Guests are faced with a blank canvass and a large image projected onto a giant screen. A true test of team work and communication will show when the teams collate each of their sections of the bigger picture for a final.

Your activity could be in the morning, afternoon or evening when your teams are gathered together. If your team has a business meeting then they’ll come back in to a room that has been transformed. Music will set the tone of your event, with an upbeat and charismatic presenter and coloured t-shirts for everyone that create a wash of colour.

Your presenter gives clear instructions to your teams. These verbal instructions are supported visually by bulleted points projected on to a screen because it’s essential that everyone sees what they have to do. Each team picks part of a bigger picture that the whole group is going to paint together. This picture is deliberately chosen before the event with the organiser. In this way it can reflect the values that you want associated with the exercise and the corporate team building objective.

Before anyone starts to paint anything it’s important for teams to realise that their canvas fits next to a number of other canvasses belonging to other teams. The buzz of collecting paint, colour co-ordinating, sketching and matching up canvasses continues throughout the activity as teams communicate together.

The climax comes at the end of the event when the whole picture is revealed to your whole team. Nobody will have seen the end result before because during the activity teams are not allowed to put all of the canvasses together at one time.

This means that there is a great sense of anticipation before your artwork is revealed. Finally, unveiling your Team Work of Art creates a fantastic feeling of pride mixed with lots of laughter and cheering.

Memorabilia

The energy levels on Team Work of Art can be controlled to create exactly the effect that suits your group. Often teams like their activity to be fairly relaxed, sometimes with pre-dinner drinks. Other times it’s important to hype up the level of energy to kick off a meeting or conference. The way that your participants are looked after throughout this activity is critical to its success.

Learning Outcomes

There are also many ways for your team to remember how well they worked together. Some clients like to mount their Team Work of Art in the reception foyer, others like personal copies in the shape of mugs, mouse mats or screensavers.

For teams that already know each other well Team Work of Art is a very useful activity to demonstrate the role of the individual within the team and the role of small teams within the whole group.

The fact that participants actually create something visible and tangible means that they get a unique insight into their teamwork. For example, if the lines of communication are particularly good then you’ll be able to see accurate lining up of artwork when the canvasses are joined together.

It’s also possible to move people around within teams on Team Work of Art so you can explore the way teams deal with change. Alternatively dominant members of the team can be controlled, for example, by using blindfolds.

Teams will ideally be made up of 6 to 10 players but smaller or larger numbers can be accommodated. The Team Work of Art team building activity will usually run for up to 3 hours depending on numbers.

Cost Guide: £ 135.00 + Vat pp