Be Excellent To Each Other

I am part of the group responsible for our work away day.

22 people, budget of about 3 grand.

Must involve somewhere to do business stuff in the morning, then food options for lunch, then an entertaining activity that involves team building in the afternoon.

Obviously I'm already sounding out places to do wine tasting, but what are other ideas that aren't too far from London?

To what degree do you like your colleagues?

Some of them are okay.

Laser Quest/Quaser.

or

Lazer Quest/Quazer.

Great! If they're all 14.

Psht. Fourteen schmourteen.

Just take them for a Happy Meal and pocket the change.

horse races with a function room.

You can use "gambling" to teach them about "risk"

Some outwards bounds place, rock climbing etc

start the fans, purlease

http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/corporate- ... ge~pr2529/

Organise a car wash where they wash cars for the public for a day.

This has the added benefit of actually raising money and you can donate the profit to the homeless or someother worthy cause. You can have chips at lunch.

Plus, it won't be some meaningless works team building exercise where a bunch of middle class gits build a raft using barrells and rope and pretend that they're roughing it.

No strenuous physical activity, thanks.

Half a day doing talks and work shit. Half a day having fun. Actual fun.

I think Satunalian's idea is an excellent one.

If it doesn't appeal, I went to a good team-building event at the Underground Cookery School, by Jamie Oliver's 15 Restaurant (don't think it's connected.

Everyone cooks their dinner with professional chefs, who are fairly droll and tolerant of cack-handedness (though aren't afraid to tell you you've ballsed it up and to start again) and you eat your dinner with as much booze as you can handle.

http://undergroundcookeryschool.com/coo ... ng-events/

I've been helping organise our team building event. We are off to a hotel for breakfast and the boring bit, then cocktails and lunch buffet and then we have some cocktail baristas from Diageo coming to the hotel to teach us the fine art of cocktail making with some fancy moves so we can all drop drinks everywhere, then out for drinks.

When is this so I know when to book the day off? Team building days are the worst thing ever.

Murder mystery meal.

I don't know, Mimi's sounds great!

That sounds like a hoot.

Go carting.

Play Dark Souls.

Go to the pub and play "I have never".

Looks like a hoot.

My favourite team building day was a poker clinic (whoever calls these things clinics should be shot, but that's not the point)
I've never had so much fun on a teambuilding thing and we all chipped in for some casino type stuff afterwards and would play poker in the pub after work regularly for ages after that.

That sounds awesome! Do that, Curio! And then the cocktail thing!

Team building deffo needs a good drinking game - I'd suggest Freckles, Curio, apparently as beloved of our dear (non commissioned) armed services personnel.

Your staff will love it, guaranteed. Just hold fifty quid back for soilage costs.

Strop poker?

I can't tell if this is a spelling error, or a comment on Curio's colleagues' personalities.

"Full house, jacks over eights"
"Four nines!"

*Flips over table, throws chair at dealer, flounces out of room*

BOAT.

Casino Wine Tasting BOAT.

If that's not a thing, it motherfuckingwell should be.

Friday.

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any event on a boat is always a bad idea. especially if the boat is anywhere near the Thames.

So much bad experience speaking here.

I think any team building exercise, boat or not, is a bad idea but there you go.

Obviously.

My task is to find the best way to spend the money anyway. Preferably on things I like, such as wine.

I wonder if there is any research as to whether they actually help teams work better? My guess : No.

Give each person their share of the budget and then all go home early.

Use the office computers for a LAN party.

I went to a design agency that was doing this with Call of Duty but on Macs. I didn't do very well as I missed my mouse buttons.

We play Quake 2 every Christmas.

*frantically redesigns hen do*

BOAT is fine. Its after BOAT that the evening rapidly becomes intolerable. BOAT.

Don't do some of the shite we've had to endure like "learning circus skills" or "buying ingredients for luxury sweets and then doing a sales pitch".

No matter what you pick though, someone will be unhappy. Miserable gits.

Do you work in an episode of The Apprentice?

Casino BOAT
May struggle to arrange this for friday

We used to hear them going up and down the Thames at night.

I went on one once - the drinks cost a fortune and you weren't allowed to get off

A fortune even compared to London prices?

Yes.

Blimey

Drinking in Watford the other night, I bought three drinks and got change from a tenner! What witchcraft is this?

Every time I go out in Bedford, I am always thrilled at the prices.