Team Outing Activities
Last updated November 4, 2024
Team building is an important element of a high-performing team. Part of team building is having some time to interact outside of work conversations to get to know your coworkers better. In an office environment these types of conversations usually happen naturally, but in a hybrid or fully remote work environment it can be helpful to schedule dedicated time to interact without talking about work. Below is a list of activities I’ve used for team building on past teams.
Casual Indoor Activities
- Eats: Restaurant or Brewery
- Escape Room, eg. https://escapetheroom.com/boston/
- Bowling and/or Pool, eg. https://www.playatkings.com/location/boston-seaport/
- Darts @ Flight Club
- Arcade/Virtual game activity, eg. Dave & Busters, F1 Arcade
- Karaoke
- Board games at the office
- Mini Golf and food/drinks in Puttshack Boston
- Candlepin Bowling and pizza @ American Flatbread
- Ping Pong @ Spin Boston
- PKL Boston (shuffleboard, cornhole, pickleball)
- Arcade/Bowling/shuffleboard at LuckyStrike
- Top Golf
- Apex Centre Marlboro
- Roxy’s arcade https://roxysarcade.com/menus/games
Classes
- Cooking Class, eg. https://cambridgeculinary.com/group-cooking-classes/
- Pottery class, eg. https://www.clayloungeboston.com/private-events , https://pottery-boston.com/corporate-event-in-boston
- Painting class
Active Indoor Activities
- Mental/physical puzzle rooms: Boda Borg or Level99
- Indoor skydiving https://skyventurenh.com/
- Archery Games https://www.archerygamesboston.com/corporate
- Go kart racing, eg. https://www.k1speed.com/boston-location/groups-and-parties/adult-party-birthday-venue.html
- Axe throwing, eg. Urban Axes
- Shooting range, eg. https://bostongunandrifle.com/public-range-sessions
Outdoor Activities
- Kimball Farms - Mini Golf, Driving range, Pitch & Putt, Bumper Cars, etc.
- Mini Golf
- Sailing @ Community Boating