Would you like your team to engage in highly educational activities with your team, improve working and personal relationship and communication, while also generating a positive impact on your community? An increasing number of companies invest in ethical and sustainable team building activities to create unique and deeply transformative experiences that carry meaning beyond their work-related use. Building wheelchairs to be donated to a local hospital or shelter, creating office supplies from recycled materials, or cleaning up your local parks and beaches can prove outstanding team building activities, that will also contribute to a cleaner environment and benefit the local communities.
As well as being excellent training per se, there activities raise employees' awareness of social and environmental issues. By choosing to engage your personnel an ethical or sustainable team building activity, working together towards a shared and meaningful goal you are helping them bond and fostering a sense of belonging.