Identifying the Need for Innovative Team Building Activities in the Bay Area
The Bay area is the fertile ground from which some of the country’s most innovative enterprises have grown. From Oakland to Palo Alto the area is filled with creative minds that have made a tradition of throwing out the rules and instead writing their own.
The teams that built visionary enterprises like Google, Facebook, Oracle, and Salesforce have etched their names in American corporate history. Now, the offices, co-working spaces, and apartments of the Bay Area are overflowing with entrepreneurs and their budding organizations jostling for position to be the next great company to arise from the Bay.
To achieve this, your company will need to have not only a brilliant team but one working so cohesively that your competition doesn’t stand a chance. But you’re busy raising money, courting investors, and planning the next quarter. Your COO and management have their plates full operating a growing entity and reaching the milestones to keep your company on track. Amidst all of this, how do you make time for team building activities in the Bay Area?
That’s where Adventure Games comes in to take charge of all your team-building needs. A recent Forbes article echoes what any HR professional, manager or executive has always known: employees are infinitely more likely to stay at their job if they have strong friendships with their colleagues at work. So, why not leverage our unique approach to team building to keep all that talent you’ve worked so hard to acquire? It’s worked for Facebook, Google, HP and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. Let our experienced staff help your team with our assortment of games proven to create cohesion, form new friendships among your people and take your organizational productivity into the stratosphere.
Effective Team Building Activities in the Bay Area
- Foster innovation, sparking collaboration
- Form interoffice friendships that retain key talent
- Bolster overall organizational morale.
Office Escape: Indoor Team Building in The Bay Area’s Varied Climates
Companies in every industry, especially the innovative startups located in and around Silicon Valley, are all wildly different but they share a couple of things in common: 1. They require an effective, well-executed strategy to succeed in such a competitive space, and 2. They all have offices.
Our Office Escape game is the perfect indoor game for team building activities in any sort of inclement weather – and let’s face it: if you live in the Bay Area, you’re used to summer feeling like winter. In fact, the Bay Area has the second highest concentration of micro-climates of any region in the world.
Your teams work hard in your office every day, but how hard is that office working for you? Give them something fun to do that gets them away from their desks and screens. The creativity they tap into during our game also increases productivity, so the company wins too. And best of all, you and your staff can do it while enjoying the finest of modern comforts: heated central air or air conditioning.
In this escape room style game, employees are called to what they believe to be a one hour all-hands meeting in your conference room, only to learn that they’ve been locked inside and must work together to get out. Once the clock has started, the teams are assigned and then asked to solve dozens of puzzles to free themselves from the confines of your conference room. With a wide swath of puzzles catering to different skills, employees must communicate with each other to learn their strengths and weaknesses. This time-sensitive collaborative effort is designed to improve interoffice cooperation and increase productivity by unlocking the hidden potential of every company’s greatest asset: its human capital.
The Adventure Games Challenge: Engaging Activities Your Employees Will Adore
If you’re looking for a breakout year, it’s going to require more than just a winning strategy. It’s going to take a ton of creativity to get to the front of the pack in your industry. That’s why the Adventure Games Challenge is the perfect fit for your team-building activities in the Bay Area.
The game is built from a menu of classics like scavenger hunts or shooting a commercial – but with a twist. This delightful medley of creativity and strategy with a pinch of friendly competition has been a hit over and over again and is a sure-fire way to get your team talking, laughing, and thinking outside of the box.
Our games are fun, but they can be used for more than just employee retention; they can also help decrease stress. A 2023 National Insititue of Health study found a direct connection between increased stress and decreased productivity. Nobody is excited to show up to work when their colleagues are overstressed. They’re on edge, ready for conflict, passive-aggressive behavior, and before you know it, morale is in the gutter.
So, giving your team the chance to collectively have some fun together once per quarter has become an important part of optimizing long-term productivity within your organization.
Don’t believe us? Take it from Meta. There is a direct correlation between your employees’ creativity and your company’s success. The challenges that customers and organizations alike are facing in the Bay Area are constantly changing as they adapt to the heightened pace of our technologically advanced society. It takes a creative, strategic workforce to keep hitting perpetually moving targets and maintain your company’s lead against the competition. You’ve got meetings to plan, your team has code to write, and you’ve got investors to report to. You’re busy enough. So, why not make your next company meeting a hit with your staff and the place where you come up with your company’s next game-changing innovation of your product?
City Surprises: Extra Adventures for Your Bay Area Team Building Excursion
You’d be hard pressed to find an area of the country with a more diverse array of concert venues, restaurants, hotels and activities to partake in. Finding time to learn the ins and outs of an area spanning 9 counties can be overwhelming, especially since most of the residents are transplants. So, let us lend a hand by doing some of the legwork for you and offering a few recommendations of our favorite spots in the Bay:
Where to Eat – Since the Bay Area has an indescribably large number of amazing eateries, we decided to recommend one with an exceptional view. Bull Valley Roadhouse is an absolute cornucopia of delicacies and craft cocktails. But the real treat is the scenery in Port Costa, a charming little gem of a small town nestled deep in the East Bay. It’s a bit of a drive to get there but the scenery is worth it and it’ll be an unforgettable meal to share with your staff.
Where to Stay – If we’re spending the night in the east bay, we’re going to drink in the timeless aesthetic of Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club. Designed and constructed almost a century ago by one of America’s most trailblazing women, the unmistakable style will never lose its charm. The indoor heated swimming pool isn’t so bad either. If you’re in Berkeley, lay your head at this delightful little slice of local history for an experience you and your team won’t forget.
Where to Play – Mount Eden Vinyard is the perfect relaxing day-trip for your team. It’s cost effective at $35 a person. You and your team work hard all year long, give your people and yourself an afternoon to recharge and then tackle those challenges you’re facing with the support of a reinvigorated workforce.
