Team building is a great way to improve company culture. When your organization, company, or even immediate team engages in team building, you can improve morale, retention, communication, creative thinking, and learn other great skills. There are a lot of team building activities in Orange County, so it’s always a difficult decision to choose where to go.
Since we’re an escape room that offers team building, we do get asked about other types of team building events from our clients who want to look for more activities.
Here is our list of the best team building activities and events in Orange County.
Best Team Building Activities in Orange County
Indoor Team Events
Axe Throwing
Axe throwing is one of the fairly newer team building activities with a select few in Orange County. Groups can make these axe throwing venues a fun challenge event to let off some steam as well as improve company morale. Axe throwing allows some friendly competition, where teams can be supportive of each other. Not only that, but these venues are not just great for team building events but also celebratory events as well.
Trivia Night
Orange County has plenty of locations with trivia nights, which makes trivia nights another good option for a group team building activity or corporate team event. Invite all of your employees together to have some fun. Host a trivia night for your entire staff. Encourage each team to compete by offering prizes for the winners. Team bonding will be inevitable as you watch your team members have fun together. Trivia night allows people to get to know each other, build relationships, and work as a team to solve trivia questions as a group together. These events can range from 1 hour to several hours depending on where you go.
Cooking Programs
A cost-effective way for team building is to host it yourself. What better way to do so than to have a cook-off? This is one of the things you can do at any company as long as you have the resources to run this type of program. However, if you’re still looking for more guidance, then cooking lessons are another type of program that might work well for your team. Cooking programs are recommended because they are relaxing, intimate, and fun as an alternative to other more intense team building activities.
Escape Rooms (Like us!)
An escape room is a challenging activity in which players solve a mystery with clues and objects hidden in an environment they cannot leave. There are usually puzzles to be solved, but each puzzle may or may not be solved only by working as a team.
Escape rooms recommended because they are great team building activities due to the team-based and group-based skills that people can improve through playing escape rooms together. This type of activity is great for team building, team bonding, improving communication skills, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving. Escape rooms are great ways to have groups work together on “challenge” games that involve commitment to success.
Here at UNLOCKED, we have 3 different escape rooms that you can choose from. Each of our games have up to 8-10 players, for a total of 28 players max at a given time. Having your group play several games at our location will allow you to get your team to building those important skills. Not only will they conquer the challenge of our game, but they will conquer future challenges in the workplace.
Learn more at our team building event page and book us today, conveniently located in Orange County, California, serving Costa Mesa, Irvine, Santa Ana, Westminster, Anaheim, and more surrounding areas.
Outdoor Team Building Events
Scavenger Hunts
A scavenger hunt is an excellent way to facilitate communication between employees. Scavenger hunts help to build trust, increase awareness and understanding and promote communication among team members. There are many scavenger activities to choose from in the Orange County area for your next team building event.
Build Challenges
Another creative corporate team building event can be build challenges, which can be outdoor challenges where teams are split up and given a build challenge to work on together. These types of events are hosted in-person, and usually require a level of judgment from the host. This can help with training team members on how to work in a creative project together and working successfully as a group.
Virtual Team Building Events
Virtual Trivia
Similar to in-person trivia, virtual online trivia provides a great virtual way of enjoying most of the perks of trivia night. This activity can bring together team members that may otherwise be too busy for traveling to in-person events. The virtual nature gives much more flexibility but still allows for some team building to occur. If you really wanted to, local employees can get together in one location while others can get together in another location, allowing flexibility while retaining camaraderie.
Virtual Group Games
Sometimes, getting together a virtual group game is just enough. This would be a more cost-effective way if you want to run a team event where the team is all remote work. Just pick up one of the Jackbox or games and share the screen on a Zoom call and you’re set!
Virtual Paint Night
Previously mentioned, cooking classes are a relaxing way for team bonding. Similarly, paint night can also be another relaxing team bonding event, and though there are in-person paint night programs, there are also virtual ones as well! Supplies are shipped to the team directly, and everything else happens via a virtual call. This type of event is perfect for remote or hybrid work teams!
Virtual Escape Rooms
Virtual escape rooms can either be a virtual, play-anywhere type of game or a remote-hosted virtual activity. In the play-anywhere type, you can book the activity and start the session at your group’s own convenient time. In a remote-hosted type, you book a specific slot and a live person would host the escape as your personal avatar. This type of online interaction is good for those looking to play escape-type experiences but can’t participate in-person experiences.
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