The Power of Multi-City Team Building Activities for National Companies

July 28, 2023

Team building activities have long been recognised as essential tools to foster collaboration, communication, and camaraderie among employees. For national companies with offices and branches spread across multiple states, the challenge lies in finding ways to bring teams together despite the geographical barriers.

There are numerous benefits of multi-city team building activities that enable all employees to participate simultaneously, irrespective of their physical location. We will delve into how these activities enhance teamwork, employee engagement, and overall company culture. 

 

Benefits of Multi-City Team Building Activities

Enhanced Team Collaboration and Networking

Multi-city team building activities can encourage employees from various locations to collaborate, solve problems, and strategise together. By working on shared challenges, team members develop a deeper understanding of each other's strengths and weaknesses. This cross-location interaction builds bridges among employees and fosters a sense of unity within the organisation. Employees can connect with colleagues they may not have had the opportunity to meet before, enhancing internal networking and information-sharing across teams and departments.

Breaking Down Barriers

Large companies often face the issue of compartmentalisation, where teams from different regions become isolated from one another, hindering overall communication, productivity, and innovation. Multi-city team building activities break down these barriers by promoting open communication and cooperation among teams. When employees see that they are part of a larger community working towards a common goal, they are more likely to collaborate and share ideas freely, breaking down barriers and improving overall organisational efficiency.

Strengthening Company Culture

National companies often struggle with maintaining a consistent company culture across all locations. This can be especially true for smaller branches that may feel overlooked or excluded from the opportunities provided to the larger branches. Multi-city team building events provide an opportunity to reinforce the company's values, mission, and goals. When employees from diverse locations participate in the same activity, they experience a shared sense of purpose and identity, strengthening the company culture and fostering pride in being part of the organisation.

Boosting Employee Morale and Engagement

Engaged employees are more likely to be productive, creative, and committed to their work. Multi-city team building activities inject a sense of excitement and enthusiasm into the workplace. As employees anticipate the upcoming event and share their experiences afterwards, their morale and job satisfaction soar. The positive energy generated during such activities often spills over into the daily work environment, leading to higher levels of employee engagement and overall job satisfaction.

Encouraging Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving

Depending on the chosen activity, multi-city team building activities may challenge employees to think outside the box, come up with innovative solutions, and apply strategic thinking to solve problems collaboratively. These activities provide a fun and interactive environment for team members to flex their creative muscles, enhancing their problem-solving skills that can be beneficial in their day-to-day work.

 

Multi-City Team Building Activities

So, what type of team building activities lend themselves to being multi-city activities? With the advancement of technology, many team building activities can now be conducted across multiple cities, with teams connecting virtually. This not only saves time and resources on travel but also allows teams from different locations to participate in the same activity and share the experience together.

AppVenture Urban Explorer

If you're looking for the ultimate multi-city team building experience, AppVenture takes the crown. AppVenture is an exemplary multi-city team building activity that perfectly encapsulates the advantages of such events for national companies. With this app-based challenge, employees from different locations can participate simultaneously, fostering unity and camaraderie throughout the organisation.

How it Works

Teams use the Urban Explorer app on their smartphones to navigate through their chosen city, unlocking GPS hotspots containing various team tasks and challenges. The challenges require creative thinking, strategic planning, and teamwork as employees work together to complete the tasks.

Simultaneous Participation

The beauty of AppVenture lies in its ability to enable teams from different states or locations to participate in real time. As teams explore their respective cities, they can also follow the progress of other teams on the app's live photo wall, creating a sense of friendly competition and camaraderie. This feature fosters a feeling of togetherness as teams from different locations engage in the same activity simultaneously.

Multi-city team building activities are invaluable for national companies seeking to strengthen their organisational bonds and enhance employee collaboration. These events break down geographical barriers, foster open communication, and create a cohesive company culture. AppVenture's Urban Explorer exemplifies the power of such activities, providing an engaging, interactive, and real-time experience for employees nationwide.

Brighter Future

Collaborating with SolarBuddy, Brighter Future is a heart-warming team building event that enables participants to build solar lights. These lights are subsequently distributed to underprivileged nations that experience energy poverty, thereby benefiting children by giving them access to night-time studying opportunities. This innovative event is more than just a team building exercise; it's a chance to make a positive impact on the world.

How it Works

In Brighter Future, teams in different cities can collaborate on building solar-powered lights for communities facing extreme energy poverty. Each team can work on assembling and testing the solar lights, and then come together virtually to share their progress, insights, and challenges. This not only fosters teamwork and communication but also promotes a sense of social responsibility as teams contribute to a common humanitarian cause.

Water Works

Water Works is a charity team building event where delegates engage in constructing water filtration units for regions of the world facing waterborne illnesses from their drinking water. This meaningful initiative not only promotes teamwork and collaboration but also addresses the critical issue of water scarcity and its devastating impact on vulnerable communities worldwide. By participating in Water Works, participants have the opportunity to contribute to positive change and make a significant difference in the lives of those in need.

How it Works

In Water Works, teams from various cities can participate in a water filtration challenge. Each team receives a kit containing materials to construct a water filtration system. They can work independently to build the system and then virtually come together to share their progress, insights, and challenges. This activity encourages problem-solving, creativity, and cooperation, as well as raising awareness about clean water access and environmental concerns.

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The Go Game

One of our most popular virtual events, the Go Game is perfect for injecting a bit of fun and connecting nationwide branches virtually. A blend of charades, trivia, Pictionary, and more, this event is sure to have your team engaging in a completely different way. 

How it Works

Divided into teams of 4-5, participants from various locations will take on a variety of challenges, including but not limited to charades, music and general knowledge trivia, and drawing challenges. This event provides your team with the opportunity to interact with individuals beyond the usual 'Sincerely, Bob' or 'Kind regards, Linda' and connect on a more personal level.

Virtual Escape Room Art Heist

Modelled after in-person escape rooms, the Virtual Escape Room Art Heist will have your delegates sifting through clues and deciphering challenges using collaborative strategic thinking and problem-solving skills. To successfully escape the room, delegates must complete all challenges. 

Teams will need to unravel evidence, decode cryptic clues, and navigate obstacles that will be thrown their way. 

How it Works

In groups of 4-6 people, delegates from various cities will participate via an award-winning app to crack codes and solve puzzles. Collaboration is key in this virtual escape scenario as delegates’ teamwork and logical abilities are thoroughly put to the test. 

The goal is to achieve as many points as possible, with additional points awarded to the first team to successfully escape!

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Embracing multi-city team building activities not only improves employee morale and engagement but also elevates teamwork and problem-solving skills. The sense of unity and shared purpose generated through these events can have a lasting positive impact on organisational productivity and overall job satisfaction. As national companies continue to grow and expand, investing in multi-city team building activities becomes a strategic move to ensure their employees stay connected, motivated, and aligned with the company's vision and values.

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