, the ability to work under pressure and the ability to trust each other, the activities also promote empathy, understanding and tolerance between the participants.

Everyone loves cakes so the Teamcakes activity should be no problem for most. Rated a six out of 10 for complexity, the activity involves decorating a sponge cake as creatively as possible. There’s one slight snag though; the only person who will be allowed to touch the cake and the ingredients will be blindfolded! The finished cakes will be marked for good presentation and how the teams manage their working environments.

If your team sports a sweet tooth, the Chocolate Challenge is guaranteed to have them bonding over a shared love of coco. The activity involves observing a master chocolatier at work, and then designing and producing a chocolate bar or handmade truffle selection. The chocolates must then be packaged and presented at the end of the session where they are assessed for taste, aesthetics and originality of the theme. This activity is designed to encourage creativity and the ability to work as a team.

For more information on any of these activities, or to sign your team up, visit http://www.sundialteamscapes.com.