Minute to Win It - Fastest Winning Team Building Event

The popular prime time game show is now available as a team building event for you and your team to enjoy! The question is, does your group have what it takes to be the grand winner of "Minute to Win It"?

The exciting and nerve wrecking game show you watch regularly on TV can now be played by your colleagues. Work together as a team in completing each 60 second challenge and compete head to head with other groups. Each challenge will earn your team points and the team with the most points after completing all the challenges will win the event. Sounds simple right?

What seems to be simple tasks with everyday household items may turn out to be a mind boggling puzzle. Most participants think it is easy until they need to work together as a team and put more precision and strategy into each task. Combine these with the element of a ticking clock and what you will get is a fun and exciting team building event!

Check out one of our event wrap ups here:

Still watching this show at the edge of your seat? Call us today and be part of this amazing event. If you would like to plan a fantastic experience for your corporate team, check us out online at canadianoutback.com for more information about Minute to Win It or other fun team building activities and contact our awesome team.

High Tech Corporate Team Building Activity in Morristown, New Jersey

Hello! Miguel here with another corporate event update.

We just organized a high tech scavenger hunt in Morristown for a group coming from out of town. This event is a great combination of team building, a great way to discover new places in a fun and interactive way by having teams using their own smart phone device and an excellent way of customizing it to meet the group needs or goals as well as to highlight the local landmarks and historical places.

To check us out, please visit us at www.americanoutback.net.

Check out our Wild Goose Chase event video

Unique Experience with a Custom Team Building Event in Toronto

Hello! Miguel here with another corporate event update.

We just ran a 350 people custom hockey night event at the historic Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. This activity was a custom event in the sense that all the challenges were themed around this hockey sanctuary. Client wanted it to make a fun and interactive evening for the participants and to give them all a quick introduction to the museum and to have their picture taking with the Stanley cup. Very exciting! Everyone enjoyed walking around and admiring the memorabilia in place as well as completing all the fun challenges.

So if you’re looking for a unique event experience, check us out online at canadianoutback.com where a sales specialist will be more than happy to assist you. Thank you!

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Wild Goose Chase ... our new ridiculous Smartphone Event!

Take a smartphone-powered scavenger hunt. Mix in some Fear Factor. What do you have? A Wild Goose Chase. Get out of your comfort zone, take on daring challenges, hilarious missions, fun times, and friendly competition!

Reward your team with a Wild Goose Chase

The Wild Goose Chase Event can be modified for a variety of environments and locations. The game can be played in a few hours, or over several days during a conference. We can provide custom challenges and tasks to match your location, theme, company or objectives of your meeting. All you need is a few smartphones and a group of willing participants! 

We recently ran this event for the 20,000 delegates at the Pacific Dental Conference in Vancouver. It is a great networking and conference activity for large groups, plus it allows delegates to visit local attractions and see the city sights. 

Participants can easily download the mobile app and play the game as an ice-breaker or networking activity, during breaks or as part of evening social functions. It is a great way to interact with colleagues and collaborate on fun team challenges. Teams collect points and can monitor their progress and see the live leaderboard throughout the game. Plus, this event also works for those on a budget, for large groups it can be as little as $5-$10 per person! 

We also offer a city version open to the public! Do you want to experience your own Wild Goose Chase? Check out our Urban Goose Chase! We will be bringing the fun and excitement to a city near you this summer!

Crime Investigators in Action!

Crime Investigators Team Building Activity
from Canadian Outback Adventures & Events

Hi, this is an event post from Marybeth in our Canadian Outback Adventures & Events Toronto Office with another corporate event update. 

We recently ran a Crime Investigators event for a security company up in North York, Toronto. It was great to have a few ex-police officers as the participants because they brought great expertise to the table. Teams had to go around to the various crime scenes that were setup, collect the evidence, document the scene and ultimately help our CSI team solve the crime. 

It was an awesome event, people were super excited to get out of their usual work environment and interact with co-workers. There was great enthusiasm, friendly competition and really good sense of humor, which made the afternoon a lot of fun. It was great to see everyone working together in their teams and really coming together to get the best out of everyone. 

See photos and listen to the post-event wrap up here!



If you'd like to plan a fantastic experience for your corporate team, please check us out online at canadianoutback.com and contact my awesome team for more information about CI or other fun team building activities.

Snowshoe Through a Winter Wonderland

View from Grouse Mountain at sunset

Hi, it's Shannen from the Outback Group, and I just finished a fun 5.5km snowshoe race on Grouse Mountain, one of our local mountains in North Vancouver. I love extreme sports and adventure races and I have been competing in snowshoe races for the last 4 years.

Snow-shoeing does not have to be an extreme sport. I started snowshoeing because I wanted to enjoy winter and be active during the cold, dark  months. It is a great way to enjoy mountain fresh air and embrace the outdoors (even in the snow) with friends and family.

Canadian Outback Adventures & Events offers great snowshoe tours for all ages and abilities. Snowshoe tours in Whistler range from beginner and family-friendly hikes to full day adventures. While you are out enjoying the scenic mountain trails the guides will teach you about natural medicine and traditional remedies used by the First Nations people.

Snowshoe tours are also available in Jasper, Alberta. The stunning beauty and landscape of the Rocky Mountains provides an amazing backdrop for a fun winter adventure. Grab a friend, grab your family, grab your co-workers and get outside for a snowshoe adventure in Jasper. Try something new, you will be amazed at how easy and enjoyable this winter activity can be.

Happy snowshoeing!!
~Shannen

Team bonding in 30 minutes or less

Last week I gathered my team of 20 together for our annual 'Outback Summit', an opportunity for us to get together as a team and discuss a variety of topics important to our company and our people.

Our team is scattered geographically across the globe. Yes, Skype is a great tool for virtual meetings, and allows us all to see each other every week or so. But seeing each other in person is SO much better. It gives us all a chance to get to know each other far better.

This year we played the "About Us" game. Prior to the Summit we all submitted a list of "5 things you probably don't know about me" to one of the Summit organizers. She then compiled the lists and handed them out to all of us.

We then had 10 minutes to figure out who each person was. It was like speed dating at work! It was fascinating to me how little I really knew about many of my crew. Marybeth has been to Antarctica and gone for a swim there. Philip was a national level trampolinist in the UK. Jules has jumped off well-known bridges in the middle of the night. Who knew?

I walked away from this quick activity with a new appreciation for my team and who they are as individuals. At the office we're all guilty of forming opinions of colleagues based solely on interactions and outputs at work. This activity will break down those characterizations, and be a lot of fun too!

Regardless of your role in your workplace, take 5 minutes today to email your colleagues and ask them for their 'list'. Compile the lists, then at lunch on Friday play the game. Just like me, you'll be glad you did.