events Corporate & Private
Get Your Group Out of the City
Break out of the usual work-outing mindset and let us plan an exciting day outdoors for your team. Our corporate and private group trips can provide an environment for teambuilding activities, or just plain fun away from the office. From horseback riding and wine tastings to whitewater rafting and rock climbing, let the outdoors be your environment to challenge and entertain your team.
The Da Vinci Adventure
Use all of your skills to decipher riddles, break codes and unlock the cryptex to retrieve a hidden message from Leonardo and uncover the secret of the Holy Grail.
Groups with Glasses
Outdoor Bound’s latest class, Groups with Glasses is ideal for a unique team building or private event. Participants are presented with an overview on winemaking, particularly how it relates to creating blended wines such as Bordeaux, Chianti and Rioja. Afterward, team members are given individual bottles of wine and instructed to create their own blend from these varietal wines. Each team should also create a name and logo/label design (and, optional, sales or marketing plan) for their resulting wine. At the conclusion, each group presents their wine to the group at large and one member of each group is appointed to blindly taste and judge all of the finished wines. The team whose wine receives the highest score wins.
Objectives
Elements of team building include the ability to cooperate and collaborate with team members to determine the final blend as well as to learn to value and appreciate members
regardless of their hierarchical status in the company (an assistant may have a better understanding of wine or greater sensory perception than his/her manager). Leadership skills may come into play as team members work to resolve conflicts as well as in the selection of the team judge. Wine knowledge may also be tailored to meet a specific objective such as wine etiquette or food and wine pairing with regard to dining with clients.
Constraints
This exercise works well with groups of twelve to seventy. Ideally, each team should be made up of at least three members, but no more than seven, to ensure full participation
from each person. Moreover, a maximum total of ten teams is recommended to limit the number of wines being tasted by the “judges.”
