Är matlagning den perfekta teambuilding-aktiviteten?

Writer: Co-operation partner

Team building, kickoffs and networking are part of corporate life that should be fun and memorable. But often, lack of planning or poor choice of activity can mean that the activity does not have the desired effect.

One example is to bring your entire team and any guests and cook together. It sounds like a relaxed way to socialize. cooking together in Stockholm, and indeed it could be!

But it's something that requires a lot of planning and expertise, especially if you're a larger group, and luckily you can get that at Aveqia, who are specialists in just such events. They've actually been working with this for over 25 years.

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A complete arrangement

When you have a team building event, sometimes it's not just the activity itself, but the entire arrangement around it that can be difficult.

At Aveqia, you will receive a ready-made plan where you will be introduced to your chefs and their facilities. Under their experienced guidance, you will then form suitable groups and then prepare a complete menu of world-class food.

Then you move into the lounge where you serve your dishes to the whole group and then you eat the delicious food together with drinks. After that you have plenty of time to mingle and socialize before the event ends. Finally, you also get the recipes for the dishes you cooked sent home, which creates the confidence that you can cook this type of food at home too.

That's the power of such an arrangement. You let the professionals handle everything that makes the activity fun for all participants. You can then focus on your company's goals, whether it's a kickoff for a new project, team building, or a chance to introduce yourself to a new partner.

Venues that suit your group

Different events require different types of venues, but Aveqia works with sliding walls that allow them to divide the venue into suitable units. This allows their events to work for everything from a small business team building of 8 people all the way up to a massive event with up to 150 people.

You and your team will also have the opportunity to try cooking in a kitchen with professional equipment, which for many of you may be a completely new experience. In the same way, it will definitely be a completely new experience for all of you to eat the food you prepared in a luxurious restaurant environment.

Cook with the help of star chefs

Just cooking together without help would quickly become unstructured. That's why you will work together with one or more of Aveqia's chefs. They all have many years of experience from big names in Swedish and international restaurants.

You will cook from one of their ready-made seasonal menus. It is a full restaurant menu with starters, main course and dessert, specially designed to both feel luxurious and be easy to prepare even for those in your team who do not have much experience in the kitchen.

Aveqia has ready-made menus and is responsible for all ingredients, but if you have special requests based on diet or allergies, you can of course contact them in advance to resolve this.

Is this a good team building event?

If you want to see about this cooking activity Stockholm is actually not only a nice evening but also perfect for team building, you just need to look at what Aveqia's previous visitors have to say.

On the review site Reco.se and on Google they have an average rating of 4.8 and most customers mention how much fun they had and how professional the chefs were in guiding the participants and making sure everyone had a good time. And this is the secret of cooking as a corporate event.

You get away from some of the tired team building exercises that your employees have already been through many times before. It is only then, when all team members are having a good time and working together on something that has nothing to do with your job, that barriers break down.

You can:

Breaking barriers
Learn to collaborate in new groups
Getting to know each other in a new way

That's the strength of cooking as a team building event. You work together with a common goal and everyone gets to share in the end result! But none of this would have been possible if you hadn't had the help of Aveqia's professional approach and their experienced chefs who are not only good at cooking but are also world-class communicators and know how to make cooking a social experience.

To sum up, it is only when you are having a good time and are fully focused on the activity that you forget that it is a team building activity. It is only then that you can get started and build new team spirit and community at work. The fact that you get an unforgettable meal and learn to cook in a completely new way is just a little bonus!