Team Building

Put your teamwork skills to the test in this hands-on experience where your group works together to build bicycles for deserving children in the community. Guided by a professional bike mechanic, teams will solve challenges, earn parts, and navigate a little organized chaos along the way.

The best part? Every completed bike is donated to a local child in need, making this experience both meaningful and memorable.

• Duration: Half-day to full-day
• Minimum: 4 participants
• Scheduling Note: Requires 3 weeks advance notice.

Need a team experience that’s a little less “another meeting” and a lot more fun? In partnership with Columbus State University Continuing & Professional Education, these workshops are designed to help your group laugh, learn something new, and possibly discover hidden talents no one asked for.

Whether your team wants to make bread, make balloon masterpieces, or make questionable improv choices in front of coworkers, we’ve got options.

Workshop Options

Let's Zumba

• Equal parts cardio, chaos, and team bonding.
• 2–3 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Let's Zumba

• Equal parts cardio, chaos, and team bonding.
• 2–3 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Floral Arrangement Workshop

• Surprisingly therapeutic and way harder than Pinterest makes it look.
• 2–3 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Bread Making Basics

• Because nothing says teamwork like carbs.
• 2–3 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Balloon Art Basics

• Learn to create stunning balloon arrangements without accidentally popping 37 balloons.
• 2–3 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Improv Comedy for Everyone

• Low pressure. High laughs. No comedy experience required. Thankfully.
• 2 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Charcoal Drawing Crash Course

• Tap into your inner artist (or at least confidently pretend to).
• 6 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Sailing in the South

• Leadership development… but with wind and significantly better scenery.
• 6 hours | Minimum: 6 participants

Photo Scavenger Hunt

• Teamwork, creativity, and at least one person taking this way too seriously.

Poor Mr. Kelley has met an untimely (and very suspicious) demise… and it’s up to your team to crack the case before someone in accounting gets wrongly accused.

In this interactive mystery experience, teams will work together to uncover:

• Who did it
• How they did it
• And why they finally snapped

To earn clues, teams must complete a series of challenges that test communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and everyone’s ability to dramatically accuse coworkers of fictional crimes.

The twist? Your team gets to choose which clues to unlock and in what order — so strategy matters almost as much as surviving the group decision-making process.

Along the way, participants will practice collaboration, conflict resolution, and critical thinking… all while trying not to become the prime suspect.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum: 10 participants

Presented by Stars and Strikes Family Entertainment Center

Who says team building can’t be competitive and chaotic?

This high-energy experience combines bowling challenges, laser tag battles, and interactive team games designed to boost communication, strategy, and teamwork — while uncovering who in your office takes friendly competition way too seriously.

Because sometimes the best way to build stronger teams is a little teamwork… and a little trash talk.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum Participants: 16

Turns out leadership and teamwork have a lot in common with cooking, communication matters, timing is everything, and too many people trying to take charge usually ends badly.

In this interactive culinary competition, teams will collaborate to create and plate a gourmet meal while navigating teamwork challenges, problem-solving, and the occasional kitchen chaos. Along the way, participants will practice communication, cooperation, and appreciating different strengths and perspectives, all in pursuit of culinary greatness.

Because nothing builds team bonding quite like trying not to burn the appetizer together.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum participants: 10

Step away from the emails, spreadsheets, and endless notifications and reconnect with nature at Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center.

This outdoor team experience combines guided nature hikes, canopy trail adventures, and up-close encounters with some of Oxbow’s resident creatures — because nothing builds trust quite like collectively deciding who’s brave enough to hold the snake first.

Along the way, your team will practice creative thinking, communication, and collaboration while navigating the great outdoors together. Expect fresh air, team bonding, and at least one person suddenly becoming a self-proclaimed wilderness expert.

Perfect for teams looking to reset, recharge, and remember there’s a world outside of Outlook.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum participants: 10

Unleash your team’s creativity in this interactive painting experience where collaboration, encouragement, and questionable artistic confidence come together on canvas. Whether creating one giant masterpiece or individual works of art, participants will discover that leadership lessons — much like painting — can get a little messy before turning into something great.

Bonus: everyone leaves with a ready-to-hang reminder that teamwork is subjective… and so is art.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum participants: 12

Think your team communicates well under pressure? Let’s find out.

In this fast-paced escape room experience, your group will work together to solve puzzles, uncover clues, crack codes, and (hopefully) escape before time runs out. Success will require teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and at least one person confidently saying, “Wait… I think I figured it out.”

Perfect for teams looking to sharpen collaboration skills while mildly panicking together in a locked room.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum participants: 6

Ready to build trust, strengthen communication, and discover which coworker immediately volunteers everyone else for the hard challenge?

At Twin Cedars Youth and Family Services, teams will work through interactive low-element challenges designed to improve collaboration, communication, and group dynamics in a supportive and safe environment.

This experience encourages participants to step outside their comfort zones, take healthy risks, and work together through hands-on problem-solving activities , all while building stronger connections as a team.

Spoiler alert: balance, trust, and teamwork are much easier to talk about than actually do.

• Duration: Half-day to full-day
• Minimum participants: 10

Houston… we definitely have a problem.

Your team has been selected for a critical mission to Mars when suddenly disaster strikes aboard the spacecraft. To save the mission (and possibly humanity), participants must rely on communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to complete a series of snap-circuit engineering challenges.

Working in pairs, one teammate will guide the other through building devices like a Morse code communicator and carbon dioxide circulation fan, using verbal instructions only. No visuals. No touching. No “just let me do it.”

Then you’ll switch roles and discover just how difficult clear communication really is under pressure.

Perfect for teams looking to strengthen listening skills, collaboration, patience, and problem-solving… while mildly questioning their future in aerospace engineering.

Mission Control is counting on you.

• Duration: Half-day to full-day
• Minimum participants: 10

Sometimes team building requires trust. Sometimes it requires harnesses and the willingness to dangle over the Chattahoochee River.

In this high-adventure aerial challenge course, teams will navigate obstacles high above the ground while building confidence, communication, trust, and teamwork along the way. Participants will problem-solve together, encourage one another through challenges, and discover very quickly who is suddenly afraid of heights.

This experience is all about stepping outside your comfort zone, taking a leap of faith, and supporting your team through every wobble, swing, and slightly dramatic “I don’t think I can do this.”

Spoiler alert: you probably can.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum participants: 6

Ready for a leadership experience that’s equal parts teamwork, adrenaline, and trying not to accidentally paddle in opposite directions?

This fast-paced water adventure challenges teams to communicate under pressure, stay in sync, and work together to navigate rough waters and unexpected obstacles. Participants will build trust, collaboration, leadership, and problem-solving skills — all while discovering very quickly that yelling “LEFT!” is only helpful if everyone agrees on which left.

Perfect for teams looking for high energy, high engagement, and a little controlled chaos in the name of leadership development.

Bonus: staying calm under pressure is much easier in theory than in a moving boat.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum Participants: 6

Who knew leadership development could involve laughter, improv, and discovering your coworkers are unexpectedly hilarious?

Using the concept of “Ensemble Leadership,” this interactive experience helps teams strengthen communication, collaboration, creative thinking, and problem-solving through comedy and improv-style activities. Participants will practice thinking on their feet, preventing conflict, and working together in real time, all while laughing way more than they expected to during a professional development session.

Because sometimes the best way to build trust and teamwork is to stop taking yourself so seriously for a minute.

No comedy experience required. Thankfully.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum Participants: 20

At Columbus State University’s indoor rock climbing wall, participants will push past fears, strengthen communication skills, and rely on teamwork to make it to the top. Climbers must listen carefully to verbal guidance from teammates while navigating the wall — proving very quickly that communication matters a lot more when gravity gets involved.

After the climb, the Leadership Institute team will facilitate a group debrief exploring trust, team dynamics, resilience, and what happens when people step outside their comfort zones.

Spoiler alert: leadership growth usually happens a little above ground level.

• Duration: Half-day
• Minimum Participants: 10