Teams function best when all members have clarity around their purpose and their procedures.
What Team Building Events Work Well on Yachts?
Here are just a few that have fit quite well into our meeting spaces.
- The “Use What You Have” Challenge
Give teams a specific project and the same supplies to use to complete it. Using only what is available, they compete to build a catapult, or a device to drop an egg without breaking. The final reveal is a fun event, and the exercise promotes creative problem solving as a team.
- “Bring a Problem to Solve”
Prior to the event, pre-assigned groups of people select a problem that they consider worth a burst of creativity to solve. During the team building event, all the problems go in a hat, and each team takes one. No team can work on the problem it contributed to the exercise.
Teams have thirty minutes to come up with solutions to their problem using teamwork, creativity, and communication. Each team then has ten minutes to present their ideas. Working on these problems off-site often fosters better solutions.
- “What Makes You Tick”
Individual team members take a personality test prior to the meeting. Aboard ship, the group works with a facilitator who is familiar with the test you choose (DISC, Myers Briggs, True Colores,et all.) and runs activities that deepen understanding of each person’s assessment results. The goal is to gain greater understanding about what motivates (or demotivates!) team members, improving interpersonal relationships
- The “What’s My Name?” Game
On name tags, write down the name of a famous person, or professions. Place these name tags on a team member’s back so that they cannot see what they are, but the rest of the group can. The entire group mingles, quizzing each other while each tries to figure out who they are.
- Building Challenges
There are multiple ways to challenge teams to build something in an allotted time. Lego challenges are popular. So are the Marshmallow Spaghetti Tower activities. The purpose is not so much to actually complete the project as it is to learn how to collaborate with everyone getting an equal say, and introverts given the space to participate at a high level.
The Ultimate Team-Building Meeting Venue
Riviera Charters can accommodate all of these activities and many more besides. We have a professional team that will work with your group to craft exactly the type of exercises you need to achieve the meeting’s goals.
Plus, during breaks and after the formal meeting, what better way to relax and bond than to jump into the waters and snorkel with co-workers or just lay under the sun in front of Cancun
Come aboard! Make your meeting memorable by approaching it from a different point of view!
