On Shifting Sands is the Rolls Royce of Team Building Programs. We use a blend of progressively more challenging activities to deliver powerful learning insights. Incorporating the story of Wilfred Thesiger and his two Bedouin tribe mates (from the Rashid Tribe) creates an activity designed to challenge the communication and alignment skills of your team. Team building really doesn’t get any better than this!

Welcome to the Cake Factory where teamwork, creativity, and speed rule. This is a hands-on team challenge where roles, decisions, and obstacles test your ability to work as one. The goal: smooth production and happy customers. Success hinges on strategy and adaptability. Teams reflect, learn, and adjust using Agile principles. Top performers unlock upgrades like better recipes and faster stations, driving innovation and momentum.

The Chocolate Factory is all about customer experience, cross department alignment and driving innovation! Can your team work together to meet the demands of changing market and customer needs? After a challenging first round, participants get to redesign their factory to better meet the changing needs of their customer. This activity works perfectly for organisations with multiple stakeholders all involved in delivering a product or service to a customer.

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? What do you do when you can’t see the solution to a problem, but you know there is one? How can you break your paradigms and generate new ideas? Code Crackers mixes the latest app technology and physical problem-solving challenges to test the smartest of teams. Teams must work together, solve clues and unlock the secrets of their team success. It’s a great way to kick start your conference or strategy session.

On Thin Ice (the basis for On Shifting Sands) delivers a fully immersive team building experience. We have partnered with ImmerSEE at sustainable city to provide a full immersion team development experience at the UAE’s only Net Zero venue! Whether you are looking for links to sustainability or how to develop sustainable teams, On Thin Ice is our top team development simulation and an incredible team experience!

Team Tracks uses a fully customizable app to deliver a customized and branded team building solution. Bring your conference messaging to life with a series of custom developed activities, including photo, video and quiz style challenges to engage your audience and connect them with the theme of your conference.

This is the original Chain Reaction, designed and perfected by our European partners. Teams must design and build a multi team chain reaction using a wide range of available equipment. With electrical impulses, 12v Actuators, custom tipping mechanisms and plenty of customizable components, Chain Reaction brings the collaborative skills of your team to life. Sharing resources, ideas and interconnectivity are critical for a successful chain reaction.

Before Mars is the next generation in Business Simulations allowing you to benchmark your team’s strategic thinking and execution capabilities against a global playing field! Before Mars is probably the most challenging simulation we have seen and, to date, no team has achieved the maximum possible score. Can your team break down the silos and get the balance of competition and collaboration right to ensure the survival of the human race???

Every night, 789 Million people are plunged into darkness. The impacts of energy poverty are real and together we can illuminate the futures of all children living in energy poverty. Join us for an hour of power and give the gift of light. The workshop consists of an impactful presentation on energy poverty and the change that is already being made, participants then build their own Solar Buddy to be gifted to a child in need!

The Race for Space is our twist on the great space race of years gone by. Nowadays our Race for Space is either gaining market share or being one step ahead of the competition. The activity consists of fast-paced communication focused activities with well structured debriefs and reflections back to the way we work as teams. We finish with a high energy Lunar Dome Build to simulate your teams Race for Space.

Detour is all about finding the opportunity in change. It is a fast-paced high-tech activity that simulates the volatile and high-pressure business environment that we live in today. We mix a blend of puzzle-based challenges, individual tasks and traditional team building activities. As more and more tasks are delivered, teams must constantly adapt, reprioritise and leverage the strengths of all team members to maximise their available opportunities.

The Team Tracks framework is specifically suited to virtual events and conferences looking for engagement activities to connect to the conference theme. Team Tracks allows for full customisation of both the App look and feel and activity content. The finale of the event sees all teams gather in a final video chat room for a high impact review of the photos and videos and reveal of the winning teams.

Does your team have what it takes to unlock the secrets of the Lost City of Wabar? This highly immersive 3D team building activity focuses on the importance of collaboration in the virtual environment. Wabar is the first Middle Eastern themed team building activity and is available with both English and Arabic translations to ensure full engagement for all your team.

Mission to Mars is a series activities designed to test, benchmark and improve the virtual collaboration skills of teams. Participants must leverage remote working and agile skills to solve a series of progressively more challenging tasks. Mission to Mars Virtual is a challenging activity designed to test high performing teams. Analytics are incorporated into the activities to provide data driven learning insights.

Domeworks is the final activity from Race for Space. Its such a great activity that we have released it as a standalone product. After an initial Dome orientation, teams are challenged to build the Dome as fast as they can. Scores are recorded and global benchmarks discussed. Then the team have a chance to redesign and have a second attempt to see if they can go under 5 minutes and get on our global leader board. Fast paced, high energy and great learning!

Photoshoot brings all of the benefits of movie-making team building but in the world of Stop Motion Animation. This allows for high levels of creativity and reduces the overall event time. Teams must plan, script, direct and star in their stop motion masterpiece. We use our interactive voting when we play the videos to announce the winning teams. Add on an optional ‘Oscar’ themed ceremony to make it an event to remember.

All Hands is our twist on the classic team building activity of painting a masterpiece. Our unique approach to this activity ensures high engagement and amazing results. Teams understand and experience the true power of collaboration and when we show the final image at the end of the day will send chills down their spines and leave a memory that will last for years!

Team Tracks uses a fully customizable app to deliver a customized and branded team building solution. Bring your conference messaging to life with a series of custom developed activities, including photo, video and quiz style challenges to engage your audience and connect them with the theme of your conference. Depending on your location we can build scavenger hunt styled GPS challenges, or indoor solutions to be run in your conference space.

Rock My Boat is our twist on the classic team building genre of building and racing. Our unique twist adds an additional layer of creativity and problem solving to this already great activity. After designing and building their boats the final race in the open ocean will be something they will talk about for years to come. All aboard for this team building classic.

Snapshot is the perfect Ice Breaker for your next conference. Teams must take a series of Snap Shots in time. Each Snap Shot is based on the theme of your conference. This could be around your values or you’re the underlying message of the conference. Later in the conference, all images are used to generate a 3D video mosaic that reveals the corporate or conference logo and is an amazing reminder that the company is a combination of all of the employees together.

Movie Making team building is some of the best team building you can do. The Business uses state of the art equipment to ensure the best possible audio and visual outputs. Teams must plan, script, direct and star everything, following “The Hero’s Journey” story telling format. We use our interactive voting when we play the videos to announce the winning teams. Add on an optional ‘Oscar’ themed ceremony to make it an event to remember.

Movie Making team building is some of the best team building you can do. Ad Break sits between Photoshoot and The Business in terms of time. Teams must plan, script, direct and star everything. We use our interactive voting when we play the videos to announce the winning teams. Add on an optional ‘Oscar’ themed ceremony to make it an event to remember.

Empathy Styles has been our go to diagnostic for more than 15 years. It is an extremely practical tool that helps people to understand their own communication style and preferences, explains the differences in others, teaches attendees to observe these styles in others and then adapt their own approach to build empathy and improve communication skills.

Switch is our latest diagnostic tool that, whilst providing individual results, is more focused on looking at team dynamics. It introduces 4 pairs of strategies that can either be used to Enable more considered decisions or Drive through results when appropriate. The Switch concept is about understanding individual and team biases and knowing when to switch between these to get the best possible outcomes.

The iCLi is a brilliant diagnostic from our friends at Tirian. The diagnostic comes from their work on Ambidextrous leadership in the field of Innovation and the need for all businesses to understand the innovation paradox and the need to be active in both Exploring and Preservation modes. The iCLi allows for very strategic discussions around the way the business innovates and is most suitable for exec level teams looking for an edge.

Survivor Island rescue is the ultimate blend of learning driven team building and team bonding. The first half of the activity sees teams compete in a number of physical Island Survivor themed challenges and for the second half teams must escape the island using an adaptation of our hugely successful Rock My Boat activity. Is this the ultimate team building activity? We think it’s pretty close.