Sailing for Team Building and Team Reward
A great activity that includes everyone and gives natural immediate feedback within teams.
Why choose sailing for your team activity?
Sailing is great for building the team as you are all learning together and you can’t get off the boat until it is berthed in a marina!
Many non sailing events are competitive but with sailing people need to work together to make the boat sail so it is true true team building and it is great to see how people soon learn that and help each other.
Some people are nervous about getting on a sailing boat and others ‘up for a challenge’. Colleagues soon see how to help each other – whether practically, teasing or generally being supportive. Coping together certainly builds team spirit.
Natural and Practical Team Building
Many team building exercises require significant discussion time working out what or how to do something. With sailing you are immediately active.
Team building days need to be participative and are usually action based. With sailing your are involved in the activity even if you can’t be fully active – you are on the boat and in the ‘thick of the action’. You still learn and see the benefits of working as a team.
It is a great natural and practical team building activity as almost every activity on a sail boat requires people to work together. Sailing very clearly demonstrates what team building is about and feedback is immediate – if you don’t work together the boat stops. Unlike other activities such as golf, you can take part even if you have never sailed. Absolutely no experience is needed.This principal can be applied back in your office to continue to motivate a team – referring to the various sail manoeuvres of tacking, gybing, helming and the terms ‘ready about, lee ho, standby to gybe……’. Many other sailing terms are used in general life so a sailing day is a great base to refer back to as you develop your team. It is not a ‘one day wonder’ easily forgotten.