Virtual team building isn’t new… introducing Global Team Building

One company has been in the virtual team building space for over 12 years. Formed in 1992, the family owned and run Sandstone has always used technology within its in-person events. They branched out into cyberspace back in 2008. Branded ‘Global Team Building,’ their online activities are different, engaging and very popular with remote teams. Especially now, with so many people working from home.

Nikki Lyon, Client Services Director, explains: “For us, team building is about leaving the team better at the end of an activity than it was at the start.  An activity needs to be different enough to what people do day-to-day that they find it interesting and fun. If they can’t enjoy it, they won’t participate fully – or at all.  It also needs to require the same approaches that teams need to be effective in their working lives.  Otherwise, there’s no relevance to it that can help the team get better at what it does and how it does it.”

She continues: “For remote teams, their single largest defining characteristics are that their members are not all together, and that they use technology to communicate. Our activities replicate that environment in a fun way.”

As the brand name ‘Global Team Building’ implies, their original clients are in virtual teams that are globally-spread, across borders and indeed continents. But in our new reality, they have added many new clients with people working from home.

Nikki again: “Our single most popular activity right now is one we call MiniScavenge. It’s part scavenger hunt, part treasure hunt and has team puzzles within it that give an escape room like feel at times. It all happens on a single web page that team members join together in. And the feedback we’ve received from our new clients has been amazing.”

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Pic: Why not let your people spend some time on a beautiful island? It’s one of 5 very different MiniScavenge options. And there’s a Christmassy one too!