Virtual Reality is simply amazing. Open your teams to new challenges and transport them to other worldly locations impossible to replicate in the real world.
With a strong background in learning & development and expert facilitation, we know exactly how to run fun and engaging company events. Our in-house team of psychologists have designed clever activities to ensure everyone is involved, no room for bystanders!
What our Clients Say
Choose Your VR Team Building Experience
VR for Team Building Fun
Having led the way when it comes to VR team building events, we have the skills and experience in designing your event to be engaging, enjoyable and stimulating.
When “fun” is the order of the day, we know what works and how to rotate groups such that everyone is involved. Our psychologists have created clever activities that draw the whole team to work together, highlighting that VR team building is about going all-in together, collaborating, communicating, discovering more about each other in a fun environment.
Thank you so much for all of your effort in making last night a complete success. We were so fortunate to have found you — you really made the evening effortless! Your team was the star of the night.
– Jessica Y. Shamash, Head of Creative Production, Pixar
Multiplayer VR Team Building
VR is often lauded for how immersive and engaging the experience is –multiplayer VR takes this to a whole new level.
We have built our own novel and engaging multiplayer VR experiences that allow groups to work together simultaneously to overcome ambitious challenges.
Throw your whole team into an unknown world, an unusual situation or pit them against a new challenge and see how they come up with creative solutions, how they solve problems and how they interact as a team while they do so.
Multiplayer VR team building allow us to gather information for developmental feedback, while being enjoyed by team members as an incredibly engaging experience.
VRE helped us with an urgent project in Berlin and provided us with fast and reliable VR hire in person to our office door, reassuring to have found a reliable partner for our VR hire needs.
– Fax Quintus, I-Immersive, Berlin
VR Team Building With Learning Outcomes
If your company is looking for a fun and engaging event and would also like some learning to take place we can expand the activities described above by adding a layer of reflection and learning. Often we use some of the same activities as above and our trainers will observe the teams and discuss after each VR activity any learning points from the team’s experience.
We can also combine or focus on specific organisational competencies or values and help the teams discover how well they demonstrate these during the session. In previous events we have run live evaluations and compiled the results at the end to give a summary of team strengths and development areas across the different groups participating.
Our business psychologists work with clients to plan the day and identify key learning objectives, e.g. how their leadership skills could be developed, how their communication style affects interactions and other important soft skills.
It was great working with VRE; with a short lead time you captured the essence of our vision on a very important day for our firm and successfully helped us bring our people on board with our new brand. Your VR hire and VR event services and international reach made this overseas vr event possible.
– Emily Hill, Head of Events ex-Africa, Investec Asset Management
CASE STUDIES
SANTANDER
VRE ran a large VR event for Santander’s head office teams with a total of 70 staff for their annual offsite day. Santander wanted more than just a fun team day so working closely with them we developed materials and activities that captured the values and behaviours they wanted to promote in the business.
The resulting day allowed the VRE Psychologists to evaluate how well these behaviours and values were demonstrated during the day with a quantitative summary at the end of the day presented to the whole group.
We were able to provide useful feedback and insights into team dynamics and raise awareness of individual strengths and development areas and as well as departmental trends.
We also provided on the day some non-VR team building activities which allowed us to examine teams in a more traditional way alongside the VR methodology.
VRE provided Santander with a fully immersive employee engagement exercise using the latest virtual reality technology. By using VR, we were able to strengthen team relationships in a new, engaging and fun way.”
– Keith Moor, Chief Marketing Officer, Santander
EIF EUROPEAN INVESTMENT FUND
The European Investment Fund required a large team building event in Europe for 45 staff. We regularly work in Europe and so our team delivered onsite a VR team building day in Luxembourg.
Using the latest VR technology VRE was able to stretch teams and engage them in ways that traditional training cannot, using VR allowed EIF to see their teams working on new challenges they had not seen before and develop more effective communication as a result.
Our trainers provided multiple sessions on the day including experiential methodologies alongside the VR with the day’s session designs complementing each other and reinforcing learning outcomes.
ZALANDO
Working closely with Zalando’s L&D team in Berlin we developed an engaging and stretching VR team building experience for their head office finance team. This was part of a large departmental development day with groups rotating across three activities. Our team flew to Berlin and delivered the VR sessions to over 50 people on the day with our teams working alongside their internal trainers looking at how teams worked together to help them understand how they can work as a team more effectively.
Teamwerk
Working with a leading EU management consultancy we travelled to Hungary to deliver a VR team building and assessment experience. Delivering a VR team day alongside their consultants we were able to uncover unique insights for their client’s teams. Our unique VR offerings allowed Teamwerk to deliver a completely new experience for their client which was part of a larger 2 day off site development.
JP MORGAN
JP Morgan required a fun and engaging team building day, VRE was able to provide a range of VR experiences that challenged their teams and also provided a very entertaining day for their staff as a reward for their hard work.
CLEARSCORE
VRE were engaged to provide an team building event for their teams, this ranged from group VR activities where team members had to work together through to competitive VR experiences that raised the energy levels further as teams and individuals competed.
VR Team Building Ideas
Room
Escape
VR Escape Room Team Building
Competencies – Leadership, Communication, Problem-solving, Teamwork
Challenge your teams in ways they have not been challenged before. VR team building with escape rooms allows you to stretch your teams in new ways, using a range of fun and engaging environments that draw out key competencies and team critical behaviours.
VR escape rooms can be run at our London location or set up at your office or a hired venue with suitable space.
Our team of VR trainers and psychologists can also offer developmental versions of escape room team building if you wish to include some extra team development and feedback as part of your day.
For more details on our VR escape room team building click here.
Room
Escape
Tilt Brush
Competencies – Leadership, Communication, Problem-solving, Spatial Reasoning
This excellent VR application is a personal favourite of ours because it can be used in so many different ways with teams.
This VR application allows users to draw in 3 dimensions and is trickier than it sounds. As most of us are not used to drawing objects with depth, width and height, it presents some interesting challenges to teams.
We have designed this activity to be inclusive, giving everyone an opportunity to be involved. It is a meaningful lesson on learning to adapt our personal preferences and communication styles in order to interact effectively with others.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Competencies – Leadership, Communication, Planning, Problem-Solving, Time Management, Teamwork
This challenging yet exciting VR application is used when you really want to put your teams through their paces and see how people perform under a little bit of pressure. The goal being to highlight how people in challenging circumstances can behave in real work situations.
Teams have to defuse a series of bombs, they each take turns to enter the bomb room and are faced with increasingly complex devices. They are totally reliant on their teammates who have the various manuals to guide and help them.
If teams don’t work together in clever ways they run out of time, so it can be very rewarding for them as they slowly improve and start to defuse these devices.
This VR activity is very cognitively challenging and we usually recommend a lighter VR experience afterwards to allow participants to relax and re-energise.
Fantastic Contraption
Competencies – Creative Thinking, Communication, Problem-solving, Teamwork
This skilfully constructed VR application makes budding civil engineers out of all of us. Incredibly immersive and easy to use, teams build various contraptions to get objects to the other side of walls and across gaps in a floating terrain.
This VR application really challenges groups to think in new creative ways, but also not be afraid to start over instead of constantly refining a bad idea (which some teams end up doing)!
We have designed this activity to challenge teams to work together as a unit in solving the increasingly demanding contraption puzzles they face.
Waltz of the Wizard
Competencies – Problem-solving, Teamwork
Another favourite of the VRE team. Teams step into the shoes of a newly qualified wizard and have to quickly solve a number of magical puzzles in a short amount of time.
Due to the highly entertaining nature of the activity, delegates often get distracted from the tasks at hand, and instead make objects float in the air or throw fireballs around their wizarding cave.
Teams to work together to succeed in this activity and good problem solving and communication skills are an essential part to achieve a success.
VR Team Building Science
Is my team really a team?
Here we look at the theory behind team building, why it is important and what can be done about teams that are not functioning well. Teams can think they are working well together, but in fact are often working independently and not as a team at all, this pseudo team working can be very ineffective and can produce disharmony and poor outcomes in terms of team output. Check out our article below to see if your team exhibits elements of pseudo team working.
The First (And Toughest) Team Building Question: Is My Team Really a Team?
Here at VRE we are able to diagnose your team using VR to identify how well they work together and improve their understanding of their preferences and strengths when working in teams. Our unique activities in VR allow us to help your teams understand how they work and bridge that gap from a pseudo team to potential team to a high performing team.
Team Building the VRE way.
High Performance Teams – A Team Building Blueprint
Here we look at what actually distinguishes a high performing team (HPT), what are their characteristics and what underpins this high performing capability. It seems there is a hierarchy of requirements for a HPT involving three key areas, team culture, team processes and team structure. We explore each of these in turn and identify how they can be strengthened in a team to help them move towards better performance.
High Performance Teams: A Team Building Blueprint
We integrate these findings into our VR team building services allowing us to develop teams with sessions designed around these key requirements for high performing teams.
Building high performing teams the VRE way.
FINDING THE RIGHT MIX: DIVERSITY IN TEAM ROLES
There has been a strong focus in recent years on the impact of diversity in teams and with good reason when it comes to team performance. In this article we explore traditional and new theories regarding team roles and diversity and how they can be used to help select and build teams that function well. This article also helps us understand why VR can play an important part in helping teams develop across a range of important competencies crucial for high team performance.
Finding the Right Mix: Diversity in Team Roles
Selecting and building the right teams the VRE way.
Supporting Effective Team Diversity with VR
There are number of advantages to using VR for building teams, in this article we explore team diversity and what role VR can play to improve this. VR has been shown to be particularly effective in this domain, helping reduce peoples unconscious biases such as ageism, thus allowing teams to develop and work together with less of these biases in place.
If you would like to explore how you can assess and develop your teams and improve their effectiveness using VR then contact us now and we will be happy to work with you to improve your organisations team working culture.
VR at the Service of Effective Diversity
Team working and diversity development with VRE’s assessment and development.
Team Transparency: A Delicate But Winning Formula
Here we review one of the key factors for high performing teams, that of team transparency. This is an important factor as it facilitates a number of important outcomes ranging from better person task-fit to preventing failures and misses. With this in mind an important part of increasing team transparency is the opportunity for clear and objective feedback and being able to provide this feedback promptly. Here the advantages of VR really come into play and our VR Team Assessment platform provides instant and detailed feedback to teams enabling them to gain valuable insights into their team dynamics to improve their understanding and develop a clearer (more transparent) view of their team and how it currently performs in a range of key areas.