American Outback Adventures & Events is a corporate team building event and group activity provider. Typically we work with people like you who are frustrated with the lack of communication amongst employees, concerned that your past events were not effective at building camaraderie, or unsure about how to boost morale and reward your staff in these everchanging and challenging economic times. We help you achieve your goals by providing responsive and flexible event solutions all within your expectations.
We work with corporate groups like yours located throughout the United States and abroad, running corporate team building events and group activities your team will really enjoy. Our team building sessions and morale events utilize concepts many of your staff will already be familiar with such as The Apprentice, Iron Chef, CI: The Crime Investigators, James Bond, The Amazing Chase, and more. The result is better "buy-in" from your employees (who have no doubt "seen it all" when it comes to morale events), a more valuable experience, and best of all, improved morale, increased camaraderie and enhanced productivity.
  
Our high value and much sought after team building events and group activities are designed and implemented with extraordinary attention to detail. They are available anywhere your group is getting together. Our most popular locations include various cities and resorts in California, Washington State, Oregon, New Mexico, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and (via our partners at Canadian Outback Adventures) throughout Canada. We also are called upon to take our team building events on the road to cities and resorts in Mexico, the Caribbean, and overseas.
[ If you are looking for an event or adventure in Canada, please visit our partners at Canadian Outback Adventures]
Preview all our popular team building events and group activities, or scan the CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING menu on the left to locate additional information on each of our morale events. Contact one of our friendly & knowledgeable corporate team building specialists to discuss your vision. Regardless of where you are meeting and how large or small your group is, we'll have an effective corporate teambuilding solution for you.
"I've been receiving feedback from numerous participants who were amazed and excited about their experiences during this event. What an impact on our team's morale! To say that your team exceeded our expectations is but stating the obvious. I am so thrilled to have worked with such a fabulous group of professionals." > more feedback
Please contact one of our friendly and knowledgeable representatives to discuss your situation and vision. Need a detailed proposal right away? That's our specialty.
 
“The event generated interest and got everyone participating. I think the best thing though was that it was a departure from our usual classroom-based learning." This comment is one we hear quite often. Many companies nowadays are looking for a tool for learning that is fresh and a little more interesting and engaging than what they've done in the past. Our team building events accomplish just that.
"Getting to see people in another light and learn about their strengths, creativity, and humour that you don't necessarily know about in their usual jobs was a big plus." Another very common comment we get from our clients. In today's workplace it is not uncommon to interact with colleagues only via email. Our events serve to break down that barrier, and allow participants to gain a true sense of camaraderie.
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We are able to immediately produce a professional group activity proposal that meets your needs. We realize that you often require details now, not a week from now. You have a meeting with your boss this afternoon, and want to look good with a professional proposal with an innovative team building concept in hand ready for your boss to consider.
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We have a large menu of innovative team building activities to choose from. Depending on your goals, group size, interests, meeting location, physicality desired, and budget, we will propose an event to you that will meet your needs and capture the interest of your participants.
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Our clients trust us with their investment. Our extensive client feedback from recent events we've implemented for corporations, including some of the biggest and most successful organizations in the world, is a testament to our professionalism and positively outrageous service.
Preview all our popular team building events and group activities, or scan the CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING menu on the left to locate additional information on each of our morale events. Contact one of our friendly & knowledgeable corporate team building specialists to discuss your vision. Regardless of where you are meeting and how large or small your group is, we'll have an effective corporate teambuilding solution for you.
“From day one when I engaged your company with this event, your staff showed a high level of professionalism and service. I have been receiving nothing but praise from my team about the event your staff had put together for us. Thank-you once again, and we look forward to another team building event with your company!”
Please contact one of our friendly and knowledgeable representatives to discuss your situation and vision. Need a detailed proposal right away? That's our specialty.
  
At American Outback we are able to provide facilitated events that address specific challenges or issues you are experiencing in your workplace. Recognizing that our event may only be one element of a larger workshop, our facilitators work with you to ensure that the team building activity is aligned and integrated with your corporate training objectives.
By combining our programs you end up reaping the benefits of having great teambuilding events that have been successfully delivered for many years AND the dynamic educational training programs offered by Corporate Explorer Training in one complete package.
Find out more about our suite of organizational development and corporate training solutions by visiting our Corporate Explorers Training section.
“The whole day was great, the various challenges were exciting, engaging, got everyone motivated, and even allowed us to lose our inhibitions. The benefits of the facilitated activities were being able to reconnect as a team and gain an appreciation for each other's work loads, fears, concerns, etc. I definitely would consider using American Outback Adventures again for future events and training.”
Looking for a unique corporate teambuilding event or group activity your entire team will get excited about? Have a look at the solutions we provide to successful and emerging companies from around the world. They are all designed to improve morale, increase camaraderie and enhance productivity.
We thrive on helping our partners achieve their goals through our unique and innovative suite of corporate team building events and group activities. Feedback like this is what we strive for every time!
 THE AMAZING CHASE
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. American Outback's Amazing Chase is an outstanding teambuilding event combining communication skills, planning, strategy, teamwork, and a race against the clock. Anyone can participate as no special skills, athletic ability or experience are required. Available year round and in a myriad of locations. Groups from 8 to 1000+ can participate at once. Amazing Chase Team Building
 CI: THE CRIME INVESTIGATORS
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Foul play has taken place and the local police department needs your help in solving this crime. Your aptitude for cooperation, innovative problem solving and creativity will be tested in this interactive and entertaining event. With each member proficient in a specific navigational or crime solving skill, teams will work together to navigate their way to a series of crime scenes. Each location will be staged as a crime scene where teams must carefully search for clues, plus preserve and photographically document evidence to solve each particular case. CI: The Crime Investigators Team Building
 THE APPRENTICE
   
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Your task today is one that has special meaning to me; you will work with your team to build, customize and create an ad campaign for a line of children’s bikes. I rode a bike once back when I was a child and I know how special it feels to be presented with a bright shiny new bicycle. Today, you can make a child smile. Also today, that strong, winning performance will lead one group to victory and earn one deserving team the coveted role of ‘The Apprentice’. Apprentice Team Building
 CORPORATE CASTAWAYS
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. 9 engaging and stimulating challenges combine with ceremonies and a variety of custom year round locations to provide your group with a premiere corporate training and teambuilding solution. Anyone can participate as no special skills, athletic ability or experience are required. Groups from 8 to 1000+ can participate at once. Corporate Castaways Team Building
 THE GREEN TEAM ECO-CHALLENGE
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. It’s not about drastically changing your life; it’s about one small action every day. It’s about thinking globally and acting locally. It can be as simple as switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs, recycling at home, or riding your bike to work. One small gesture today can have a big impact tomorrow, next week, or even next year! In this Green themed event, teams will compete against each other using their “environmentality” to complete 12 different eco-challenges. Teams will receive a Green Guide with a list of locations and challenges, as well as everyday tips and hints for everyday acts of green. Eco Team Building
 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Being able to dance is certainly something that has recently become more and more popular with all of the dance programs on television. Everyone is realizing how much fun it can be, especially when done with colleagues from the office. In this event, teams will go head to head, showcasing their best dance moves and their ability to mould together as a team to produce a smooth and sleek dance routine... Yes folks, this is a corporate dance off!! Corporate Dance Team Building
 JAMES BOND: SECRET AGENT 007
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. After a detailed undercover investigation, Secret Service Intelligence has determined that “Dr. Black ” – a high profile financier to the global underworld and self-styled poker ace – is alive and well, despite reports to the contrary. Our best and brightest Special Operations trainees have been called on to bring this international menace to justice. Your aptitude for cooperation, innovative problem solving and creativity will be tested in this interactive and entertaining event. James Bond Team Building
 GPS GEOCACHE CHALLENGE
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Geocaching involves teams competing in a high-tech treasure hunt. Teams are given GPS units that are pre-programmed with vital coordinates of each target, called caches. Utilizing the GPS units and team skills, each team collaborates to find these caches, often taking the form of hidden boxes or team challenges. Geocaching Team Building
 APOLLO: MISSION TO THE MOON
   
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Forty plus years after man set foot on the moon, the National Space Agency has made it a top priority to recruit and train a new group of specialists to undertake a repeat mission to the moon. Working together with a group of highly skilled mission specialists, your objective is to plan and execute a Micro Rocket Launch and Lunar Landing Simulation. Teamwork, effective communication, conflict management, sound decision making, problem solving, creativity and ingenuity under extreme pressure are key skills and each member of the team will take on certain roles and responsibilities to ensure that the mission is successful. Good luck! Apollo: Mission to the Moon Teambuilding Exercise
 X-GAMES
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. The X-Games course will test the strength, skill, creativity and teamwork of your group. Teams compete head to head in a multitude of timed challenges and activities with the aim of finishing with the best possible overall score. Following an extensive interview to determine the make-up of your group, the activities and challenges will been specially chosen to ensure a multi-faceted, active, competitive and refreshingly different experience for the whole group. The challenges are all designed to get teams working together both physically and mentally, and to highlight individual and team strengths. X-Games Teambuilding Activity
 THE OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
   
AVAILABLE IN WHISTER, CANADA. Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies is a not-for-profit organization that will own and operate three 2010 Winter Games facilities post-Games— The Whistler Sliding Centre, Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park and the Whistler Athletes’ Centre. We've partnered with them to bring the Olympic experience to your company! Half-, full-, and multi-day olympic themed events and entertainment featuring authentic Games venues and an unforgettable experience. Whistler Olympic Experience
 URBAN OLYMPICS
 
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Bring a bit of the Olympics to your city! In this Olympic themed event, teams of 5 will compete against each other, using their brains and brawn to navigate their way through the city and taking on various Olympic-related physical and cerebral challenges along the way. A great way to celebrate the upcoming Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler. Urban Olympics Group Activity
 OUTBACK IRON CHEF BBQ CHALLENGE
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. The time has come to once again answer life’s most savoury question: whose BBQ cuisine reigns supreme?! Outback Iron Chef BBQ Challenge combines authentic “Southern Charcoal BBQ” with the Iron Chef television show as a new way for groups to challenge their culinary skills and work together as a team. This unique team event is intended to recreate such themes as creative thinking, communication and team interaction, all while learning skills they can use when hosting their own future BBQ. Culinary Team Building
 GALLOPING GOURMETS
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. This is a high paced, fun and competitive culinary event where Culinary Teams will compete side by side creating out of this world dishes with the objective of winning over the judge's taste buds. You'll have a limited time at each of the cooking stations to create your meal extraordinaire. The event will be under the watchful eye of a professional chef who will give all the best tips on making your best efforts successful and fun, keeping in mind if you burn you learn! In culinary team building, victory is sweet! This is exciting program requires an indoor professional kitchen and is therefore venue specific and based on availability of our venue-partners. Galloping Gourmets Culinary Event
 BOAT BUILDING REGATTA
  
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. In this highly entertaining and engaging event, participants divide into teams and then have the opportunity to build a real boat constructed from cardboard. This boat will be built and then evaluated in a number of areas including presentation, design, USP/marketing, cohesiveness and finally, functionality.
This means that each team will be putting at least one member into the boat to compete on the water in a navigational challenge. Winning the boat race will not guarantee the overall win, but it will be a big factor. Boat Building Regatta
 THE GREAT CAMERA CAPER
 
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. In this interactive group activity, participants will come together to explore the city, finding secret locations and performing tasks and challenges along the way. Each successfully completed task will earn the team valuable points and as the locations and challenges increase in difficulty so will the points the team can earn. Using their own digital cameras, cell phone cameras or PDA cameras, teams will document their activities and upon review by the judges, the team with the most number of points will be announced as the winners during the post-event awards ceremony. Digital Camera Scavenger Hunts
 ART SMART
 
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. In this one hour boardroom blitz, teams will work together to conceive a thematic one of a kind creative art display. Using a variety of recycled and reclaimed art supplies, teams will compete against each other to see which group can best convey the theme of the day. This can be a custom theme specific to the group (eg. mission statement, corporate philosophy, current business focus) or can be randomly chosen on the day of. Some themes may include: Dedication, Perseverance, Frugality, etc. Teams would have limited time and resources to complete this task, so creativity and outside the box thinking are paramount to winning this event. ART Smart Team Building Event
 GRADUATE RECRUITMENT EVENTS
 
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. Our customized Graduate Recruitment Events have become very popular with major accounting, legal, and consulting firms across the country. These events give graduates a memorable experience and project an attractive company image, resulting in your company being their preferred career choice. They also allow your Managers and Partners to connect with and get to know top graduates in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. Unique Graduate Recruitment Events
 CUSTOM EVENTS & ADVENTURES
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. In other pages we've outlined our unique suite of innovative events, all designed and implemented with extraordinary attention to detail. Although these events make up the majority of what we do, we are also able to design custom events anywhere in the world. Companies from around the world choose to work with us for a number of important reasons. First and foremost, our clients trust us with their investment. In this era of "fly by night" operators, trusting the people you choose to plan and implement your event is paramount. Custom Corporate Events
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE. If you have specific workplace issues you need addressed, our professional training through experiential learning programs may be the solution you've been searching for. Our experienced and engaging facilitators will use one of our events as a means to hit on concepts and solutions your team will be able to apply immediately. Our events not only lend themselves perfectly to professional facilitation, they will also capture the imagination and attention of your staff (who no doubt feel they have "seen it all" when it comes to professional training). Applicable events are modified to maximize the impact our facilitator and the challenges will have with your group. Corporate Development Training
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