Film making has substantial business benefits. Companies can use this event to promote their company or team values. There is a great deal to learn from the films that people make, they can be kept being reviewed in the future and shared with the rest of the company. What better way to stretch your team’s creativity and communication skills than have them plan, script, direct, perform and edit their very own 1–5-minute Movie Hit. Whatever your occasion or objective you can be sure that your teams are in for an entertaining, rewarding and above all motivational team building experience.
A Scavenger Hunt Experience
The Team Quest is a scavenger hunt customized by DIJ to meet the clients’ specific objectives. It mimics a successful workplace dynamic where smaller teams must first accomplish their tasks before the entire company can reach its goal. Rather than use a lecture or classroom setting to teach these concepts, we get your group out and moving to infuse the experience with action and fun.
This Team Quest will also encourage teams to think outside of the box by exercising creativity, resourcefulness, and decision-making. Teams strike out on foot using a series of clues that take teams to different locations where challenges awaits to stimulate their creative thinking, intensive problem-solving and effective time management sense.
Small teams are created, each team will be given a manual of instructions, list of items, and camera then sent on their way with a designated time to return to a designated place. It’s up to each team to utilize the skills, talents and resourcefulness of their fellow teammates during their mission to find the hidden object.
Facilitators will be localized in specific locations.
WE do not go for a conventional one…. Added to riddles and mind games the quest includes special challenges at different locations. Some of the special challenges might include putting your hand in a jar full of worms or parking a remote-control car…. You Just need a sharp mind, comfy shoes and work.
Each team will earn points by completing the task allocated to them at each station and by their success with the Special Challenges. The winning team is the one that gets the higher points and reach the hidden object first.
The Team Survival Challenge
We learn a lot about business and teamwork from engaging into adventure in the Desert – trust, risk management, going that extra mile, dynamic teamwork and honest communication. There is nothing like trying to light a fire or cross a river to force you to re-engage some left-brain initiative and right brain ‘calm in the storm. This course is aimed to be fun, exciting, bonding and memorable. It also empowers enrollees to learn some core survival skills that not only might save a life but will undoubtedly help teams gel and reach discover their strength points and build on them.
Each course is tailor-made to meet the objectives and budgets of every business – The courses can be anything from a few hours, a full day, overnight or even longer periods depending what businesses set out to achieve:
A Hiking Experience, in which your whole group stays together and participates in different activities throughout the hike. Difficulty level ranges from easy to technical where abseiling or climbing is part of it.
A Survival Challenge, in which your group is given a survival scenario and are split into teams each responsible for a certain survival mission, the sum of all efforts leads to success of the whole group surviving the challenge.
A Camping Experience, 2 days 1 night program, where the team is to camp in the desert or the mountains, could be combined with a treasure hunt, 4 wheeling or any other suitable activity, mostly teams will learn about putting tents up, cooking over an open fire, tying knots. etc.
Challenge Course
The Challenge Course is a series of activities, sometimes on or close to the ground (usually referred to as a low course) and sometimes built on utility poles or trees, or in the rafters of a building (a high course), that challenge participants to come together and work as a team to develop and implement solutions.
Each element emphasizes different group characteristics such as self-confidence, communication, cooperation, trust, and leadership. Although each element has its own perceived physical and mental challenge, anyone willing to participate can do so through the cooperative efforts of the group. As teams work through the elements of the Challenge Course, they learn about themselves and their relationships to others, and develop leadership and problem-solving skills. A highly trained and certified course facilitator guides each group through the course, providing opportunities for participants to discuss and reflect on their experiences.
Team Building Hiking
Our team building hiking program is based upon being involved in an adventurous and fun hiking trip, while learning about grouping, leadership, teamwork and individual commitment to overcome trail obstacles. The program works through goal-oriented roles that increase leadership, self-esteem, decision making, problem solving, cooperation among participants, endurance and physical fitness, and orients the participant with nature, creating a positive balance with self and the natural environment.
This kind of team building can be very beneficial to corporations, schools, sport clubs, companies and institutes.
A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity, it consists of high and/or low elements. Low elements take place on the ground or only a few feet above the ground. High elements are usually constructed in trees or made of utility poles and require a belay for safety. The Challenge Course is a unique program: it is a high reward, seemingly risky activity, as the risk is greatly minimized by strict and thorough safety measures. The participants may logically understand that they are safe, but their knees still shake when they are 30 feet up. In other words, the perceived risk is much greater than the actual risk. This is what makes the Ropes Course a mental challenge as well as a physical one. The value of the ropes course is recognized in a broad range of activities, including education, recreation, therapy, and organizational development. The combination of Low and High Ropes Courses enables participants to grow at the team and individual levels, exploring risk, leadership, communication, problem-solving, and coaching. The high ropes Course also emphasizes risk-taking, decision making and trust, and allows the individual to understand how to set and achieve personal goals. The challenges of this course allow participants to expand their comfort zones—sometimes dramatically—and recognizes fears that may block personal achievement. Each moment is rich with discoveries, whether a person is climbing, supporting “on belay,” or finding an effective way to encourage a teammate.
The Low Ropes Course focuses on problem solving, collaboration, teamwork, communication and leadership, is physically challenging in parts and usually results in clients gaining a better of working in a team to achieve an outcome.
PAINTBALL GAMES
Paintball is an action-packed activity where the thrill and excitement will get your adrenaline pumping! Paintball games are offered daily. The activity length is about 2 hours (double period), which is plenty of time for 3 or 4 games. Each summer Cayuga hosts the annual intercamp paintball championship game. It’s an intense battle against campers from nearby camps and loads of fun! Paintball is an optional activity for campers entering 5th grade and higher. Advance registration is required.
FACILITY & EQUIPMENT
Paintball games take place in a large, secluded playing in War area landscape with full equipment’s and tools to ensures each game to be challenging. The area features open fields, rolling hills, trees, bunkers, natural barriers, and man-made obstacles including inflatables, shelters, and a shed. Sinam camp provides all of the equipment. The paintball gun is a Tippman Custom Marker, which is a semi-automatic that doesn’t require reloading after each shoot. The paintballs are small, water-soluble, non-toxic, and biodegradable, and won’t stain your clothes. They burst open upon impact, and feels like getting hit with a tennis ball. Campers are given about 30 paintballs. For safety precautions, a face shield is provided.
STRATEGIES & TEAMWORK
You’ll learn a lot from a paintball game – planning strategies, developing teamwork, and learning what it takes to ‘survive’. The games also promote good sportsmanship and camaraderie among its players. While there are valuable lifelong lessons learned from a paintball game, this activity is most popular for its adrenaline-pumping action!
STAFF & SUPERVISION
The paintball program is supervised by our paintball director who is a qualified individual capable of operating and managing a safe program for our campers. The paintball staff are college-aged counselors who have demonstrated the ability to provide mature guidance and are trained to fulfill the roles of game referees and team coaches.
