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Fun Competition and Bonding

Don’t settle for a run-of-the-mill team building exercise when you can have a fully professionally-facilitated team building program experience! Our corporate team building activities are designed to:

  1. Enhance individual and team growth
  2. Improve stronger connections within the team
  3. Strengthen your team’s bond, trust, cohesiveness, and communication
  4. Provide key insights and applicable skill sets amongst your teammates

BEST has delivered corporate team building activities to thousands of corporate companies with 30 to over 6,000 participants. Whether your team is gathered in-person or online, our lineup of the most popular in-person and virtual corporate team building programs has the BEST solution for every team and goal.

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A Minute 2 Win It!

A Minute 2 Win It!

As seen on the popular TV game show, and adapted for team play, your group will participate in rounds of fast-paced tabletop challenges. The competition heats up as one-minute games are practiced and scored using commonplace items like pencils, plastic cups and a deck of cards. Teams will cheer and have a blast as they vie to be named A Minute 2 Win It! Champions!

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Speed Networking

Speed Networking

Speed Networking is a fast-paced, conversation-driven experience designed to spark new connections, enhance team chemistry, and get your group communicating across roles and departments. Ideal for both internal team building and multi-company events, this interactive format blends playful competition with purposeful discussion in a lively, rotating setup.

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Igniting Team Performance®

Igniting Team Performance®

This exclusive training will guide your team through a progressive series of engaging initiatives followed by rich processing discussions focused on high-performing teams. Throughout the program, demonstrated skills are acknowledged while areas for improvement are identified and immediately applied during subsequent activities. Igniting Team Performance® will enhance individual and team performance in the workplace.

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Competition to Collaboration®

Competition to Collaboration®

Our engaging, trademarked training program that highlights the positive impacts of organizational synergy, both in sharing best practices and celebrating your colleagues’ successes. It begins with two sub-teams completing various challenges separately, attempting to improve their own performance and reaching goals for the other team to beat. This is followed by a surprise twist that reinforces the message of team collaboration.

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Team Olympics

Team Olympics

Go for the gold with Team Olympics, a high-energy program that combines athletic-inspired team challenges with spirited collaboration and friendly competition. Whether hosted indoors or outdoors, this program is a surefire way to ignite energy, camaraderie, and lasting team pride.

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Bridge to the Future

Bridge to the Future

In this collaborative event, teams work together to build an actual bridge that has the strength to support the weight of the entire group. There are two amazing aspects of this project. Each section of the bridge will be an independent artistic representation of your future mission and goals AND the principal building materials of the structure are cardboard and duct tape!

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Go-Kart Competition

Go-Kart Competition

Put the pedal to the metal and get your group fired up with Go-Kart Competition, a high-octane event where teams turn into competing pit crews and drivers – designing and building their own self-powered go-karts to race to the finish line. Promoting teamwork, creative originality and hilarious fun, this event is a winner no matter which go-kart comes in first.

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Crack the Case!®

Crack the Case!®

Crack the Case!® is a thrilling mystery-themed team building experience that challenges your group to work together, think critically, and collaborate across teams to uncover clues and solve a final case. With engaging puzzles, unexpected twists, and a dramatic group finale, this detective-style adventure inspires connection and creative problem-solving in a fast-paced, interactive format.

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Corporate Survivor

Corporate Survivor

Test your team’s physical grit, mental agility, and group strategy in Corporate Survivor – a dynamic series of team-building challenges loosely inspired by the hit reality TV show. Designed to push collaboration, communication, and trust to the limit, this high-energy program brings out competitive spirits in a fun, structured, and unforgettable way.

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Momentum

Momentum

Momentum is an inventive team building event where each sub-team will be tasked with designing and building a Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machine to accomplish a simple task. Teams must collaborate and strategize together to not only create a successful contraption but also to out-design other teams and ultimately be declared the Momentum champions!

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Record Breakers

Record Breakers

You’ve heard the expression “Let’s kick it up a notch.” Record Breakers is an adrenaline-charged team competition with six unique challenges designed to test your group’s efficiency, collaboration, and precision under pressure. Every repetition is a chance to raise the bar. The race isn’t just against your last best effort — it’s competing against the best posted scores by every team in the room!

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Mavericks Murder Mystery

Mavericks Murder Mystery

Mavericks Murder Mystery is a groundbreaking immersive team building game that combines virtual and augmented reality with classic detective-style gameplay. In this innovative format, teams of amateur sleuths must collaborate to unravel a complex murder case using high-tech VR crime scene exploration and AR evidence to crack the case before time runs out.

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Catapult

Catapult

Put your team’s creativity, collaboration, and accuracy to the test in Catapult, a high—energy team—building experience in which groups design, build, and compete with their own working launchers. This hands-on construction challenge fuels innovation and friendly rivalry while bringing teams together for a shared mission of design, experimentation, and success.

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Fiesta Fun!

Fiesta Fun!

Fiesta Fun! is a delicious and exciting recipe contest where your teams will combine creativity with culinary skill to make their own brand of Salsa, Guacamole and Golden Margaritas! Experience the sights, sounds and flavor of Mexico with the beat of Mexican music setting the stage for this gastronomical team builder. Once the creations are finished, it’s on to the judges table to see who will win the medal for best taste, creativity and presentation.

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Corporate Canvas

Corporate Canvas

Corporate Canvas is a collaborative art-based team building program. In this creative experience, participants contribute their own brushstrokes and signatures to a large-scale company mural designed to reflect your brand, values, and team spirit.

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Race Car Rally

Race Car Rally

Race Car Rally is a high-energy, collaborative team building event where creativity meets competition. Teams build and customize their own mini race cars – crafted on official LEGO® car platforms – then take to the track for head-to-head races.

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Morning Jumpstart

Morning Jumpstart

Kick off your group’s day with Morning Jumpstart! This fun and engaging program was developed based on requests from clients to create an event that can be delivered on any day of the week as a fun way to launch into a productive workday with smiles and camaraderie. Morning Jumpstart will promote team cohesion and enhance relationships through a fun series of games, challenges, and morning wake-up-themed activities.

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Tapas and Sangria Making

Tapas and Sangria Making

Emphasizing creativity, delegation and teamwork, Tapas and Sangria is a program with a lot of punch. Your group will be formed into “wineries” tasked to develop, make and market their own brand of Sangria. Each winery will also make tapas from cold ingredients – no recipes provided! The event will close with a tasting contest and awards presentation for Best Tasting Tapas, Best Sangria and Best Marketing Campaign.

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Food Truck Face-Off

Food Truck Face-Off

Set your team on course for a culinary adventure with Food Truck Face-Off. This is a deliciously exciting competition and bonding experience. After forming into sub-teams, participants will choose a cuisine and theme for their very own “food truck”. Teams will name their company, design a logo, build, decorate and market their truck and prepare an original dish. Once the gold-winning team has been chosen, all will be invited to roam from truck to truck and sample all of the tasty creations!

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Total Recall

Total Recall

Improve your group’s communication skills with this effective, challenging, multi-faceted team building event that requires each team to replicate a pre-built structure by using only verbal descriptions and high-quality communication skills through a chain of conversations.

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Pipeline

Pipeline

Pipeline is an exciting hands-on collaboration experience where teams design and build interconnected sections of a large marble delivery system.

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Build-a-Raft Competition

Build-a-Raft Competition

This high-energy event will bring out your group’s competitive spirit as they work together to design, build and race their very own “seaworthy” vessel! Once their initial rafts are built, it’s literally sink or swim as each team takes to the water to test their craft in an effort to identify possible design flaws before the races begin! When the heats start, the excitement mounts—which crew will take home the gold? This dynamic team challenge will test each participant’s problem solving skills and creativity.

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Chocolate Architect

Chocolate Architect

During this delicious team building event, your group will design and build a themed structure, utilizing various candies and chocolate delicacies. Teams will complete challenges, using Apple iPads, in order to gain chocolate building materials and a variety of confectionary decorations. After the last Skittle® is put in place, teams come together to showcase their themed masterpiece!

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Gingerbread Architect

Gingerbread Architect

In this fun event, your group will bond as they design and build various themed structures utilizing candies, frosting, and gingerbread!

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Virtual Office Party

Virtual Office Party

Our Virtual Office Party is the perfect way to bring a remote group together for a fun and engaging team experience. Ideal for bringing some structure to leisure and socialization time, this program is a great way to spend time with colleagues in a recreational setting that will enhance your team cohesion while allowing employees to get to know each other better and learn about their colleagues’ strengths – both in and out of the workplace!

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Virtual GuessTeamate

Virtual GuessTeamate

Welcome to Virtual Guessteamate , a virtual game show where trivia meets roulette! In this lively and challenging game, participants are formed into teams and must answer fun trivia questions. To win, teams need to score the most points. The twist is that teams don’t need to know the correct answers to the trivia questions, but instead they must be able to determine which of their opposing teams does have the closest to the correct answer.

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Virtual Morning Jumpstart

Virtual Morning Jumpstart

Kick off your group’s day with Virtual Morning Jumpstart! This fun and engaging program was developed based on requests from clients to create an event that can be delivered on any day of the week as a fun way to launch into a productive workday with smiles and camaraderie. Virtual Morning Jumpstart will promote team cohesion and enhance relationships through a fun series of game-type challenges and morning wake-up-themed activities.

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Virtual Impress the Sharks

Virtual Impress the Sharks

Based on the hit TV show Shark Tank, the key to success in this fun and challenging virtual team building event is creativity and execution. Teams will be given the challenge of fulfilling a public need by creating a unique product or service for the sharks to judge. Teams will need to use creativity, ingenuity, persuasion, and marketing prowess to design and present their idea to the sharks. Organization and delegation are the key elements in this competition.

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Virtual Speed Networking

Virtual Speed Networking

Boost corporate team connections with a virtual networking event! Enjoy games, engaging discussions, and rapid rotations to strengthen bonds & camaraderie.

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Client Testimonials

The best part of this event was seeing the cycle times reduced significantly due to better communication, collaboration; working in teams with different people. All of it was really fun – in addition to being impactful. Your lead was a fabulous facilitator and we received positive feedback from everyone, even the most skeptical in the group. We would like to do something similar for the next level of leaders.

Cheryl

Accenture

Accenture

It was great to have everyone really into what was going on. And the added conversation and teachings from your lead facilitator were a great plus. Would have loved to do more games, but all the time we spent was valuable! The best team building aspect of our Igniting Team Performance program was everyone being engaged in what was happening. The games and the competition are both fun and our group as a whole enjoyed the activities very much.

Rachel

Uber

Uber

Having the employees from different Siemens sites working together to accomplish one common goal was great team building exercise. Our employees had a great time building their bridges and as a whole loved it and your facilitators made the employees feel at ease. We didn’t have any negative feedback about our Bridge to the Future. It was a great opportunity for the employees from different locations to meet each other since they will be interacting as the company transitions and develops its new vision. It was great, and our group wants another team building event set up in the next 12 months.

Joanne

Siemens Energy Inc.

Siemens Energy Inc.

Best Team Building experiences to date! Our City SmartHunt was extremely organized. The video challenges on the iPads were really fun and our group loved all the activities. We can’t wait to receive the finish video of the photos and videos you had playing at the end of the event.

Carmen

DCPS

DCPS

“Our Virtual Magic Show was extremely organized. I think this was the needed entertainment/distraction from the daily grind that my team needed.  Anton was the best part – he was truly engaging – would love to have him in person in the future. Overall, the event met and exceeded our expectations!”

Richard

BASF

BASF

It was magic! Your Virtual Interactive Magic Show was fun and very organized. I believe all of our interns really enjoyed the magic and the viewer participation part was a big hit with everyone! Your host/magician was great!

Heidi

TCW Group Inc.

TCW Group Inc.

Everyone in our group totally enjoyed our Virtual Interactive Magic Show. Your magician Anton was excellent, a 5 out of 5! It was extremely organized, and the entire magic show was fun.

 

Darryl

Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation

Our group definitely enjoyed their Virtual Magic Show. The holiday spirit contest was fun and also the portion when Anton showed us his secret to the floating card magic trick! I think in this virtual environment, just being able to see each other at once was fun. Typically, we have multiple group meetings per year and none of them happened this year. Everyone really liked the engagement aspect of the event. They enjoyed being called on and being able to participate during the magic show and within the magic tricks. It didn’t feel like we were just watching, it felt like you were involved. Everyone also enjoyed that Anton was relatable but also really funny with his delivery. The one thing I asked for was to make sure the event was fun and engaging because we wanted people to relax. You all hit both points so overall, our group was satisfied. We even had 2 advisors reach out after the show and asked for information on how they can host a similar show for their individual teams-which has to be a good thing, right? 🙂 GREAT SHOW!!

Shay,  Lincoln Financial Group

This was a great event! Breakout rooms for the conversations were the most fun. Our team valued the discussions almost more than the games. This Virtual Speed Networking event helped to connect and strengthen the team and promoted conversations that wouldn’t normally occur. Feedback was this was a fun event, and they enjoyed a “break” from business meetings. Paul and Joe were excellent hosts and I felt they really wanted to make this the best experience possible for my team.

Brenda,  Bayer

Our group had so much fun with Anton’s magic and mentalism during our Virtual Interactive Magic Show! This program allowed our volunteers to stay connected in a meaningful way even through an all virtual experience which can be really hard for our demographic. Anton was so engaging and personable and able to connect with our audience in a relevant way. Some descriptions of the experience from the group included ‘mind blown’, ‘amazing’, and ‘fantastic’ – we absolutely enjoyed it!

Christine

AARP

AARP

How did I feel our group as a whole enjoyed the activity? They LOVED it! And they enjoyed the gaming part. Our Virtual Competition to Collaboration program was very organized, and Roy and Ryan were awesome, we had quite a few compliments on the program!

Susan

BASF

BASF

The Bridge to the Future event was an ideal addition, seamlessly fitting into our broader goals of bringing two teams together for a meaningful, interactive experience. It provided an excellent opportunity for participants to build relationships that will positively influence our work dynamics moving forward.

One of the standout aspects was how the event fostered connections and enabled introductions among colleagues who typically interact only through email or Teams meetings. By creating a relaxed, enjoyable atmosphere, everyone was able to collaborate closely and accomplish a shared goal. This highlighted just how much can be achieved when we communicate effectively, support one another, and work together as a team.

Overall, the event was a tremendous success, and I believe it has laid a great foundation for future collaboration and camaraderie across our teams.

Debbie

Daiichi Sankyo Inc.

Daiichi Sankyo Inc.

FAQs about Competitive Team Building Activities

Is competition good for team building?

When structured well, competition is very good for team building! Competition can be a valuble team building tool. Friendly competition boosts morale, motivation, and engagement, and encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork. Of course, balance is key; too much competition can be detrimental to collaboration. Healthy competition is the most effective as a team building tool when it promotes shared goals and mutual support.

How do I choose the right competitive team building event for my group?

Choosing the right competitive team building event for your group starts with defining your team’s goals (e.g., improving communication, creativity, or morale). It is also important to consider the size of your team, their interests and physical abilities, and of course, your budget. One good starting point is to match the activity type to your team’s preferred challenge style – be it physical, mental, or creative.

Are competitive team building activities suitable for remote or hybrid teams?

Competitive team building activities are suitable for remote and hybrid teams, and can be highly effective. Team building activities help to build connections, reduce isolation, and boost team morale, which can be especially important for teams that operate remotely. For the best experience, choose activities that work well on video platforms – like trivia, game shows, or virtual escape rooms – and set clear goals for the event. Competitive team building enhances collaboration, communication, and engagement, no matter whether it’s delivered in person or virtually!

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