Top 9 Team-Building Activities in New York City

1. Explore NYC’s Craft Beer Scene with City Brew Tours

Treat your employees to the ultimate team-bonding experience with a New York City Brew Tour! This unique activity blends beer (non-alcoholic options available), entertainment, and education as you and your employees dive into the incredible and diverse craft beer scenes of Brooklyn or Queens. It’s a great way to get everyone out of the office, relaxing together, and loosening up with some libations. It’s the VIP company outing for VIP employees!

2. Gain a Fresh Perspective with Museum Hack

Museum Hack is your one-stop shop for turning co-workers into team players! Their creative corporate events take place in New York City’s best museums and are known to be quirky and sassy. 

Corporate events with them can be customized to match the values and/or industry of your company (e.g. ancient health care). Your team will learn, laugh and be inspired by all sorts of incredible and weird stories hidden in history.

3. Collaborate with One Another at SPYSCAPE

Who doesn’t love a good spy movie or book—and SPYSCAPE is an edutainment venue that gives people a chance to feel like a spy. With its interactive games and experiences and museum exhibits, SPYSCAPE offers entertainment and stimulation while providing a great team-building activity. Employees will bond during a custom-tailored workshop at SPYSPACE crafted by real experts in psychology, training and espionage.

4. Get Your Game on at Chelsea Piers

Team-building can take place through any number of different activities. Depending on what you want, Chelsea Piers Sport and Entertainment Complex offers a variety of corporate outing options that can be tailored to your needs. 

You and the team can keep it light and casual with a golf happy hour overlooking the Hudson. Or maybe a morale-boosting awards ceremony dinner is more your speed. Or, if you really want to focus on teamwork, an expert coach can lead the group through a series of team-building games and activities.

5. Give Back to the NYC Community

Are you looking for a way to increase morale within your office and build strong relationships between colleagues? Corporate volunteering is the perfect opportunity to do just that, and there are plenty of volunteering opportunities in New York City. Volunteering brings teams together, and gives them an opportunity to help others while spending quality time with each other outside of the workplace. By giving your employees the chance to work side-by-side on meaningful projects, you can foster a sense of camaraderie that encourages collaboration at work.

6. Improve Teamwork with Improv

Apart from being a fun activity, improv is an incredibly powerful tool for team building for a few reasons. It fosters collaboration, increases productivity, and encourages better communication between coworkers. It encourages the group to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions to problems. Finally, it helps employees learn how to effectively work together by teaching them to listen and respond to one another’s ideas.

7. Sail the Coast of NYC

There’s plenty of sightseeing cruises around New York City, but have you ever considered something more hands on? Set sail on a schooner where employees will learn the basics of sailing and line-handling while strengthening their teamwork and communication. Spending time together on the water can also be effective at building trust and creative problem-solving skills. Plus, it will leave the group with meaningful memories lasting long after they’ve returned to land.

8. Adventure Together at a Virtual Reality Arcade

Virtual reality arcades are popping up all over NYC and offer a fun, memorable experience for the team. Treat them to an adventure—scaling canyon walls, riding roller coasters, navigating alien worlds, and much more—in vivid 3D detail. Many VR arcades also offer VR escape rooms, a new twist on a classic team-building activity. Everyone will get to bond like never before while feeling appreciated with this epic time outside the office walls!

9. Bond over Bubble Soccer

Bubble soccer has been making waves since its conception a decade ago, and it is a great corporate outing option. The combination of excitement, friendly competition, and mayhem make it the perfect company team-building activity.

Though a full-contact sport, bubble soccer is very safe. Players don oversized, inflatable bubble suits that absorb all the bumps and falls, while also hilariously hindering the game. It will leave everyone breathless from a good bit of exercise and non-stop laughing!

Bonus. Virtual Team-Building with Unboxed Experiences

Get your employees together without the hassle of transportation or venue constraints through virtual team-building everyone can participate in from the comfort of their homes. Unboxed Experiences offers a variety of activities to engage the group such as Charcuterie Board, Beer & Cheese Pairing, Ice Cream Float, and Tea & Mindfulness experiences. Also, Unboxed Experiences ships all the product boxes directly to your employees—team-building has never been easier!