The Great State of Alaska
Featured Events
Strategic Games
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
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.
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“.
Bike Building
Bike Building for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Amazing Race
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities, correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Technicolor Transport
Technicolor Transport is a high-energy engineering challenge that pushes teams to design and build a working fluid-routing machine. Using colored fluids, pumps, tubing, valves and connectors, each group must create a system capable of directing any of four colors to twelve target points—then operate it using valves only, with no post-build adjustments. This 2- to 4-hour event blends creativity, problem-solving, coaching and precise communication, and can align with models like Lean Principles.
Project 15 THE MAZE
Venture Up’s Project 15 THE MAZE is designed for intact teams, virtual teams, or large corporate events in a general session. It’s a Strategic Game, based in sharing information and training around best practices, mitigating problems, achieving a unified goal across multiple areas.
TEAM BUILDING IN ALASKA
Venture Up began in 1983 as an adventure company and quickly switched gears to corporate team building to meet the growing demand for experience-based training. We were the first company of our kind, and if you google “team building companies” you’ll see an explosion of “team building companies” who followed our lead. We owe much of our continued success to our clients, the 250,000-plus people who have been part of the Venture Up experience. Diversity is our strength, in terms of the clients we serve, our staff and the range of programs we offer beyond what’s on our website. Company founders have traveled to more than 50 countries and shaped Venture Up to serve a cross section of cultures evident in multi-national firms as well as many smaller businesses today.
Our clients with offices in Anchorage include Apache, AT&T, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Marathon Oil, Shell, and Tesoro.
While we offer many programs on site and in conference rooms, our favorite team event venue is Alyeska Resort, 40 minutes from Anchorage. Alyeska’s reknowned ski resort is the gateway to fantastic hiking and mountain bike-only trails. As for meeting space? The sky is the limit.
At your service
Venture Up staff return calls immediately and deliver proposals within 24 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.
Clients
About 80 percent of our team building business involves corporate clients, who prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising. We also work with many government and non-profit groups; school districts, charities, and 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 — 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
With a high percentage of our team building business generated from repeat clients and referrals, we are driven towards innovation. We’re constantly developing new methods and programs to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients, especially in the new economy. In these changing times, team building activities are not a luxury but essential in moving teams forward with shared conviction and purpose.