The 6 best ideas for summer corporate team building activities

Ensuring the dynamics of a team on a daily basis, preserving its collaborative potential and developing its group identity certainly represent one of the major challenges of a company. Organizing team building is an excellent strategy for strengthening group cohesion between your employees. Especially since this type of collective activity, whether it is sporty, playful or cultural, greatly contributes to revive their motivation while being entertaining as desired. 

The summer period is ideal for organizing a company team building, thus opening the field of possibilities to all kinds of outdoor animations. 

In this article, we reveal to you the Top 6 of the team building activities that will be beneficial to all during your seminar this summer.

1) The sports team building

What could be better than a good sports activity to strengthen team cohesion. If sports team buildings are the most popular of all, it's because they allow participants to get out of their daily lives while recharging their batteries in the great outdoors.

Extreme sports

Summer climbing and rafting are great sports activities to generate motivation and challenge. They help strengthen bonds during a shared experience where mutual aid and coordination are key.

The Olympics

Whether it's a go-karting competition or a multi-sport challenge, opportunities abound from region to region. These fun activities reinforce team spirit by creating a new and stimulating group dynamic.
For example, the Barillet group trusted us to carry out a custom event where several sports activities took place outdoors. For this, we installed structures to shelter employees in case of rain. The latter thus participated in the Olympics in optimal comfort.

2) The team building challenge

Whatever activity you choose, the team building challenge is ideal for revealing everyone's skills within a team. You improve communication between different members like never before.

Fun trail game

By organizing this type of activity, you immerse your employees in an exhilarating adventure. Communication and team cohesion must be optimal to unearth the coveted treasure.

The Murder Party

Like a detective, your employees must unmask a murderer. Between role-playing and investigation, they share a convivial moment where communication and teamwork prove essential to successfully complete their mission. For these outdoor activities, a giant tippi provides participants with a strategic place to gather and exchange.

The escape game

What if you imagined a unique space to immerse your employees in an improbable mission? That's the principle of the escape game. This challenging activity requires them to work together to meet the challenge within a given time. Their common goal? Solve riddles to successfully escape.

3) Culinary team building

The culinary team buildings are often an opportunity for participants to discover new flavors and learn new culinary techniques, whether through tastings or cooking classes with a chef. 
For those looking for a unique and original experience, the Cocktail Challenge workshop is the ideal solution. After a quick introduction to this art by a professional, your employees, divided into teams, will be able to give free rein to their creativity by concocting the winning cocktail to win the unusual challenge. To offer a souvenir to your guests, the installation of a photobooth allows to immortalize this delicious moment, their creation in hand.

Atawa proposes to create a unique ephemeral space to host your culinary activities. Our turnkey offer allows us to create a unique structure adapted to your needs and to the desired theme. For example, we have created a unique space to host culinary activities for our client Veuve Clicquot. We set up a 300 m² reception tent in which we arranged cooking stations surrounded by a raw wood formwork bringing a rustic touch to the whole.

4) Educational team building

There are many educational team buildings. Some are intended to make your employees discover a new field. Others are more intended to reinforce their knowledge or transmit your company values. Thus, quizzes, coaching sessions, demonstration workshops, or even initiation are all formulas that can meet your expectations. The Do It Yourself promises an enriching team building. During an original and creative manual activity, craftsmen are delighted to share their passion with the members of your company. Between pottery, wood, ceramics, jewelry and many others, there is no shortage of activities where know-how is king.

5) CSR team building

Here's an innovative way to strengthen the bonds between employees while supporting a cause you care about. Participate in a renovation project for a school or charity, clean up a beach or public park, or plant trees, there are plenty of ideas.

Create a green camp for your next corporate seminar

For example, we accompanied the company Faguo in the creation of its green camp for a nature company seminar. The company, whose principle is to plant a tree for each product purchased, succeeded in surprising its employees, who participated in the collaborative assembly of their eco-responsible camp in the middle of nature. Thus, accommodation tips and a reception tip hosting the event's highlights were set up around a fire in the middle of the forest.

Strengthen your team spirit and your company's image

Participating in solidarity projects is a source of pride for employees and strengthens the company's image by showing its social and environmental commitment. Solidarity team building is a rewarding experience for all participants and is a unique opportunity to build team spirit while making a positive impact on society. Consider this option for your next team building event and give your employees a memorable and rewarding experience.

6) Festive team building

Want to organize an unforgettable team building for your team? Opt for a festive evening where your collaborators can have fun and get closer in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. With Atawa, it is possible to create a custom-made space on the occasion of your corporate evening. We can set up a customized podium to accommodate your employees for an awards ceremony at the end of Olympics, for example. Set the pace for every highlight with our quality event sound system.

For example, the company KPMG trusted us to create a tailor-made garden party. On the theme " boho coachella " we installed several custom-made infrastructures to create the festive and relaxed atmosphere desired by the company. To mark the festival atmosphere of the event, a cocktail bar was installed. To recreate the "Coachella" experience, a stage for concerts to host artists throughout the event. Finally, we created a relaxation area with furniture and poufs.

Glamping for an original team building

After determining the type of animation adapted to your objectives in terms of discovery, cohesion or challenge, all that's left is to set the scene. By inviting your employees to participate in anoutdoor team building, you allow them to get away from the office, but not only. What if you opted for an original and comfortable solution : glamping. The word is a contraction of "glamourous camping" or "luxury camping". Glamping often offers spacious and well-equipped accommodations. Atawa offers you accommodations adapted to this type of camping : accommodation tipis or wooden domes fitted out and fully equipped for the comfort of your employees.

Calling on our event agency to accompany you in your team building organization is to ensure you create the event that suits you. Equipped with varied and flexible infrastructures, Atawa meets all your requirements and constraints, whatever the chosen venue and theme. Contact us to learn more about our services and different solutions ! Your dedicated consultant will work with you to ensure the success of your eco-friendly seminar, regardless of the location. Together, let's build your event.