Corporate Team Building Activities in Charlottesville, VA

Financial services firms have used Charlottesville for small leadership offsites. One held Competition to Collaboration® at the Courtyard beside the UVA Medical Center, a facilitated afternoon where two groups learn that trading best practices lifts both of their scores. Another brought Igniting Team Performance® to the Residence Inn on West Main: a series of hands-on initiatives with a facilitated discussion after each one.

The Omni Charlottesville stands at the west end of the Downtown Mall, the brick pedestrian street of restaurants and shops that runs through the old center of town. A group staying there played A Minute 2 Win It! in the hotel's ballroom: teams of six to eight racing through one-minute challenges for 1.5 to 2 hours. It is an easy way to end a day of meetings before dinner on the Mall.

At Boar's Head Resort, a company meeting filled a ballroom with Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation: every team designs a putting hole out of canned and boxed food, the group plays the whole course, and the food goes to people who need it. Earth Wind and Solar has been booked at the DoubleTree on Route 29, where teams trade trivia answers for rover parts and assemble science kits that go to kids.

Downtown, the Omni and the Residence Inn put a group within walking distance of the Mall. The Courtyard sits on West Main by the medical center and the university, Boar's Head Resort has its own grounds on the western edge of town, and the DoubleTree is north on Route 29, a short drive from the airport.

Charlottesville is about an hour from Richmond and two to three hours from Washington, depending on traffic, which is why so many retreats land here. The same facilitators cover all three, so a company can hold its offsite here and its big meeting in the city.