Best Background Music and Songs About Teamwork

Guys making music at a corporate event

The perfect background music for team building activities can set the tone, energize participants, and even enhance collaboration. Don’t let your event fall flat because you didn’t think through the background music. But beyond mere background noise, music is a powerful tool for driving a message home. Whether you are looking for specific songs about teamwork to kick off a meeting or ambient sounds to help focus, the right audio…

What Are Good Team Building Exercises?

a fun team building exercise in a recording studio

What are good team building exercises? Do they exist? Why does team building always seem to suck? If you’ve been asking these questions then I hope I can help you find a better way to gather your team for something that’s actually fun and productive. Maybe you’ve landed here because your team is feeling a bit disconnected. Perhaps you’re trying to fill the time allotted for team building during your…

Creative Team Building Activities To Jump Start Your Team

fun team building through song

Are you burned out on run-of-the-mill team events? Let’s assume you searched out this article because you’re hoping to find some creative team building activities. I get it! It’s hard to find great team programs.  Perhaps you’ve been traumatized by a mildly injurious trust fall. Maybe you revealed an awkward secret during two truths and a lie on that last company retreat. Could be you were just bored out of…

Why You Need Team Building Activities for Stress Relief At Work

Let’s face it: work can be stressful. Whether you are navigating a merger, hitting a quarterly deadline, or just dealing with the daily grind, the pressure adds up. Many teams struggle to find time for bonding and building trust. But unfortunately, most people’s agendas are jam-packed, and while team building is essential, it often gets pushed aside. I was thinking the other day about how essential it is to stop,…

A Guide To Chicago Team Building Programs

Hit songwriter Dave Hiltebrand leading a songwriting session and performance

Every city has a unique personality that influences what it offers to both tourists and its local community. Ever since we began leading Chicago team building programs, I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with other remarkable team building facilitators who excel in their respective fields. They offer a wide range of activities from exhilarating trapeze programs to adventurous sailing excursions and more. Here’s a guide featuring some of my personal…

The Best Ways To Build An Effective Team 

the ingredients to building effective teams

Whether you lead a small company or are part of a large organization, the foundation to success is great teamwork. Teams are made up of individual relationships that together form a whole. With every group, interpersonal dynamics ebb and flow. Knowing how to build an effective team, or tune up an existing team, is vital to high performance and success.  Leadership, trust, communication, and collaboration are four core building blocks…

7 Team Building Activities That Don’t Suck 

team building

Team building can quite frankly, seriously suck! Everyone is tired of doing trust falls that don’t actually build trust, and attending boring presentations that definitely aren’t getting anyone motivated to participate. But there are team building activities that don’t suck. Working together doesn’t have to be dull or lame!  Workshopping skills and having fun can co-exist. The goal of team building is to create a strong bond between members, and…

Simple Team Building Activities You Can Do Yourself

note pad for team building ideas

Keeping your workforce engaged and motivated over time is always a challenge. Balancing work with fun is important. All work and no play results in loss of engagement and motivation. So I’ve assembled a list of simple team building activities you can implement on a regular basis to keep your group rocking along. The Power Of Simple Team Building Why does putting people in a room together and giving them…

10 Unusual Team Building Activities (That Your Team Won’t Actually Hate)

Let’s be completely honest for a moment. What is the typical internal reaction when the email goes out announcing the next corporate team building day? Usually, it’s a collective, silent groan. People instantly start imagining the worst: mandatory trust falls, awkward icebreakers where you have to share an “interesting fact” about yourself, or a manufactured scavenger hunt through a local park in the blazing heat. Team building is quite often…

The Benefits of Team Building Events and Workshops

a map to better team building

If you’ve found yourself searching for the best ways to benefit your employees, you’re finally in the right place. I’m a big believer in the benefits of team building events and workshops. These activities can cultivate relationships, inspire, and help people discover their strengths and weaknesses.  Team building events can spice up the ordinary workday. We all start to get lost in a fog when we’ve been living in mundanity….

The Secret to High Energy Team Building Activities

Using music at an event for high energy team building

High-Energy Team Building Activities: Beyond the Trust Fall High-energy team building activities don’t have to include aerobics, white water rafting, or other sometimes challenging physical activities. Although those can be fun and productive, they’re not necessary for an engaging, energized team program. A truly energetic team can find its spark in many ways. You’ll want to include challenge, participant buy-in, authenticity, and success to create the energy that leads to…