Foster teamwork with engaging team-building activities

When was the last time your team did something fun together?

During the hustle and bustle of everyday work, it can be a challenge to carve out time to nurture meaningful connections with colleagues. Whether your team is working in-person, from home offices or a mix of the two, investing in solid team connections can boost productivity, innovation, creativity and retention.

This year, our team tested out new ideas to help create and strengthen connections. We played online trivia, got to know each other through speed dating, shared themed lunches, and participated in activities that gave back to our community.

To help you warm up your team-building activities this winter, we’ve carefully selected a list of ideas that promise to provide maximum fun for the whole team.

Note: These activities are offered online or in various cities across Canada. Don’t see an activity in your city? A quick Google search will help you find similar events nearby.

Let’s Roam Team Building. Virtual, hybrid and in-person event options. These scavenger hunt adventures are led by an app, so your team can wander at their own pace. Perfect for team builders, custom events, fundraisers and groups of any size. These scavenger hunts are a great way to have fun and explore your city. No reservations required!

Escape Manor. This is not your ordinary online escape room. Designed to have a real-world feel, you won't know where fiction ends and reality begins. Play with your colleagues from a shared office or connect remotely from home offices across the country! You can run the event yourself or choose the facilitated experience to maximize your team-building event.

Trivia. Give your team a quick 5-minute team-building break over Slack or MS Teams. Build connections while playing games like Instant Quizzes, Pictionary, Emoji Rebus, Hangman and more. Bond over post-game banter, find shared interests, indulge in some friendly competition and get to know each other better!

The Chef Upstairs or Cooking with Rockoly. Virtual cooking classes are a great way to connect from kitchen to kitchen. Think of it as a private dinner or appy-hour party. Choose your seasonal menu, and they’ll provide a set-up sheet with an ingredient list, kitchen tools, what to prepare in advance, etc. Classes are interactive–your team will work under the guidance of their chef, and everyone has an opportunity to mingle before, during and after the cooking portion.

Online Fitness Club with Confetti. Teams who work out together, work better together! Get your team's heart rate up and pumping with corporate fitness classes. There are different options for all levels, so whether you pick Zumba, yoga, bootcamps or a dance class you’ll enjoy a great workout and team bonding from the comfort of home.

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Host a team-building activity in your city

Montreal

Get cerebral with Walking Brain

As Canada’s first geo-gaming startup, Walking Brain's mobile scavenger hunts, detective and outdoor games and activities provide teams with adventurous, interactive team-building experiences that are easy, fun and unforgettable! Choose from a geo-game, mystery, treasure hunt and more!

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Get crafty at les Affûtés

Give your team an opportunity to upskill a little differently at Les Affûtés, which offers a wide range of expert-guided DIY workshops in woodworking, sewing and knitting, electronics and electricity, simple repairs, and more. Participants can work on projects individually or come together to create something as a team. All instructors are bilingual and can be tailored specifically to each team.

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Ottawa

Connect with Indigenous culture at Makatew Workshops.

Makatew Workshops offers teams Indigenous crafting workshops that range between 60 minutes to 3 hours in length. Participants will create medicine bags, hand drums, rattles or moccasins while learning about each item’s history and significance. Teams will also discuss topics like truth and reconciliation, providing an open environment to ask questions without judgment.

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Check all the boxes at Archery Games.  

Get your team communicating and working together while they engage in a little arena archery - which is similar to dodgeball, but with bows and soft foam-tipped arrows instead! Need a less intensive activity? Archery Games is also home to six exciting and immersive escape rooms, along with its very own game café, Playback, which offers bocce ball, shuffle board, cornhole, and a monthly trivia night!

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Toronto

Sharpen your team’s problem-solving skills at Casa Loma Escape Rooms

Hosted at Toronto’s stunning and historic Casa Loma, Secret City’s range of themed escape room experiences are designed to be collaborative, and cater to a range of abilities and skill levels. Work together to suss out clues, hone your observational skills, and solve the mysteries before time runs out!

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Think on your feet with an improv class at The Second City.

Business professionals can improve their communication skills—and maybe get to know each other a little bit better at the same time—through storytelling and public speaking at the largest improvisational and sketch-comedy school in the world. The Second City training centre will help your team connect through laughter, based on your specific corporate culture and objectives, the Second City training centre will help your team connect through laughter, strengthening their interactivity, agility and sales-effectiveness. 

Calgary ‍

Get your engines firing at TracksVR.  

Strap into full motion seats and a virtual-reality headset, and embrace your inner Formula One driver as you race colleagues around one of 60+ VR tracks. See which department has the quickest times, or race in a round robin tournament to see which team member is the fastest.

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Go for gold at Canada Olympic Park

WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park offers a variety of team-building exercises for a fun and active corporate day out. Compete head-to-head with your team, or go on an adrenaline-filled adventure. Race around the park completing challenges, soar through the air on a zipline, bungee-jump off a platform, or luge down the push track just like Olympic athletes.  

Vancouver

Reach the peak of teamwork at Grouse Mountain

Get your team’s pulses pumping with Mountain Team Building at Grouse Mountain, where you can take advantage of their dual-line, five-line circuit for an adrenaline fuelled tour across the peaks and canyons of Grouse and Dam Mountains, scavenger hunts, or a First Nations art experience. With programming for groups of anywhere between 10-400 people, there’s something for every team out there!

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Warm up with a Craft Coffee Tour

‍If your team loves coffee, why not take them on a 3-hour tour where you’ll sip some of the best roasts in Vancouver. Your tour starts with a curated tasting, along with an overview of how each is brewed. Next, it’s on to learn about (and taste!) one of the biggest crazes in the world of coffee – cold brew. And what coffee tour would be complete without a shot of Vancouver's best espresso? The final stop on the tour takes you to Vancouver’s top-rated coffee shop for espresso.