Free Team Building Activity: Spaghetti Tower

This team building task gets teams thinking creatively, communicating and planning.

Overview: What is the spaghetti tower game?

Small teams are asked to build the tallest, most cost-effective, free-standing tower using a packet of dried spaghetti and a packet of jelly babies within the set time limit.   

Key themes: Teamwork,  Creative, thinking.
Participants: 6 – 50
Timing: 15 – 30 minutes…

Compelling Conversations

The best teams we’ve come across all exhibit a high degree of trust. To build trust, team members need to get to know one another at a deeper level. Simply knowing one another’s job roles isn’t enough.

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Top Five Christmas Party Clangers

The Christmas office party is back on the agenda.  If you fear organising a potential festive farce, take a look at our five most cringe worthy Christmas party pitfalls and our Fresh approach to dodging the dodgy party.

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At number five. The sit-down meal. …

Free Team Building Activity – Superhero Feedback

This free fun and feel-good team building activity is great for the end of a team session or training day.

Overview

This is a fun and feel-good activity for the end of the session or close of the day. By encouraging feedback on individual skills it focuses on the positive aspects of the day and makes sure that everyone’s contribution is appreciated. …

Free Team Building Activity: Common Ground

This free team-building activity is a light-hearted icebreaker that highlights the importance of communication.

Overview: What is the common ground game?

It’s a great icebreaker activity that is best used at the beginning of the day to get participants communicating and finding out a bit more about each other. You simply ask each team/table to come up with a list as long as possible of things that all team members have in common….

Free Team Building Activity: Perfect Picture

This free team building activity is a light-hearted task which highlights the need to work as a team to succeed.

Overview

A creative and involving exercise that will highlight the need for communication, collaboration and organisation across the group. Suitable for many different groups and group sizes….

Free Entry To Chocolate Week – Chocolate Unwrapped at Vinopolis

We invented the team building activity The Chocolate Challenge, so we are obviously fans of chocolate.  

For anyone else who is also a fan complete the sentence below in the most inspiring and amusing way and you will win two tickets to the Chocolate Unwrapped show at Vinopolis in London on 15th and 16th October. We will also have gourmet chocolate bars for the runners up.

The Chocolate Challenge team building event by Fresh Tracks is….

Once you have come up with your inspiring or amusing sentence please email us at mail@varndev.co.uk.

For information about Chocolate Unwrapped read below:…

New Team Building Event

Way back in 1997 Fresh Tracks created the Chocolate Challenge it brought team building indoors and replaced military style tasks with a sensory experience that was both enormous fun and conveyed important messages about business and teamwork.

Every few years we develop more events, like The Team Machine, and we are currently creating another completely original team building exercise that responds to the needs of the present time….

A quick team building energiser: Team Jump

We have just come up with an idea for a new team building energiser that can be run inside or outside and would work especially well with larger teams. It’s called ‘Team Jump’.

Overview:
A great way to re-energise the team and have a great photo memory of your day’s training.

Running the Activity:…