Team
Building Interventions with Quest UK
Team
building interventions are recommended tried and tested individual developmental
team building exercises and ideas which can be integrated into any type
of event, in any environment. these events use a myriad of cerebral,
spatial, logical and physical team building and team development tasks
in an imaginative combination of outdoor and indoor locations. Some
team building ideas are listed below. Please feel free to click on the
links and read about each in more detail.
Integrating
Teams
The Integrating Teams intervention examines very specific objectives
such as: Conflict; Cooperation; Trust and Effective Communication. It
is an excellent exercise for moving teams forward through the Dissatisfaction
and Integration stage in the Team Development cycle. It is also particularly
useful for dispersed teams working in various geographical locations.
Read
more detail about Integrating Teams exercise.
Culinary
Challenges:
If you're looking for something a bit different, the following
culinary team building challenges will whet your appetite for success
as your teams take part in a delicious cookery competitions. Read
more about the Recipe For Success culinary team building idea
Cooking
Team Building - The Quest "Recipe For Success"
Teams will be asked to plan for, prepare, cook and promote a gourmet
meal to be judged and tasted. This is an excellent indoor team building
exercise for those drab winter days.
New!
- "The Great British Lunch Box"
Teams have to develop, design, source, cook/prepare and present their
own version of a themed ‘Great British Lunch Box’ e.g. a
healthy eating lunchbox for school kids, an executive lunchbox for the
business executive on the go, an organic lunchbox etc.
New!
- "The Great British Breakfast"
QUEST want you to put the ‘GREAT’ into the British
Breakfast by coming up with some inspirational, unique or just totally
alternative Breakfast menus.
Read
more about the Great British ideas
New!
- Acting On Change
A team development intervention which focuses on ‘change
management’ and how teams and individuals work effectively and
positively through periods of organisational and operational change.
Read
more about Acting On Change
New!
- TV Newscast
A fun and fast moving team development programme which explores
and challenges individuals and team performance across a whole range
of team dynamics and behaviours, whilst promoting positive interaction,
integration and the enjoyment in working together.
Read
more about TV Newscast
Quest
City Challenges
Quest City Challenges are designed to be a team building morale boost
for a team. It can also be used just as successfully as a thank you
and method of reward whilst at the same time enabling many types of
interaction between teams to be practiced and observed.
The
City Challenge is an intervention with a great deal of the emphasis
based on fun. It would typically take the form of a treasure hunt or
scavenger hunt around a town or city with a reputation for its history
and/or beauty. Read
about the London City Challenge Event
and see examples of other city challenges around
the UK organised by Quest.
Strictly
Team Dancing
An exciting new team building event run by Quest based on the
popular TV show Strictly Come Dancing which will definately keep your
employees on their toes! Not
only can ballroom dancing enable delegates to take part in some really
healthy physical activity, but they can learn a great deal about themselves
and their team whilst doing so. Read
about the Strictly Team Dancing Event
Sales
Force
Sales Force is a team building exercise which puts your team
in control. Your team will be set a project to complete by Team Quest
with the ultimate goal of raising as much money as possible for a nominated
charity or helping to support a local small business. Read
about the Quest Sales Force team building event
Build
a Garden Challenge
Cultivate a successful working team by taking on the Quest
Build a Garden challenge. This
great team building challenge will be a project undertaken by your organisation
and will involve the fundraising, design and building of a wonderful
green space which will benefit part of your chosen charity or community.
Read
about the Build a Garden challenge team building event idea.
The
Q Factor
An
exciting new team building event run by Quest based on the popular TV
show The X factor which will definately have your employees singing
for joy!
Read about the Q Factor team building event idea.
Rocket to Success
An explosive team building idea to help your corporate event
go off with a bang! The Rocket to Success team building idea can be
incorporated into almost any outdoor event and is a great idea for tackling
many different team development areas as well as letting your employees
have some really explosive fun! Read
more about this team building idea - Rocket to Success
The
Charity Challenge
The teams are notified of the charity challenge intervention and via
that briefing learn that they have been invited to take part in a series
of challenges that will take place over 1-1.5 days. Their attendance
at the event is dependant upon them “paying” to enter and that “payment”
takes the form of them raising money for a charity, maybe one being
supported by the organisation as a whole. The “payment” has to come
from real charity fund raising; it cannot simply be drawn from expenses.
It is also graded so for example a team that raises £1,000 simply pays
for their entrance to the Charity Challenge. A team that raises £2,000
pays for their entrance and also pays for some clues that will
assist their performance at the intervention. A team that raises £3,000
pays for their entrance and is able to buy even more clues. The
intervention itself comprises a wide range of QUESTasks™
and other activities that could be as diverse as slalom canoeing and
the use of indoor climbing walls. Ideally it will be staged over 1.5
days, which enables a night exercise to be included.
Examples of charity fundraising events
with quest:
The
Rent Service Mission Improbable
See
images from a charity fundraising event with Lloyds TSB organised by
Quest
See
images from a charity fundraising event with Siemens organised by Quest
Read
more about the Charity Challenge Fundraising Events
The
Compass
The Compass integration comprises a series of cerebral and physical
challenges designed to examine team effectiveness. It can be used to
investigate and help delegates understand the stages of Team Development.
A very effective exercise for teams in the Orientation stage of development.
The
Conquest
This team building intervention exercise examines numerous aspects of
team dynamics - Support, Trust, Planning, Problem Solving, Communication,
and Group Climate.
The
exercise is conducted in a stimulating environment free from the issues
and distractions of the work place. This will allow the delegates the
opportunity to focus their attention on working relationships and benefit
from a real experimental learning experience.
The
delegates complete a journey together and experience an extremely powerful
team bonding exercise. They form as a team by undertaking a challenging
exercise. In the process of team forming, they will experience highs
and lows but by the end they will have an enormous feeling of accomplishment
and will have had an experience which they will never forget. The course
is very carefully designed with the client to ensure that it is pitched
at the appropriate level of fitness and ability.
The
delegates will travel between two agreed locations over the duration
of the course using various modes of transport, facing numerous challenges
en route.
The
Quest Pursuit
This intervention can be used in all areas of the development model.
Delegates are taken to a base for their intervention, usually bunkhouse
or similar accommodation. From there they will be set a navigation exercise
that will take them over ground and distances pre-determined during
the QUESTevaluation™ process.
The teams travel to a number of checkpoints (CP’s) where they will collect
provision tokens. At some of the CP’s they will be asked to perform
a QUESTask™
in order to earn their token. Additionally the teams will be given two-way
radios and mobile phones. As the exercise unfolds they will understand
that they need to communicate between teams to establish via the use
of logic problems and clues, the type of tokens that each team is earning.
The teams will then move back to their base where they will swap the
tokens for food and wine, and they will then work together to prepare
and serve their evening meal. The rest of the evening is theirs.
More
detailed information about each team building intervention can be obtained
by Quest upon request. If you are interested in incorporating any of
the above into an event please contact
one of the Quest team.
Quest
do not limit their team building events to the above listed interventions
and are always providing customers with bespoke team development events
which suit the individual requirements of the organisation, including
objectives, location, length of event and budget.
Team
Development Models
Quest have trained facilitators in team building exercises
which use specific developmental models that can be incorporated into
any kind of event to evaluate the performance of your team and help
in getting that team working together in a much more effective way,
aiding in team performancem. These events incude the following:
Myers
Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an instrument which utilises
the theory of psychological types described by C.G.Jung. It is a tool
which is used by many companies in a wide range of development and training
programs focused on organisational effectiveness. Quest have trained
facilitators for MBTI.
Belbin's
Team Roles
Individual
roles in a team which lead to high performance.
Tuckmans
team development model
A team development model by Bruce Tuckman that is still relevant today
and used by Quest to help teams understand the process they experience
when training to become a successful team.
