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HOUSTON Team Building Activities
Creative Houston Team Building activities begin with Venture Up. Since 1983, we’ve offered a wide range of events in Houston to build relationships among new and intact teams. More than 250,000 execs have been in our programs — people reflecting a world of diversity. As America’s leading provider of team events, you’ll find our leaders are well-traveled, well-read and experienced with culturally diverse teams.
Have you seen what the Houston Chronicle has to say about Venture Up?
We travel throughout Texas, to Galveston, San Antonio, Dallas, Midland Odessa and across the border to Hobbs, New Mexico. Our team building activities and events are inclusive, promoting the benefits of diversity and the value of different perspectives in problem-solving.
A high percentage of our Houston team building business, and around the world is from repeat clients and referrals. We are driven towards innovation, developing new activities and sequences to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. Our clients view our way of team building not as a luxury, but essential in maintaining effective teamwork and building a strong corporate culture.
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.
Who hires us in Houston?
We are honored to have provided team building activities with these Houston-area companies, many of whom we work with several times a year: Anadarko Petroleum, Apache, BMC, BP, Cabot Oil & Gas, Citgo, Cooper, Cornell, Cybersoft, Direct Energy, Exxon, Frontier, Phillips 66, ConocoPhillips, Sysco, Plains All American Pipeline, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Helix, Insperity, Noble, Shell, Schlumberger, Marathon Oil, Waste Management, KBR, CenterPoint, Enbridge Energy Partners, FMC Technologies, Spectra Energy, Southwestern.
Customer Service Experts
Venture Up staff return calls for Houston team building immediately and deliver proposals within a few hours. We work on short notice, or plan months ahead. 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.
Houston Team Building Clients
About 80 percent of our Houston team building business is from referrals. Our corporate clients prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising, even in the age of social media. We team up with small companies as well as larger groups, such as government agencies — from school districts to federal agencies, such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
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
VENTURE UP Houston 832-295-0851 / One Riverway / Houston, TX 77056
Fun Facts
- The Waugh Drive Bridge is home to 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bats who escape at night to devour mosquitos.
- The Beatles and the Bushes have scuptures at the David Adickes Sculptrworx Studio in Houston.
- Strategic Games is the most popular program for Venture Up in Houston.
- The Art Car Museum in Houston showcases life-size works of art on wheels.
- Houston's downtown tunnel is 7 miles long and links 95 city blocks.