Need a quick way to energize your group in a meeting?  Our virtual. quick-fire 20 Questions Trivia event is just the ticket.  Easy to include in a day or days of virtual meetings. We provide the questions (up to 5 can be customized to your group); planning, professional facilitation to energize your group.

Think and communicate like a storyteller!  It is more important than ever to deliver messages that connect people and create empathy and understanding.

Whether you’re engaging in everyday communication, interacting via teleconference, delivering a formal presentation, or relaying tough messages to your team, storytelling is a powerful tool that can be used to inspire and engage your audience. During this experiential workshop, your team will learn how to break down a story into beats, tailor your message to different audiences, and explore new ways to mine your brain for the details and specifics that bring stories to life and compel audiences.

In the extended version of this workshop, your team will have a chance to tell their stories and receive live feedback from their peers and a professional storytelling coach.

We are currently delivering this workshop virtually, via teleconference.

Looking for a fun, fast-paced virtual game to play with your team during the week or at your companies’ virtual happy hour?  Try a True North Virtual Trivia Night!  This is a wonderful way to stay connected by including remote and distributed teams.   We can easily create a themed event or customize to your group. We can accommodate up to 2,000 players.

You can strengthen your company culture so that all employees can be part of it.

• Onboard new employees or interns in an engaging, memorable and stress-free way
• Add engagement to any virtual team meeting
• Perfect for virtual happy hour
• Encourage employee participation
• Boost morale and help teams connect even when they’re apart
• It’s also possible to incorporate into any Learning & Development program

It’s possible to play a live game or a self-paced game.  For live games we use Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoom, Slack and more!  Games are played on any smartphone or tablet.

Contact us today for your free demo: 1.203.730.0606

We are living in a very stressful time and self-care is more important then ever.  In our experiential workshop, participants learn how to connect better, to yourself, and to others; discover your core values; design an environment for wellness and mindfulness; establish a daily routine so mindfulness becomes the center of your life and health,   We will cover: An introduction to Emotional Intelligence, being present, self-awareness, empathy, motivation, transformation and a sense of community.  We will also discuss practices for developing healthy wellness habits to accelerate well-being—e.g. journaling, meditation, yoga, digital detox, getting into nature, exercise and more.

We can also tie this program into our Everything DiSC Workplace and Everything DiSC Productive Conflict Workshops.

We offer this workshop in two (2) formats:

• Remote / Virtual Workshop
• In-Person Workshop

Our Virtual Puzzlemaster Challenge is a great networking activity for a remote workforce.  Small teams work together to solve a variety of puzzles, in a series of timed rounds. Teams will be encouraged to leverage each other’s strengths with the series of puzzles and other challenges they will be tasked with solving. Challenges include: logic puzzles, spatial reasoning quizzes, riddles, brainteasers, and many other types of thought-provoking challenges. This program is a lot of fun for competitive groups.

Get your remote group together with one of our virtual scavenger hunts.

Teams (or individuals) compete in a scavenger hunt, without having to leave the comfort of their own home.  With our easy to use scavenger hunt app, teams compete to earn the most points by accomplishing the most challenges in the agreed timeframe (1-day, 3-days, 1-week).  Challenges can include: photos, videos, trivia, fun activities/challenges and so much more!  Each challenge has an associated point value. It is collaborative within the team; people can work on their team’s challenges in their own time and time zone. The leaderboard keeps everyone on their toes!

This is a fantastic way for staying connected – across a city – across time zones – or across the globe.

Your hunt can be indoor-social distancing-based, theme-based, department-based, etc.

Challenge examples:

• Show us what’s for breakfast!
• Your pet/s: Dog? Cat? Fish? Snake? Turtle? Llama? Iguana? We want to see them all.
• My Favorite Recipe – provide a delicious recipe you would recommend to your group
• New Hobby – show us an example of a new hobby you’ve taken up since being home
• Wellness – show us how you are taking care of yourself, whether it’s you in a yoga, meditation or pilates pose, or even a mud mask and cucumber slices on your eyes – there may be a chance for bonus points!
• Show us your favorite card trick via video

 What’s included in each game:

• Live Leaderboard
• Virtual Event Host
• Up to 60 challenges to complete (that can be done from home) – 10 of which can be customized specifically to your organization
• Bonus Points for creativity, etc.
• Bonus Challenges
• Telephone support
• All photos + videos available afterwards

Improve the performance of your people, team and work culture.  True North has a proven suite of Everything DiSC learning applications, customizable facilitation kits, ongoing education, support, competitive pricing, and more.

Looking to order your Everything DiSC Assessments/Profiles?  You have come to the right place.

Everything DiSC Assessments/Profiles we offer:

• Workplace Assessment
• Management Assessment
• Productive Conflict Assessment
• Agile EQ Assessment
• Sales Assessment
• 363 Leaders Assessment
• Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Assessment

Call: 203.730.0606 to order yours today, or if you are not sure which assessment to order – also give us a call!

Improving leadership skills is one of the best business investments a company can make. This workshop will help create a work environment that thrives on open communication, mutual respect, and trust. In addition, we will discuss: What makes an authentic leader?  Are you an authentic leader? Can you become one? Participants will learn and develop new skills for becoming effective, motivating and authentic managers and leaders.

We will discuss all these topics and more and determine the best way to bring the learning to life back at the office.

We offer this workshop in two (2) formats:

• Remote / Virtual Workshop
• In-Person Workshop

In our remote / virtual workshops, we offer a variety of Everything DiSC® sessions.

Workshops begin with a personal online Everything DiSC® assessment.  We create a dynamic presentation customized to your group,  for your participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of their personalized profile and a memorable experience that inspires lasting behavior change.  We incorporate experiential activities into each module, to bring the learning to life.  Remote sessions are available for:

• Everything DiSC® Workplace – This session can benefit every person in an organization—regardless of title or position, department or function—in building more productive and effective relationships at work.
• Everything DiSC® Management – This session helps to increase the effectiveness of anyone in a management role. Participants deepen their understanding of themselves, their direct reports, and their own managers using the DiSC model.
• Everything DiSC® Sales – Designed to help salespeople successfully create customer-centric interactions that improve results.
• Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict – This workshops helps to increase self-awareness around conflict behaviors and helps participants effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict.
• Everything DiSC® Agile EQ – Participants learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them to meet the demands of any situation.  The result is an emotionally intelligent workforce that can support an agile work culture.

Post-Program Tools Include:

• My Everything DiSC® – This mobile-friendly, interactive learning portal gives participants unlimited access to on-demand insights about DiSC and strategies for applying DiSC to real work situations. This tool certainly helps to extend the learning experience.
• Comparison Reports – for a participant to compare themselves to another participant, to understand how to work better together
• Team View – for manager who wants an at-a-glance view of the group of participants and their individual Everything DiSC maps.
• Group Culture Reports – Help to determine a group’s DiSC culture, its advantages and disadvantages, impact on group members, and influence on decision-making and risk-taking.

Participants learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them to meet the demands of any situation.  The result is an emotionally intelligent workforce that can support an agile work culture.

We offer this workshop in two (2) different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Learning
• In-Person

Have some ideas you want folks in your organization to share and/or focus on?  In our version of the highly acclaimed TV show, “Shark Tank,” your employees can pitch ideas to a panel comprised of managers or executives.  We kick off the event with the group of participants.  Each group gets a fixed amount of time to work on their idea and presentation.   The group comes back together, virtually, to pitch their ideas to the panel.  The panel provides feedback in a positive and motivating way.  The panel decides which ideas may be best to pursue and decide who will mentor the group/s to bring their idea to fruition.

Keep your remote teams connected with game shows like This is (Virtual) Jeoparty!  This game is hosted by True North for your remote team and can be played for either training purposes – to help reinforce different topics or just for fun.  It’s possible to customize the categories and questions to your organization, department or team.

Looking for Networking or Nighttime event ideas for your next Team Meeting or Offsite?  Our Jeopardy®-like game show allows multiple teams to compete against each other in a lively, exciting and fun-filled answer and question contest.  Categories run the gamut from sports, geography, history, science, pop-culture, your organization, etc. There are lots of customization options. Our game show host, along with the podiums, computerized questions, buzzers, and screen bring the game show atmosphere to life.  Who will be the crowned the “This is Jeoparty” Champions from your organization?!

Category customization options include:

• Local Area/History
• Employee Facts and Feats
• Company Fact or Fiction
• Meeting Themes can be reinforced in a really interesting way

If you are a fan of Game Sows, you may also like our Battle of the Stars or Celebrity Game Night programs.

Based on the Finnish tradition of providing every baby born with a “Baby Box” to ensure all children get started off with the basic necessities, your organization provides a collection of basic items needed for a baby’s first year, packaged inside a box, for underserved families in your area. Each “Baby Box” gets filled with items such as: Onesies, Bibs, Hats, Books, Toys, Blanket, Diapers, hygiene products, etc. Teams compete for the items that go in each “Baby Box.” True North can help source a local charity that will ensure deserving families will benefit from your organization’s generosity.

This is a creative networking event that involves decorating the ugliest sweater cookies that you can imagine. We bring the cookies, the decorating equipment, and all the ugly accouterments. You bring the inspiration. We’ll even award a trophy to the team that makes the best of the worst!

Becoming one of our most popular holiday events, Toy Bins for Charities is a wonderful, feel-good event. Teams are challenged to fill a variety of toy bins with a wide range of toys. This event encourages networking while helping those less fortunate. True North will coordinate with local charities to identify children in need of donations.

In this holiday-themed drink-making competition, using seasonal ingredients, teams create their own signature cocktail or “mocktail” using items selected from the “store.” Each team delivers their signature cocktail to the esteemed judges for scoring in an exciting and animated finale! This is a perfect activity for holiday celebrations, networking, client events or done in conjunction with a cocktail hour. Or, combine with our Bistro Battle event for a truly epic competition.

This event challenges groups to build a contraption that achieves an objective in a predetermined number of steps. Teams are challenged with creating their contraption, out of everyday household materials (provided), that performs a specific task, e.g. turning on a light; popping a balloon; sending an email; making a copy; etc.

Additional themes/challenges can be incorporated. It is possible to structure this as one large group activity or as smaller group activities. There are many robust work-related metaphors that can be drawn out of this program.

Your team can help offset the high cost of school supplies by participating in some very fun and competitive activities earning school supplies and backpacks for deserving school children. We help source a local charity that ensures deserving kids benefit from your organization’s generosity.

Teams compete in a range of challenges to earn what they need to build a Little Red Wagon. Once teams successfully complete the building of their wagons, the stakes are raised as teams shift to the next phase of competition, to get the goods that will then fill their wagons. This high-energy activity quickly goes from competitive to collaborative as everyone tries to fill all wagons to capacity. True North will source and liaise with a local/reputable charity if you don’t already have one in mind.

Teams collaborate while having fun and helping others at the same time. Teams put bikes together for deserving children, many who have never had their own bike, with the instructions and tools provided. We source and liaise with a local/reputable charity if you don’t already have one in mind.

Overview
What better way to encourage collaboration then to get your team working together while preparing and cooking their own meal? This event is geared towards the most inexperienced to the most experienced cooks. There are roles for everyone in a kitchen and everyone is dependent on each other to accomplishing the mission. There are many ways for us to structure this event, however, we have found that the collaborative approach brings out the best in everyone.

Carriage House Kitchen Availability: Be sure you have confirmed the Carriage House availability with your Flik planner.

Menu Options: View a Sample Seasonal Menu

Objective/s:
Deliver a collaboratively prepared dinner (or lunch) that results in a multi-course meal for all participants, including vegetarian options.
A light-hearted fun, casual meal to be together, network, mingle/mix and bond.
We can also structure the event to a specific theme or learning objective.

How It Works
Pre-Work – Three weeks prior to the program
* Food allergies/sensitivities and restrictions must be communicated to Cindy Crean at True North Team Building three (3) weeks prior so that menu/ingredients can be planned accordingly.
* We can accommodate most dietary restrictions – however, it is very helpful to know about them in advance.
* Please let us know if it might be a special occasion, so we can plan accordingly

Day of Program
* A light pre-dinner snack will be provided by True North and beverages are provided by Flik. Please arrange beverages with your planner.
* What to wear: The dress code is casual. Closed-toed shoes are required (no sandals or high heels). Aprons are provided. Those with long hair should wear it pulled back.
* Teams are provided ingredients with which to work.
* There may be some negotiation required for utensils, grill space, etc. There are two (2) each of Grills, Cook tops, Convection Ovens, standard Ovens and microwaves available to use in preparing the meal.

Program Timing (example):
6:00PM – participants begin to arrive from their meeting – beverages and light appetizer
6:15PM – Program kicks off; and instructions are provided
6:30PM – 7:30PM – Teams have one (1) hour to prepare and execute/cook their portion of the team dinner, with enough prepared for the entire group.
By 7:45PM – Teams convene to dinner – everyone gets to enjoy the fruits of their labor together.

A perfect activity for groups that want to engage in a fun, competitive activity that also emphasizes group coordination, teamwork and strategy. The activity requires groups to complete a variety of different activities as quickly as possible.. Each challenge is different; some are pure logic puzzles while others are building related and still others have a physical component. The more speed and efficiency the team demonstrates, the more points the team will accumulate.

True North combines trivia, puzzles, music and Minute-To-Win-It style challenges for this fun and challenging game show-style game. Teams compete in a number of activities that test teamwork, problem solving, a wide range of skills and even your team’s trivia knowledge. The team with the most points at the end of the competition gets the “Gold.” An exciting awards ceremony rounds out this event. We provide all the equipment and encourage everyone in the group to participate. This is a great event for an amphitheater or auditorium when space is at a premium on campus.

Have a just-for-fun or a competitive sing-along as participants take the lead vocal role in a wide-ranging selection of pop songs. Lyrics get displayed on a large screen for vocalists to follow along to and belt out their tunes on the microphones provided. Once the singing is over the dance party can begin! Fun, high energy songs provided by True North’s top flight DJ.

We combine bartending with team building components in this interactive group activity. Teams create their own signature cocktail or “mocktail” using items selected from the “store.” Each team delivers their signature cocktail to the esteemed judges for scoring in an exciting and animated finale! This is a perfect activity for networking or in conjunction with a cocktail hour. Tiki Bar Wars has the added component of building and decorating a tiki bar!

Our fun-filled Trivia Night will keep your group engaged during this lively evening activity. Teams compete to answer the most number of quiz questions correctly. Our Quizmaster will choose a selection of rounds from a variety of categories. The culminating awards ceremony rounds out this fun-filled event! Prizes are optional.

The workplace has no script, people must think on their feet, utilizing their imaginations and instincts constantly. Participants will learn how to strengthen and then leverage their interpersonal skills within the workplace. Through the lens of improvisational games and role playing, our professional actors/facilitators will get participants out of their seats and learning extremely useful skills around listening/ hearing, making mistakes, trust, managing difficult conversations, responding and influencing people at all levels throughout an organization.

Bring out the creativity of your organization as department groups or teams work together to create the company’s “portrait”. Teams paint and assemble a unique shared vision where each canvas is unique. Once the entire portrait is assembled everyone sees how their piece contributes to the larger picture. Have your team take a new approach to the company logo or create something totally unique – there are many options to choose from. The final work of art can be proudly displayed in the lobby of an office or a conference room. A charitable version of this activity can also be arranged with a local children’s hospital or other charitable organization by having teams create a child-friendly painting that then gets donated and displayed.

True North brings all the art supplies required, as well as the canvases. This is a wonderful activity for large groups and multi-program events.

Collaboration, planning, diverse thinking and interdependencies are the names of the game in this highly interactive program. In version I teams are given a box of everyday materials (funnels, tubes, wood, string, etc.) to create a giant marble track that needs to be able to move a marble from one side of the room to the other, utilizing every section, throughout the entire track. Version II challenges teams to build a table top, interconnected machine that will pass a reaction down the line. Ultimately accomplishing a task in the final group.

Participants are challenged with a series of experiential initiatives throughout this program. The initiatives explore ways of working. Participants are encouraged to discuss their current work environment and collaborate on solutions. A debrief session is part of this program. Specific activities will be recommended based on the objectives of the program.

Some examples include:

Kaizen
This activity focuses on:

• Setting goals & parameter clarification

• Brainstorming as a group

• Continuous improvement

Turning competition into collaboration

Mass Pass
This is a quick-fire learning activity with a focus on:

• Enhancing problem-solving skills

• Improving communication skills

• Creating a common vision

Planning & then implementing the plan effectively

This is an epic event with large teams completing numerous challenges and once a challenge is complete, pass a baton on to the next participant within their team. Every single participant is involved in some aspect of the relay. The team that completes all the challenges successfully, and the fastest, wins. It is a crazy, multi-faceted, inter-connected, entertaining, yet challenging, relay race.

People who went to summer camp in the US will be familiar with this type of event.

Despite the name of this program we do run it year round and it can be done outdoors or indoors (depending on space availability and weather).

True North’s Remarkable race is a team based “race” that showcases teamwork utilizing the beautiful Crotonville campus grounds. Loosely based on the TV hit “The Amazing Race”, teams are required to seek out and solve a series of different challenges. Teams pick up various clues and objects with roadblocks, detours and intersections to contend with along the way. Bragging rights (and medals) go to the team that accumulates the most points.

It is possible to customize aspects of the Remarkable Race to your team or meeting theme.

This is a great way to get acquainted with the Crotonville Campus.

Have you ever felt like you were literally trapped at the office? True North’s Office Escape is based on the popular “virtual room escape” genre of smartphone games, but with a twist. Our version will make the game real. Let True North challenge you and your team by transforming an office, conference room or hotel meeting room into the perfect real life escape game and see if your team can problem-solve their way out of the room. It is possible to debrief this program with the group afterwards.

There are many robust debrief themes that come from this event.

We recommended up to 10 participants per room.

In this game show-style game, True North combines trivia, puzzles, music and Minute-To-Win-It style challenges for this fun and challenging contest. Teams compete in a number of activities that test teamwork, problem solving, and even your team’s trivia knowledge. The team with the most points at the end of the competition gets the “Gold.” An exciting awards ceremony rounds out this event. We provide all the equipment and encourage everyone in the group to participate.

Enjoy the experience of learning more about wine made even better by our super knowledgeable sommelier, who is fantastic at bringing the Joys of Wine to life.

In this unique wine-based workshop, our professional sommelier will lead an interactive wine tasting with your group that instructs them on the finer notes of wine through tasting and aroma education.

Then, teams are provided with professional wine blending equipment to design their own unique Red or White wine blend, using a combination of wine varietals. Blend a popular Italian Red blend such as a Super Tuscan. Or, if White Wines are more your style, see how well-known varieties like Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc are blended with lesser – known varieties for some of the most delicious wines around the globe.

Additional creative activities are also part of this workshop, which makes it an engaging session for everyone.

Once the team is satisfied with their blended creation, it is submitted to our panel of judges for tasting as the group describes its new creation. An exciting awards ceremony rounds out this event.

True North’s Everything DiSC® Management program offers a customizable development solution proven to increase the effectiveness of anyone in a management role, whether managing direct reports, their own manager or a client/customer/agency relationship. A complete program of online pre-work, interactive classroom training, and follow-up, focuses learning in five key areas:

• Understanding all DiSC® styles
• Directing and delegating
• Creating a motivating environment
• Developing others with different styles
• Identifying strategies for working more effectively with managers and others

Participants learn how their management style influences how they manage time, make decisions, approach problems, motivate others and more.  This workshop helps participants understand  how they need to adapt to the styles of others to bring out the best in each and every interaction.

We offer this workshop in two (2) different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Learning
• In-Person

Participants Take-Aways

• Discover DiSC® Management style: recognize the priorities and preferences that shape one’s experience as a manager of others and as an employee who must also effectively manage up
• Understand how unique styles informs their approach to directing and delegation
• Learn strategies for improving employee motivation and developing the full potential of people with all the various DiSC® styles

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Dialogues and working productively with colleagues can be difficult, no matter where you are in your career, from Boomers to Millennials.  Our Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict workshop helps participants improve self-awareness around behaviors that occur during times of conflict. Rather than focus on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, our session provides participants with techniques to curb destructive behaviors and learn how to effectively respond to difficult situations. The program features an exploration of DiSC®, providing an opportunity for participants to explore how their destructive responses can derail conversations, work and work relationships.  This session offers a method for making more productive choices in response to conflict / differences.

We offer this workshop in two different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Workshop
• In-Person Workshop

Read more about how to circumvent stress at work and the benefits of it.

Participant Take-Aways

• Appreciate how their way of handling conflict affects the people around them
• Learn how to “catch” oneself when going down a destructive conflict path
• Learn how to reframe a conflict situation and choose more productive behaviors
• Build a common language in the organization around appropriate conflict behavior

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Playgrounds evoke memories of fresh air, friends and fun times. Take some much needed recess time, stretch it out and go “old school” in this fun-filled afternoon of True North’s Playground Olympics competition. Teams compete for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals (or a team trophy) in such contests as:

* Volleyball * Four Square * Kickball * Playground Ping Pong * Touch Football * Relay Races * Dodgeball * Hopscotch * Backwards Baseball * Basketball Games * And much more!

Decide whether or not you want random teams or pre-selected teams (don’t forget to recruit that kickball league player from accounting!). Some games may be familiar, some may be new takes on old school playground games… either way, we will remind you how to play and/or explain the rules; and, your team will be bound to have a fantastic time. Get your team outside this season for a high-energy competition.

Take one-part cocktail history, mix with the latest cocktail trends, add in some team challenges and you have Speakeasy: A Bar Wars Cocktail-Making Competition. Inspired by the hidden spots to get a drink during the Prohibition era of the 1920s, speakeasies were secret, almost impossible bars to find and were for an intimate crowd. They were often nothing more than a non-descript door requiring a secret knock or code to get you inside.  In this competition, teams are challenged with crafting the best tasting, best looking speakeasy-themed cocktail or mocktail.

This program is one of the Top Meeting Trends this year – read about it here!

Leap into Spring
With
True North Team Building!

We’re experienced and we know what’s right for your team!

Check out some of our most popular events for your team this Spring and Summer.

Summer Camp Relay

The Remarkable Race

Office Escape

Lip Sync Battle

With our diverse range of skills, you can be assured that your team will have an informative, challenging and rewarding experience.

Our events promote collaboration, problem-solving and creativity, and can be as fun or as serious as your needs require.

Call us and let’s create a truly memorable event for your team! 203.730.0606.

Or Email  OurTeam@truenorthteambuilding.com.

Our experienced Campfire Cooking Expert instructor/chef will teach your team the basics of cooking over an open campfire using a variety of different methods (Dutch oven, reflector oven, open fire). Teams are tasked with preparing their own meal, from scratch, over an open fire. Each team can prepare one course or an entire meal. A wide-selection of menus are available and we will work with you to accommodate most dietary restrictions.

Call us today to talk about venue options for this event.

Everything DiSC® Workplace delivers a comprehensive, easily customizable workplace development solution to engage every employee—regardless of title or position, department or function—in building more productive and effective relationships at work.

Combining facilitated classroom training with online pre-work and follow-up tools, you can create a personalized learning experience to help participants understand and appreciate the different priorities, preferences, and values each individual brings to the workplace, and how they can learn to adapt to the style of others.

We offer this workshop in two (2) different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Learning
• In-Person

Participant Take-Aways

• Discover their own DiSC® style: recognize the priorities, motivators, and stress triggers that shape their workplace experience
• Explore other styles: understand the differences and similarities among the DiSC styles
• Identify strategies to make more meaningful connections with colleagues of various styles and work more effectively to reduce tension, solve problems, and contribute positively to their organizations

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Everything DiSC® Work of Leaders lays out a clear path for helping leaders at all levels make the connection between their DiSC® style and leadership. Bringing together best practices from 300 experts in over 150 organizations, the important work of the most prominent scholars, and over four years of additional research and development, this all-inclusive classroom and online program approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship (as opposed to the one-to-one relationship explored in Everything DiSC® Management). With one unified model of leadership—vision, alignment, and execution—it focuses on helping leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.

We offer this workshop in two different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Workshop
• In-Person Workshop

Participants Take-Aways

• Recognize the priorities and tendencies, based on their own DiSC style, that shape their approach to the fundamental work of leaders: creating a vision, building alignment around that vision, and championing execution of the vision
• Explore in detail how to play to their strengths and overcome challenges to improve their leadership effectiveness
• Identify strategies to develop preferred behaviors based on context-specific best practices

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Everything DiSC® Sales puts the power of the dynamic Everything DiSC® model into the hands of salespeople and provides a dynamic tool for learning how to create customer-centric interactions that delivered improved results. Sales-specific content, modular facilitations tools, and online tailoring features deliver an easy-to-customize development solution to help participants discover new strategies for stretching beyond their natural preferences to make the selling process more productive and successful—regardless of the customer’s unique buying style.

We offer this workshop in two different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Workshop
• In-Person Workshop

Participant Take-Aways

• Discover their own DiSC® style: recognize the priorities, personal strengths, and challenges  that shape their sales interactions with others
• Explore other styles:  understand the differences and similarities among DiSC buying styles, learn to recognize the behaviors unique to each style, and identify new ways to find common ground with all types of customers
• Create a plan of action to get more out of the sales process—and deliver better bottom line results

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

TRUE NORTH’S FIVE BEHAVIORS OF A COHESIVE TEAM WORKSHOP

An assessment-based learning experience that helps individuals and organizations reveal what it takes to build a truly cohesive and effective team in the most approachable, competent, and effective way possible.

OUR WORKSHOP SHOWS YOUR TEAM HOW TO GAIN THIS ADVANTAGE BY:

• Trust One Another: When team members are genuinely transparent and honest with one another, they are able to build vulnerability-based trust.
• Engage in Conflict Around Ideas: When there is trust, team members are able to engage in unfiltered, constructive debate of ideas.
• Commit to Decisions: When team members are able to offer opinions and debate ideas, they will be more likely to commit to decisions.
• Hold One Another Accountable: When everyone is committed to a clear plan of action, they will be more willing to hold one another accountable.
• Focus on Achieving Collective Results: The ultimate goal of building greater trust, conflict,commitment, and accountability is one thing: the achievement of results.

The program helps teams understand how, as a team, they score on the key components of The Five Behaviors model: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results. Each individual on the team will also understand their own personality style and their team members styles, based on the DiSC model and how their style contributes to the team’s overall success.

The program is designed exclusively for intact teams and work groups. The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team harnesses the power of Everything DiSC and the clarity and simplicity of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team model.

Our Tailgating Olympics combines all of the best games that the college football tradition of tailgating has to offer. Teams will compete against each in a series of really fun and engaging activities such as: Corn Hole, Kan Jam, Ladderball, Kickball, Football Games, Soccer Bocce and more!

True North’s Office Olympics is Loosely based on the popular winter and summer “Olympic Games,” teams compete for “Olympic” Gold by competing in a wide range of wacky, fun, quick-fire activities. We add in a touch of “field day” activities for a perfect combination of competition. An exciting awards ceremony rounds out this event. This activity can be structured in a variety of ways.

Have you ever felt like you were literally trapped at the office? True North’s Office Escape is based on the popular “virtual room escape” genre of smartphone games, but with a twist. Our version will make the game real. Let True North challenge you and your team by transforming an office, conference room or hotel meeting room into the perfect real life escape game and see if your team can problem-solve their way out of the room. It is possible to debrief this program with the group afterwards.

This is a team based “race” that showcases teamwork utilizing a hotel, hotel grounds, public parks, college campuses or urban neighborhoods. Loosely based on the TV hit The Amazing Race, teams are required to seek out and solve a series of different challenges. Teams pick up various clues and objects with roadblocks and detours to contend with along the way. Bragging rights (and medals) go to the team that accumulates the most points.

During the Brilliant Bicycle Build teams collaborate while having fun and helping others at the same time. Teams put bikes together for deserving children, many who have never had their own bike, with the instructions and tools provided. A representative (or the kid’s themselves – if scheduling permits) accept the bikes. We will source and liaise with a local/reputable charity if you don’t already have one in mind.

Goal: To become the record holding team for the evening. Table top challenges and the clock, that’s what this night is all about. Teams are challenged to “be the best they can” when thrown off the wall, minute-to-win-it type challenges that must be completed in the shortest time possible. The catch, the rest of the teams can challenge and beat their times all throughout the event.

Roll-up-your sleeves!  Our Chain Reaction 1.0 requires collaboration, planning, diverse thinking and interdependencies.  This is a highly interactive program that has people up and out of the chairs. Teams are given a box of everyday materials to construct a giant marble track. If the teams are successful they are able to move a marble from one side of the room to the other, utilizing every section, throughout the entire track. Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are all key take-aways from this popular program. An optional debrief can follow afterwards.

This program is wonderful for engaging global teams.

In Corporate Portrait bring out the creativity of your organization as teams work together to create the company’s “portrait” or, have them take a new approach to the company logo. The final work of art can be proudly displayed in the lobby of an office or a conference room. A charitable version of this activity can also be arranged with a local hospital or other charitable organization by having teams create a child-friendly painting that then gets donated and displayed.

Summer Camp Relay is an epic event with large teams completing numerous challenges and once a challenge is complete, pass a baton on to the next participant within their team. Every single participant is involved in some aspect of the relay. The team that completes all the challenges successfully, and the fastest, wins. It is a crazy, multi-faceted, inter-connected, entertaining yet challenging relay race.

In True North Team Building’s Row Your Boat Regatta teams are challenged to build and decorate a boat using only the materials provided. All boats must be able to transport a team member in a race across a pool, pond, or lake to the finish line! Teams need to draw on creative thinking and project management skills to develop a boat capable of traveling across the span of the water or, as an on-land challenge, on top of foam noodles.

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Teams will use large size sheets of cardboard to design pages of a “book”, that will come together to demonstrate how they will grow as a team or meet other themes or challenges. Teams are provided the materials and plenty of art supplies and are challenged to create the individual pages of a giant book. Each page is part of the overall book, which must include the overall theme, which runs through the entire project, to ensure connectedness and a link to the overall school/neighborhood community. After building their pages, each team presents what they included and why as well as how it links to the overall school philosophy. There is the option for the other teams to constructively build upon the ideas presented. The completed book can be proudly displayed in your school for all to see.

The Networking Lounge will transform any meeting room or event space into an over sized living room complete with Pub games, as well as a range of interactive sports activities that everyone can either actively participate in or simply watch and chat.   A great event for reconnecting with colleagues or getting to new ones.  Games can include: Wii Tennis or Bowling; Ping Pong; Foosball; Air Hockey; Corn Hole; Basketball Pop-a-Shot; Giant Jenga and much more.

Icebreakers are a great way for team’s to get to know each other, to get reacquainted or to get energized as part of a meeting or offsite. True North offers a wide range of Icebreakers — we’ll help you select the best one depending on your group’s dynamic. Icebreakers can be delivered either as a stand-alone program or in conjunction with another event.

The structure of this workshop allows teams (intact or new) the opportunity to discuss and structure a project into an action plan. The workshop skillfully combines the attributes of high performing teams with the MIT-developed model of GRPI in a highly interactive and compelling session.  A powerful combination emerges when a team understands its players and the direction it needs to take in accomplishing its goals; GRPI is a highly effective tool to achieve these results.

We offer this workshop in two (2) different formats:

• Remote / Virtual Learning
• In-Person

Zumba is a Latin-based cardio fitness class. This workshop combines fun, easy to learn dance moves with fitness and strength training to work every part of the body. Combined with the heavy Latin beat of the music makes the workout time speed by!

The workplace has no script, people must think on their feet, utilizing their imaginations and instincts constantly. Participants will learn how to strengthen and then leverage their interpersonal skills within the workplace. Through the lens of improvisational games and role playing, our professional actors/facilitators will get participants out of their seats and learning extremely useful skills around listening/hearing, making mistakes, trust, managing difficult conversations, responding and influencing people at all levels throughout an organization. The tools/skills practiced are useful throughout ones career.  This workshop can be customized to the learning outcomes within your organization.

This activity benefits our country’s troops and puts a smile on everyone’s face. We offer the opportunity for teams to work together to acquire and pack valuable supplies to the troops still serving overseas.  Each team member will have unique responsibilities to complete the challenges found along the way. Items included in the packages are the most in-demand items needed by troops.  Packages are sent either to an organization or to specific troops of your choosing.

No one knows when or where a zombie apocalypse will break out, or, more seriously, when a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake will strike.  That is why it is important to keep our local disaster relief agencies well stocked with hygiene kits that can be distributed in case of a natural disaster or zombie attack! 

We combine our irreverent Zombie Apocalypse themed games into a team building networking event where teams work together to acquire and pack hygiene kits, which can include: soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, laundry detergent, tissues, comb, washcloth, hand sanitizer, etc.  In addition, it is possible to create hygiene kits specifically for children and pets.  This is a great team experience and a fantastic way to give back to the communities in which we live and work.

The Arts is an area in education that can help close the gap between high- and low-income students’ academic achievement.  Support the Arts by making Art Kits for Kids.  Your team will create wonderful Art Kits through friendly arts and crafts-related competitions that will earn the art supplies that go into the kits.  True North will help locate a deserving organization of these very creative kits, if you don’t already have one in mind.

Part of True Norths Experiential Challenges Series: 

Participants are challenged with a series of Experiential initiatives specifically chosen to encourage the group to move beyond their “comfort zone” and explore current “ways of working” to drive better performance or incremental improvements within the group. Everyone is encouraged to discuss their current work environment and collaborate on solutions for issues being encountered.

INFORMATION SWAP

Type: Listening; Communication; Collaboration, setting others up for success

Goals/Debrief:

• Increase problem-solving and planning skills
• Increase sense of support, trust and cooperation within the team
• Develop a higher level of team communication, at a more precise level

Overview:

This activity is an opportunity for a team to create an environment that supports high performing teamwork playing off competition amongst teams. The goal is to explore how the team worked together and what type of support was needed and offered during the exercise.

Quick-DiSC provides a high-level awareness of DiSC Behavior Styles and is used with teams that either already know DiSC and need a refresher or want a quick and interactive styles overview. Each group interacts and reports out on their behavioral styles.

The True North Beach Olympics are a great way to get your team outdoors for a day (or half-day) at the beach! We run friendly beach-related competitions, including: three-teams volleyball, frisbee sports, beach soccer, relays, Sand Pictionary and more. There is something for everyone.

Percussion is often seen as the backbone or foundation of music, but what happens from there is an incredible example of teamwork. Utilizing a diverse selection of drums and other percussion instruments (bongos, djembes, cymbals, cowbells, and more!) participants learn a range of drumming techniques from a professional drum instructor. Techniques can include such things as specific rhythms, layering rhythms, call and response and more. The program culminates in each small team demonstrating their new drumming knowledge before busting out into a powerful group jam session. No prior drumming experience is required.

Working with raw cardboard, glue guns and tape teams will construct amazing cardboard sculptures that reflect the group or a specific theme. A great activity for bringing out creativity and innovation, we can theme this program in a variety of ways. A terrific “hands-on” activity for groups of 25 people or more.

Teams work collaboratively to create an entire Cardboard Motor Speedway complete with “Tricky Triangles,” “Twin Rings,” “Rovals” and more for inspiration in racecourse design. Each team is responsible for building a 5’ – 10’ length of track, with each team having their own unique track difficulty added in, as an extra challenge. Each team is responsible for designing and creating their own Remote-Controlled cardboard race-car, on the chassis we provide. Teams then compete against each other in a series of timed races in a fight to the finish line. There are roles for the racing- and non-racing fans alike. This is a very creative and fun way for a team to work together and then compete against each other for the coveted CMS Trophy. This is a great activity for a large group of people.

This activity is an opportunity for team members to create an environment that supports high performing teamwork vs. competition amongst teams.

The Doral Arrowwood Remarkable race is a team based “race” that showcases teamwork utilizing a hotel, hotel grounds, public parks, college campuses or urban neighborhoods. Loosely based on the TV hit The Amazing Race, teams are required to seek out and solve a series of different challenges. Teams pick up various clues and objects with roadblocks and detours to contend with along the way. Bragging rights (and medals) go to the team that accumulates the most points.

True North Team Building’s The Puzzlemaster Challenge is a great tabletop networking activity. Teams work together to solve a variety of puzzles, in a series of timed rounds. Teams will be encouraged to leverage each other’s strengths with the series of puzzles and other challenges they will be tasked with solving. This program is a lot of fun for competitive groups.

Challenges include: logic puzzles, spatial reasoning quizzes, riddles, brainteasers, and many other types of thought-provoking challenges. This program is a lot of fun for competitive groups. A number of puzzles can be themed to your organization or meeting goals.

Elmo meets Frankenstein at the intersection of art, science and technology. Get your team thinking out-of-the-box in this unique, hands-on workshop as teams take apart and then combine / repurpose things like stuffed animals, remote control cars and other random electronics parts to make totally unique new toys. Teams will have the opportunity to de-stuff, dissect, dismantle, rewire, relight, reconnect, reattach, re-stuff and so much more to come up with their own distinctive toy.

Can your team crack the code of the Mystery at the Museum? We set up and deliver intriguing scavenger hunts in any type of museum, including: art, history, science, natural history and more. Teams work together to try to solve the mystery through a series of cryptic clues, secret codes, and more. At the same time, the groups are also able to view the museum offerings in a highly interactive manner.

Everything DiSC® is not a test, it’s a personality assessment. This research-validated model helps you understand yourself and others, saving you time, energy, and money. Better employee communication means efficiency on both individual and company levels.

Everyone is a blend of all four DiSC styles—usually one, two, or even three styles stand out. Unlike simple personality tests, there is no perfect DiSC style. Since each person has a unique behavioral profile, people are walking around all over the world with different styles and priorities. We believe that these differences are extremely valuable. Once you assess these differences and harness their value, you’ll have better workplace communication and healthier organizations.

Everything DiSC® tools are designed to help you understand yourself and other people too. Our solutions help you build more effective working relationships based on an understanding of different behavioral styles.

Solutions include:

EVERYTHING DiSC WORKPLACE®

Everything DiSC Workplace® can be used with everyone in an organization, regardless of title or role, to improve the quality of the workplace. Everything DiSC Workplace is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a personalized learning experience.  Participants understand and appreciate the styles of the people they work with. The result is more effective and productive working relationships.

EVERYTHING DiSC MANAGEMENT®: TEACHES MANAGERS HOW TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EACH EMPLOYEE.

Everything DiSC Management® is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a personalized learning experience. Participants learn how to read the styles of the people they manage. The result is managers who adapt their styles to manage more effectively.

EVERYTHING DiSC® THE WORK OF LEADERS: VISION, ALIGNMENT, AND EXECUTION.

Everything DiSC Work of Leaders approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship, as opposed to the one-to-one relationship explored in Everything DiSC® Management. It focuses on tangible steps directed at leading a group or organization toward desired outcomes.

Using the framework of Vision, Alignment, and Execution, Work of Leaders encourages leaders to understand their own leadership styles and how they impact their effectiveness. Rich, compelling narrative adds depth to the data and strong visuals support the learning process by illustrating key messages.

EVERYTHING DiSC® SALES: TEACHES SALESPEOPLE HOW TO CONNECT BETTER WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS.

Participants learn how to read the styles of their customers. The result is salespeople who adapt their styles to connect better—and close more sales. Sales-specific, personalized content creates an in-depth learning experience. Modular design and online tailoring features allow you to design a customized program that’s right for your organization.

EVERYTHING DiSC 363® FOR LEADERS: A NEW KIND OF 360!

Finally, a 360 for DiSC® users! But Everything DiSC 363® for Leaders isn’t just any 360. It combines the best of 360s with the simplicity and power of DiSC, plus three personalized strategies for improving leadership effectiveness. The result is a 360° experience that’s more productive and satisfying.

Everything DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Some kids face the added stress of not being able to afford school supplies when going back to school and throughout the year. It is estimated that the average cost of required supplies K- 12 students is $688.62/year. Your team can help offset these costs with our Backpacks for Success program. This program includes very fun activities that can either be tabletop or more active. Teams compete for the items that go in each backpack. True North can help source a local charity that will ensure deserving kids will benefit from your organization’s generosity.

This activity is not simply about building a bridge it’s also about teamwork and effective communication. Project teams work together to not only complete their individual parts of the cardboard bridge project, but to also connect their sections together, to complete the project. The materials used are only cardboard and duct tape; a successfully completed bridge should be strong enough to have a golf cart driven over it! The exciting finale, that always elicits cheers, is a terrific way to get the energy going during a day or week of meetings. There is generally very robust material with which to debrief the group with.

This is a great way for your group to “have their cake and eat it, too.” Each team works together to design, shape and decorate cakes. Teams present their cakes in the culminating final event to a panel of judges. This event is great fun and stirs up some healthy competition.

Put wine into words, as our wine sommelier takes you and your team through the world of wine. Through our unique wine tasting activity, learn all about the art of tasting wine. We take you on a sensory adventure that will increase your appreciation for wine. This event can be customized to your organization or a specific theme. In addition, food pairings may be pursued, such as appetizers or a selection of cheeses/fruits.

This program is one of the Top Meeting Trends this year – read about it here!

Are your colleagues interested in understanding the differences between white, red, brown and black ale? Want to learn why some beers float on top of other beers? Our beer tasting is the perfect afternoon or evening activity that goes well after a long day of meetings. Our informative and fun certified Beer expert will walk you through how to taste a beer, styles of beer, food pairings and, finally, lets you sample some of the finest malt beverages around.

This is a great way to enjoy autumn and the Halloween season, have a lot of fun and boost morale as teams work together to design, shape and carve or decorate pumpkins. The pumpkins can either kept by the participants or brought back to the office. Prizes and awards make it all the more memorable. This event is also great as part of a larger networking event.

Teams compete in a range of challenges to earn what they need to build a Little Red Wagon. Once teams successfully complete the building of their wagons, the stakes are raised as teams shift to the next phase of competition, to get the goods that will then fill their wagons. This high-energy activity quickly goes from competitive to collaborative as everyone tries to fill all wagons to capacity. True North will source and liaise with a local/reputable charity if you don’t already have one in mind.

Our Sangria Making event is good fun and encourages the mixture and collaboration of people, wine and fresh ingredients. It is also possible for team/s to create non-alcoholic versions of Sangria, if they so desire. This makes for a fun, and tasty, networking event.

Based on the outcomes looking to be achieved, participants work through a series of experiential initiatives. The initiatives explore current ways of working that may need to be addressed to increase individual and team success in the workplace.  Participants are encouraged to join a discussion of their work environment and collaborate on solutions or changes to be applied throughout the program and ultimately brought back to the workplace.  A debrief session with the group at the end of the program is highly recommended. We will recommend specific activities based on the objectives and learning outcomes of the program.

Experiential Initiatives are great to do with global groups – they level the playing field to create a common experience for all participants.  Read more about the benefits of engaging Global Groups here.

Paintball is an active, outdoor game in which players try to eliminate opponents by hitting them with paint-filled capsules from a special device called a paintball marker. Good teamwork is essential in paintball – your team must work together to make strategies and plans, and then be able to coordinate them. Paintball games vary, and can include: capture the flag, elimination, defending or attacking a particular point or area, or capturing objects of interest hidden in the playing area. Our playing area, located on the Doral Arrowwood property in Rye Brook, NY, is a wooded location with natural boundaries made from fallen trees and branches. We provide all the necessary equipment and review all safety guidelines and the provide the rules for each type of game.

This is one delicious and popular program that is good anytime during your next meeting. Much like a fine wine tasting, our chocolate experts will walk the group through all aspects of tasting fine chocolates – the texture, aroma, melt, flavor, finish and what chocolate pairs best with, from both a food and beverage perspective. It’s possible to combine this program with a wine or beer tasting as well.

Our tabletop version of Chain Reaction, a true machine building challenge. Teams need to work together to build a contraption or machine that will accomplish a specific end goal, e.g. erase a whiteboard or staple two pieces of paper together, pop a ballon, etc. The group is given an array of everyday household objects to accomplish their task with. The objective is for each team to work together to ensure that their individual section work and meet all of the assigned requirements, while also making sure that it will trigger and works with the teams’ contraptions on either side of them, and so on, until the overall objective is achieved. There are many robust work-related metaphors that can be drawn out of this program.

Bring your group out for a fun but intense day in the woods; learn the basics of how to survive as a group when nature leaves you stranded. Our trained facilitators will instruct your team in the basics of building/finding shelter, fire-starting, foraging for food and water, long range communication skills, and basic first aid. Work together as a team to survive the day, or even overnight! This program can be run in any weather and requires participants to come prepared for the elements. This program can also incorporate a skills based team competition.

We give each team a red paper clip and a few guidelines: teams have to use their negotiation/influencing skills in the allotted time to see who can transform that paper clip into something much better, through a series of trades. The winning team is decided by pre-determined criteria. This event ties in really well with our influencing/negotiation skills workshop.

In this live action board game, teams take turns rolling the dice and moving around a giant game board. This is a real time game with all teams playing and competing against each other at the same time – the faster they answer questions and complete activities the more points they can rack up. Earn the most points and WIN the game!

The True North Team Building MATRIX activity requires teams to complete a variety of different activities as quickly as possible. Some activities can be done by one (1) member of the team, while most other activities require more teammates to get involved. Teams need to divide and conquer with speed and efficiency in order to complete all their tasks and earn the most amount of points possible. Once time is called all the teams convene for an energizing awards ceremony. This activity is great for an indoor meeting room or conference center where space is at a premium.

We combine bartending skills with team building components in this interactive group activity. Teams create their own signature cocktail or “mocktail” using items selected from the “store.”  Points are earned by competing in a range of lively bartending-related games. Each team delivers their signature cocktail to the esteemed judges for scoring in an exciting and animated finale!  This is a perfect activity for networking or in conjunction with a cocktail hour.

This program is one of the Top Meeting Trends this year – read about it here!

Participants can enjoy having photos taken with their colleagues! They will have the creative freedom to express themselves using a wide variety of props in their photos.  This activity makes for a highly engaging and memorable evening; even long after the event is over!

Grab the mic and rock out at our fun-filled Karaoke Night! Our top flight DJ will get your group rocking and rolling during this lively evening activity. A night your group will not soon forget!

In this fast-paced and fun “Olympic {Board} Games” competition, teams compete in sped up versions of classic board games. Leverage your teams’ skill sets in games such as Scattegories, Taboo, Trivial Pursuit, Operation, Rumikube, Cranium, Yahtzee, Giant Jenga and more. Medals are awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams.

Our fun-filled Pub-Quiz / Trivia Night will keep your group engaged during this lively evening activity.  Teams compete to answer the most number of quiz questions correctly. Our Quizmaster will choose a selection of rounds from a variety of categories. The culminating awards ceremony rounds out this fun-filled event!  Prizes are optional.

If you liked this program then you might like: 

• Lip Sync Battle *
•  Karaoke Lounge
• Celebrity Game Night
• True North Casino Night

True North Team Building’s Puzzlemaster Challenge is a great tabletop networking activity. Teams work together to solve a variety of puzzles, in a series of timed rounds. Teams will be encouraged to leverage each other’s strengths with the series of puzzles and other challenges they will be tasked with solving. This program is a lot of fun for competitive groups.

Challenges include: logic puzzles, spatial reasoning quizzes, riddles, brainteasers, and many other types of thought-provoking challenges. This program is a lot of fun for competitive groups. A number of puzzles can be themed to your organization or meeting goals.