Team Building has become one of the key buzzwords of business in recent years. Unlike the ‘Blue Sky thinking’ ‘out of the box’ ‘ take it off line’ ‘hard stop’ or even the food analogies- ‘low hanging fruit’ or ‘peel the onion,’ Team Building isn’t just some throwaway annoying, useless, pretentious corporate jargon. Instead, Team Building has many very positive connotations.

Taking corporate development, first of all, team building exercises are important not simply for the euphoric feeling of the immediate experience, the ‘Thank You’ that the action of taking your team out for the day shows ten times over what an email saying ‘thanks’ could do. Team building is also an exceptional way to get a team working together, for group skills, communication, bonding and of course a healthy serving of inter-team competition!

The activity itself is really the vehicle that provides a means to an end- a high-impact learning experience. But choosing your activity as one that is belly-aching-laugh good fun is definitely an advantage for the longevity status of the memory for your team. An activity where everyone has the opportunity to shine rather than just the sport-Billy-Ironman-Triathlete or the employee with the IQ of 130 is a must to ensure everyone joins in and nobody feels embarrassed by their performance. With the success of almost every business dependent upon the effectiveness of the teams within it and the individuals who build those teams, the main goals of a day out of the office must be for the improvement of productivity and also to motivate. The away-day, cut back to basics, helps groups to break down political barriers, put aside personal differences, take away distractions- emails, computers, phone and Facebook, and simply have some fun.

Many corporations see the benefits of team building as so key to success that they are built into their standard training budgets at the start of every year. We have a wide range of corporate companies who use us over and over, booking year after year, or multiple times for different teams within the same year. We know, therefore, that our corporate days work on many levels- one of the best forms of feedback we can get is people booking to come again!

We find that some of the main benefits of a day of team building on site here at Armourgeddon are; finding and identifying a team’s strengths and weaknesses, improving a group’s ability to problem solve, to improve productivity, take down barriers that then allows free flow of conversation which in turn allows for clearer definition of goals and objectives, understanding and development of processes and procedures and discussing the barriers to just ‘getting it done’ be that barriers that stop creativity, physical barriers such as office lay out or emotional barriers such as relationship issues. We also find that people shine as leaders that the organisation’s owners didn’t realise had the potential to lead. And of course, and simply the most important part, team building allows a team to have fun and create memories together.

Once the budget is set ad you have decided upon the date of the team building day/ 2-days/ away day, the next question must be- where to go? Well, we have the simple answer to that. Come and spend you time with us! Pretty much slap-bang in the middle of the country, in beautiful rural countryside, an hour on the train from central London, less than an hour from Birmingham, Cambridge, Sheffield or Nottingham, we are ideally located for an in-one-day trip and with the city of Leicester 30 minutes away or towns with all the entertainment a team may need for a night out 15 minutes away, reasonable accommodation for a variety of different requirement levels a stones-throw from us, Armourgeddon is not just the best fun you can have in a field with your team, but it’s convenient too.

Our corporate activities are designed to motivate your teams and pool their talents to perform individually at their best, leading to team victory. The team members discover that diversity is their best asset as well as learning to trust one another to do their part of the job- and not let one another down. The activities encourage individual development (and success) but also pull a team together for a common cause. Upbeat, highly-charged team experiences here at Armourgeddon mean that everyone feels empowered, that they have shown each other- and themselves, what they are capable of, as well as having a brilliant day of fun… and maybe some mud!

Our activities include Tank Paintball Battles- the only place in the world that this experience takes place, tank driving experiences, military vehicle driving experiences, archery, traditional paintball, airsoft, air riffle shooting, clay pigeon shooting, quad bike and hover craft safaris and many many more.

If you are considering a corporate team building day, give our experienced advisors, Tracy and Craig a call and they will talk through the options with you. This testimonial was the feedback from a team of Nandos senior managers who recently visited us here for a corporate afternoon of Tank Paintball Battles:

“We took 8 of our senior managers to Armourgeddon for an afternoon with a difference, and we loved it! The tanks are fascinating and completely authentic and firing paintballs at each other was such a giggle – spirits were high despite the rain. We were well briefed and looked after by the team on site, and although there’s not much space inside those tanks, they were careful to make sure safety was paramount. Teambuilding at it’s very best!”