Around the World Challenge

Description

What is the Around the World Challenge?

The Around the World Challenge is a culturally inspired corporate team building event where each activity zone represents a different country or part of the world.

Teams receive their mission and set off around the globe, rotating through a series of country-themed challenges.

Each destination introduces a new activity requiring a different combination of communication, collaboration, problem-solving, creativity, coordination and teamwork.

The focus isn’t on sporting ability. The variety of activities means different people and different strengths can come to the fore throughout the experience, helping create an event that is engaging and inclusive for a diverse workforce.

ntry, teams meet an Event Square host who introduces the challenge before the clock starts.

Activities can include a combination of traditional games, sporting challenges, skill activities, problem-solving tasks and culturally inspired experiences.

Depending on the event, destinations and activities can include:

• Ireland – traditional Irish games and Celtic challenges
• India – Ludo, strategy games and skill challenges
• United Kingdom – croquet and classic British-inspired challenges
• United States – target and accuracy challenges
• Canada – axe throwing and skill challenges
• France – pétanque and precision games
• Italy – traditional and creative challenges
• Spain – football and team skill activities
• Brazil – energetic team and sporting challenges
• Germany – accuracy and problem-solving challenges
• Plus additional countries tailored to your group and event

Teams collect points as they travel around the world, before everyone comes together for the results, prize-giving and crowning of the Around the World Champions.

Country activities are selected according to the venue, group profile, available space and event objectives.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

Modern organisations bring together people from different countries, cultures, backgrounds and experiences.

The Around the World Challenge turns that diversity into something teams can celebrate together.

Rather than focusing on one type of ability or personality, teams encounter a broad range of challenges that allow different strengths to emerge. Participants need to listen to one another, share ideas, adapt their approach and work collectively towards a common goal.

It creates an informal environment where colleagues can connect outside normal workplace roles while reinforcing themes that are increasingly important within modern organisations:

• Diversity and inclusion
• Employee belonging
• Cross-cultural collaboration
• Inclusive teamwork
• Employee engagement
• Communication across diverse teams
• Respect for different perspectives
• Shared experiences and connection
• One-team culture

The result is a team building experience that celebrates what makes people different while highlighting what they can achieve together.

What is included?

• Full event planning and coordination by Event Square
• Professional Event Square hosts and facilitators
• Country-themed activity zones
• All standard activity equipment and event setup
• Team allocation and event briefing
• Scorecards and competition management
• Country signage and themed elements
• Score tracking and results
• Prize-giving and final results
• Event tailored to your group size, venue and objectives

What is not included?

• Venue hire, where required
• Food and beverages
• Transport to and from the venue
• Accommodation
• Specialist activities or additional entertainment requiring external hire

Event Square can help coordinate these elements separately as part of your overall corporate event.

How can the Around the World Challenge help your team?

The Around the World Challenge creates a shared experience where employees can connect as people rather than simply as colleagues.

Moving through the different countries requires teams to continuously adjust how they work. One challenge may reward planning and logic, another communication, another coordination and another creativity.

This variety helps break down workplace barriers and encourages participants to recognise the different strengths, perspectives and approaches within their team.

For multinational and culturally diverse organisations in particular, the international theme provides a natural platform for celebrating the global backgrounds represented within the workforce.

Key Team Benefits

• Encourages collaboration and communication
• Celebrates cultural diversity and inclusion
• Strengthens employee connection and belonging
• Encourages cross-cultural teamwork
• Builds team cohesion
• Promotes appreciation of different perspectives and strengths
• Supports employee engagement
• Breaks down departmental and workplace barriers
• Encourages leadership and shared decision-making
• Creates a shared experience across multicultural teams
• Inclusive format suitable for mixed abilities
• Builds a stronger one-team culture
• Creates plenty of fun and friendly competition

Ideal For

The Around the World Challenge works particularly well for:

• Multinational companies
• Culturally diverse teams
• Employee engagement days
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• International employee groups
• Graduate and onboarding programmes
• Company summer parties
• Staff appreciation events
• Corporate away days
• Large corporate team building events
• Departmental get-togethers
• Conference breakout activities
• International meetings and incentive groups

Venue Options

The Around the World Challenge is a mobile corporate team building experience and can be delivered at suitable hotels, company campuses, sports grounds, private estates and outdoor event venues across Ireland.

We can work with your existing venue or help source a location that suits your group size, event format and wider requirements.

For corporate groups combining meetings and team building, we can also help create an integrated delegate experience incorporating meeting space, food and beverage, accommodation and the Around the World Challenge.

Why Choose the Around the World Challenge?

Because the best teams don’t all think, communicate or approach challenges in exactly the same way.

The Around the World Challenge celebrates those differences.

It’s a high-energy, highly social and inclusive team experience designed for today’s diverse workplace — combining corporate team building, cultural diversity, employee engagement and genuine fun in one memorable event.

Whether your colleagues come from Dublin, Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto or anywhere in between, for the duration of the challenge everyone is working towards one objective:

Different cultures. Different strengths. One team.

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