Indoor Team Building Activities

What is Indoor Team Building?

Indoor team building activities are games, icebreakers, or events that take place entirely indoors. While a lot of event planners may think you need to go outside to have fun with a team building event, there are plenty of creative and entertaining team building activities that you can try with your staff without leaving your meeting room, office, or hotel venue.

Of course, you’ll want to choose the right type of team building exercise for your group. Here at Outback Team Building & Training, we offer a wide range of unique indoor activities that include:

• • Energetic Indoor Activities – You don’t need to head outside to get some exercise with your team. With energetic indoor team building activities, such as Minute to Win It, Team Pursuit, or School Supply Scramble, you can plan an exciting and adrenaline-boosting event. These energetic activities are the perfect way to provide a jolt of liveliness to your next set of meetings.

• • Problem Solving Indoor Activities – Are you looking for an indoor activity that is more of a mental challenge? Problem solving team building activities, such as Escape Room: Jewel Heist, Code Break, and Clue Murder Mystery, can provide your group with an opportunity to put their heads together and think more creatively. These are ideal for brainy groups who enjoy testing their intelligence with puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers.

• • Hands-On Indoor Activities – Employees spend so much of their time looking at computer screens that sometimes it can be nice to try something a bit more basic. Indoor team building activities such as Domino Effect Challenge and Bridge Builders are a great opportunity for your team to get their hands dirty and build something tangible. This can be a great way for colleagues to come together and discover new strengths on their teams.

• • Charity Indoor Activities – Just because you’re staying inside doesn’t mean that you can’t give back with your indoor team building exercise! Charity indoor activities, such as Bookworm Builders, Charity Bike Buildathon, and End-Hunger Games, will have your group volunteering with fun and exciting challenges that result in a donation for your community.

• • Hybrid Indoor / Outdoor Activities – Get the best of both worlds with hybrid indoor and outdoor team building activities. These events will have your group working together on creative challenges inside your meeting room, and then heading out to a nearby outdoor venue to shake things up! For example, in Cardboard Boat Building Challenge, teams can build their boats indoors and then head to a local pool to test them in the waters.

Our indoor team building activities bring people together with fun photo challenges, creative thinking exercises and, in some cases, giving back to the community. Challenge your team to grow with one of our many fun offerings. Need a custom designed group activity? We can do that too! Keep in mind that all of our indoor team building activities are scalable for groups of any size and can be taken to whichever location you are holding your event.

Benefits of Indoor Team Building for Employees

Indoor team building activities can give you all the same benefits of outdoor team building, but without having to leave your office or meeting space! This means you won’t need to worry about booking a separate venue for your event, arranging transportation for employees, or other complex logistics that come with going off-site. You can relax and focus on what matters: helping your coworkers have fun as they build bonds and develop deeper working relationships.

Here are the three top benefits of indoor team building activities for employees:

• • Boost Teamwork – Bring your group closer together with indoor icebreakers, activities, and exercises that are designed by team building professionals. Your group will get a chance to rely on each other in new ways, learn more about their colleagues’ strengths, and practice how well they collaborate under pressure.

• • Practice Communication – Most teams think they have great communication skills, but the results can often be surprising when you put that theory to the test! Indoor team building activities are a great opportunity to see how well your coworkers actually are able to speak and listen to one another, without getting frustrated by sudden complications or changes in the activity.

• • Have Fun Together – The number one goal of any indoor team building activity should be to just have fun! By having a great time together, staff at your organization are more likely to enjoy their work and think more highly of their colleagues.

Where Can You Do Indoor Team Building Activities?

There are many different types of venues for indoor events, ranging from hotels to restaurants. The best space is always the one that fits your team’s size and needs.

Office Meeting Rooms – You can run an indoor team building activity right in your office meeting room! This can be a great surprise for employees because everyone will be in their usual place of business right up until the interactive activity begins. If you choose a hosted team building activity, our event coordinators will come in and set up the space, so it has everything you need for the fun and exciting challenges. If you choose one of our self-hosted budget team building activities, then you can try an indoor activity using the help of the Outback Team Building smartphone app.

Hotel Venues – Hotel venues tend to be one of the most convenient indoor event spaces. Most hotels are centrally located, and attendees coming from out-of-town don’t need to get lost trying to navigate an unfamiliar city. Depending on the hotel, there are different sized spaces to accommodate many medium to large group sizes. The Hilton Boston Logan Airport hotel, for example, has meeting rooms over 5,000 square feet that can comfortably fit over 400 people.

Many of these spaces also come equipped with extra features, for additional costs. Venue staff can make video projectors and sound systems available to help execute the presentations at your event. These features also make it the perfect setting for a team building activity with multimedia.

Conferences & Convention Centers – If you have a large group, conference and convention centers offer one of the best solutions for your indoor event. These venues are ideal because they are for large meetings, events, and conferences. Conference and convention centers host events most days of the year, so you can be confident they will offer a trustworthy solution for your group.

These spaces tend to be blank slates, so if you have the resources you can design them completely for your event. Tables, chairs, lights, and other multimedia can be put together to match whatever the theme of your event happens to be.

For big conferences, a perfect way to the break the ice is with Getting to Know You. It’s a social scavenger hunt that breaks down barriers and helps your group learn more about one another. The activity gets participants to match clues on their smartphones to people in the room.

Private Venues – Get creative with your event by booking a private venue. Typical event spaces can feel just like that: typical. A thousand events have happened there, and a thousand more will. But private venues offer a more personal experience that can feel more unique. Think outside the box with banquet halls, grand estates, country clubs, vintage halls, charter yachts, and ballrooms.

Private venues can be booked exclusively for your indoor team building event, guaranteeing no other customers or events will be going on at that time. Everything is set up with your event in mind, and all the staff will be there to serve your group. The privacy and elevated service make private venues a great option for team building or celebratory events.