Every once in a while, it pays to have an on-site team building activity to help boost morale and keep your team’s spirits up. It also provides an opportunity to form new friendships and strengthen workplace relationships.
If you’re around NYC and are looking for on-site activities to do with your work companions, check out this list we compiled for you!
8 Fun On-site Activities To To With Your Team In NYC
Go On A Food & Drink Experience
From hands-on cooking classes, private chef experiences, and various food-tasting events, there are lots of unique food experiences you can embark on in New York City. You can check out Kits by Food Craft’s Cookie Decorating Class, where you can decorate freshly-baked cookies and learn various decorating techniques like flooding, wet-on-wet, and marbling. Eat your cookies for dessert, or share them with a friend.
Fan of boba? Then the Bubble Tea Making Class is the one for you! Find out how you can cook the perfect tapioca pearls and enjoy not one, not two, but three homemade bubble tea recipes!
Indulge In The Arts
Aside from satisfying your team’s love for food, you can also spark their creative side with various art classes around the NYC area. Science has long proved that by creating art, stress levels can drop exponentially.
Kits by Food Craft have exclusively curated traditional Japanese arts and crafts for a new unique experience that’s the first time for your team. Our most-loved Suminagashi experience might be the one for you for a more relaxed event. You might also want to check out our Experience by Demand teambuilding activities like Furoshiki cloth-wrapping class just in time for the gift-giving season or Origami to spark a challenge within the team!
Museum Scavenger Hunt
You can do this at any New York City museum since all you need for this activity is a customized map and unique tasks like custom questions, trivia, and photo challenges.
Some of the museums you can visit in New York City include:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American Museum of Natural History
The Brooklyn Museum
The New York Transit Museum
The 9/11 Memorial Museum
Escape Room
Nothing screams teamwork than having to escape a room filled with zombies or deactivating a bomb before it goes off. There are various escape rooms in New York City that would offer you and your team approximately 60 minutes of adrenaline-filled experience.
New York City Cruise
What could be a better way to cap off a long day than to go on a cruise? There are lots of local harbor cruises offering various packages. All you have to do is find one that suits your budget and your team’s needs.
If you want to enjoy the view for a cheaper price, you can always opt for the Staten Island Ferry. It is operated by New York’s Department of Transportation and runs through New York Harbor between Staten Island and the New York boroughs of Manhattan.
The trip takes approximately 2 hours, so it would be best to have some custom swag kits ready for your team. You can give everyone kits containing snacks they can enjoy during the ride, or have a wine and cheese tasting while overlooking the view.
Trivia Showdown
The Ultimate Trivia Showdown is one of the best corporate outings in New York City that promotes bonding and collaboration. They can also accommodate teams from 6 up to 300 participants! The rules are simple - all you have to do is answer some fast-paced and intense trivia questions.
Wine Tasting
If your team is tired of “partying”, then going for a slow-paced wine-tasting event would probably be the best option for everyone. Indulge your senses with different wines, compare notes, and enjoy the company of your workmates without having to spend much. Simply check out some of the wine-tasting events in NYC, and just to be sure, bring a valid I.D. with you. Okay, but have you also heard about our custom Charcuterie Platter? Yes! Learn about it to host your next team-building event!
Indoor Skydiving
Nothing screams adrenaline rush more than indoor skydiving! Companies like iFLY Westchester can accommodate groups of all sizes and take you for a thrilling flying experience. They offer a flying training session for beginners and once everyone is ready, participants could have a 45-minute indoor flying experience!
Why are team-building activities important?
Team building activities are essential in helping employees communicate efficiently and promote cooperation. This can also help determine who among your employees will rise up to the occasion and prove to be potential future leaders.
Team building also promotes higher morale among employees, long-term retention, and better engagement with each other, and of course, it gives everyone an opportunity to rest, relax, and have fun!
How does team building improve performance?
Team building activities help improve performance by building trust among coworkers, mitigating conflicts, encouraging communication between teams, and increasing collaboration with each other. These characteristics and values can definitely be carried over in their day-to-day tasks at the office, like when a team member needs help from their supervisor or when conflicts need to be resolved to arise.
Work and Play!
Team building activities are necessary for every workforce. It’s a good thing New York City offers various events for teams to try out and be engaged in. From cooking classes, art classes, escape rooms, scavenger hunts, wine tastings, ferry trips, and even indoor skydiving, your team will never run out of things to do in New York City!
Just remember to check out the events at least 2 weeks prior to your preferred date because some places require a reservation and down payments. It would also be best to contact those in charge ahead of time so you can ask for necessary details like what to wear, what to bring, and what time you should arrive at the event.
You can also prepare custom swag from Kits by Food Craft for your team to bring to these events to make your celebration more fun!
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