Is paint and sip good for team building?

Much better than trust falls. Better than escape rooms for groups over twenty. Better than trivia for groups with wildly different knowledge bases. Here is the honest case for paint and sip as a team building activity.

What makes team building hard

Most corporate team building activities fail because they create winners and losers (trivia, sport, competitive activities), require skills that not everyone has (cooking classes, dance workshops) or feel so low-stakes that nobody is actually engaged (drinks in a bar, "networking" events).

Paint and sip avoids all of these traps.

Why paint and sip works for teams

Everyone starts from the same point - a blank canvas. Nobody has an advantage from experience. The shared task gives people something to talk about that is not work. The host creates moments that bring the group together across different departments, seniority levels and personalities.

The result at the end of the session - twenty or sixty canvases all starting from the same design but looking different - is actually a useful metaphor for how teams work. Same brief, different approaches, all valid. We have had team leaders use this moment in the debrief.

What Paint Juicy team building sessions include

Everything the public sessions include, tailored for a group. The host can acknowledge team moments - milestones, departures, new members - within the session.

Paint Juicy has run sessions for corporate teams from ten to eighty people. The format holds at both ends of that range. Large groups just get a slightly more structured approach to the logistics.

What the research says

Creative collaboration has been shown to improve communication and trust within teams in ways that explicitly competitive or instructional activities do not. People show different sides of themselves when they are in a creative context rather than a professional one.

A team that has laughed together and made something together is a team that has a slightly different relationship than one that has only worked together. That is the value.

Logistics for corporate bookings

Paint Juicy can come to your office, to a function venue of your choice or to a venue we recommend in your city. Pricing for corporate team building is by enquiry based on group size and location.

If you need a tax invoice or have specific requirements around food, AV or room setup, mention that when you enquire. We work with corporate booking processes regularly and can accommodate most requirements.

Team building that people will actually look forward to. Enquire about corporate paint and sip sessions.