How the Challenge of Cooking Competitions Benefits Your Team

Corporate cooking competitions are a fantastic way to bring a company together for a little fun and excitement. With delicious food and a healthy portion of some friendly competition, your team will enjoy an incredible night of team building that will carry over into the workplace.

Why the Team building Cooking Challenge Works

If your team is challenged with conflicts that don’t get resolved, low productivity or team members who don’t communicate it may be time for a team building event. Especially if you’re building a new team with new hires or after a merger it’s crucial to build trust and communication early in the formation of the team.

Choosing the Right Team Building Event

When you are searching for the right team building ideas for your workers, you have several options. Sports like golf and ropes courses can be fun and physically challenging, but they don’t offer much in the way of new team building skills. Plus these physical team building activities may be frustrating for workers who are less fit. You have to ask yourself what skills from your team building event will translate back into your office or shop floor.

Casual social events like lunches and parties may help your employees get to know one another, but what happens if the newer employees get left out? You don’t want a situation where friends and longtime employees form cliques and exclude the new guys.

Why Corporate Cooking Competition is the Best Team Building Challenge

You can overcome the weaknesses of sports events and awkward parties, with our food challenges and cooking competitions. Everyone can relate to food in the kitchen. We believe that a cooking competition with a structured format is the environment that lets your team feel comfortable and come together to express their creativity.
Your workers will be divided up into teams that will compete with each other. Each team is guided by a professional chef to keep them on course. Each group is then given a menu and recipes for the night’s food courses. Under the time limits of competition your group will start to communicate and collaborate to become an effective team. This framework builds camaraderie as participants prepare and cook their meals so that everyone can enjoy the end result.
At the end of the challenge, each team will present their finished meal to the judges. A bit of creativity and salesmanship in the presentation may make the difference in a close race. Finally the teams are debriefed on their team skills with a chance for everyone to consider what they’ve learned from the activity.

How Your Team Benefits from Food Related Team Building

Check out the following benefits of corporate cooking competitions from the culinary team-building experts at Team Building with Taste.

Bring Out Innovation & Creativity with Cooking Competition

With a cooking competition, you’ll quickly bring out the strengths in your employees, playing on their creativity and innovation to defeat the competition. Whether they have an eye for presentation or work well under a strict time constraint, each employee will become an important part of the process. You can then use those same strengths, innovation, and creative thinking skills in the workplace.

Break Down Communication Silos & Improve Efficiency

Because people can easily get siloed in their specific roles at the workplace, communication may be stilted or cause efficiency barriers. With a corporate cooking competition, you bring employees out of their typical roles and into a new situation where they can work together as a team. They’ll learn how to best communicate with one another, and in turn, this will improve efficiency and communication in the office.

Improve Ability to Produce Results

Under the challenge of cooking competition, teams must work together to produce excellent results in a short amount of time. While at the workplace, projects often become mired in the usual process, which can be inefficient and delay results.

A timed cooking competition can encourage teams to work together to produce their best results in a timely manner, which can transition into the workplace afterward.

Improve Employee Camaraderie and Productivity

As employees work together to build on one another’s strengths in a short period of time, friendships, camaraderie, and bonds will form between team members, creating a stronger and more efficient team overall. Team members who enjoy one another and understand each other communicate more effectively and help boost productivity.

Book Your Team’s Corporate Cooking Competition Today

With Team Building with Taste, you and your employees can come together to build a more efficient, communicative, and open team. Reserve our team building kitchen online, or contact us at 678-915-2815 today!