School of the Wild
  • Home
  • About
  • Team Programmes
  • Case Studies
  • Insight
  • Contact

Insight

The best outdoor team building activities in London for people and culture

31/1/2023

 

Looking for memorable way to energise and motivate your team? Here's our guide to the nine best outdoor team building activities in London that will help build people and culture in 2023.

Best Outdoor Team Building London
Pic courtesy of RODNAE Productions on Pexels
Gathering your team in nature builds trust, belonging, and engagement in a way that helps employees connect with each other and the bigger picture. ​
It’s a well-known fact that businesses live and die by their people. They are the heart, mind, and soul of your organisation, and truly are your greatest asset.

Continuing the analogy, much like a human body your workforce has to be nurtured and cared for, otherwise things will start to break down or give up altogether and pretty soon you’ll be immobile. The best way of doing this? Foster a sense of belonging. Your people aren’t drones and they shouldn’t be sitting in silos disconnected from each other.

People want to make real connections when they go to work. It’s where they spend half their time, after all. Meaningful relationships don’t just make the day go faster for your staff, they actually boost business. On average, companies with high connection scores had 32% higher ratings than their competitors, were 14 times more likely to be named on a “best places to work” list and were 25% more likely to be recommended by current employees to their friends.

So, how can you achieve this? It’s unnatural to force genuine connections, but a basic understanding of psychology shows that finding common ground between people is the fastest way to start growing these connections. This has probably happened to you before, if you have bonded with someone over a hobby or shared opinion.

One of the best ways to increase trust, belonging and engagement is through team building activities in the great outdoors. Spending time together in nature is shown to have many benefits for developing relationships and connection. A lot of research shows that time in nature leads to improved communication and collaboration between individuals, provides a deep sense of purpose and strengthens an individual’s environmental values. It is also shown to dramatically increase creative problem solving, by as much as 50%.

However team building in nature often focuses heavily on competitive pursuits. 

Read More
    Nigel Berman, School of the Wild

    Author & Curator

    Nigel Berman is the founder of School of the Wild.

    Blog HOme

    Categories

    All
    Away Days
    Campfire Conversations
    Case Study
    Leadership
    Networking
    Organisations In Nature
    Purpose
    Talk
    Team Building In Nature
    Teams
    Video

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    October 2022
    March 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015

    RSS Feed

Organisations

  • ​​Team Building​
  • Away Days
  • Walk and Talks
  • ​Why Nature
  • Guest Speaker

Leaders

  • Courses​
  • Leadership​ Development

About Us

  • ​Our Story
  • Blog​​​
  • Our Team
  • ​Locations
  • ​Sustainability

Support

  • Contact Us
  • ​FAQs​
  • Privacy
  • Covid ​
We offset our carbon footprint via Ecologi
Picture
The movement for
​Regenerative business
Picture
Picture
Picture

Sign up for News from the Wild:

By subscribing you agree to us sending you occasional emails with info about our services. Unsubscribe at any time. Read our privacy policy
School of the Wild
​c/o 26 Seafield Road,
Hove BN3 2TP
Tel: 07764 404992
​email: [email protected]
© COPYRIGHT 2015-2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Photo used under Creative Commons from gilgit2
  • Home
  • About
  • Team Programmes
  • Case Studies
  • Insight
  • Contact