Cross-Cultural Team Building Activities for a Team That Talks Past Each Other
Tour the world via real or virtual corporate teambuilding activities that challenge you from one cultural destination to the next.
With a focus on exploring world cultures through teamwork challenges, this cross-cultural team building experience will set your team up with a better understanding of how to tackle obstacles. This team building experience has 100% of the participants recommending this program to a friend or colleague.
Teams race through the cultural neighborhoods of your city, translating signs and finding clues, and learn how to tackle obstacles together.
- Level
- Intact teams, All employees
- Group size
- Any group size
- Time
- Anywhere from 60 minutes to 2 days
- Format
- In person · Virtual
- Languages
- English
- Business outcome
- Collaboration
Proof
100% would recommend
Tour the World 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.
From translating signs to finding clues planted in city newspapers, teams race to complete challenges in this Cross-Cultural Team Building Experience. Participants will search in multiple cultural centers across the city of Toronto, like Greek Town, Little Italy, China Town, Little Korea, Old Town, and other famous landmarks, all while learning important skills to develop the team. Not in Toronto, this program can be customized to any location.
Customized and Fun Team Building Challenges
Challenges in this cross-cultural team building experience can be customized to your unique business needs such as exploring your competitors’ approach to business, encountering innovative marketing in the downtown core, or learning to further their skill set. At the end of the day, teams will enjoy the diverse food they have collected along the team building experience, and finish their day by watching a video of their performance to celebrate their journey of connection and understanding.
Improve Team Connection and Understanding
Most team building programs tend to adhere to a strict itinerary, providing activities that are familiar and broad. Learn2 works to break the boundaries of ordinary team learning, designing cultural team building experiences with an aim to educate participants on the value of diversity in perspective. This immersive cultural team building experience will inspire better communication, teamwork, problem solving and more, while broadening participants’ horizons.
Explore how culture and nationality impact work styles through various approaches.
Benefit from the perspectives of diverse cultures.
Broaden your horizons by stepping outside of your own traditions and viewpoints.
Coordinate with team members to solve culture-based problems.
Strengthen team spirit and form new relationships.
What Your Team Takes Away
Improve participant’s communication and problem solving.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are cross-cultural team building activities?
- They are challenges a team can only finish by using what each person knows. In Tour the World, teams race through real cultural neighborhoods — Greek Town, Little Italy, China Town, Little Korea — translating signs and tracking down clues planted in city newspapers. Nobody on the team has all the answers. That is the point. People have to ask, listen, and trust a colleague whose read on the situation is different from theirs.
- How do you build trust on a cross-cultural team?
- Trust grows when people need each other and see it pay off. Talking about diversity in a room rarely does that. A shared challenge does. Participants coordinate to solve culture-based problems, then share the food they collected along the way and watch a video of their own day. They finish knowing who steps up, who catches what others miss, and who is worth calling next week.
- Does this work for a global or hybrid team?
- Yes. The experience runs in person in Toronto, or it can be customized to any location your people are in. There is a virtual format for teams spread across offices and time zones. Facilitators shape the challenges around where your team actually sits.
- Can the challenges be customized to our business?
- Yes, and most groups do. Challenges can send teams to look at how competitors approach the market, spot innovative marketing downtown, or practice a skill your team needs right now. You tell us the business problem. We design the conditions where your team works it out.
- What does the team take back to work on Monday?
- The habit of asking before assuming. Participants see how much of what they had filed under "difficult colleague" was a different work style shaped by a different background. They come back checking that first, and the meetings get shorter. 100% of participants recommend this experience to a friend or colleague.
Interested in This Experience?
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