 Right now, people all over the world are hiding and seeking treasures in urban or rural environs, anywhere from a mountain’s peak to the bottom of a lagoon. Be a part of this global phenomenon by participating in Kippure Estate’s Geoteaming team challenge. A cross between adventure hiking, treasure-hunting and orienteering, this teambuilding corporate event is the ultimate experience for creating a new dimension of morale and motivation between you and your workmates.
Geocaching is a clever, puzzle-solving team game, where innovative technology meets natural and rugged landscape. You will use GPS (global positioning system) devices, a map and two-way radios. You create a waypoint by entering latitude and longitude coordinates into the GPS and follow the navigating arrow on the device’s screen. Once you arrive at the first landmark, it turns into a challenging team activity of hide-and-seek to find the concealed treasure chest. As the hunt continues, cohesion will form between team members, while each player develops an important skill-based role and contributes to the completion of a mentally and physically challenging course.
Group sizes vary, and GPS devices and two-way radios will be provided.
This team building activity can be customised to suit the client’s needs. For example, various teams can challenge each other in a fun and competitive event or the teams work together to complete a challenge as a unit.
Benefits
- Building and enhancing work team relationships through completing an entertaining and intelligent team building event that is fit for all levels and abilities.
- Highlighting team behaviour and roles of both participants and facilitators.
- Promoting confidence in the ability to learn and apply new skills and contributing to the team’s final success.
- Encouraging team management, planning, problem solving and the development of group roles.
- Practicing newly-learnt skills: GPS operation, map reading, distance calculation and two-way radio control.
Itinerary (Half-Day Team Building Event – 3 hours)
- Qualified and experienced outdoor instructors spend some time teaching your group map-reading and navigation skills and how to use the GPS and radios.
- Teams of four participants are created, an ideal size for building team mentality.
- Teams are briefed on the challenge and provided with map and coordinate task sheets.
- Teams begin the Geoteaming treasure hunt and search for caches along the course using equipment and referenced coordinates.
- Teams return to home base where the results are calculated. Prizes are awarded for exemplary geocache performances.
- You can continue team building through participating in another half-day team game or winding down at one of our corporate entertainment events, like our Wild West Party.
Kippure Estate’s woodlands, meadows, river banks and the location in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains provide an ideal atmosphere for building teams. Whether you want to introduce a group of new workmates to one another, increase morale around the office or reward employees after a productive quarter, Geoteaming is an ideal team building activity.
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