At Newgale Lodge, we offer more than just a great location. Alongside venue hire, we are one of the only purpose-made corporate experiential learning residencies by the seaside.
At Newgale Lodge, we don’t do team-building clichés. Together with our sister company, The Development Company (DCo), we’ve mastered the art of making team development impactful, immersive, and (dare we say it?) genuinely enjoyable. Nestled in the scenic splendour of Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park, our exclusive-use venue blends the great outdoors with innovative learning moments for a truly tailored experience.
Here’s a taste of our top team-building activities—designed to inspire and engage even the most cynical of team members:
- Team Communication Challenges: Having to problem solve and rely on clarity to reach a team objective is one of the best tests of a team’s ability to collaborate and strategise. Often seen as the easiest test by teams, many experience huge learning from the challenge of communicating under pressure and for specific outcomes.
- Creative Team Challenges: Teams that foster innovation and creativity are well-placed to adapt and learn. Engaging teams in challenges that require innovative thinking and new approaches to situations to be successful is hugely beneficial to how well the team can collaborate. These activities often provide huge lessons in the impact of silo working and sticking to familiar processes, creative team challenges are a brilliant way to learn how a team naturally approach obstacles.
- Corporate Social Responsibility Projects: Combine giving back with team growth, and you’ve got a win-win. Teams work with charitable organisations, juggling project management, deadlines, and real-world impact. It’s heartwarming, humbling, and an excellent reminder that hitting targets can feel a lot better when they help someone else, too.
- Presentation Challenge: Individuals and teams are challenged in a theatre forum to demonstrate and develop presentation skills and personal impact. This development activity makes the biggest shift in a team’s ability to present messages with clarity and engagement. It can be used to stretch and refine presentation skills for a specific purpose and audience or to improve the confidence and capability of individuals representing their organisation.
- Coasteering Team Challenge: Teams are engaged in a coasteering challenge along Pembrokeshire’s rugged coastline. This activity presents new and unfamiliar challenges to most teams, combining rock scrambling with jumping and swimming alongside experienced instructors. Coasteering challenges are an immersive way to explore the demonstration of teamwork, trust, and camaraderie as a team navigates and supports each other to achieve the objectives that they are set.
- Leadership Development Challenges: Stretching the leadership capabilities allows individuals to have hands-on experience in leadership roles and practise the skills that effective leadership requires. We use a range of leadership challenges that present individuals with scenarios or tasks that require effective leadership qualities, such as decision-making, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork. Allowing participants to learn from leadership successes and failures in an immersive programme is an excellent way to achieve improvement.
- Business Simulation Challenges: This form of activity places teams in real-world business scenarios and allows them to make decisions and test their skills and strategies in a risk-free environment. There is often an element of competition in these challenges that sharpens the focus of achieving specific business objectives and outperforming others.
- Negotiation Challenges: The need to negotiate effectively is useful in all roles and these challenges are designed to present individuals and teams with realistic negotiation experience and assess their ability to achieve win-win outcomes through effective communication and negotiation strategies.
Our Pembrokeshire venue, Newgale Lodge is a dedicated space for learning and development programmes. It provides tailored residential programmes for all levels from leaders to early careers and has the space to offer an array of team-building activities that increase the skills and capability of individuals and strengthen team dynamics.
Whatever challenge your team is facing, our sister company DCo can tailor a programme to meet the outcomes you need to see. Pembrokeshire provides the perfect backdrop for transformative learning experiences. Get in touch to see how we can support your team’s development.