Sun’s Out, Fun’s Out. Sydney is home to beautiful beaches, breath-taking landmarks, and outdoor urban green spaces to make it the ideal location for outdoor team building activities. If you want to strengthen teamwork, improve team spirit, or simply find a reason to leave work a touch early, there is something for all in the Harbour City. So slap on the sunscreen, gather your workmates, and prepare to connect through various top outdoor team building activities Sydney provides.
Survivor: Outwit and Outsmart Other Teams
Based off the popular reality TV show, this two hour team experience is a fun team vs team adventure with multiple challenges where teams earn points. Challenges include staple Survivor games such as Fallen Idol along with some lateral thinking team challenges such as Holey Bucket where teams need to move water from the beach to fill a pipe and float a master key.
Each of the Survivor challenges are based on team challenges that include communication, problem solving and time management. You’ll even go to Tribal Council with a twist.
Aboriginal Art: Cultural Outdoor Team Building Activities
For a unique cultural team building activity, kick off your shoes and feel the grass beneath your feet at Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney for an outdoor Aboriginal Art Workshop where you learn about traditional and modern Indigenous art before creating an artwork that tells your story.
For something extra special, you can also add-on the Aboriginal Harbour Heritage Tour where you’ll join your First Nations guide and admire the beauty and history of Sydney Harbour through the lens of the Gadigal.
The Amazing Race: The Best Of Sydney
Why bother watching the reality show when you could experience it first-hand? The Sydney Edition of The Amazing Race leads your team through some of the city’s most stunning locations in a thrilling team building activity. Teams work together to crack clues, complete tasks and challenges, and make their way to the finish line to greet park your feet on the arrival mat. It’s full of laughs and a great way to get your team outdoors for the afternoon.
There are multiple formats to choose from and you don’t have to be a super athlete to take part which is why it makes our list of top 8 outdoor team building activities.
Graffiti: Outdoor Creative Team Building
For something a little different, why not create your own team street art mural. Within a short span of 2 hours, your team will transition from having little experience in art to generating ideas and creating their own street art piece that can be proudly displayed in your office.
Teams will work with our artist to develop a design, then learn techniques and apply paint to canvas to enhance it with colour, icons, and images. Set in a magical location overlooking Sydney Harbour, why not add in a food and drinks package for a killer afternoon. This is outdoor team building with a difference.
Breathwork and Icebaths: Corporate Wellbeing
Created to elevate your corporate retreat or health and wellness event, this thoughtfully produced 45 minute breath workshop is based on delivering impact. Your main instructor will lead participants in a highly motivating breathing workshop that will awaken your inner warrior and liberate you from stress, anxiety and uncertainty.
It can aid teams in developing resilience, nurturing self-awareness, and facilitating the learning of effective emotion regulation. This sets the groundwork for improved team cooperation, establishing trust, and ultimately forming more robust, agile teams.
Next, we transition to icebaths where you can choose to take on a unique challenge: submerge in an icebath for 2 minutes. Although the concept may seem daunting at first, the benefits greatly exceed the initial nerves of getting into your budgies alongside your colleagues.
Pub Quest: A Competitive Sydney Pub Crawl
Ok so we’re stretching the ‘outdoors’ a bit here but it’s a cracking arvo activity. Hit the streets armed with 20 quests to complete within 2 hours, as you scour local pubs and bars to earn points. Part amazing race, part pub crawl, all fun and laughs and certainly a great option if you’re looking for an outdoor team building activity as your end of year event or Christmas Party.
Best of all, teams choose whichever quests they want to complete in any order meaning the race route and strategy are in your hands.
Beach Olympics: Combining Sun, Sand, Teamwork
There’s nothing that says “Sydney” than a gaggle of games one of Sydney’s stunning beaches such as Manly, Bronte or Cronulla. Beach Olympics is a fun, yet relaxing day out with your team where you can go head to head in games such as beach volleyball, tug-of-war, obstacle course relays and team lateral thinking challenges. It’s all about having a good time.
Can’t get to the beach? No worries. We can utilise some stunning Sydney parks to create a Mini Olympics for your team.
Learn to Surf: Sydney Team Building
If you don’t already surf, you’ve probably always wanted to, so take your team and hit the waves for a private surf lesson. It’s great for the mind, body and soul and is the ideal small group team building activity.
We can highly recommend surfing with Muzz and the team at Cronulla Surfing Academy or check out Let’s Go Surfing or Manly Surf School for a day to remember.
