With the advent of telecommuting, we have become more efficient in many ways, but we have also become more distant from our colleagues. That’s why the concept of team building is being reborn in Barcelona, as what technology separates can be reunited by outdoor plans, adventures or perhaps a good dinner and a show. Here’s how to motivate your team and, above all, have fun.
1. Havana Nights
Havana Nights is a show that pays tribute to Cuban culture. It is made up of some of Havana’s best dancers, artists from the National Circus of Cuba and a live orchestra of women. An incredible production that has been a success all over Europe.
It will run until October 1 at the Teatre Arenas Barcelona, a new space located in the dome of the Arenas shopping center. So if you have to organize a team building in Barcelona this fall, this is your place.
📍Events Dome. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 373-385 (Sants)
💸Tickets from 25’50€ and upwards
2. Kayak route with your companions
Connecting with nature and getting the blood pumping through the body is another of the plans most often chosen by team building organizers. But, perhaps, a kayak route through the coves of Girona or the Ebro delta is not so common.
We leave you here the best places to practice it and the companies that rent you the equipment necessary for the excursion.
3. Murder Mystery
Teamwork is the main objective of team buildings. Each person has their role, their skills, and creating a synergy between each one can be put into practice inside and outside the workplace. Investigating a murder, searching for a culprit and interviewing suspects hand in hand with your colleagues is an incredible opportunity to learn more about your friends’ skills.
Murder Mystery is an immersive mystery game where La Casa de la Seda in Barcelona will become a 20th century mansion where a very suspicious death has occurred, and where players will play the role of private detectives who must solve the case.
📍The House of Silk. Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt, 1. (Urquinaona)
4. Jungle Tag obstacle course
The adrenaline that comes from achieving goals, winning competitions or surpassing ourselves is the fuel that the body needs every day. J ungle Tag is a labyrinth of obstacles between mats, ropes and tubes through which you will have to navigate. Each player receives an electronic bracelet on which he/she accumulates points and records the times for each obstacle he/she overcomes.
📍Sapakara Fun Parcs. Carrer del Silici, 9. (Cornellà de Llobregat)
5. Virtual Reality Experience
Aventurico Barcelona has turned conventional virtual reality into an exciting experience. They have developed two games on their premises: Beat Saber, where you can demonstrate your musical skills while cutting Blocs with laser swords like a real Jedi. And Among Us VR, the game you’ll already be familiar with if you spent a quarantine online looking for the imposter among your friends.
📍Aventurico Barcelona. Carrer de Roger de Flor, 89. (Arc de Triomf)
6. Beer pong with dinner (and party)
Sometimes you don’t have to go to all the trouble to organize a good get-together for your colleagues. A few glasses and a ping-pong ball is enough. The Soda Bus bar organizes Beer Pong competitions with dinner included. In addition, for the late-nighters (and if you organize the team building on a Thursday) you will be able to party on the premises.
The tournament is organized in pairs, so if your work team is large, they will most likely compete against each other and thus, leave the quarrels on the table tennis table and let off steam. The drink is also included in the menu, as it is called beerfor a reason.
📍Soda Bus 150. Carrer d’Aribau, 150 (Provença)
💸Tournament registration, dinner and party for one person: 15€
7. Escape Room
Scape rooms are the first plan that comes to mind when organizing a team building, that’s why they proliferate more and more in Barcelona and it is difficult to find one with the three ‘B’s’: Good, Nice and Cheap. Casino Royale is one of the most successful games of Xcape Barcelona, one of the most experienced Scape Rooms in the city. In this scape, instead of investigating a crime as in Murder Mystery, you will be the criminal. The goal is clear: to get out of the casino vault, but once inside the plans are truncated and you run into the mafia owner of the place.
📍Xcape Barcelona. Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 258, Local (Guinardó)
💸2 person party from Monday to Thursday 48€
8. A tour of Monjuic
The Montjuic 360º is the first hiking route entirely in Barcelona that will make you and your coworkers leave the Wikihoc hiking application in the background. The Montjuïc 360 is a route designed and endorsed by Foment Excursionista de Barcelona and the Federació d’Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya (FEEC). The route, registered with the code PR-C229, is a circular path of little difficulty with 11 km, 3 hours of walking and 400 meters of accumulated height difference that surrounds the mountain of Montjuic. The PR are short distance trails (between 10 and 15 km.) and are identified with the colors white and yellow. The PR-C229 starts at les Tres Xemeneies, in Poble Sec, and then starts climbing up the mountain towards the Miramar viewpoint.