 Your mission, rated critical - locate and rescue a downed pilot behind enemy lines. Your strategy – use the pilot’s last known co-ordinates, sent out by his distress call, to track down your rescue target. Your challenge – find and transport the injured pilot to a secure ‘evac’ point without being spotted by enemy forces.
This is Kippure Estate’s Escape & Evade challenge, a team building corporate event that requires your elite unit to strategically work together as a collective force. You and your fellow rescuers will use your newly acquired compass and map-reading skills to locate the fallen pilot and the safe house. Additionally, you will transfer yourselves across a river by constructing a bridge using materials and instructions retrieved at another set of co-ordinates. Ingenuity is required to build this rope bridge so that each participant can get across. This mission is difficult in nature, but it is an adrenaline-rushing teambuilding experience, where each member of the elite unit will have an important role to play.
Unit sizes may range from 8 to 24 participants divided into teams of 8 to 12 rescuers. Teams score points for completing the mission in the allotted time and lose points if spotted by enemy patrols or if they fail to retrieve all of the equipment needed to complete the rope bridge. The winning team is not necessarily the one to finish the mission first, it is the squad which has the highest final score at the end of the challenge. If your team is triumphant, you will be added to the season’s ‘Mission Leader Board’. The top two company teams will be invited back to compete head-to-head in a final mission at the end of the year.
Benefits
- Participating in an engaging, fun and social event which focuses on accomplishing a set goal.
- Building and enhancing relationships between co-workers through sharing a common team building experience.
- Developing levels of trust between workmates as each player depends on one another and plays an important role in completing the mission.
- Learning new orienteering and map reading skills and acquiring expertise in map and compass-reading, co-ordinate plotting and distance-pacing.
- Gaining confidence in your ability to learn and apply a new skill which requires different forms of intelligence.
- Increasing work team communication and motivation.
Itinerary (Half-Day Team Building Event – 3 hours)
- Instructors spend about 20 minutes briefing your group and teaching orienteering and co-ordinate plotting skills.
- Elite units are formed and have 15 minutes to strategize (plot co-ordinates and plan routes).
- The mission begins and teams have 120 minutes to rescue the downed pilot, locate the material to build the bridge, cross the river and arrive at the ‘evac’ point.
- Teams return and the scores are calculated.
- An awards ceremony concludes the Escape & Evade team game and the top team is added to the Mission Leader Board.
If building teams of motivated employees is your ultimate mission, then the Escape & Evade team exercise is an ideal choice. Continue bonding by participating in another half-day team activity or attending one of Kippure Estate’s corporate entertainment social evenings.
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