Activity description
Mini golf is a timeless classic!
It’s a fun and accessible activity where participants play on a miniature golf course, often decorated in a creative or even glowing style, where precision and enjoyment go hand in hand.
It’s a light-hearted and friendly moment, perfect for relaxing without pressure while encouraging spontaneous exchanges among colleagues.
What does it impact ?
- Promoting wellbeing : Taking a break during the day to play boosts mood, reduces stress, and helps balance fun and performance at work.
- Optimizing collaboration and work quality : Mini golf sometimes requires team strategies, encouraging participants to cooperate, listen, and adapt in a playful setting. These interactions nurture a healthy collaboration dynamic that can be carried into work projects.
What should the organizer prepare ?
- Book an indoor or outdoor mini golf course.
- Check if you can add glow-in-the-dark lights or a fun theme for extra enjoyment.
- Plan a fun or symbolic scoring system.
- Bring small prizes for the most surprising shots or creative playthroughs.
- Let participants know to wear comfortable clothes.
How to achieve our goals on the big day ?
- Create unexpected duos with colleagues who don’t usually work together.
- Add mini challenges at each hole, like “sink the ball in one shot while blindfolded.”
- Introduce a theme (e.g., jungle, space, retro) to make the experience immersive.
- Organize a mini trophy for the best celebration after sinking a ball.
- Set up a chill zone with drinks or ice cream for breaks.
- Create a photo board of best moments or hilarious failed shots.
When is the right context for this activity ?
- When the team needs a fun, pressure-free break.
- After an intense period of deadlines or deliverables to decompress.
- During new employee onboarding to ease their integration.
- To replace a typical happy hour with a unique outdoor activity.
- When the weather is nice and you want to enjoy time outside together.
Other benefits
- Suitable for all ages and physical conditions.
- Low cost compared to other outdoor activities.
- Easily customizable depending on location, season, or theme.
- Encourages natural and relaxed interactions.
See what others have done 👋
- The marketing team at VerdiCom decided to play in full costume, but one colleague’s dinosaur suit blocked his view at every hole!
- A video game company in Montreal coded a live scoring app, but a bug reversed all the scores. The loser was celebrated as the winner for 48 hours!
- At Optique+, a player accidentally hit the ball directly into a sitting colleague’s pocket!
- A company in Estrie improvised a mini golf course using buckets, pipes, and funnels. One hole was impossible to complete unless the ball was thrown by hand!
- During a glow-in-the-dark mini golf game in Laval, the lights suddenly flashed like a show. The employees of a digital arts firm started dancing instead of playing!
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