Team Building

Let's build a bike to donate to deserving children in the community. Bring your team together to work through a hands-on bicycle build under the supervision of a professional bike mechanic. You'll have to decipher manuals, finagle tools and earn the parts to safely construct your two-wheeler. Upon completion, we'll coordinate with local agencies to ensure your project is gifted to a child in need, and your team will take home priceless memories and warm, fuzzy feelings.

• Duration: Half-day to full-day
• Minimum: 4 participants
• Requires 3 weeks advance notice for scheduling.

Crack the case on the unfortunate Mr. Kelley, who has met an untimely demise. Figure out "whodunit," how and why by working together to earn clues through completing challenges. Participant teams will get to select which clues they want in which order, so be sure to choose wisely! Throughout the activity, teams will practice problem solving and explore conflict resolution opportunities.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

Reset your mind and reconnect with nature while getting hands-on with the creatures featured at Oxbow Meadows. A guided nature hike, canopy trail tour and other unique eco-opportunities await your team as you practice creative thinking, build trust and face your fears together.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

Participants will engage their imaginations and motivate each other to create their best work of art. Together, you will create a memorable, sometimes surprising painting that reflects the dynamics of the team at work. Whether contributing to a larger group painting or individual masterpieces, each artist will take home a ready-to-hang canvas as a reminder of the leadership lessons discussed.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 12 participants

Just because you‘re having fun on the clock doesn‘t mean it‘s child‘s play. Boost morale and camaraderie with some friendly competition among your team. We‘ll put a new spin on team bowling challenges and test your strategic thinking skills as you battle for glory in laser tag. Working together effectively takes many forms and teams who know how to work hard and play hard achieve more success.

Duration: Half-day
Minimum: 16 participants

The successful organization relies on cooperation, teamwork, productivity, communication and motivation. In this activity, participants will create, execute and compete in the kitchen, preparing a gourmet meal. This session is designed to include the right ingredients for individual "Recipes for Success." Participants will be challenged to demonstrate behaviors that reflect the appreciation of differences in others to collaborate on a culinary masterpiece.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

The Great Escape is an interactive adventure game designed for up to 12 people per group. You and your team will use skill and wit to escape from a locked room. Your team will be given a series of clues to find the key that unlocks the door to freedom. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 6 participants

At Twin Cedars Youth and Family Services, their mission is to provide programs and services empowering children, youth, and families to achieve optimum potential. Here your team can complete low element courses that bring the group closer together. This program is dedicated to creating a physical and emotionally safe environment in which individuals and teams are free to step outside of their comfort zone and take a risk. The activities assist teams as they explore communication and group dynamics.

• Duration: Half-day to full-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

You are part of the latest mission to the planet Mars. Suddenly, a problem has developed aboard the spacecraft. Quick thinking, teamwork, and good communication skills will be needed to solve the problem. Divided into teams of two people, participants will attempt to build two different snap-circuit devices, a Morse code communicator, and a circulating fan to remove carbon dioxide. One person will give the directions to complete the project and the other person will receive the directions and build the devices. (Roles are reversed for the second build.) The team receiving the directions is limited to verbal instructions only, with no visual reference. Can you complete the challenge? Mission Control is counting on you!

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

Sometimes you have to be willing to put it all on the line for a greater cause. And sometimes, that line stretches all the way across the Chattahoochee River! Aerial obstacles provide a different type of challenge, as you problem-solve and strategize to ensure every team member successfully completes the course. Take a leap of faith with your team and build skills like confidence, trust, and communication as you face fears together.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 6 participants

Are you ready for the ride of a lifetime? This program provides a RUSH of adrenaline while emphasizing key leadership skills. Learn to communicate under pressure and work together towards a common goal. Practice moving in sync with your team to provide enough momentum for powering through rough challenges. When the going gets tough, try going with the flow to keep your head above water. This activity can be combined with other programs for a full-day leadership adventure.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 6 participants

Utilizing the unique approach of “Ensemble Leadership,” Comedy U focuses on improving communication within a group, problem-solving, conflict prevention, creative thinking, and team building. Participants will emerge ready to tackle any challenge with an open mind and a spirit of collaboration while rolling with laughter and bursting with new-found skills and knowledge.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 20 participants

Leadership requires teams to face fears, take a deep breath, and climb UPWARD! Columbus State University‘s indoor rock climbing wall allows participants to experience leadership on the edge. Using verbal cues from teammates, participants will enhance their listening skills and work together to reach the top and conquer the rock. The Leadership Institute will then lead a group debrief to discuss team dynamics and the experience of conquering the rock.

• Duration: Half-day 

• Minimum Participants: 10