Impactful Team Building Activities for Corporate Events

Top Team Building Workshops to Boost Employee Engagement

Great team building workshops do more than give employees a break from their usual routine. When thoughtfully designed, they can strengthen collaboration, encourage creativity, build relationships and create a stronger sense of connection across your organisation. From interactive problem-solving sessions and creative challenges to wellbeing-focused activities and purpose-led experiences, the right workshop can support both your people and your wider employee engagement goals.

As a full service events and employee experience agency, Broadsword specialises in creating bespoke employee experiences designed around your organisation, culture and objectives. Our team building experiences can be tailored to bring people together, encourage collaboration and create memorable moments for teams, whether delivered as part of an offsite, company event or wider employee engagement programme. We’ve drawn on our global work including major corporate conferences, leadership and employee experiences, and awards, where each audience has different needs: whether its fresh ideas, a chance to unpack a business challenge, or networking opportunities.

In this guide, we explore some of the top team building workshop ideas to inspire your next employee experience.

Charity, Community, and Social Impact Workshops for Events

These workshops unite your team through connection, shared enjoyment, and a feel-good atmosphere: where engagement is turned into impact. For example: The Helping Hands workshop

Give a Helping Hand combines team building and charity in a rewarding workshop that enables participants to make a real difference.

During this 2-hour team building event, your team will build prosthetic hands for people who need them in low-income countries. Every group assembles functional prosthetic hands from a set of parts and an instruction manual. These prosthetics provide more independence for those in need, meaning your teams can have a real impact.

Bake off at Luminary Bakery

Luminary Bakery is a social enterprise provides opportunities for employment and creates a safe space for women who have experienced homelessness, abuse, and exploitation. Their baking classes are tailored, hands-on sessions that focus on building teamwork, collaboration, and celebrating success together by enjoying the fruits of your labour, including seasonal bakes like cinnamon buns, at the end.

Charity shop takeover

Teams spend several hours working in a charity shop, learning about its operation while helping with merchandising, donations and customer experience. Teams have a chance to come up with ideas to make sales and compete to raise the most money. Hospices of Hope, for example, offers corporate volunteering days incorporating practical skills and team challenges.

Community Garden Makeover
Teams work with a community centre or local nature reserve to plant, paint, build raised beds or improve an outdoor space. The visible before-and-after effect makes this particularly satisfying. Broadsword has worked closely with Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park on team volunteering days to support this local gem.

Community Redistribution

Teams sort donations, prepare food parcels or help prepare meals. It’s relatively straightforward to organise and gives participants direct contact with a community organisation. For example, The Children’s Book Project is a project focused on distributing books to underprivileged children.

Learning and development workshop ideas for corporate events

Hackathon challenges

Hackathons are fast-paced, collaborative events where teams come together to solve a problem, develop an idea or create a working prototype within a set timeframe. They’re particularly effective for corporate team building because they encourage creativity, problem-solving, communication and cross-functional collaboration in a hands-on, competitive, high-energy environment.

With extensive experience delivering hackathons for corporate clients across fintech and financial services, Broadsword understands how to design challenges that are both engaging and relevant to business objectives. Whether focused on innovation, technology, customer experience or new product development, a well-designed hackathon gives teams the opportunity to work differently, learn from each other and turn ideas into tangible outcomes.

Lego Serious Play workshop

LEGO Serious Play is a hands-on team building workshop with B Corp certified consultancy, Jump in Puddles, using play as a tool to visualise the messages from an event in a tactile way, solve challenges, and communicate ideas in a creative way. It’s particularly effective for corporate team building because it encourages everyone to contribute, making it easier to explore different perspectives, build shared understanding and tackle complex topics together.

Wellbeing-focused workshops for corporate events

Terrarium making and bouquet arranging

Incorporating a workshop such as terrarium making or flower arranging can be a perfect way for attendees to unwind and destress, after a busy schedule. At the end, guests have a handmade branded creation to take away as a green mood booster for their home office.

Gong workshops and sound baths

Sound meditation is a unique wellness experience where participants can be immersed in sound. The sound waves lull the mind into a meditative state, while the vibrations revitalise your body, helping to relieve tension and leave attendees feeling inspired, refreshed, and happy. Discover more on our podcast.

Guided tapping session

A tapping workshop, centred around the practice of emotional freedom techniques, can be a valuable wellness addition to a corporate programme. Designed to improve mental clarity, regulate emotions and reduce stress, it involves gently tapping on points on the body, similar to acupuncture points, while focusing on specific thoughts and emotions.

Energetic workshops for corporate team building events

Drumming workshop

These lively workshops energise attendees and promote collaboration. Facilitators lead delegates through simple drumming techniques to create a rhythm, ultimately producing a combined and very impactful sound. At a recent client conference, it was key to create an environment that encouraged participation and maintain high energy levels over three days. Therefore workshops, including drumming were interspersed with key business updates and keynote sessions.

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Broadsword is a full-service, London-based events agency who specialises in bringing brands and their people together through corporate experiences and internal communications events: for better culture, employee engagement, and business performance.

Our work includes major corporate conferences, sales kick offs and leadership retreats, team-building and employee experiences, company awards, broadcasts, and international event series.

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