Why an Urban Challenge or Country House Hotel Treasure Hunt makes Great Team Building

The treasure hunt is a real urban challenge, each team has to navigate through the city centre or suburbs, collecting information, pictures and scavenger items along the way. It makes a great conference break too, either from your city venue or from a country house hotel. It takes delegates minds off the conference, stimulates their minds in a different way, thus refreshing the parts that a once well-advertised brand of beer definitely could not!

The main reason is that a treasure hunt is team building by stealth. It is team building in the guise of a corporate event. It is a true stimulation activity and when used to get your staff out of a conference, the effects can be dramatic.

It works because it is a fun and relaxed atmosphere, even the urban challenge - our town based treasure and scavenger hunts - is only pressured in the sense that each team wants to win. During a treasure or scavenger hunt, everyone will be involved for almost all of the time. They will be flexing their mental muscles to answer the clues and collect the required photographs and shopping list.

Think about the key elements of a team that functions well - they plan, communicate, work together rather than against each other, think laterally, solve problems, stay relaxed under pressure ... which are exactly the skills that they need to succeed in our treasure and scavenger hunts.

So, if you use a treasure hunt as a conference break, far from being a filler activity, it will encourage teamwork. Label it as team building, people will moan. Label it as fun, they will learn and develop their latent skills.

If you feel that your staff are feeling jaded and need a day out, you could send them to the races or to some other sporting event. OK, most would probably enjoy it but how is it constructive to your business? They would be refreshed and enjoy the time out of the office. However, there are other stimulation activities that can be used to great effect. The treasure hunt for instance. To succeed they will need to plan, work together, communicate, negotiate items, observe, solve problems - sounds familiar? So if you want to perk up a jaded workforce, a treasure hunt as a stimulation activity is perfect.

The other thing about a treasure or scavenger hunt is that it is perfect for almost any size of group. It can work with fewer than 10 or over 100 delegates. It is a scalable event.

So, calling all corporate event planners, contact us now for a conference break, urban challenge or stimulation activity NOW for a no obligation quote - email or telephone 01773 766050