5 Key Takeaways Squid Game Has Taught Us About Team Building
If you haven’t watched Squid Game on Netflix yet, then this is your warning that there may be spoilers ahead!
Squid Game has already become one of Netflix’s biggest successes when it comes to online streaming. A total of 142 million “member households watched the series within the first month of it releasing, smashing the Bridgerton Season 1 record of 82 million viewers. The series follows 456 debt-ridden players as they all compete against one another in a selection of well-known children’s games for a chance to win a cash prize of 45.6 billion Won (£28m).
Squid Game provides not only a great TV show to get your teeth into, but an excellent insight into the foundations that are needed for successful teamwork to which we will explore below.
Image Source – Squid Game Netflix
Red Light, Green Light
Game Rules: In the original children’s game Red Light, Green Light, also known as ‘Statues’ or ‘What Time Is It, Mr Fox?’ in the UK, one player is selected to face the wall, whilst the others try to cross the finish line. However, if the play facing the wall turns around and shouts “red light”, the players must stop immediately and stay still. If they are caught moving, then they are eliminated.
A key lesson learnt throughout this game is that patience and listening is a virtue. Whilst the 5-minute timer counts down, what seems a relatively easy game ends in disaster for over half of the players. The first few to set off showed no patience by not assessing what was ahead of them, rushing into the game resulting in their fatality. Sheer panic amongst the players then resulted in a high number of deaths. The players that did not panic and were patient at the start remained in the game.
Player number #218 (Sang-Woo) learns quickly that the winning formula is to move cautiously behind the person in front of you, and to keep moving on each green light. Player #218 then relays this information to #456, who has frozen in fear, which motivated him to get up and move forwards. In this scenario #218 was acting as the leader and offered valid solutions to player #456.
Dyfrig Jenkins, a Leadership Coach states, “Businesses rely on activity, this includes leaders like you being proactive about things that are preventing you from moving forward. Why is it that we are taught to walk and talk, read and write but developing listening skills is rarely something our parents teach us? Listening to hear and understand doesn’t feature in education curricula and its rarely a skill we are assessed for at job interviews! Most of us are fortunate to have ears that work, but few of us use them to our full advantage, especially when we are working under pressure…”
Honeycomb Challenge
Game Rules: Individuals select either an Umbrella, Star, Triangle or Circle shape. They are then given a tin which contains a dalgona (Korean candy made with melted sugar and baking soda) and a needle. The objective of the game is to cut out the shape without breaking it within 10 minutes.
Player #456 Gi-Hun drew the short straw by choosing the umbrella shape, which consisted of many bends. While under time restraint, he eventually figures out that licking the back of the dalgona will help to release it, after a drop of his swear fell on to the Dalgona and made it transparent.
The key takeaway learnt here was to implement patience, but also to think outside the box, or the tin in this case! Although contestants were only given a needle, creative thinking played a key role in some of the players making it through to the next round. Player #456 shared his newfound knowledge with the other players, which ultimately allowed them to also get through the next round.
As Dalai Lama said once, “Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.”
There are many reasons why organisations, or individuals for that matter, need to embrace creativity and innovation today. The pace of global change is accelerating, the number of websites has passed 1 billion globally, the ways of doing business and creating and selling products and services has changed. After all, who would have thought a few years ago, Virgin would be building spaceships, Google would be moving into the self-drive cars market that we’d be living through a global pandemic or that world leaders would meet to slow down the increasing effects of climate change? Creativity and innovation are key to our survival and success.
Tug of War
Game Rules: This is probably one of the most known games in the series. Tug of war sees the players split into teams, each chained to an end of a braided rope. The aim of the game is to supress the other team by pulling the rope at the same time, dragging them off the high platform. Consequently, ending in their death.
Going into the game, player #456’s team was shown to be weaker, with a noticeable strength and weight difference. Player #001 used his age, knowledge, and wisdom to his advantage to create a winning strategy by undertaking the leadership role. “All you need is a good strategy, combined with good teamwork”. If you haven’t learnt already, good teamwork requires a good leader. A leader needs to be someone strong, not so much physically as Squid Game shows, but mentally to drive the team forward and maintain positivity.
It’s about how you arrange your team, with each player holding an important role in helping to secure the win. Having a strategy like this is critical. A diverse workforce made up of different skill sets is integral to a successful team.
When one strategy didn’t work, the team communicated with one another and adapted a new plan. This lesson can be applied to the workplace. As Bob Buckman once said, “Don’t be afraid to share what you know, because you know it better than anyone else!”.
Dyfrig states, “In our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, our understanding of normal continues to be challenged. Leaders and their teams must find a sense of courage, empathy, and trust.Leadership determines how teams feel and work in times of crisis, your team will remember how they were led and how they worked together – or not. They are and will be concerned about the future and how much their leaders committed to finding the best solutions for and with them.”
Glass Stepping Stone Bridge
Game Rules: Hosted in a gigantic room, players are given the opportunity to choose between 1 and 16. Players are then instructed to cross the glass bridge in number order. The stepping stones before you are made from one of two types of glass, one tempered glass and the other normal glass. However, the normal glass will break even if just one person steps on it.
During the game, players were making their choices on luck, and not assessing the panels. This game saw players looking upon the mistakes that the first players made to move them forward. A key lesson learnt here is to observe your surroundings and apply these to move forward.
The player in 12th position announced that he worked for a glass manufacturer for over 30 years and could tell the difference saying, “If you look at tempered glass from an angle under the light, you can see faint stain marks”. However, sadly he lost his live when player #218 lost patience in his skill set and pushed him off the bridge.
Working together as a team consists of a range of specialisms and knowledge. The success of one area of ateam or a business relies on many others completing their own tasks well. Working in a group can be both rewarding but also challenging. There are often different levels of knowledge and skills, and people behave differently too. Working in high performing teams makes it easier to develop great working partnerships, overcome challenges and hit targets, but most importantly, everyone needs to feel trusted, valued and a valuable part of the collective.
Squid Game Team Building Activity
Ready to give it a go? We have our very own version, Quid Games, that will test your teamwork, patience, and creative skills. This can be delivered both indoors and outdoors and adaptable dependant on your requirements.
Get in touch today to discuss your next team building event. https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/goto-events-contact-us/
The Best 19 Christmas Team Building Ideas, Activities & Events
The Best 19 Christmas Team Building Ideas, Activities & Events
At GOTO Events we understand how important the Christmas period can be for companies. It’s a time to reflect on the previous 12 months and host a festive party to end the year in style.
The Christmas period gives you a fantastic opportunity to not only reward your team for a good year’s work but also host an event that will provide long term benefits.
But the hosting needs to start with the planning, and that’s where we can help. We have a wide range of Christmas team building ideas and events. Our event planners are ready and available now to talk you through the options available, some of which you can see below.
Whether it’s a fun festive get-together or a full-blown Christmas party, we have the experience and themes to make this year’s event one to remember.
#1: Challenge 100
Unlike other Christmas team building events you might see online; Challenge 100 is one big fun experience that all the team can enjoy.
Our judging marshals will run the event for you, making sure that everyone stays inline, but more importantly ensuring all the fun you’d expect from a Christmas team building activity!
#2: Cocktail Making
Who doesn’t like to sink a few cocktails (or mocktails) at Christmas time? Instead of heading to the local nightclub you could get GOTO Events to plan the perfect night out at a venue or location of your choice.
This event comes with your own mixology expert, but more importantly all the ingredients and gear your team needs to make the perfect tipple.
#3: Crime Scene Experience
One of our more popular Christmas team building ideas is a crime scene inspired activity. Employees are split up into CSI teams, given the full kit, then tasked with solving a range of complex crimes.
Guiding you through this amazing team building activity (see all) and adventure will be Former Scotland Yard Detectives, or other professionals.
#4: Escape Rooms
Another event that never fails to inspire and entertain teams is our Escape Rooms activity. It really does have to be seen to be believed. It will be a topic of conversation long after your staff get back after the Christmas break… and there are good reasons why!
Each escape game events room has its own unique style and is one of the most interesting team building activities on offer. There are guidelines but no instructions. It’s purely down to the team’s innovation to look around them and crack the interconnecting challenges, conundrums, riddles and clues.
#5: Incognito Spy Mission
Forget watching the same old re-runs of James Bond movies this Christmas and sign up instead for your own spy mission.
Following a trail of intelligence around your chosen town or city, you and your team will crack into emails, meet with undercover agents and decipher cryptic messages, all in the hunt to find out who is the traitor in the midst.
#6: Strictly Come Dining
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without full bellies. And this Christmas team building idea certainly ticks that box!
In this team event, you and your group will go head to head to produce a tasty dish for your colleagues to judge, then it will be their turn to cook for you! Each group will have luxury colour coded stainless steel cookery zones and be working with professional chefs.
#7: Master of the Tasks
It includes 25 different games, all of which will challenge your employees, getting them to use their different skills whilst working as a team.
It’s actually hosted by a professional comedian so it won’t just keep your team occupied and engaged but will also have them laughing and having fun – just like Christmas parties should be.
#8: Teamopoly
No doubt somebody will get the Monopoly board out for the umpteenth time this Christmas, but don’t let boring board games at home put you off… this is completely different!
Hosted by our very own Mr. Monopoly, this super-sized team building edition of the legendary board-game is designed to keep your office entertained for weeks beyond the event!
#9: The Apprentices
Do you think you and your colleagues have what it takes to beat the world’s most belligerent boss? Well, now’s the time to prove it with this Christmas team building event that puts your staff in the hot seat.
It’s a whole day of team building with challenging tasks to inspire leadership, innovation, and teamwork… but someone will get fired!
#10: Treasure Hunts
This Christmas team building idea can be booked as one of 4 different themes; black cabs, tuk-tuks, powerboats, or segways… yep, you’ve guessed it – your team is going to be traveling around trying to unravel the clues and find the treasure.
These city-based treasure hunts are some of the most popular we run. The day is completely mobile, and we’ll set the entire experience up from start to finish.
#11: Wall Street Winners
Do you think you’ve got what it takes to rise to the top of Wall Street this festive period? If so, then this is the event for you.
Carefully designed to test the most relevant business skills and build teamwork, Wolves of Wall Street will have even the quietest members of your team frantically racing round negotiating deals, deducing strategies and trying to forecast the next market trend.
#12: Bakeathon
You don’t have to be a fan of the Great British Bake Off to enjoy this one; as long as you love cake (and who doesn’t) and having fun, then this is one for you and your team. And with it being Christmas, there are bound to be some festive-themed treats in store.
You and your team will work with a professional pastry chef to make a variety of traditional and contemporary afternoon tea and bakery items, we will bring along cookery books and even some recipes used at some exclusive hotels such as the Chewton Glen and the Dorchester London.
#13: Casino Nights
Our event planners will take your and colleagues to the bright lights of Las Vegas with our casino event. Well, not quite but almost…
We will provide everything you need this Christmas; from beautifully finished Casino tables to the necessary theming, props and entertainment to go alongside. Whether you want to go all out of just need a couple of fun casino tables to entertain your guests, we can help.
#14: Generation Game
Based on the BBC hit show ‘The Generation Game’ this fantastic event brings you the ultimate day of games, quizzes and challenges that will have your group in fits of riotous laughter and mayhem!
Can your team win a Brucey Bonus this Christmas? Call our event planners today to see how this Christmas team building event could work for your company.
#15: Murder Mystery
Are you prepared for the biggest night of the year? A night of intrigue and thrills, with our gripping Murder mystery event, a brilliant option for team building or a fun corporate event?
If so, get in touch with us now to find out how we can make this Christmas team building activity can run at different venues around the UK.
#16: Pub Olympics
Sure, you could all head off down to the pub for Christmas and sink a few beers, but why not shake it up a little with our Pub Olympics Christmas team building activity?
Staff will be pitted against each other in teams, whilst the referees score, reward, and allocate points – plus a bonus for any Pub Olympics world records you might set!
#17: Team MasterChef
Whilst we can’t promise Greg and John, we can guarantee plenty of laughs, teamwork, and some great food come the end of the day.
It’s a Christmas team building event for all tastes and abilities, your team will have the opportunity to make a range of dishes which our chefs will demonstrate, each dish will need several cooking processes that will require a variety of skills.
#18: Ultimate Quiz
This isn’t one of those boring Christmas quizzes that you might have experienced before on a work’s night out. No, instead it’s a fully interactive event that comes with a professional host and heaps of fun.
Will your team win the day? Will you have the fastest finger? Who will win bragging rights in the office after the Christmas holidays? There’s only one way to find out.
#19: Under Pressure
Get inside our giant inflatable arena and compete in the ultimate team bonding experience this Christmas time.
Complete with The Host, The Voice and The Body, with game show lighting and a 3m x 3m Inflatable arena, contestants work in teams to face a series of nail-biting challenges.
2023 Virtual Kick Off Events
2023 Virtual Kick Off Events
Top 20 Virtual Kick Off Events for Companies & Teams
With companies in the full flow of business, strategies and targets for 2023, it’s inevitable that the world of virtual meetings and events will continue to be the platform of choice. But how do you keep individuals and teams motivated, connected and driven as we roll into a new year with a positive vision of the future.
To help we’ve put together our list of the top 20 virtual 2023 kick off & team experiences which can dovetail with any business session to create fun interactive interventions where your staff can come together, connect, communicate, share ideas, plan, creative and use their innovation in a fun way, all targeted towards teamwork and performance in a virtual world.
With lots to choose from, here’s the nations favourite top virtual team building events:
UK's 10 favourite virtual team building ideas
Learn the amazing art of Chocolate Making with our Master Chocolatier & Michelin Star trained chef
Virtual Cocktail Making – An amazing hands on experience with world class cocktail mixologists
Virtual Murder Mystery – Become expert detectives in this virtual Cluedo style adventure
Virtual Escape Room – Can your team solve all the puzzles and escape before time runs out?
Virtual Wine Tasting – Explore the delights of famous wines guided by our interactive wine experts.
Virtual Cooking Events – Hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs, you’ll learn how to cook some amazing culinary delights.
Virtual Horse Racing – All the fun, thrills and excitement of being at the races, just virtually!
Virtual Gameshow Mania – Immerse yourselves in a fully interactive upbeat virtual gameshow experience
I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here! – Can you take on the celebrities and show them what you’re made of in the jungle?
Virtual Bear Grylls Survival – Learn amazing new survival skills by a team trained by the world most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls
Our guide on how to organise a virtual team building event
We’ve taken our most popular conventional teambuilding events and adapted them to be run in a safe virtual environment. People from all over the world can come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the fear of social distancing rules.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
Live hosts – all virtual team events are hosted by a live compere / host who will welcome everyone and run the experience from start to finish. A live host is far more upbeat and interactive than any pre recorded session. It also means the experience is slick and hassle free for the organiser and anyone taking part.
Are people in teams for virtual events? If so how many? Teams – some virtual events work with everyone in the same virtual arena. These tend to be the likes of our food and drink events where the focus is on the experts who are guiding you through the different elements of the event. Others use virtual breakout rooms where people start all together in the main arena where we welcome everyone and explain the experience and rules. We then automatically divide people into virtual breakout rooms in teams of 3-5 where they play against each other in fun competition. We then bring everyone back together at the end in the same arena for the results and announcement of the winners. For example our virtual cooking events and virtual cocktail making are run with everyone together, as are our gameshow style events such as Master of the Tasks. Events such as our virtual escape room, virtual murder mystery and virtual horse racing work with teams playing in fun competition in mini breakout rooms.
Some events cater for different group sizes. Our app based events and games can cater for up to 250 people in one game, but multiples can be run at the same time which allows the event to run into the 1000’s. We also have specialist formats where unlimited numbers of people can play at the same time. Some events are better suited to smaller groups where a more community feel is required. These include our amazing I’m working from Home Get me Outta Here.
The most common platform for virtual events is Zoom, given it’s popularity and functionality. Zoom has very user friendly functionality for most of our events, including the use of a high volume of breakout rooms. We can also run on many other platforms preferred by different companies. Virtual events can be run on the likes of Microsoft Teams, WEBEX and Google Meet. We are always happy to demo events on different platforms to give you the comfort and security of how they work.
For most events the answer is no. The only time we need peoples details is when we’re sending out packs to people in advance. These tend to be our food and drink events and some of our gameshow experiences. All details received are fully GDPR compliant. We don’t store anyone’s information post event. For the majority of our other events, you don’t need to send us anything. We simply send you an event pack in advance via email with everything you need to know. You just need to forward that on to everyone taking part.
Absolutely not. Our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make everything hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
100% they are! We’ve taken everything we know from over 14 years experience running team building events for over 60% of the FTSE 100 and adapted the right events to be fully virtual interactive team experiences. We beta test all the different experiences in advance with our own teams and sometimes our clients to get the right level of feedback and make the right adaptations to ensure each event really hits the mark.
One thing we’re always very conscious of is the amount of video calls the world is hosting at the moment. Each and every one of our virtual experiences take this into consideration. The design, function, pace and hosts ensure the event doesn’t just feel like another Zoom session. Our specialist team will work closely with you to recommend the best style of event for your group. Whether it’s a hands on creative experience or a laughter packed virtual gameshow. The proofs in the pudding. Simply read our Feefo reviews to see what our clients say.
In lots of circumstances we can run demo events in advance so you can get a real feel for how the different experiences work. Alternatively we’re always happy to jump on any live call or Zoom session to talk through all the different styles of events so you can really get to understand how they work and what would best fit your team.
We know the feeling…After nearly a year of video rather than face to face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual team building events involve huge levels of participation. A lot of them also include surprise packs that everyone receives in the post. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
Top 20 virtual kick off events & activities
1. Virtual Chocolate Making
A virtual team event that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer,
4. Virtual Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at for January Christmas parties, socials, client entertainment or kick offs, our virtual wine tasting experience is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Virtual Cooking Events
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options including the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Virtual Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Virtual Master of the Tasks
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. This side splitting event is complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Virtual Deal or Not Real
Teams take part in a range of fun tasks and energizers in advance to win funds. They then enter the nail biting series of rounds against the banker to see which team has the nerves of steel to win the most money and take the win.
11. Virtual Mega Quiz
Our Virtual Mega Quiz is an upbeat fully interactive quiz themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks games and challenges, our virtual quiz is a great experience to create a real social scene for your 2023 team event.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and Team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- True or False
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Virtual Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual team events where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual team activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children. For some kids out there, Covid has been an incredibly tough time . This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of fun to the lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual team event. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
This virtual jungle-themed challenge is your chance to pit yourselves against the celebrities and see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Bakeathon
Hosted by our Michelin Star trained chefs, we have 6 bespoke virtual kitchen studios where we live present these amazing Bake Off inspired cookery workshops. In advance of your event everyone receives a box of ingredients with everything they need to create and cook something amazing. Our chef’s will demo a number of cooking techniques before hands on guiding everything through the hands on baking experience. Whether you’re good at cooking or not, this is an inspirational experience which will teach the pro’s new ideas, and guide everyone else through the skills and techniques to design and bake something delicious.
17. Virtual Wine & Cheese Tasting
With a warm welcome the guests arrive and greeted by our very own host along with the cheese and wine experts. With numerous tastings guests will go back and forth between breakout rooms where they can network and chat about the different tastings. When the Cheese expert comes on there will be a short introduction about the rich history of cheese along with some interesting facts about British cheese. Guests will also learn about sourcing the best UK cheeses and how to correctly taste them. We then delve in further where guests learn about the tasting map on your tongue and a little bit of science and what the key is behind tasting cheese & wine. Our cheese expert will include a blue cheese, a cheddar, a soft cheese and goats cheese. Luckily they are also accompanied by chutneys, dried fruits, dates, apricots, olives and sourdough crackers.
After every tasting our wine expert and the UK’S award winning wine hero will marry up the wines and the cheeses. He will include wines with numerous international accolades which will challenge even the most discerning palettes. He will touch on regions, old and new world wines, grapes and varieties. Our wine expert will discuss each wine with the guests with some information on the vineyard and wine producers of the wines showcased.
18. Virtual Bear Grylls Survival Experience
With the world in survival mode, this is the perfect experience to adapt the mindset, step outside of work mode and learn some amazing new skills, all under the brand and guidance of survival experts, trained by the worlds most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls. Don’t worry, we wont be lighting fires in your kitchen, this is a virtual journey into different skills required, both mentally and physically to help us all charge through these crazy times. In mini teams everyone will be given a series of survival challenges, all taken from real life and real potential situations. The design for this is to help people step outside of their own challenges, think bigger picture, and re equip their minds with the right attitude to overcome and tackle problems head on. For example, if you were to take on summiting Everest, what 5 items would you prioritise to carry from a choice of 20? A compass, a torch, a sleeping bag, a map, spare gloves, water, a stove…
19. Virtual Den of Dragons
Do you think you and your team have the entrepreneurial knowhow to squeeze the all important backing finance out of our fierce and foreboding dragons?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘Dragons’ Den’, this virtual event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Create your brilliant ‘Idea’ and get your brains ticking. With the assistance of our experts, you will have the chance to earn money to purchase essential props and materials at the business superstore. Once you have your winning idea it’s off to the intimidating ‘Dragons Counsel’ to face the business tycoons. Finally it’s your turn to shine in the ‘Pitch’, which must include your watertight budget plans and a well researched design.
20. Virtual Apprentices
Do you think you and your colleagues have what it takes to beat the world’s most belligerent boss?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, this now virtual topical event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Our virtual team building ‘Apprentices’ event has been specifically designed to test and bring out all the core business attributes in you and your group, including leadership, delegation, commercial awareness & above all, team work!
Throughout the experience, you and your team will be set challenging and fun business tasks. Once completed, Lord Alan will consult his experts and declare one of the teams the winners. The other teams however are hauled into the boardroom to fight it out in the effort not to hear the immortal phrase: “You’re fired!” Of course those who are fired won’t be sent home early in a black cab with a cameraman to record the tears! Instead you will be sent back in to the next task to try and redeem yourself and win back some all important points!
PLANNING A 2023 VIRTUAL KICK OFF EVENT? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Kick Off Event
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group. We can also happily advise on alternative options for live events, and what the current government guidelines and regulations are.
For all of our virtual corporate events, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective. We’ll help you kick off 2023 with a bang!
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Virtual Event.
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Kick Off Event
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for conventional team building. HOWEVER, our virtual team experiences can be a lot more cost effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of travel and logistics, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we’re all a bit Zoomed out. Our virtual team events allow people to relax, step away from work content, engage with each other and interact with colleagues. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run, has proved in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s difficult for companies to keep staff motivated and maintain positive teamwork. By hosting a virtual team building experience you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
There’s no masks required here!
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual team events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. Obviously we have to stick to the rule of 6, but a lot of companies are family orientated so we have designed a series of games, events, and experiences that involve children of all ages, partners, or friends. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Look Ahead & Boost Morale
With a new year, new visions, new strategies and new targets companies need to ensure their staff are on board and motivated for the year ahead. We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Quarter 1 of 2023 will be another year of change, with a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s also the time to get allay the January blues, keep teams and people motivated, and ensure they maintain the teamworking skills such as communication, planning, lateral thinking, and the sharing of ideas and information that’s always helped them in the past, and done right virtually, can continue to help as things start to get back to normal.
Have Fun & Connect With Each Other
Fun, engagement and teamwork has always been and always will be a big part of business and social agendas for companies & teams. People are the biggest asset to any organisations. Maintaining positive momentum, and the requirements for people to be working as teams is ever more important given the remote situations we’re all in. All of our virtual team activities allow people to step away from the feeling of Zoom content, and pivot into interactive scenarios where they can work, connected, communicate and play. It’s an essential ingredient, especially at the moment, which when done right, will make an amazing difference to the performance of people and teams.
Make Your Virtual Kick Off Event More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lot’s to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Kick Off Event
A guide on how virtual team events work
How to organise a 2023 virtual kick off event
Virtual team building events come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. For nearly all companies across the world 2023 will be the first year they have ever organised a virtual team event or activity. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find our about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual team event
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1- Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous events have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach. We also use celebrity hosts at different levels with upcoming events being hosted by the likes of Vernon Kay.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual team building event can be a nerve racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
In advance we send you two events packs. One with all the details on the overall experience, and one as a participant pack to send on to everyone taking part. With everyone’s busy lives, the participant packs are purposely simple, with just one or two links to click to enter our arena. Simply log in, and we do the rest from there,
Posted packs
A lot of virtual team events require packs to be posted to participants in the post. For our virtual cookery experiences, guests receive a lovely box of ingredients plus a chefs hat and apron. For virtual cocktail making everyone receives an exciting kit containing all the required alcohol, mixers, syrups, fruits, mixing equipment and glassware. This is theirs to keep.
For our virtual House Party we send prop packs in advance with all kinds of random objects, all used for the different challenges and games.
How many people can a virtual kick off event run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual team activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
Virtual Team Event Videos
Virtual Horse Racing
Virtual Festive Flurry
Virtual Around the World
Virtual Team Building Ideas & Events
Virtual Team Building Ideas, Activities & Events in 2023
The BEST 60 Virtual Team Building Events & Activities for Companies & Teams
With companies in the full flow of business, strategies and targets for 2023, it’s inevitable that the world of virtual meetings and events will continue to be the platform of choice. But how do you keep individuals and teams motivated, connected and driven as we roll into a new year with a positive vision of the future.
To help we’ve put together our list of the best 60 virtual team building events and virtual team experiences which can dovetail with any business session to create fun interactive interventions where your staff can come together, connect, communicate, share ideas, plan, creative and use their innovation in a fun way, all targeted towards teamwork and performance in a virtual world.
With lots to choose from, here’s the nations favourite top virtual team building events:
How do virtual team building events work?
We’ve taken our most popular conventional teambuilding events and adapted them to be run in a safe virtual environment. People from all over the world can come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the fear of social distancing rules.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
Are Virtual Events Hosted Live or Pre Recorded?
Live hosts – all virtual team events are hosted by a live compere / host who will welcome everyone and run the experience from start to finish. A live host is far more upbeat and interactive than any pre recorded session. It also means the experience is slick and hassle free for the organiser and anyone taking part.
Are virtual team events run with small teams or big groups?
Are people in teams for virtual events? If so how many? Teams – some virtual events work with everyone in the same virtual arena. These tend to be the likes of our food and drink events where the focus is on the experts who are guiding you through the different elements of the event. Others use virtual breakout rooms where people start all together in the main arena where we welcome everyone and explain the experience and rules. We then automatically divide people into virtual breakout rooms in teams of 3-5 where they play against each other in fun competition. We then bring everyone back together at the end in the same arena for the results and announcement of the winners. For example our virtual cooking events and virtual cocktail making are run with everyone together, as are our gameshow style events such as Master of the Tasks. Events such as our virtual escape room, virtual murder mystery and virtual horse racing work with teams playing in fun competition in mini breakout rooms.
How many people can take part in a virtual team building event?
Some events cater for different group sizes. Our app based events and games can cater for up to 250 people in one game, but multiples can be run at the same time which allows the event to run into the 1000’s. We also have specialist formats where unlimited numbers of people can play at the same time. Some events are better suited to smaller groups where a more community feel is required. These include our amazing I’m working from Home Get me Outta Here.
What platforms are virtual team experiences hosted on? Is it just Zoom?
The most common platform for virtual events is Zoom, given it’s popularity and functionality. Zoom has very user friendly functionality for most of our events, including the use of a high volume of breakout rooms. We can also run on many other platforms preferred by different companies. Virtual events can be run on the likes of Microsoft Teams, WEBEX and Google Meet. We are always happy to demo events on different platforms to give you the comfort and security of how they work.
Do I need to provide you with everyone's details in advance for a virtual event?
For most events the answer is no. The only time we need peoples details is when we’re sending out packs to people in advance. These tend to be our food and drink events and some of our gameshow experiences. All details received are fully GDPR compliant. We don’t store anyone’s information post event. For the majority of our other events, you don’t need to send us anything. We simply send you an event pack in advance via email with everything you need to know. You just need to forward that on to everyone taking part.
Are virtual team building activities hard to organise? This is the first time I've done one.
Absolutely not. Our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make everything hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
Are virtual team building events hard to organise? This is the first time I've done one.
Absolutely not. our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make this hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
Are virtual team building events fun?
100% they are! We’ve taken everything we know from over 14 years experience running team building events for over 60% of the FTSE 100 and adapted the right events to be fully virtual interactive team experiences. We beta test all the different experiences in advance with our own teams and sometimes our clients to get the right level of feedback and make the right adaptations to ensure each event really hits the mark.
One thing we’re always very conscious of is the amount of video calls the world is hosting at the moment. Each and every one of our virtual experiences take this into consideration. The design, function, pace and hosts ensure the event doesn’t just feel like another Zoom session. Our specialist team will work closely with you to recommend the best style of event for your group. Whether it’s a hands on creative experience or a laughter packed virtual gameshow. The proofs in the pudding. Simply read our Feefo reviews to see what our clients say.
Can we experience a demo virtual event in advance of booking?
In lots of circumstances we can run demo events in advance so you can get a real feel for how the different experiences work. Alternatively we’re always happy to jump on any live call or Zoom session to talk through all the different styles of events so you can really get to understand how they work and what would best fit your team.
What if my team are Zoomed Out?
We know the feeling…After nearly a year of video rather than face to face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual team building events for large groups involve huge levels of participation. A lot of them also include surprise packs that everyone receives in the post. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
The BEST 60 Remote Team Building Activities and Events We Offer
1. Virtual Chocolate Making
A virtual team event that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer,
4. Virtual Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at for January Christmas parties, socials, client entertainment or kick offs, our virtual wine tasting experience is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Virtual Cooking Events
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options including the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Virtual Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Virtual Master of the Tasks
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. This side splitting event is complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Virtual Railroad Murders
On this event we take you back to to the 1920s virtually. There has been an unfortunate murder midway on the train journey from Paris to Constantinople. Using the latest interactive technology you will become a detective and try and unravel the crime before you meet your final destination.
11. Virtual Mega Quiz
Our Virtual Mega Quiz is an upbeat fully interactive quiz themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks games and challenges, our virtual quiz is a great experience to create a real social scene for your 2023 team event.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and Team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- True or False
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Virtual Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual team events where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual team activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children. For some kids out there, Covid has been an incredibly tough time . This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of fun to the lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual team event. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
This is virtual jungle-themed challenge where’s it’s your chance to see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Bakeathon
Hosted by our Michelin Star trained chefs, we have 6 bespoke virtual kitchen studios where we live present these amazing Bake Off inspired cookery workshops. In advance of your event everyone receives a box of ingredients with everything they need to create and cook something amazing. Our chef’s will demo a number of cooking techniques before hands on guiding everything through the hands on baking experience. Whether you’re good at cooking or not, this is an inspirational experience which will teach the pro’s new ideas, and guide everyone else through the skills and techniques to design and bake something delicious.
17. Virtual Asian Flavour Cooking Workshop
Step into the world of sense and aroma’s as we take you on a delicious culinary journey of Asian inspired cooking. Our Michelin Star trained chef’s will create a bespoke menu for your team, taking into consideration all dietary requirements. Next comes the ingredients which are delivered, with fresh ingredients, to everyone’s homes prior to your event. The main experience is live, with live chef’s all presented from our purpose built kitchen studios, fully geared up for virtual cooking workshops. Our chef’s are fun, upbeat, exceptionally skilled, and interactive. They will take you on a journey of cooking skills where you are hands on, fully involved, and engrossed in the creation of a selection of stunning looking, highly appetising Asian flavours.
18. Virtual British Master Chefs
When it comes to great British food, there’s lot’s to choose from, and certainly lots of different and unique dishes that most people may not have experienced in the past. Under the expert pupillage of our Michelin Star trained chefs, we’ll take you on a guided journey into new found cookery skills, all with the objective of creating a number of amazing dishes that will compliment any dinner party. In advance of your event, the postman will deliver you a box of fresh ingredients, with everything you need for the custom menu we design for you. Whether you’re an accustomed pro, or a beans on toast person, this event offers something for everyone. The experience teaches you new skills, and results in some very tasty dishes that you’ll be dying to eat at the end!
19. Virtual French Connections
When it comes to food, some will argue that the French have it nailed. Maybe they do, but let’s take you on an culinary adventure where you can dip your toe into the world of food creation with France us the foundation theme. Check the post in advance, as everyone will receive a mystery parcel of ingredients, all designed around the dishes we create for your event and your group. The fun commences with an exciting demo of cookery techniques which you’ll learn in advance of the actual cooking. Next it’s time to crack open the boxes and delve into the ingredients. With step by step guidance, our chefs will walk and talk you through the fun steps of creating, cooking and presenting a selection of French themed delights. Maybe grab a glass of wine, as this one’s going to be fun!
20. Virtual Wine Tasting
Wine tasting has been an increasingly popular virtual event given it’s fun and relaxed nature. It’s an ideal experience for any team, or for
entertaining clients. In advance everyone receives a pack in the post with sample wines based on your chosen theme. All the wines are hand picked by professional wine appreciation experts and can be themed to any style such as organic wines, red, whites, rose or dessert wines. The entire event is hosted virtually via Zoom or other similar platforms. Your guests are greeted by our wine experts and the experience commences with a fascinating introduction into some amazing facts about wines around the world. We now step into the selection of wines that everyone’s received. Each one has a dedicated journey of tasting & exploring the unique aromas and specific flavours blended into each bottle. The entire experience is very relaxing, educational and interactive. It’s the perfect event to get people talking and engaging as you explore the world of wine under expert guidance.
21. Virtual Wine & Cheese Tasting
With a warm welcome the guests arrive and greeted by our very own host along with the cheese and wine experts. With numerous tastings guests will go back and forth between breakout rooms where they can network and chat about the different tastings. When the Cheese expert comes on there will be a short introduction about the rich history of cheese along with some interesting facts about British cheese. Guests will also learn about sourcing the best UK cheeses and how to correctly taste them. We then delve in further where guests learn about the tasting map on your tongue and a little bit of science and what the key is behind tasting cheese & wine. Our cheese expert will include a blue cheese, a cheddar, a soft cheese and goats cheese. Luckily they are also accompanied by chutneys, dried fruits, dates, apricots, olives and sourdough crackers.
After every tasting our wine expert and the UK’S award winning wine hero will marry up the wines and the cheeses. He will include wines with numerous international accolades which will challenge even the most discerning palettes. He will touch on regions, old and new world wines, grapes and varieties. Our wine expert will discuss each wine with the guests with some information on the vineyard and wine producers of the wines showcased.
22. Virtual Molecular Gastronomy
Ferran Adrià Head, founder and head chef of the world famous ElBulli restaurant in Spain, is, as some would say, probably one of the best chefs in the world. He pioneered the gastronomic revolution that captured the attention of chefs such as Heston Blumenthal who learnt to apply amazing touches to food dishes by using natural ingredients with fine dining cooking to create some magical eye capturing dishes.
This is a cooking event like no other, and prepare to be amazed at the results! We use things you’ll have never heard of such as hot gels and spheres that will enable you to create some space age looking results. If you think you know food, then think again. What you will receive in the post will be completely unfamiliar, but…as soon as you get hands on with our expert chefs, everything will come to life in front of your very eyes!
23. Virtual Myers Briggs Learning & Development Workshop
Have you ever heard someone describe themselves as an INTJ or an ESTP and wondered what those cryptic-sounding letters could mean? What these people are referring to is their personality type based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a self-report inventory designed to identify a person’s personality type, strengths, and preferences.
The MBTI instrument is the best known and most trusted personality assessment on the market, and GOTO Events are proud to be able to offer this word famous development tool as a fully fledged virtual learning and development workshop. Far more than just personality tests, our virtual workshops offer a flexible framework that can be applied to all areas of individual and team development.
24. Virtual Insights Discovery Learning & Development Workshop
GOTO Events are proud to offer personal, team and leadership development programmes using The Colour Works International and the ’Insights Discovery® personal profile as a virtual team learning & development workshop.
The Colour Works have been transforming workplace performance globally for over 15 years. The workshops are designed to develop teams and leaders by building emotional intelligence and team-working skills. At the heart this lies the Insights Discovery personal profile and colour model of behaviours. When used in an interactive programme, this memorable and accessible tool immediately shifts mind-sets, brings the psychology of behaviour to life and gives delegates a deep understanding of how to improve their own and their team’s performance.
25. Virtual Canape Creations
Canapes come in all shapes and sizes and are used for all kind of functions from dinner parties at home to black tie gala dinners. The beauty of canapes is the variety of designs and flavours that can be combined to create a delicious medley of appetising delights that will cater for everyone’s pallets. Keep an eye out for the postman, as everyone will receive a parcel in the post in advance of your event, with all the fresh ingredients they need to create the menu we suggest and design for you. Hit the Zoom link, and be greeted by our friendly chefs who will kick things off with some amazing demo’s, and hands on cooking techniques. We now crack open the ingredients ready for the step by step guide on designing, creating and cooking a selection of unique canapes. At the end we sample all the delights. Everyone cooks enough to be able to share with friends of families to show of your new found cookery skills.
26. Virtual Who Moved My Cheese
Who Moved my Cheese is an upbeat, motivating and insightful virtual learning and development workshop tailored around change and change management. It’s based on a world famous book that’s a fun story of four different characters who live in a maze and spend their life looking for cheese. The cheese is a metaphor for what you aspire for in your life, for example a well paid job, money, material possessions, life satisfaction or a loving relationship. The maze represents where you hunt for what you want for example your employment organisation, family circle or spectrum of friends.
Throughout the story the four characters have to deal with unprecedented change in the hunt for cheese. Only one of four positively reacts to change, and writes how on the wall of success. This one character continues to flourish. The others are left scratching their heads wondering what they did wrong for not adapting to the circumstances. This workshop takes you on a journey of creating your own wall of guidance and how we can all react to and adapt to change to empower our lives bit at work and at home. An especially pertinent message in our current world.
27. Virtual Art Works
Art is a powerful medium for mind relaxation and creativity, whether you’re an artist or not. This is an event where people can connect via drawing, colour and innovation that brings people together in an imaginative way. In a very simple way, we provide teams and individuals with the guidance and resource they need to create a small section of a large collaborative team image. Everyone digitally creates a small section of a mosaic style image. We provide the templates required for each unique design. Everyone delves into their virtual paint pots to create their own bespoke image. On completion we bring all the images together as one collage to reveal the bigger picture. The actual end image can be customised to your company, team, or a pertinent message.
28. Virtual Sushi Making
Learn the fine art and skills of sushi making under the expert guidance of expert chefs. Exciting parcels with all the fresh ingredients required arrive at everyone’s homes in advance. On the day simply click our Zoom link and you’re welcomed by the friendly face of our chefs. We kick things of with an amazing demo of some very cool skills used by Sushi chefs. Now it’s time to get hands on with our step by step guidance on designing, creating, and presenting a selection of mouth watering and visually inspiring sushi dishes.
29. Virtual Haka Warriors
The Haka. A famous, traditional, ancient Maori Tribal War dance. The movements from the powerful warriors creates an emotive journey of dance and noise that’s designed to motivate and stimulate the mindset to allow people to feel they’re capable of ANYTHING! Going back 100’s of years native Maori tribes have harnessed the power of The Haka to enable them to face life’s challenges head on. It arms the mind with a can do attitude and remaps negative thoughts and emotion by flipping them into powerful attitudes. GOTO Events are privileged to have access to an exclusive group who have granted permissions from New Zealands Tribal Elders. The lead warrior comes direct from the tribe who created the Ka Mate Haka used by the famous All Blacks rugby team. During this virtual event, we use this team of amazing people to guide people through the different moves and sounds associated with the HAKA. The end result being a united performance & powerful re-enactment of the HAKA that will depth charge your teams mindset and can do attitude.
30. Virtual MI5 Special Agents
Get ready to be immersed into a world of undercover MI5 special agent techniques, all as an amazing virtual team building event. During a mission to save the world from hackers and worldwide threats a rogue M15 agent has been dealing in underhand business and needs bringing to justice. MI5 have been involved but feel they cant trust anyone as many suspected moles have been ear marked. The nation needs your help to complete a custom virtual mission to retrieve information, evidence and clues that could lead to unveiling the culprit. This event will delve you deep into an online mission with all kinds of twists and turns as you instantly become a team of virtual agents ready to save the world and bring the right person to justice.
31. Virtual Taste of Italy
Step into he amazing world of cooking with an Italian theme. Our chefs work with you to create and suggest a selection of popular dishes which can easily be replicated in the future to give you a real inspirational journey into how and why Italian food is so amazing. Presented from bespoke kitchen studios, designed for virtual cooking events, we take you on a guided journey, with Michelin Star trained chefs. It’s as simple as open up the ingredients boxes we post to everyone in advance, hit the Zoom link and be welcomed by our experts. As well as some very cool cookery skills, our team will teach you how to create a selection of stunning Italian dishes, all worthy of impressing your guests at your next themed dinner party.
32. Virtual Bear Grylls Survival Experience
With the world in survival mode, this is the perfect experience to adapt the mindset, step outside of work mode and learn some amazing new skills, all under the brand and guidance of survival experts, trained by the worlds most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls. Don’t worry, we wont be lighting fires in your kitchen, this is a virtual journey into different skills required, both mentally and physically to help us all charge through these crazy times. In mini teams everyone will be given a series of survival challenges, all taken from real life and real potential situations. The design for this is to help people step outside of their own challenges, think bigger picture, and re equip their minds with the right attitude to overcome and tackle problems head on. For example, if you were to take on summiting Everest, what 5 items would you prioritise to carry from a choice of 20? A compass, a torch, a sleeping bag, a map, spare gloves, water, a stove…
33. Virtual Chimp Paradox Learning & Development Workshop
The Chimp Paradox is an exciting, modern and dynamic virtual learning and development workshop that hones in on the emotional machine we all posses and use on a daily basis. The chimp in us all thinks independently from our logical brains. It makes decisions, some right, some wrong and can sometimes be emotionally overpowering. In the tough times we all face, it’s ever important now for companies and teams to act on logic and not emotion and that’s where the chimp comes in.
Our fully facilitated workshop is designed by the original author Sir Steve Peters and hones in on how we can all control and harness the power of our inner chimp when it’s working, and control it when it’s not. The session is a very powerful mind management tool used by companies, teams and individuals across the world as a training module to help drive success via the power of people and their amazing minds.
34. Virtual Musical Beats Work
Music is an entry to the mind and soul of us all. Now more than ever we all need uplifting on a daily basis, and through this virtual team building event we take you on an energizing fully hands on experience into the world of some very funky beats.
Hosted by professional percussionists, we’ll equip you with everything you need from home, or with an option of basic instruments being posted in advance, to create and layer an amazing series of beats and tunes that when combined create one amazing collaborative musical masterpiece. The beauty of this event is that anyone and everyone can be involved, despite your group size. It unites people working from home, exemplifies the power of collaboration and teamwork, and above all allows people to switch off from work and have some good old fashioned upbeat fun together.
35. Virtual Mindfulness Session
With the current stresses of life and ever increasing workloads, there’s no time like the present to focus on the mindfulness and wellbeing of teams. This virtual mindfulness workshop looks at a variety of different things we can all do at home, or at work, that can positively increase our mental state of mind, energy levels, and positivity. One shoe doesn’t fit all when it comes to wellbeing. Some benefit from exercise, others yoga, and some who find tasks and hobbies that help relax them. Our professional wellbeing coaches provide an insight into the what how and when we can all apply different techniques to help focus the mind body and soul into a positive daily space.
The workshop equips each member of your team with a number of skills and tools that can be practiced in our daily lives. The content of the workshop includes lots of practical exercises and is followed up with an action pack of suggestions and ideas for everyone to harness.
36. Virtual Breathing & Relaxation Session
Breathing and breath control has a HUGE impact on people state of mind. Breathing techniques are used around the world in many different forms to help relieve stress focus the mind, and boost performance. this includes the likes of professional sports people, mind management experts, great leaders and people that can perform way beyond the expected level of the human capacity.
We might all take breathing for granted, as after all it’s what keeps us alive, but there’s a lot more to it. Simple techniques of stepping out of daily life, even for just 5 minutes to focus on breathing can make a massive difference to how we feel. Our professional breathing experts will equip you with a number of techniques, which we use during the workshop, to help us reboot our minds, overcome stress, feel positive, calmer and empowered to think beyond the stresses of life and work. The session will also give people skills to practice on and off, or ideally on a daily basis that can make a huge difference to their general health and wellbeing.
37. Virtual Home Yoga
Yoga is a fun way to get your body moving and energy flowing! Whether you’re after a morning session to kickstart the day or a way to get rid of the post lunch slump, our virtual yoga sessions suit everyone! Catering for all abilities, these fully inclusive experiences offer an exciting way for everyone to get involved in some light exercise. Adaptable for any group size, the yoga sessions can be tailored to involve active or relaxation yoga. With the focus on being not just on the body but also the mind, relaxation techniques are incorporated throughout the session.
The session starts with a briefing from the yoga teacher, virtually, on what the session involves and the different benefits of the yoga moves on the body. Dependant on if the session is more active or relaxing, the session involves a variety of different yoga moves, focusing on the importance of the breath during this. The sessions end with everyone feeling relaxed and refreshed!
Our regular sessions involve using mats for the moves to be practised upon. However, if you’re worried about the space you have, try our chair Yoga.
38. Virtual Gong Bath
What an earth is a gong bath? Well let us explain…and no it doesn’t involve water! A gong bath is an ancient form of mind therapy which uses sound and sound waves to relax the mind. The ‘bath’ part eludes to being bathed in waves of sound. Our professional gong bath practitioner will take you on a mind mapping journey that will amaze you with the results. Sitting comfortably at home or in the office we use a series of gongs to create a pattern of sound that will immerse you in a journey of relaxation for the mind and body. All you have to do is make yourself comfy, ensure the volume is up, close your eyes and be guided through this amazing feeling of deep inner comfort.
Whether you consciously listen or not, it’s not just about the sound. The sense of vibration, albeit virtual will have an amazing effect on your subconscious mind. Because you’re focussed on the sound, which is hard not to, the session is designed to de clutter the mind, stimulate positivity, and massage our inner spirits.
39. Virtual Nutrition Workshop
An essential part of our mind and wellbeing, nutrition for people working from home or the office is espcially important given the current circumstances. It’s all too easy to dash to Tesco for a meal deal, but what are you actually eating? This virtual nutrition session is hosted by professional experts who will guide you through many different things to make and create at home that will keep you on track for a healthy lifestyle.
Whether you’re a foodie or not we’ll teach you about different nutritional values of different foods, that don’t have to be exotic or expensive. Even as simple as 5-a-day, to what snacks are best when we delve into the cupboards for elevensies. The experience is uplifting, educational and fun. We also have an option for food packs to be sent to everyone in advance so they can get hands on with creating some healthy dishes.
40. Virtual Smoothie Making
Smoothie Making is an immersive experience centred around wellbeing. Tuning into different aspects of wellness, it offers the opportunity to both learn and engage in different ways of fuelling both the mind and body. The experience begins with a smoothie-making session, including learning about which ingredients have the best nutrients for the body.
The session moves onto a Tai-Chi style session, focusing on how mindfulness can be achieved through different movement and breathing techniques. The smoothie drinks are then enjoyed with the session ending with a relaxing aromatherapy. As a virtual experience we can either send guests a list of ingredients in advance, or provide lovely packages that get posted to everyone in advance.
41. Virtual Hospital Art
This event has a charitable angle designed to brighten up the lives of people that are in hospital and not at home. We either task teams with creating pictures and images with everything they can find at home, or we have the option of positing packs to everyone in advance.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re good at art or not, our experts, along with a number of stencils and templates, will help you create something that will delve into your creativity and innovation. The pictures can be tailored to any theme or topic. Once complete, we provide pre paid postage options for all the pictures to be returned to us, before we dispatch them to various different hospitals, children’s homes, or other charitable sources where your efforts, and the fact that someone, somewhere will open up something created by you that will inevitably brighten up their day!
42. Virtual Perfume Making
Virtual perfume making is a virtual team building activity that really taps into everyone’s positive senses. In advance of your event everyone receives a customised kit with everything you need for the experience ahead. Our professional virtual hosts will then guide you through the amazing art of how the worlds most famous scents are made, before we get hands on to create your very own fragrances.
Throughout the perfume making virtual team building experience our perfume stylist will guide you through all the different ingredients that can be mixed and blended to create the different aromas. With the right education under your belt, teams now head into virtual breakout rooms to share ideas on what they think will make a ground breaking fragrance. You can even add a fun apprentice style challenge where they have to create a fun brand and label, ready to present to the board.
43. Virtual Dash & Grab
A gameshow style quick fire experience that’s an ideal energizer for any business session, kick off, or motivational experience. Our professional show style host welcomes everyone via Zoom (other platforms are available) with an upbeat intro. After explaining the rules of the game we delve straight into the fun. Everyone plays in teams with some rounds group orientated, others where they have to nominate certain players.
In a classic & famous Generation Game style conveyor belt challenge we reveal on screen a number of items that teams and individuals have to find throughout their homes in the fastest possible time. The fact that people are in competition will drive the determination and game play like you’ve never seen before. Some items are fast find and random, others take a little thinking about, for example, 15 30 seconds to find the most inspiring item you can hold in one hand…
44. Virtual Gold Rush
It’s 1848. A famous explorer has uncovered gold hidden deep in depths of California. Your team have decided you want a slice of the pie and have hopped on a plane to see if you can get it quick to discover your share of the gold. The only challenge is, so have the rest of your team. This virtual team building event is a race to see who can get to the right place first and capture the most treasure.
Starting from New York, teams will travel from state to state where they’ll complete all kinds of tasks and challenges to earn funds to travel to their next location. Teams work in virtual breakout rooms where they’ll share the information they receive on the different challenges, before they feed in to their state manager who’s in the main zoom session. Each state has it’s own level of difficulty so quick lateral thinking is needed along with lots of communication and interaction to crack these tasks as quick as possible and get ahead of your teams in the race for the gold.
45. Virtual Change Management Workshop
With the world ever changing, we’ve all had to adapt our lives at home and at work. Change can be a big challenge for companies and teams in conventional times, let alone in the midst of a pandemic. So here’s a little help! Delivered by professional change management facilitators, this virtual learning & development workshop delivers an interactive session based on discussions, exercises and techniques to positively manage change within business and personal lives.
We use virtual breakout rooms for discussion topics and bring people back into a central arena for broader discussion, just like a conventional live workshop. The objective of this virtual team experience is to equip peoples minds with the mental tools to see change as a positive and how to work with change, as a person and as a team to embrace the future vision and harness the positive outcomes.
46. Virtual Bubble Workshop
If you’re looking for a fun and immersive wellness inspired virtual event, look no further than our bubble style workshops and activities. Ranging from bubble wrap yoga to an immersive bubble display, our Bubblicious event provides a fun virtual teambuilding activity like no other. Flexible in its delivery, our Bubblicious event can be anything from a bubble display to kickstart a virtual conference, to a yoga session, incorporating bubble wrap and a life-sized bubble display.
The calming nature of life-sized bubbles should not be underestimated, with experiencing the display providing a sense of deep mindfulness and inner-reflection. With our bubblelogist being able to produce bubbles up to the size of an elephant our bubble activities will ensure the wow factor and something very different for your employees.
47. Virtual Den of Dragons
Do you think you and your team have the entrepreneurial knowhow to squeeze the all important backing finance out of our fierce and foreboding dragons?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘Dragons’ Den’, this virtual event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Create your brilliant ‘Idea’ and get your brains ticking. With the assistance of our experts, you will have the chance to earn money to purchase essential props and materials at the business superstore. Once you have your winning idea it’s off to the intimidating ‘Dragons Counsel’ to face the business tycoons. Finally it’s your turn to shine in the ‘Pitch’, which must include your watertight budget plans and a well researched design.
48. Virtual Apprentices
Do you think you and your colleagues have what it takes to beat the world’s most belligerent boss?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, this now virtual topical event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Our virtual team building ‘Apprentices’ event has been specifically designed to test and bring out all the core business attributes in you and your group, including leadership, delegation, commercial awareness & above all, team work!
Throughout the experience, you and your team will be set challenging and fun business tasks. Once completed, Lord Alan will consult his experts and declare one of the teams the winners. The other teams however are hauled into the boardroom to fight it out in the effort not to hear the immortal phrase: “You’re fired!” Of course those who are fired won’t be sent home early in a black cab with a cameraman to record the tears! Instead you will be sent back in to the next task to try and redeem yourself and win back some all important points!
49. Virtual Crime Scene Experience
Get ready to be immersed into a world of forensic investigation as we take you on a journey of intrigue where you’ll become your very own crime scene experts.
Faced with a virtual crime scene, teams will have the chance to virtually investigate, to look for clues and pertinent information that will hopefully lead to solving the crime, including the motive, murderer and murder weapon. With information sent to everyone in advance, teams will virtually learn amazing skills such as finger print analysis, blood splatters, and suspect e-fits. Working together in virtual breakout rooms, teams will share all kinds of clues and information, explore suspect profiles, and ultimate work together to reveal their final conclusions. The entire event is hosted from a themed virtual crime scene arena where they can guide our live forensic experts to show them certain evidence from the live crime scene.
50. Virtual Heads & Tails
Another quick fire virtual teambuilding energizer session that’s fun, interactive and uplifting for any group of people working from home. Hosted by a live host, this fast exciting game simply tasks teams with deciding if they are a human heads or tails.
For each round our host flips a coin and reveals the result. Everyone who guessed correct stays in play. The rounds continue until we have the final two players on screen ready to battle it out in a nail biting finale that will have everyone on the edge of their set.
51. Virtual Gin Tasting
Part of our virtual food and drink collection of events, this is an immersive journey into the world of famous gins, and gin related drinks. Hosted by professional experts we’ll take you on a fascinating immersion into what makes gin such a popular drink of choice. And of course, along the way we’ll be experiencing these amazing flavours accompanied by different mixers to create different tastes.
In advance everyone receives a pack with all the drinks and mixers required. We have different levels of packs at different price points to cater for all budgets. Even for the people who might have never tried gins, this is a fascinating experience, that also doubles up with the packs being a really nice gift for people to keep.
52. Virtual Coffee Tasting
Coffee is a great way to stimulate our sense of taste and smell. The aromas are often used in environments such as exhibitions where people want to subliminally draw you in with that lure of freshly ground coffee. This virtual team experience explores the world of coffee beyond what most of us know. It can either be delivered as fun and educational, or we can make it fully interactive where teams receive packs in the post with fresh coffee resources to experiment with under the expert guidance of our live coffee experts / hosts.
The event provides something different, is fully engaging, and tunes peoples minds into something engaging and positive with great levels of fun education and discussion.
53. Virtual Peak Performance
Peak Performance is a virtual teambuilding event that focusses on high performing individuals and teams. Posed with challenges and scenarios from environments such as summiting famous mountains, teams will need to communicate and utilise skills to adapt to every changing situations. Groups play in mini virtual teams to manage key resources. They have to draw on virtual expedition guides to essentially summit and return safely from the worlds highest peak of Mount Everest. Individuals will assume different roles, with everyone aspiring to gather as much knowledge as possible to become the resident expert in their field. They then have to work as a team to communicate information and strategy in collaboration to work together to get everyone to the top and back down safely.
The overall challenge allows people to think outside of the box and draw open each others skills and resources to come together as a united force. The feeling of success and achievement from this event is amazing. Especially as you will virtually stand on top of the world!
54. Virtual Record Breakers
Ever fancied trying your hand at breaking a world record? Well strictly speaking we wont be taking on a real record, but we’ll be creating a virtual tongue in cheek one, just for your team!
With all kinds of imaginative ideas available this is a team or collaborative group challenge (number dependent), that tasks people with pulling together, practicing, experimenting and coming up with a winning team strategy to see which team come out on top.
The different tasks are fun, social and engaging, giving people the chance to enjoy working together as a team to see who will come out on top and be crowned record breakers!
55. Virtual Candle Making
Love the light, warmth, comfort, feel and scent of a beautiful candle flickering? Well now’s your chance to delve into the world of how candles of all shapes and sizes are made, from scratch. This virtual teambuilding experience really allows people to step outside of work and express their creative flair and innovation. Candle making is an ancient craft, but has evolved so much with technological advances, however the basic hand made principles remain the same. This experience will really open your mind and make you realise what you’re capable of when you put your minds to something different. And what a cool new skill to learn!
The entire event is hosted live via Zoom (or other similar platforms). The postman will grace you with a beautiful kit in the post with all the resources you need. Everyone also receives an e-book with extra information on the process. Throughout this amazing virtual experience you’ll learn about everything that goes into candle making including wax selection, fragrance loads, wick sizing and jar selection..
56. Virtual Karaoke Kings
Get your dancing shoes on and prep your best singing voice! This is big time Karaoke, with all the fun, pace, energy and songs you all love, just virtual! Hosted by our karaoke compere, we’ll rev up the audience in a fun competition where players come forward to take on their tune of choice. There’s the options for people to vote for their favourites to add an element of points or simply sit back, grab a drink and have a good old jolly with your colleagues.
The virtual DJ will spin the wheels, play the tracks and act as compere to introduce each act. Why not make it even more fun and add some dressing up to the equation! Maybe even a theme. 80’s 90’s etc. Whatever you choose this is a lovely experience to have a good old boogie and sing along.
57. Virtual Hacker
Ever fancied stepping into the toes of secret agents and taking on a special digital mission to save the world? Well now’s your chance! Posed with international espionage, your team has been called in to help bring to justice a group of cyber criminals. The only information available is locked in a digital arena where the suspected perpetrators are deemed to be lurking.
In this specialist virtual team building event, your team will be thrust into a virtual world to work together to explore and hunt for all kinds of information and clues. You’ll be cracking riddles, codes and conundrums to hack into secret areas, all of which will help you build up a picture of what’s happened and try and bring the criminals to justice.
58. Virtual Magic Show
A slightly different form of virtual team experiences, but prepare to be on the edge of your seat and asking yourself how on earth did he do that? We have a variety of virtual magicians, all who present live to any size audience with a mind blowing display of tricks. They might event teach you the odd thing or two!
The art of magic is an amazing way to focus and capture the mind. We’re not talking about people pulling rabbits out the hat, this is top level David Blaine style magic that will fully captivate any audience. It’s great as an energizer, social team session or any fun intervention for any form of virtual business event.
59. Virtual Festival
Now here’s something really different for your virtual team event! Imagine the free flowing flexibility of being able to explore in your own company festival arena where you can dip in and out of all kinds of entertainment zones. Visit the karaoke zone, have a go at virtual bingo, relax to soothing sounds in the jazz café, throw a request to the DJ in the disco arena, burst your sides with laughter in the comedy lounge, or simply hang out with colleagues in the chillout zone.
All of this is presented in a full virtual arena where every zone contains live acts. You can choose from over 30 different featured zones to suit your audience. Everything can be customised to your team, company and brand. It’s an ideal social experience that’s as close to a real party as you can get.
60. Virtual Family Frenzy
Some companies love the idea of involving families and children in a virtual experience. This event is a mash up of our favourite quiz and gameshow elements that’s fully adapted to include the entire family. There’s rounds to suit everyone to ensure you get maximum involvement and enjoyment.
You’ll be amazed at how much your family and children will be involved. Rally the kids up when you’re asked to name all the characters from Paw Patrol, get the teenagers involved with the celebrity famous famous, and bring everyone together for the all inclusive creative rounds.
This is a lovely virtual team event that really makes employees feel valued.
PLANNING A 2023 VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING EVENT? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Team Building Event
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group.
For all of our remote team building events, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective.
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Virtual Event.
Food & Drink - Make It Social
Party Packs, Hampers & Gifts for Virtual Team Building Events
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Team Building Event
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for conventional team building. It’s been a tough and challenging time for a lot of companies over the past couple of years, and 2023 is a tough time to be thinking about spending money. HOWEVER, our virtual team experiences can be a lot more cost effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of travel and logistics, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we’re all a bit Zoomed out. Our virtual team events allow people to relax, step away from work content, engage with each other and interact with colleagues. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run, has proved in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s difficult for companies to keep staff motivated and maintain positive teamwork. By hosting a virtual team building experience you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
There’s no masks required here!
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual team events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. Obviously we have to stick to the rule of 6, but a lot of companies are family orientated so we have designed a series of games, events, and experiences that involve children of all ages, partners, or friends. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Look Ahead & Boost Morale
With a new year, new visions, new strategies and new targets companies need to ensure their staff are on board and motivated for the year ahead. We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Quarter 1 of 2023 will be another year of change, with a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s also the time to get allay the January blues, keep teams and people motivated, and ensure they maintain the team working skills such as communication, planning, lateral thinking, and the sharing of ideas and information that’s always helped them in the past, and done right virtually, can continue to help as things start to get back to normal.
Have Fun & Connect With Each Other
Fun, engagement and teamwork has always been and always will be a big part of business and social agendas for companies & teams. People are the biggest asset to any organisations. Maintaining positive momentum, and the requirements for people to be working as teams is ever more important given the remote situations we’re all in. All of our virtual team activities allow people to step away from the feeling of Zoom content, and pivot into interactive scenarios where they can work, connected, communicate and play. It’s an essential ingredient, especially at the moment, which when done right, will make an amazing difference to the performance of people and teams.
Make Your Virtual Team Building Event More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lot’s to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Team Building Event
A guide on how virtual team events work
How to organise a virtual team building event
Virtual team building events come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find our about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual team building event
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1- Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous events have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach. We also use celebrity hosts at different levels with upcoming events being hosted by the likes of Vernon Kay.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual team building event can be a nerve racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
In advance we send you two events packs. One with all the details on the overall experience, and one as a participant pack to send on to everyone taking part. With everyone’s busy lives, the participant packs are purposely simple, with just one or two links to click to enter our arena. Simply log in, and we do the rest from there,
Posted packs
A lot of virtual team events require packs to be posted to participants in the post. For our virtual cookery experiences, guests receive a lovely box of ingredients plus a chefs hat and apron. For virtual cocktail making everyone receives an exciting kit containing all the required alcohol, mixers, syrups, fruits, mixing equipment and glassware. This is theirs to keep.
For our virtual House Party we send prop packs in advance with all kinds of random objects, all used for the different challenges and games.
How many people can a virtual team building event run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual team activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
Virtual Team Building Videos
Virtual Horse Racing
Virtual Festive Flurry
Virtual Around the World
Virtual Christmas Party Ideas
Virtual Christmas Party Ideas for 2023
Top 23 Virtual Christmas Ideas for Companies & Teams
There’s no doubt that the shape of company Christmas parties will be a little bit different this year. Christmas is the perfect opportunity to do something fun, entertaining and engaging for staff especially with a virtual party. Done right it can be the ideal time to thank staff, wrap up the year, put work to one side, say thank you, and just have some good old fashioned fun!
To help we’ve picked our top virtual Christmas party ideas to help get the festive spirit under way for 2023.
How do virtual Christmas parties work?
We’ve taken our most popular conventional Christmas events and adapted them to be run in a virtual environment. Perfect for employees from all over the world to come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the travel.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
What if my team are Zoomed Out?
We know the feeling…after nearly a year of video rather than face-to-face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual Christmas parties involve huge levels of participation. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
Top 23 Virtual Christmas Party Ideas
Christmas parties and events are a perfect way to bring your team back together in 2023. All of the below ideas are virtual, meaning you can bring everyone together without having to meet in one place. After all you can’t go without a Christmas party!
Virtual events mean that the event can be ran safely and suitable for the current pandemic.
1. Festive Chocolate Making
A virtual Christmas party that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of Christmas themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Christmas Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Christmas Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer, what was the murder weapon and what was the motive.
4. The Great Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at Christmas time, our wine themed virtual Christmas party is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Festive Chef
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options from Christmas themed dishes, the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Task The Master
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. Inspired by the famous Task Master TV show, we bring this side splitting event to life, complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Deal or Not Real
Another TV inspired experience taken from the famous Deal or No Deal game show. Teams take part in a range of fun tasks and energizers in advance to win funds. They then enter the nail biting series of rounds against the banker to see which team has the nerves of steel to win the most money and take the win.
11. Festive Frenzy
Festive frenzy is one of our latest Christmas themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks, games and challenges, this virtual event is a great experience to create a real social scene.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- Singing and laughter!
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual Christmas parties where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual Christmas party activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children this Christmas. For some kids out there, Christmas isn’t the happy time we all know and love. This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of Christmas to lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual Christmas party. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
Inspired by popular tv shows, this is our Christmas take on a jungle themed challenge where’s it’s your chance to pit yourselves against the celebrities and see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Wreath Making
Impress your guest at the table this year with your very own handmade Christmas wreath. This festive themed experience allows everyone to not only create an amazing masterpiece, but learn a new skill that you can use year-on-year.
You will receive your packs prior to the event. These packs contain everything that you need, including array of natural resources such as pine, foliage and dried fruit. Hosted by our wreath making expert, you’ll learn the full process before presenting to the rest of the group.
17. Virtual Murder In The Mountains
If you’re looking for an event with a twist this Christmas then Murder In The Mountains is the one for you. Whilst enjoying a winter ski trip on the mountains, disaster strikes. A huge avalanche happens leaving a dead body in the snow!
Whilst you’re taking refuge in an abandoned chalet, evidence starts to emerge which could be linked to a murder. This fully interactive themed virtual murder mystery experience will immerse you into an intriguing challenge that will have everyone on their edge of their seats.
18. Virtual Railroad Murders
You’re about to onboard a journey back to the roaring 1920s to solve a murder case that’s on the railway lines. It’s down to you to catch the killer and solve the crime before your train terminates at its final destination. Its suspected the killers are still aboard the and must be captured before they strike again.
Using the latest interactive map technology including augmented reality, your team will become mega detectives as to try and unravel the crime. The event is a race against time as the clock is ticking. Can your team solve this hideous crime before the train reaches its final destination?
19. Virtual Christmas Bake Off
Host by our Michelin Star chef, this event will allow you and your teams to create a variety of Christmas treats ready for the festive season.
Individuals will receive event packs in advance, which includes all the ingredients that they will need to make their culinary delights. Example bakes include Christmas Themed Cupcakes, Gingerbread Houses, Mince Pies, and our famous Christmas Pudding Chocolates! Will you be star baker?
20. Festive Around the World
Take your team on a virtual festive trip around the world, across 40,000 virtual miles whilst visiting 22 countries… that’s a lot of air miles! Starting in Argentina, each country contains a series of tasks & challenges to earn participants Travel Credits to make it to their next destination.
21. Virtual TV Quiz Mania
Get ready to be immersed into a world of virtual entertainment as we bring you the ultimate quiz / gameshow TV mash-up. Test your TV knowhow in our entertaining show that will see your teams going head-to-head through a selection of unique rounds including trivia, creative and photo / video challenges. Each upbeat interactive round will test your knowhow as you complete questions and tasks based on much loved TV favourites.
22. Virtual Quiz Through The Decades
Let us take you back in time with this trip down memory lane with some classic decades. Maybe you remember the Swinging Sixties or maybe the noughties. Your virtual journey through the decades starts with a step back in time to the 60s where players go head-to-head on three amazing rounds including trivia, creative tasks based on music, film, general trivia and gadgets from each decade as we move through the years.
23. Virtual Bear Grylls
Our Bear Grylls survival experience is an interactive team based activity that engages people working from home in a fully themed Bear Grylls adventure.
The event mirrors the focus of our live events but in a virtual arena hosted by Bear Grylls trained survival experts. But don’t worry, we won’t be lighting fires on the carpet.
PLANNING A 2023 CHRISTMAS PARTY? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Christmas Party.
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group. We can also happily advise on alternative options for live Christmas events, and what the current government guidelines and regulations are.
For all of our corporate events and Christmas parties, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective. We’ll help you see out 2023 with a bang!
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Christmas Party.
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Christmas Party
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for Christmas parties. It’s been a tough and challenging time for a lot of companies, and Christmas is a tough time to be thinking about spending money. HOWEVER, our virtual Christmas party packages can be a lot more cost-effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of food & drinks, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we can all get a bit “zoomed” out. At Christmas, people just want to let their hair down, forget work and have a good time with colleagues. It’s also a time to celebrate what everyone has achieved against the odds in 2023. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run this year, has proved flows in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s hard to know what will be possible this Christmas. By hosting a virtual Christmas party you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual Christmas party package events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Say Thanks & Boost Morale
What a year it’s been! We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Christmas is a time when companies say thank you to their staff with a good old fashioned knees up. A spirit lifting, rewarding and morale boosting experience is needed more than ever this year. Don’t cancel the fun. Contact our team to discuss all the different options available to see what would work best for you,
Enjoy A Drink or Two…
Good food and drink are often in abundance at Christmas parties. If we can’t bring you to the party, then let’s bring the party to you. We offer a whole host of food and drink packages which are delivered in advance to everyone’s homes. Enjoy some cold beers, mulled wine, or soft drinks options, alongside food ranging from table snacks to home buffets. Or why not conjure up your own delights with the addition of virtual cocktail making, or a virtual cookery / chocolate making experience hosted by a Michelin Star chef.
Make Your Virtual Christmas Party More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lots to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Christmas Party
A guide on how virtual Christmas parties work
How to organise a virtual Christmas party
Virtual Christmas parties come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. For nearly all companies across the world 2023 will be the first year they have ever organised a virtual Christmas event or activity. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find out about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual Christmas party
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1 – Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous Christmas parties have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual Christmas party events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
- Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
- Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
- Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
- Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual Christmas party can be a nerve-racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle-free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
How many people can a virtual Christmas party run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual Christmas party activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app-based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
Virtual Christmas Party Videos
Virtual Horse Racing
Virtual Festive Flurry
Virtual Around the World
The 10 Best Summer Team Building Activities That Simply Sizzle!
Are you looking to get your office team out and about in the summertime? No one likes being cooped up in an office when the weather is hot, so taking your team out for a team-building event is a great way of improving morale, strengthening team bonds and relieving stress.
Below you can see 10 of the best summer team building activities that we are currently able to offer companies in the UK.
1. Crystal Challenge
Taking inspiration from the popular 90’s TV show, the Crystal Challenge leads teams through four unique zones: Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial, taking part in many different puzzle, mental, physical and mystery challenges to earn crystals and more time in the final Crystal Dome.
Communication is key, with your teams relying on one another to instruct and help them through the tasks, encouraging bonding through a fun sense of summer competition.
Perfect for both outdoor and indoor venues, the Crystal Challenge features a pop-up inflatable crystal dome for the final, frantic challenge where teams have to collect the winning amount of gold tokens before the time runs out.
2. It’s a Knockout
This summer team-building activity involves a giant outdoor inflatable obstacle course based on the famous TV show of the same name, It’s a Knockout is one of the most popular summer team-building events of its kind.
With a host and referee watching over the proceedings, you can select between 4 to 8 giant inflatable games suitable for your team, including slippery sides, giant costumes, relay races, and assault courses, all with enough foam to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool!
3. Totally Wiped Out
A hilarious, fast-paced and highly competitive summer team-building event that features between 6 to 8 unique inflatable challenges inspired by the popular BBC TV show.
Totally Wiped Out features assault courses, obstacles and the infamous big red balls that you will have to run, climb and jump over to beat the course and the opposing teams in the challenge of speed and skill.
With a host and a Totally Wiped Out Finale, this summer event will stay with you for a long time coming!
4. School Sports Day
Why let children have all the fun in the summer? Instead, why not book this seasonally themed summer team-building activity for your employees?
Featuring many of the classic school sports day games, this competitive outdoor summer event encourages teamwork and bonding by bringing out your inner child.
You will be sorted into ‘houses’ before taking part in the three-legged races, tug-of-war and dozens of other retro and nostalgic games, competing for medals, prizes and a sense of school pride.
We provide all of the equipment and an on-site, fully trained first aider, this is the perfect summer team building idea. Simple yet fun, just don’t forget your kit!
5. Games of the Throne
Leave the cut-throat business world behind for the day and delve into the cut-throat world of medieval times, traveling back to the era of tall princess hats, suits of armour and dragons.
Interacting with our costumed hosts, make yourself into champions by build trebuchets, competing in challenges that encourage you to work together to combine your brains and your brawn to help save the kingdom and make yourself into legendary heroes.
With a selection of games to choose from, including inflatables, you can customize your experience to make it truly memorable.
6. Bear Grylls Survival Challenge
Bear Grylls has proven himself to be one tough cookie over the years, surviving in all kinds of harsh environments and inhospitable climates; so now it is time to show that you also have what it takes this summer.
With our own experienced Bear Grylls Survival Academy instructors, we provide a full survival kit to provide an outdoor experience for people of all ages and abilities. Survive in the wild, make fires, track and learn to work together as a team to find your way back to civilisation.
7. Around the World
Make your way around the world this summer in a variety of country-themed activities.
Rotating on a 20 to 30-minute basis, take part in a range of different sports, challenges, and cultural activities, including volleyball, archery, croquet, and football. You can choose from a selection of between 4 to 8 different games to customize your event and make it a unique experience.
We also supply an enthusiastic management team and host guiding you through the challenges to win points and try and win the day.
We can come to wherever you are hosting your away-day, we provide all of the equipment, prizes, and a fully trained first aider.
8. Outdoor Adrenaline
An action-packed, adrenaline-pumping day of fun for all ages and abilities! It’s one of our more popular summer team-building activities, and you can probably see why!
Choose from a variety of different activities, including driving around on quad bikes, rage-buggies and hovercraft, firing cannons, table archery, axe throwing and even more unique activities such as clay pigeon shooting, ferret racing, duck hearing, and blind-folded off-road driving.
No matter which ones you choose, you will get a summer’s day to remember, charging through the mud, climbing over inflatables and shooting at targets. Put the pedal to the metal and let’s get going!
9. Wacky Racers
Inspired by the famous cartoon, get creative whilst forming your very own racing team and find your inner Dick Dastardly.
Encouraging day-to-day skills of designing, budgeting and pitching a product to assemble and get sponsorship for your own uniquely designed set of wheels and get yourself in pole position.
The day culminates in a literal race to the finish line, where your car will be pushed to its limit, just don’t fall apart under the pressure!
10. Quintessentially English
Unwind with a relaxing day in the English countryside, partaking in a spot of tea and a series of gentlemanly activities for a relaxed yet entertaining afternoon of fun.
With a number of classic activities, including croquet, archery, bowling, giant Jenga available as standard, you can also have additional activities such as sheepdog herding and falconry for that added bit of excitement.
Unwind after your activities with an afternoon tea with optional Pimms. For an extra dash of fun, this event can be optionally themed into your very own Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, with flamingo croquet, giant card games, and teacup and cupcake decorating. Don’t be late!
Want to know more?
GOTO Events is the UK’s number one corporate events organiser, used by many of the biggest companies including Google, L’Oreal and Harrods.
We offer over 100 unique activities for both indoor and outdoor venues, emphasising team-building through engagement, competition, and entertainment, aiming to encourage communication, trust, and bonds between co-workers, colleagues and employees.
We hope you find something here from our selection of summer team building ideas, events, and activities. If you would like to find out more or speak with an expert team building specialist, please contact us.
The 10 Best Interactive Team Building Activities for Work
Interactive teambuilding activities can offer so much more than simply getting people to sit through a seminar with the occasional question and answer session. Getting people up and about and interacting with one another is a far better way of engaging your workforce.
Team building can strengthen the bonds between employees as a whole and let your team properly get to know one another and work better together.
We offer a range of fun and interactive team building activities that place an emphasis on communication, trust and a fun sense of competition. Our events will leave everyone entertained and able to come away with a renewed sense of cooperation.
With games inspired by popular television shows, as well as a few of our own design, all of our interactive team building activities come with their own hosts, props, up-to-date equipment, medal ceremony, a fully trained first aider, and £5 million public liability insurance.
Here’s 10 of the best we currently offer.
1. The Crystal Challenge
Inspired by the popular 90’s game show, Crystal Challenge gives teams a variety of different skills, mental, physical and mystery challenges that play to the strengths of each individual in the team.
Separated into four different zones: Aztec, Industrial, Medieval and Futuristic, the teams will have to rely on communication to get one another through solo and group tasks to earn crystals and get more time in the final dome. This one is perfect for both indoor and outdoor venues.
The Crystal Challenge features a pop-up crystal dome for a frantic final challenge, with the team collecting the most gold tokens winning the day.
2. Masterpiece Challenge
This is a hands-on interactive team building activity that doesn’t just rely on artistic skill. The Masterpiece Challenge separates your teams into groups of 6 to 8 people to create a piece of art that in the end will all come together to form a giant collaborative collage from everyone taking part.
Over the course of the day, the teams will be tasked with many different challenges to win different paints, blueprints and art supplies to add to your painting, including puzzles, quizzes and engineering, mental, and visual tasks that each plays to the strengths of everyone within the group.
At the end of the day, all the different pieces of art will be put together into a large collage art piece that you will be able to take away as a memento of the day.
3. Under Pressure
Taking inspiration from a popular game show, Under Pressure is a dramatic, engaging and fun team-building experience that takes your teams through a series of nail-biting challenges that will test your communication skills, trust and your physical and mental capabilities.
Featuring a 3m x 3m inflatable cube and game show lighting, the featured Host, Voice and Body will put your teams to the test, with head to head team challenges where you can win entry into the cube itself as well as aides: including Swap a contestant, Pass, Simplify or Trial Run, which you will need to use wisely to get their full advantage.
4. Teamopoly
The biggest game of monopoly you will ever play, where teamwork is the only way to win!
Featuring giant pieces and giant challenges, Teamopoly gives you 90 minutes to get around the board, get monopolies and pass Mr Monopoly’s series of team-building challenges. Not only do these challenges test you physically and mentally, they are also designed to empty your pockets of loose change! The team with the most money when time is up will win.
This event comes with a 4m squared board, giant counters and your very own Mr Monopoly watching over the proceedings, as well as over 6 different unique team-building challenges.
5. Escape Rooms
A portable version of one of the most popular interactive team-building activities out there!
Everyone loves escape rooms, which is why we have made ours portable, able to be taken to your location of choice. A perfect indoor activity, we have four different, uniquely themed escape rooms for you to choose from, including the Science Lab, Prison Break, The Bunker and the pirate-themed Pieces of Eight.
Your team will have to work together to solve the different puzzles and challenges to solve the mystery, find the key and escape the room before time runs out!
6. Survival Island
This outdoor activity will truly test your employees.
Have you ever wondered how you would fair stranded on a deserted island, or out in the middle of nowhere? Our Survival Island team-building day will teach you a series of survival skills that will encourage not only your own personal skills but also bonding in your team as a whole.
Our team will teach you skills that are transferable to many different everyday environments, as well as some useful things that may come in handy if you are ever truly stranded. This will be a day out that you will remember for a long time to come.
7. GPS Treasure Hunts
We offer a few different out-and-about treasure hunts, depending on your location.
The Black Taxi Treasure Hunt takes your through London’s many sights, with an actual team of London cabbies whose knowledge of the streets of London will help you to solve clues and puzzles to find your way around the trail. This trail will also feature different team-building activities to encourage teamwork to win points and beat the clock.
With a cab, a camera and a ticking clock, this is a fun twist on traditional GPS treasure hunts perfect for a fun day out in London.
For an activity outside of London, we offer a similar location-based GPS treasure hunting experiences. iPad Treasure Hunt features a mobile adventure app that is perfect for out-and-about team away days that can last from a day to even a week depending on how you play!
8. Let’s Get Ready to Jungle
Able to be an outdoor and indoor activity, Let’s Get Ready To Jungle brings the true I’m A Celebrity experience to you. I’m An Office Worker – Get Me Out Of Here!
With eating challenges and opportunities to hold real-life jungle critters, our very own jungle host, kiosk chief, and medic ranger, we will take your teams through bush tucker trials and challenges featuring real creepy crawlies, snakes and spiders!
9. Wall Street Winners
Based on the popular movie and the famous real-life place, Wolves of Wall Street gives you the experience of a true business tycoon.
The aim of the game is to earn as much money as possible, buying and selling shares to build the tallest corporate tower possible.
Negotiate with other teams, follow the market trends and exercise your skills as a seller and a blagger as you build up your tower until the final trading bell rings – just don’t let it fall!
10. Crime Scene Experience
There’s been a murder! Can you solve the mystery?
Your team will be thrown into the deep end of Crime Scene Investigation, trying to find the motive, evidence and the murderer, armed with a CSI kit, briefing file and your skills as a team.
Navigate the scene, identify bloodwork, study the clues and put together a watertight case. With a former Scotland Yard Detective and other professionals leading you through the scene, can you find out who did the crime? And why?
Want to know more?
GOTO Events is the most popular team-building and corporate events organization in the UK, used by many of the top companies including John Lewis, Harrods, Google and L’Oréal. With over 100 different, totally unique activities and events available for you, we encourage team building through bonding, trust, and communication between colleagues and employees.
We hope you find something here from our selection of interactive team building ideas, events, and activities. If you would like to find out more or speak with an expert team building specialist, please contact us.
The 10 Best Communication Team Building Activities
GOTO Events is the UK’s most popular team building and corporate events organizer, chosen by thousands of companies including John Lewis, Google, L’Oréal and Harrods. We run over 100 unique events and team building activities that encourage bonding, trust, and communication between work colleagues and employees.
Communication is arguably the most vital part of any good team, giving employees the confidence to offer ideas and raise concerns, and allowing team leaders to listen to their team and see different perspectives on an idea.
To strengthen the communication between team members, team building activities can go a long way to build up a sense of trust, comradery, and friendship both between work colleagues and between employer and employee.
All of our communication team building activities come with a fully trained first aider, a full risk assessment, and £5 million public liability insurance, as well as hosts, props, equipment and a medal ceremony at the end!
#1: Masterpiece Challenge
An indoor challenge perfect for any time of year and in any location around the UK, our Masterpiece challenge really allows people to bring out their creative side.
In teams of 6 to 8 people, instead of being pitted against each other, however, at the end all of the team’s artwork will be put together into one giant collage picture.
Involving a series of mini-challenges to earn different paints and blueprints to help them create their art, these tasks play to everyone’s communication strengths with quizzes, puzzles, and engineering, mental and visual tasks.
#2: The Apprentices
Based on the long-running BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, this challenge plays to the strengths and values of a business and corporate skills in your team.
Over the course of the day, each team will be set a series of tasks, with losers having battle it out in the boardroom to avoid being the ones ‘fired’.
Encouraging teamwork and communication skills such as delegation, leadership and commercial awareness, even those on the losing team will learn something new.
#3: Den of Dragons
Another activity based on a successful BBC series, Den of Dragons is perfect for encouraging sales techniques, communication, and creativity in your team.
Your teams will have to work together to put together an idea, research it, market and finance the final product and, finally, pitching it to our panel of formidable dragons to try and earn investment.
While creativity is important, other business and team skills will be required to put together an outstanding pitch.
#4: The Crystal Challenge
Our best-selling team building event, the Crystal Challenge is perfect for both indoor and outdoor venues.
Inspired by the popular 90’s game show, the Crystal Challenge involves your teams taking part in a series of activities in our four different Aztec, Medieval, Industrial and Futuristic zones in order to earn crystals for extra time within the final Crystal Dome.
At the end, every team will end up inside the dome for a frenzied session within the dome in order to collect as many tokens as possible, with the highest amount of gold tokens winning the day.
Across the day, your teams will be challenged by mental, physical and mystery challenges that encourage team bonding and, most importantly, communication.
#5: Crime Scene Experience
There has been a murder! Can you find who is to blame?
This communication team building activity comes with a crime scene, CSI kit and a briefing file. Each team is tasked with investigating and solving the mystery.
Involving former Scotland Yard Detectives or other professionals to aid in the investigation, this activity involves a lot of communication, teamwork and by-the-book operation to catch the murderer and solve the crime.
#6: Escape Rooms
An ever-popular activity nationwide, we offer a mobile escape room event that can travel all across the UK.
With the choice of four unique escape rooms, including the pirate-themed Pieces of Eight, Prison Break, The Science Lab and The Bunker, you will have to solve a series of mental and physical tasks and puzzles in order to find the keys and escape the room in time.
#7: iPad Treasure Hunt
This is an outdoor activity for 1 to 1,000 people. As far as communication team building activities go, it’s up there with the best!
It’s perfect for away-days, as we use top-of-the-range technology to tailor a location-based treasure hunt that will send your teams far and wide to find the clues, solve the puzzles and find the treasure.
Featuring our Mobile Adventures app, it is easy to take part in and will be the talking point of the office for a long time to come.
#8: Wolves of Wall Street
Do you or your colleagues fancy yourselves as business tycoons in the making?
Buying and selling is the name of the game in this fast and noisy team building challenge that helps bring out the natural salesman and negotiators in your team.
The challenges include setting up deals and figuring out strategies to earn as much money from your investments as possible. You then need to buy building materials and build the tallest corporate tower possible before the final bell rings and trading ends.
#9: Challenge 100
With over 100 different challenges and games, can you beat the clock? Find out by booking this communication team building activity with GOTO Events.
It’s an indoor activity that is able to take place anywhere. This event is divided into 5 different zones: Sports, Creative, Sensory, Child’s Play, and Brain Busters. They all incorporate and encourage different communication skills and bring out the hidden talents in your team.
With so much going on at once, teams can take part in different challenges simultaneously, keeping everyone busy and active at all times.
#10: Incognito Spy Mission
This really is a treasure hunt like no other…
You and your team take your place in the sleazy underworld of spies and secret agents, following intelligence and clues to figure out which member of your team is actually an enemy spy.
Taking you all around your town or city, you will decipher clues, meet up with agents and race against the clock to try and figure out which one of you isn’t who they say they are before it’s too late.
Why communication and team building is important
Team building is vital to helping colleagues old and new to bond, understand one another better and learn to communicate more efficiently to get the best out of every member of the team.
Communication team building activities can:
- Encourage collaboration between employees
- Strengthen bonds between colleagues
- Develop problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Improve communication
- Bring out creative thinking
- Boost staff morale
At GOTO Events aim to create a fun yet competitive atmosphere that encourages teamwork and camaraderie across all age ranges and abilities.
To book your next team building activity, enquire now to tell us what you are planning, and a member of our team will be in touch in under 45 minutes to help you pick the best communication team building activity for your company.
The 10 Best Creative Team Building Activities
GOTO Events has been hired by thousands of well-known companies and household names, including John Lewis, L’Oreal and Google. We’ve become one of the most popular team building event organisers in the country and specialise in creative team building activities and events.
We always aim to create a fun atmosphere to help staff members and bosses bond and learn from one another in an enjoyable yet competitive series of activities.
Whilst communication and trust are two important elements in creating a strong team, a sense of creativity is also vitally important. The term ‘thinking outside the box’ is often thrown around but finding the true creatives in your team can go a long way to coming up with ideas that are original and successful.
Not only that but having a team-building exercise that is creative and fun is a far better way of bonding with your team than through more typical activities many companies use.
All of the creative team building activities we supply come with props, hosts, state-of-the-art equipment, fully trained first aiders and £5 million public liability insurance.
#1: Masterpiece Challenge
This creative team building activity allows all your staff to work together to create a bigger picture. Splitting your employees into teams of 6 to 8 people, this indoor challenge encourages their arty side to come out through creating a collaborative picture.
Taking part in different activities such as quizzes and mental and physical challenges, employees can win paint and blueprints to create their artwork. Once everyone has a piece of art, they will be put together to create a larger image that includes everyone’s contributions.
#2: Task the Master
Based on the entertaining TV series, Task the Master puts your teams to the test through a series of fun games and challenges that encourage thinking outside of the box in the best ways.
Hosted by a professional comedic compare, the tasks come in a variety of forms, with over 25 creative challenges including separating smarties wearing boxing gloves, moving potatoes with giant chopsticks and peeling lemons while standing in a bucket of iced water.
The challenges are ridiculous but are sure to stick in the mind and encourage everyone to have a laugh.
#3: Teamopoly
This creative team building activity is Monopoly with a difference. Featuring a giant board, giant pieces and giant challenges, Teamopoly is a way of playing Monopoly where the shouting is part of the fun.
You have 90 minutes to win the board through a series of fun, interactive challenges where you will have to avoid losing money in a very physical sense!
With a large 4 metre squared board, giant counters and even Mr Monopoly himself watching over proceedings, this creative team building event features more than 6 different challenges.
#4: Den of Dragons
Inspired by the long-running BBC series, Den of Dragons encourages creativity alongside business acumen such as pitching, selling and delegation.
Each team will be tasked to come up with an idea which they will then have to research, market and finance to create a final product which they will then pitch to our panel of dragons to try and win investment.
Your teams will be judged on their creativity as well as their ability to apply it in a business environment.
#5: The Apprentices
Inspired by another popular BBC series, The Apprentices is a creative yet business-oriented activity that has become one of our most popular events.
Our very own Lord Sugar will instruct your teams to complete a series of tasks, with the winning team taking part in a fun 15-minute activity while the losers have to battle it out in the board room to avoid being ‘fired’.
This is all fun and games though, with anyone fired re-joining their team for the next task to try and regain points. This event encourages teamwork, delegation and, above all, creativity.
#6: Challenge 100
With over 100 different challenges to try, can your team beat the clock?
Challenge 100 is divided into 5 different areas: Sports, Creativity, Sensory, Child’s Play and Brain Busters. Your teams will then be able to take part in many different activities simultaneously, encouraging their skills and talents through fun activities as they try and win points for their team.
With everyone trying out different things all at once, this is a fast-paced and constantly on-the-go challenge that ensures that everyone is having a go at something. This event is perfect in any indoor or outdoor location.
#7: Escape Rooms
This is one of our most popular team-building activities and can be made portable!
Our versatile and mobile escape rooms let you to have your creative team building exercise in any location you choose. With four different, unique escape rooms including the pirate-themed Pieces of Eight, The Science Lab, Prison Break and The Bunker, your teams will have to solve a series of mental and physical tasks and puzzles in order to find the keys, beat the clock and escape the room.
#8: Strictly Come Dining
Do you fancy yourself as a culinary genius? If so, why not put it to the test!
We can source a venue with access to a commercial oven, induction hobs and stoves and then make this day the perfect activity for companies with budding chefs.
Your teams will be tasked with creating a 2 to 3-course meal for the opposing teams to judge, with an expert chef on hand to show you the right health and safety techniques, knife handling and the best way of preparing your chosen meals.
Catering to hungry customers while under a time limit will create a fun challenge, with food all around by the end. Let your creative juices come alive!
#9: Cocktail Making
This fun indoor activity will impress your friends and colleagues, particularly those who fancy themselves as a Tom Cruise.
Featuring an expert mixologist, you will learn the ins and outs of creating professional and tasty beverages; flipping, catching and shaking up a range of different drinks, you don’t have to be a bar tender to learn how to make the perfect Martini!
#10: Bakeathon
Our last creative team building activity came about due to the Great British Bake-Off show taking the world of TV by storm. With this event you can encourage some baking fun, but with our fun twist on the format.
Working with a professional pastry chef, you and your team will learn to create a series of different baked foods, with recipes from exclusive hotels including Chewton Glen and the Dorchester London.
With a pinch of competition, by the end of the day, everyone will have learned something new and created a tasty treat to enjoy!
Why creativity is important in teams and the workplace
Creativity as part of a team doesn’t just create ideas, it encourages a fun and dynamic work environment that produces a collaborative atmosphere where everyone’s inputs are listened to.
Being creative doesn’t just have to be about arts and crafts, it is also about understanding other people’s perspectives, encourages communication and boosts moral.
Creative team building activities can help to:
- Strengthen group bonds
- Encourage communication
- Encourage unconventional ideas
- Give people an opportunity to come out of their shells
At GOTO Events want to help your team become a closer-knit unit, bringing out everyone’s natural talents and allows everyone to make themselves heard through fun and competitive activities.
If you are interested in booking an activity for your next team-building event, then feel free to get in touch today.
What are Team Building Games & Days Out?
A good team building game is something that brings the whole team together whether that is to boost motivation and sales or to create stronger working relationships. Choosing the right type of activity, game, or event is extremely important as you want to make sure everyone feels comfortable and relaxed to carry out the task ahead.
The main focus is to make sure the whole team is engaged and working together that’s why it is important selecting the right team building game as there are a lot of activities that are individually focused for example; quad biking or a cookery activity.
A team building game where you are split into teams will promote teamwork as you will need to discuss strategies in reaching the end goal. Versatile group activities see a mixture of individuals having to come up with different ideas and scenarios in unfamiliar situations.
A well thought out team building game will cater for a large number or people with an arrangement of tasks so that there is a role for everybody.
The activity should be fun and high energy getting even the small minority of eye rollers involved!
You will almost always have the odd attendee that finds team building games and activities pointless, but it's usually those certain people that have the most fun.
A good team building company will have a vast selection of games and events for either indoor or outside, even themed days out. It is always nice to have a team building activity away from your base, so if for a corporate activity its nice to get away from your everyday working environment.
GOTO Events will keep everyone relaxed ready to enjoy the activities planned (here's a huge list of team building events).
Here we have listed 7 things to make a great team building game and activity day
- Know your client – knowing your client’s objectives and what they want out of the activity is the most important thing. There is no point in offering them an activity that is single-player tasks if the aim is to get the members to work as a team. Having a clear expectation before the activity is due to commence will be the perfect start to a good team building activity.
- Having great event staff – having great event staff helps the activities run smoothly. It enables the client to not worry about being responsible for the activities and to let someone else do all the planning.
- Encourage – not all participants are comfortable in group activity, its out of their comfort zone so it is important to make them feel included and relaxed at their own pace. Ice breakers are a great way of initiating engagement. They alleviate and tension and nerves including stigma surrounding team building activities.
- Having fun – the main thing that brings everyone together is to have fun! That is the reason we do team building activities. Whether you want just fun or some thinking activities, working together is vital. Some more mental challenges will usually require more than one thinking head and usually a few different methods.
- Structure – having structure is crucial to make the event run smoothly. Most people are usually adhering to a time frame, so it is important the day is carefully planned out running to set timings. That should usually include a break, ice breaker, awards and anything else previously established.
- Group participation - doing an activity that is suitable for a number of people is better for interaction, the dynamics are shifted to those you would usually see on a day to day basis. it is important to give ownership to the team so they can work together to find roles within the team to establish roles for the activity.
- Gather feedback – gathering feedback is a helpful way of gaining truthful feedback of how the activity has gone. As a group setting with a lot of different personalities its great to have input of what was got out of the activity, what went well or what could have gone better.
You can choose from a range of activities including;
- Indoor
- Outdoor
- City Events
- Themed events
- Sporty events
- Creative
- Food and drinks
- Skilled events
- Inflatables
Talk to a specialist event planner now
If you need help and support in arrange a team building activity day, corporate games, and events, please get in touch with us now. Our specialist event planners can put together a range of ideas that will suit your business.