If money were no object, you’d probably be on a plane to Hawaii right now. And if those pesky dollar signs meant nothing to you, you could easily bring your whole corporate team along with you. Because why not spring for the most exciting and memorable team-building retreat possible? You can all have some fun on the beach, do some awesome team-building activities, forge new friendships, open stronger lines of communication, and then take all those valuable lessons and connections back to the workplace where they help your team work together more productively. In turn, this earns your company b ..read more

When you’ve gone to the trouble of planning a corporate event, you’d ideally like your attendees to be dialed in and focused. And that means you’ll need to provide food. Growling stomachs are not conducive to productive meetings and positive attitudes! And absolutely no one wants to spend three-plus hours on in-depth topics or activities when they’re hangry. Plus, we humans like to be incentivized for doing things we might otherwise not want to do. If you’re asking a group of employees to give up some of their workday — or worse, their precious time off — to attend, your corporate event food g ..read more

Gift your team the sun, sand, and glamour of a Santa Monica corporate team building event. Our list of 28 team building activities and ideas near Santa Monica and Los Angeles is the perfect starting point. Use our local knowledge to overcome common obstacles like traffic and permits as you plan your corporate retreat. Meetings are just better with an ocean breeze. Thinking of a Scavenger Hunt on 3rd Street Promenade? What about a CSR give back event focused on Surfboards or Skateboards to embrace that SoCal culture? Your offsite will be relaxing and memorable as you cruise down Abbot Kinney in ..read more

It’s an unfortunate fact that people in today’s world are feeling pretty divided from one another. Even though most people are prepared to be polite and kind to each other, there’s always the potential for tempers to flare or mistrust to grow. This is especially true when folks feel like the group they belong to isn’t adequately accepting of them, or that they’re not truly welcome to be part of the group at all. However, this bleak outlook ignores all the wonderful things that can come from bringing together people from diverse backgrounds. Having a diverse set of skills, experiences, attitude ..read more

Use our Los Angeles team building list of 50 top ideas to explore the lights of Hollywood and the glamour of Beverly Hills for your next corporate team outing or retreat in California. Find fun hikes, Giveback CSR team activities, scavenger hunts, and more as your plan your California adventure. As locals, our team will help you find the best spots to eat, drink, and meet. We know what it takes to pull permits, navigate the traffic, and get the most of your time in Los Angeles. Our clients in LA have embraced the Southern California culture with a skateboard team building option. Want to go bi ..read more

If the Great Resignation has taught the business world anything, it should be this: Yes, you do have to care about the factors affecting employee engagement in your organization. If company culture is “the way things are done around here,” then employee engagement is “how your employees feel about the way things are done around here.” As a manager or an executive, you cannot operate with impunity, never taking the pulse of the people who work for you. If you ignore how your employees feel about each other, the company as a whole, or the work itself, you will wind up with disengaged employees ..read more

Team-building is not all about fun and games. Well, often it actually is all about fun and games… but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on under the surface. Though it might look like everyone showed up to team-building day and just laughed and played their way through an exciting scavenger hunt or a Survivor-inspired showdown, there were some very important interpersonal connections forming, a lot of trust and communication taking shape, and hopefully a truckload of dopamine getting released in the brains of every participant. These under-the-surface effects are the true objectives of t ..read more

OMG We are a Huntington Beach based team building company and LOVE when corporate groups plan their retreat or offsite here in HB. Use our extensive local knowledge of locations, permits, and fun to plan your next team building event. We’ll have your group burying team members in the sand, building skateboards to donate, having cooking battles on the Ocean View lawn at the Pasea, and doing it all while soaking in the surf city vibes. Did we mention the Olympics is coming to HB in 2028?! It will be hosting the skateboarding and surfing competitions and we are STOKED! All of the activities on ou ..read more

OMG We are a Huntington Beach based team building company and LOVE when corporate groups plan their retreat or offsite here in HB. Use our extensive local knowledge of locations, permits, and fun to plan your next team building event in HB. We’ll have your group burying team members in the sand, building skateboards to donate, having cooking battles on the Ocean View lawn at the Pasea, and doing it all while soaking in the surf city vibes. Did we mention the Olympics is coming to HB in 2028?! It will be hosting the skateboarding and surfing competitions and we are STOKED! All of the activities ..read more

Looking for an awesome list of over 670 fun rapid fire style icebreaker or conversation starter questions for your next team building or meeting? We have ’em! We ripped open our Rapid Question Generator and have put all the questions down below for you to use for free. If you’d like some ideas how you can turn these questions into a fun icebreaker or make a meeting less boring, check out our guide to making meetings less boring. We use variations of these in our corporate team building events to help break the ice or get some laughs. Rapid Fire or short answer questions are a quick easy way to ..read more