So much depends on teamwork, whether it’s needed to physically combine skills and strengths to make things happen or for more intellectual or creative collaboration. It’s what makes businesses thrive and creates stronger bonds for better productivity, allowing everyone to achieve success. Staff can’t grow all by themselves, and companies can’t grow based on just one person’s effort. The magic is made from people coming together, sharing ideas and helping each other out. These combined efforts, strengths and skills of a team can achieve a whole lot more than one person, or even the same number of people, can do working alone.
As humans are naturally social, we usually find that groups are made in everything we do. We can instinctively group together to work as a team and to gain support. However, this isn’t the best way to work as a team and strengthen relationships in businesses. Effective teamwork needs to be worked on and built slowly, which is where team building comes in.
Team building focuses on developing essential skills that strengthen a team to help a business thrive and achieve success, while also letting every staff member grow personally and professionally. There are so many team-building activities across the UK to strengthen teams and have fun together. However, there’s no team building event quite like the ones on offer in London. When it comes to these events, there can be many that feel the same or follow the same boring structure, which leads many businesses to try and find something unique. So, if you’re looking for team building activities in London that are quirky, different and offer something truly memorable, look no further than Jack the Ripper Tour!
Teamwork comes down to collaboration and communication, and team building is about developing those skills within your people. There are many different ways of doing this, and none of them are definitely better than the others. Which ones work best depends on your organisation, what you do, the mix of people you have, what changes or improvements you’re looking to make and what sort of group culture your business has.
Most of the time, team building events in London include traditional (and sometimes boring) team-building exercises. These can be icebreakers where you tell each other your favourite film or your idea of the perfect breakfast or tasks like building model bridges over tubs of water or getting a tennis ball from one cup to another without touching it. Even though these classic exercises can be very effective at strengthening a team, they can also feel very impersonal and all the same. They’re something that’s been done time and time again after all. Stepping outside of the same activities and choosing something unique and memorable can be much more fun for the team, as well as be a whole lot more effective at creating excellent teamwork.
So, why not mix dark history with team building to create one of the most enjoyable team building event ideas in London? Our Jack the Ripper tours can bring a team together over interesting, chilling details of the murders and exciting, possible theories of who the killer can be.
Our tour around Whitechapel uncovers the true tale of the Ripper and his victims, while allowing teams to come together to share theories and enjoy the immersive storytelling. This is what makes it one of the best unusual team building activities in London. Your team will take a tour of the history and locations of one of London’s most grisly and infamous crime sprees. This may not seem like a typical team-building activity, but that’s one of the things that makes it worth considering when looking for activities in London for team building.
Whether it’s a daytime tour or a more atmospheric journey through the East End in the hours of darkness, our tours will get everyone involved and interested. Having this shared experience and including fun group activities along the way make for great team building.
If you’re organising a multi-day retreat or conference for your team (or teams) in London, then a Jack the Ripper tour makes the perfect evening activity. It’s a change of scene, some gentle outdoor exercise and some unstructured socialising, which is great for breaking the ice. Our guides can paint vivid pictures, whether with their words or our RipperVision projection technology, which can give even the most hardened team member chills and thrills – something that also encourages good team bonding!
A great thing about our activities in London for team building is that we can accommodate your every need. Our tour offers great flexibility, meaning we can adapt our tour to your requirements. Your guide can meet you in a particular location if you’re based in a venue or having a meal beforehand, or we can plan a tour route that incorporates or ends somewhere for food and drink. This can include stopping at one of the several Whitechapel pubs that were open in 1888 and visited by Jack the Ripper’s victims and others connected with the case.
Maybe your business is based in Whitechapel or elsewhere in the East End? This part of London has changed beyond recognition since the 19th century. Our guides can find the remaining fragments of streets, walls and buildings that survive from the dark days (and nights) of Jack the Ripper, and where redevelopment has completely reworked the urban landscape. This means that they can still put you in the crucial spot where the actual story unfolded. Your team will come away with a new understanding and insight into the area where they work and the social and physical history of the East End. They’ll never look at their commute to work the same way again!
Our tours can be only a part of bigger team building events in London. Maybe you want to give your team (or groups within it) the role of detectives and get them to present their own theories as to who Jack the Ripper was after the tour? That makes for a great opportunity to develop analysis, presentation and speaking skills in a direction we’re sure few of your people have gone before!
While our tours are enjoyable, of course, they also involve some very sombre subjects. These can form the basis for more serious discussion as part of a retreat or conference. There are a lot of media companies in today’s East End. How about using the tour as the starting point for a group discussion or exercise into the part the press played in the events of 1888? Or for organisations with a social or charitable focus, how about team projects related to some of the social issues of Whitechapel at the time?
We can adapt our tours and their content to suit these and more variants. Just?contact us?to discuss your ideas and requirements.
Whether it’s as something to give your team an interesting and enjoyable experience in the East End to bring them together, or as part of a much broader programme of development and exploration, a Jack the Ripper tour makes for one of the most effective and unforgettable London team building ideas.
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