Chocolate Team Building vs Traditional Corporate Events: A Sweet Showdown
Corporate events generally get a bad rap, but just ever now and then, there is one event to really remember. If you’ve ever sat through death by PowerPoint in a beige conference room and dreamed of truffles and toffee, you’re in the right place! Today, we’re brewing up a bit of friendly competition between two types of team building events: the standard corporate retreat… and the delectable wonder that is chocolate team building.
So grab a bar of chocolate (or 2) and let’s put these two flavours of workplace bonding against one another to see which one melts your team’s hearts, and maybe even boosts your bottom line.
Round One: Engagement – Who Gets the Crowd Buzzing?
Traditional Corporate Retreats:
We’re talking trust falls, awkward icebreakers, and the occasional motivational speaker with a PowerPoint addiction. Sure, these retreats have their place, they’re structured, often goal oriented, and usually planned to the minute. But let’s be honest, the most exciting part is often the free continental breakfast (or the bar…).
Chocolate Team Building:
Now imagine your staff in aprons, diving hands-first into chocolate overload, and racing against the clock to complete chocolate event themed tasks. Chocolate team building workshops are calorie-liciously messy, hands-on, and unleash a creative spirit most don’t even know they have. And let’s be honest, it’s hard to pout about quarterly KPIs when you’re piping praline into a hand-made truffle.
Winner:
Chocolate team building takes the cake. It’s fun, delicious, and everyone leaves with a smile (and perhaps sticky fingers).
Round Two: Skill Building – Just Sweetness, or Substance?
Traditional Corporate Retreats:
These are often followed by seminars, role-playing exercises, and business simulations intended to refine leadership, communication, and problem solving skills. Effective, but like work in a Hawaiian shirt, discreetly disguised but still clearly work.
Chocolate Team Building:
Don’t be fooled by the sprinkles. These chocolate based experiences aren’t just sugar coated fluff. Team members must collaborate under time pressure, delegate roles, think creatively, and adapt quickly, all while crafting edible masterpieces. You’ll be surprised who naturally steps up as the “ganache guru” or the “tempering technician.”
Winner:
It’s tied, with a sugary advantage to chocolate. However, we believe chocolate team building workshops inject real team dynamics under the disguise of dessert and chocolatey goodness. Leadership training, but with truffles!
Round Three: Lasting Impact, What Stays With You?
Traditional Corporate Retreats:
Well planned retreats can forge improved workflow, communication plans, and company values. But truly, six months down the road, the recollections may be as distant as the swag bag tote of previous year.
Chocolate Team Building:
Humans remember activities that have an emotional component and all five senses, and chocolate engages all of them. The smell of melted cocoa, the laughter at wonky bonbons, this kind of activity lingers longer than that inspirational teamwork quote plastered on the office fridge.
Winner:
Chocolate once more. It doesn’t just stick, it sticks to you. In the best possible way.
Ultimate Decision: A Choco-late Bloomer?
We’re not saying old-fashioned retreats are outdated, far from it! Occasionally you may find that formal, intense environment is required to tackle serious team building. But for waking up your team, breaking the ice, and creating fun, lasting relationships, chocolate team building events are the unbeaten cocoa-nutty champion.
So the next time you’re planning a corporate event, ditch the trust falls. Pick up a spatula, and get your employees discovering their inner chocolatier. We guarantee, productivity has never ever been sweeter. 🍫🍫🍫🍫
Read our blog post on: The Power Of Chocolate Team Building Events fore more information.
Prepare to whip up a most uniquely unique team-building exercise.
Contact us to discuss your next chocolate team building event, where we turn teamwork into treat-work.
