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Cabo San Lucas Team Building Activities & Events
Los Cabos is the ideal, easy-to-reach destination for corporate meetings and interactive team building programs in Mexico.
A world of fun awaits in Cabo San Lucas for companies looking to engage employees and maximize the impact of their meetings. Venture Up of Mexico is affiliated with the American-based firm that began in Arizona in 1983. Today we offer fun effective team building programs for all abilities at conference destinations worldwide. In Los Cabos, you’ll meet Kristian Sandoval, Venture Up’s program director in Mexico, an industrial engineer who worked for Hewlett Packard for 5 years in Guadalajara before returning to his hometown of San Jose del Cabo. Kristian is your local connection to fun Strategic Games, Amazing Races, and team building combined with social responsibility.
Venture Up team building events are geared for all abilities. Having run thousands of groups, we are experts at promoting a positive forward-thinking mindset. Our success is based in the belief that team players must trust and rely on each other first; that personal and professional success are a function of open communication, accountability, process ownership and alignment; and that management strategies and vision are critical to drive decisions. Rallying team members around these ideals, we aim to help our clients drive long-term profitability, lift morale and improve corporate culture.
When your team meets Venture Up in Mexico, you not only enrich staff relationships, you may also leave a lasting mark on the local community if you are involved with our corporate social responsibility events to support area people in need. Venture Up offers more than 20 types of team building events in the Los Cabos area, including:
Featured Events
Bike Building
Bike Building for kids in need is our most popular charity-based team building event. Our corporate clients have donated more than 15,000 bikes to underserved children, often high achievers who lack financial resources or may come from struggling single-parent families. Corporate giving has gained momentum in the last decade, and we expect to expand our reach to developing countries, where adults and children use bikes not just for play, but for work and as their main source of transportation.
Our traditional bike building events begin with Strategic Games, a program designed to energize and motivate teams for the tasks ahead. Some challenges may be cooperative, while others involve friendly competition. As we progress to the bike building session, teams with assigned children’s names get to work creating poster-sized cards for each bike.
Amazing Race
Amazing Race Locations:
Pittsburgh – Las Vegas – New Orleans – San Diego – Santa Monica – Richmond – Portland – Scottsdale – Boston – Buffalo – Detroit – Minneapolis – Nashville – Omaha – Milwaukee – Raleigh – St. Louis – Virginia Beach – Chicago – Atlanta – Madison – Columbus – Charlotte – Phoenix – Atlanta – Puerto Rico – South Beach – Ft. Lauderdale – Birmingham – Little Rock – Greenville – Dallas – San Antonio – Houston – Park City – San Juan – and more.
Minutes To Win It
Rise to the challenge and fun with Venture Up’s Team Survivor and Minutes-to-Win-It event. Inspired by the popular TV shows, this combo program is competitive and geared for all abilities and professional levels. Teams stay intact and compete head-to-head through a course of mental challenges. No need for athletes on this event since activities are doable for all levels when some games call for physical involvement, which is always voluntary.
Escape Case
“”Think Inside The Box?” That’s what Venture Up’s new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you’ll love “Escape The Case“.
Game On Olympics
Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.
Mega Car 500
No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team “volunteer” across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up’s Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch.
Team Survivor
Rise up to the challenge with our Team Survivor and Minute-to-Win- combo program, inspired by the popular TV shows. This interactive event relies on ingenuity, quick thinking, and skillful collaboration, and is suitable for teams diverse in every possible way.
The program is fast-paced, fun and competitive. Teams stay intact throughout the event, moving station-to-station, facing tricky obstacles and taking on problem-solving games. After successfully completing each challenge, teams win a certain number of beads depending on how quickly they finish each task. The more beads a teams wins, the closer they are to victory.
Being aware of the strict time limit energizes the team from the onset. They quickly engage, share their talents as they compete with other teams. They’re having fun, working intensely, under self-imposed pressure and find new ways to be efficient and productive at every turn.
The program culminates in a festive finale when all the teams return to the central meeting area. Top performers are announced, and the winning teams revel in victory. What has the most impact for many teams is how Venture Up leaders tie the experience in at the finale. Teams at work must stay competitive to keep a leading edge in driving their team, their department and company forward.
Ask us about these popular activities to include in your event: Rat-a-pult Building, The Maze, Teamwood, Bag-it, Arrowheads, Bit Dicey, String Race, Scrabbled, Focus Tubes, Minds that Matter, Inked, Knott’s Not, Flip It, Animal Crossing and many more.
Mega Boat Regatta
No direction. No instructors … and no two ways to build the life-size motor-free boat that will send your team across the finish line in winning style. Quick collective thinking, creativity and problem-solving are critical to making an efficient water-worthy vessel in record time.
Strategic Games
There is a sure-shot fun way to jump start your meeting and it begins with Venture Up. Our Strategic Games is a series of problem solving challenges, sequenced and customized with your objectives in mind to provide an interactive experience for all abilities and diverse backgrounds. High energy activities are based in communication and coaching styles, trust, flexible leadership, and how adult learners are often limited by goals and earlier successes. Players can expect to learn new ways to work together, and learn something new about their teammates who they may have just met, or may have known for years.
Amazing Race - Downtown Cabo San Lucas
Hit the road… alley… sidewalk…trail… to adventure with Venture Up’s fun and fast-paced Amazing FOOT race in downtown Cabo San Lucas. Equipped with useful maps and a set of clues, and even hand held GPS units, team members use their collective resources to solve a series of puzzles that lead to unusual destinations and challenges. In this “Amazing Race”-style event, each team solves clues leading them from one destination to the next as teams race to the finish. Venture Up’s Amazing Race can begin and end at any location in the downtown area. Teams often finish at a local restaurant , bar or other place to grab a drink, relax and laugh about the race while waiting to find out who won.
Can Creations - Charity based CSR
Beyond the surf and into the hills of Los Cabos, life isn’t always a beach. Orphaned children and struggling single parent and impoverished families need help. Your team can provide food that can be stored over the long term. Can Creations is a fun, competitive event where companies buy can goods to ultimately donate to food banks and needy families. During the meeting, teams use the cans to create a variety of mosaics on the floor, or 3D sculptures, as directed by team leaders. When the game is up, the fun really begins and the ultimate winners are the shelters and organizations who receive the 1000s of canned goods and those people they service.
Bike Building Challenge - Charity based CSR
Bike Building for kids in need is Venture Up’s most popular program in the U.S.. Our corporate clients have donated more than 20,000 bikes to underserved children. Our reach to Mexico is a major step in our efforts to help not only children, but people who may use the bike as a major source for transportation.
3D Bionic Hands
Across the globe, thousands of children are born with Symbrachydactyly, a congenital condition in which hands are not fully developed. Recent advances in 3D printing have made affordable the creation of artificial hands to help children have full use of a hand, an experience and a tool that changes lives forever. Teams in this 3-hour project assemble the prosthetic hands which are distributed to impoverished kids in Mexico.
Team Building Sites: Venture Up sets up Team Building programs indoors or outdoors at any conference hotel, meeting hall, city park or corporate office in the Los Cabos area.
Customer Service Experts
Venture Up staff return calls immediately and deliver proposals usually within a few hours. We work on short notice, or plan months ahead. We can work directly with your company representative, or work with a Destination Management group or Incentive House who is planning your overall event. You can expect us to handle the details and stay in touch, so you have peace of mind and the freedom to tend to other matters of your team building event. Our aim is to exceed your expectations, and history shows we can.
Clients
About 90 percent of our team building business involves corporate clients, who prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising. We also work with government and non-profit groups; University MBA programs, charities, and federal agencies.
Many of our team building clients are also winners of the J. D. Power & Associates Award — and J. D. Power & Associates itself is on our client list. Venture Up also has a long-standing track record working 
with Fortune 100 firms, and with people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities and cultural backgrounds. Team Building groups range in sizes range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns # 148821721
Innovation
Given that a high percentage of our team building business generated from repeat clients and referrals, we are driven towards innovation. We’re on a non-stop course developing new methods and activities who rely on us to provide something different and new. In these changing times, team building activities are not considered a luxury but essential in making teams more effective and strengthening the corporate culture.
Fun Facts
- The Arch rock formation, also known as Finisterra, is on the extreme southern tip of Baja California, and marks the spot where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean.
- About every 4 to 7 years, a beach is visible around the Arch, and it is may be possible to walk under the arch. The last time the beach appeared was in 2016.
- The most whale sightings occur during January through March, when the humpback and gray whales follow their migration path from Alaska to the warm waters of Baja California Sur.
- Cabo Wabo Cantina is owned by Sammy Hagar of Van Halen.
- The original Planet of the Apes (Charleston Heston), Jason and the Argonauts, Troy and parts of the Titanic were filmed in Los Cabos.
- In June, 2012, Cabo San Lucas hosted the G20 Summit of world economic leaders.
- There is a spot that features an underwater sand waterfall, where sand cascades down into a 1,200 foot canyon below. The dive is for advanced divers only and was first discovered by Jacques Cousteau.
- Venture Up's program director in Mexcio, Kristian Sandoval is one of the few USA certified HydroFlyboard instructors in Mexico.