Serve It Up!
Cultivate your recipe for success via this high-pressure teambuilding exercise that pushes you to collaborate & generate delicious results fast.
A high-pressure cooking challenge where roles, delegation, and the big picture either add up to a dish or do not.
- Level
- Intact teams, All employees
- Group size
- Any group size
- Time
- Anywhere from 60 minutes to 2 days
- Format
- In person
- Languages
- English
- Business outcome
- Collaboration, Execution
Proof
100% would recommend
Serve It Up! Participants
How we measure
The Facilitator debrief names what the room revealed: who led, where decisions slowed, what the team committed to. You receive the commitments in writing, tied to names and dates.
100% Serve It Up immerses teams in a culturally-themed high energy cooking experience that challenges their teamwork and project management skills. Time constraints and detailed measures for success push teams to find the most efficient approach to the task at hand, resulting in new understandings of how roles within a team add up to achieving a unified goal. Break down complex projects into smaller achievable goals.
How It Works
Delegate the right task to the right team member. Strengthen collaboration by solving a challenge with a unified approach.
The Experience
Maintain positive attitudes under duress.
What Participants Say
“of participants would recommend this program to a friend or colleague.”
What Your Team Takes Away
Understand how individual roles play a part in the big picture.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a cooking team building activity?
- Teams cook against the clock. Serve It Up! gives each team a culturally themed dish, a tight deadline, and detailed measures for success. The kitchen does the work a meeting room cannot: the plan either survives contact with a hot pan and eight people, or it does not, and everyone can see which.
- Does cooking really build teamwork, or is it just a fun night out?
- The cooking is the pressure, not the point. Under a deadline a team has to break a big job into small ones, hand the right task to the right person, and keep the mood up while it gets tight. Those are the same three moves that decide a real project. The Facilitator debrief afterwards connects each role in the kitchen to each role on the team, which is the part a restaurant evening never gives you.
- How long does it take, and what does it cost?
- Most groups run it as a half day in a kitchen venue. It scales from about 60 minutes up to two days depending on what you want out of it. Investment is $10,000 per delivery day, with food and venue at cost on top.
- How large a group can do this?
- From under 20 up to 300 or more. Bigger groups run more teams in parallel rather than making anyone watch, so nobody ends up on the sidelines holding a spatula.
- Is there a virtual version?
- No. Serve It Up! runs in person only, because the shared kitchen and the shared deadline are what create the pressure. If your group is remote, a different Learn2 experience will serve you better, and the design call is where we sort that out before anything gets booked.
- What do we get besides a good afternoon?
- You start with a one-hour Joint Solution Design call where you choose what your Participants experience, then a Blueprint you review before anything is built, then a Participant Manual matched to it. Afterwards the Facilitator debrief names what the room revealed: who led, where decisions slowed, what the team committed to. You receive those commitments in writing, tied to names and dates. 100% of Participants would recommend it.
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