Challenge, Strength, and Confidence

Take the next step in developing your team into stronger team players. This is the MetroRock Team Building Challenge. Individuals and teams will be pushed outside their levels of comfort to achieve success in both climbing and in business.

Through the use of our two indoor rock climbing centers located in Everett & Newburyport Massachusetts, we work with you to identify your company/team goals, customize a team building program to meet your needs, and follow up to ensure that desired outcomes were achieved.

Our team building events include full use of our 2 climbing centers, conference rooms, and climbing walls. Your teams will be involved with meetings to plan and set goals. They'll compete in climbing problems and challenges and work together in trusting situations. They will be pushed outside their comfort zones and asked to solve problems or overcome an obstacle by utilizing the combined strength and power of the Team. Teams can be more effective than individuals and we stress the importance of trusting each other. They will remember their climbing experience for years to come and retain the lessons about themselves and their colleagues while at work.
Get your group to fully understand what it means to work as a TEAM!

While each Team Building Program is tailored to your Company's goals and expectations, the examples below provide a range of programs that have been used with other companies:

Confidence Through Climbing Program

This is our most basic skill based climbing exercise. This is a 3 hour program that is organized as follows:

Safety Focus - Elemental climbing safety program taught in small groups. Focus is on knots, gear, communication, and rope safety.

Climbing Skill - The second half of the program is focused on developing climbing skills. The gym will be explored and participants will push their newly developing climbing limits to the extreme. Instructors aid participants throughout this process by demonstrating climbing style and technique.

Cost - $55 per participant Use of a conference room is available. Food may be catered or brought in.

Peak Development Team Building Event  

This is our most comprehensive team building program. It is a custom designed event with your Companies goals and expectations built in. Predetermined group exercises are used to elaborate on the themes that your Company most desires to work on. The amount of time each Company chooses to participate will determine how many different exercises can be done. This program requires a minimum of 4 hours to hold.

Specific activity based exercises that have been used in the past are:

Safety Focus - Elemental climbing safety program taught in small groups. Focus is on knots, gear, communication, and rope safety. It is suggested that all team building programs start with this element for several reasons. Firstly, climbing is a trust based sport that requires partners to work together. Secondly, this program involves various elements of climbing, all of which require basic climbing safety knowledge.

Climbing Blindfolded - Participants are completely blindfolded and asked to climb routes while partners on the ground are instructing the climber on how and where to climb. The focus of this exercise is Communication development between the two partners. Post exercise facilitation is suggested.

Trust Rappel - Have you ever leaned backwards over a 35 foot ledge? If you haven't this experience can be incredibly nerve wracking. To foster the trust bond between co-workers we will have a partner actually hold the rope that lowers the climber to the ground. Post exercise facilitation is suggested.

Water Balloon Drop - Groups of 5 or 6 meet in a private area for a fixed period of time. The goal of the group is to develop and build a safety container capable of catching a water balloon dropped from 35 feet. The materials used to build this container are simple raw materials such as string, straws, paperclips, etc. The focus of this exercise is Teamwork as groups must decide quickly on a design and build strategy. Post exercise facilitation is suggested.

Trivia Traverse - Working with a representative from your firm, specific company trivia is developed and utilized in this game. Groups are randomly selected and teams are timed on the traverse. Advancing through the traverse requires the correct answers. The focus of this exercise is group cohesion.

Speed Climbing Challenge - Groups are randomly selected and teams are formed in a timed exercise. Each team will record their participants time on 2 different routes. Speed is the focus. Teams then compare their aggregated times to determine the winner. The focus of this exercise is group cohesion.
These are only examples of exercises that have been used in the past.
We realize that not everyone in your group is at the same level of physical fitness or ability. The exercises above require different levels of fitness, some more and some less.

Cost - TBD.
Use of a conference room is available. Food may be catered or brought in.