The San Francisco Bay area is a great place to organize a team building retreat or annual meeting because of the mild weather all year round and ease of access with big airports in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose.  Below are a few of our favorite locations for activities and meetings in the Bay Area.

• Downtown San Francisco: The downtown area has great hotels and meeting venues with scenic views and easy access. This location is fine for both indoor and outdoor activities.
  
• Fisherman's Wharf: Fisherman's Wharf is a fun place to do an outdoor scavenger hunt.
• San Jose Suburbs and Silicon Valley: Many of the big companies in San Jose and Silicon Valley like to conduct team building events on-site on their campuses. These types of programs are often held in corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
• Wine Country: If you want a nice get-away, Napa Valley and Sonoma County up in wine country are fantastic locations. Although, it is a short drive from San Francisco, the scenery is well worth the effort
• Sacramento: The Sacramento, CA area is also a great location for meetings and activities because of the ample hotel space as well as nice historic areas for both indoor and outdoor team programs.
• Modesto: An often overlooked area of California that is fantastic for your next corporate retreat is Modesto. Since it is just a short drive to either the Oakland or San Jose airports and it has all of the big-city conveniences without the big-city congestion, many event planners choose Modesto for meetings.

Whether you choose the San Francisco suburbs, have an office in San Mateo, Cupertino, or Palo Alto, or you are looking for a nice retreat in Napa Valley or Sonoma, our team building company can find the perfect way to insert energy and enthusiasm into your annual meeting or convention.

For locations in Southern California, make sure and visit our website covering the greater Los Angeles area at www.TeamBuildingLosAngeles.com.

The Camaraderie Quest: Team scavenger hunts have long been a staple in fun team meetings, but the Camaraderie Quest takes this activity to a whole new level. Each quest begins with every team receiving an electronic notebook complete with an app to access the quest, a digital camera, and video recorder. Our facilitators create a custom treasure hunt for every group so companies can offer this activity over and over with a new quest every time. At the conclusion, the facilitator shows a slideshow of all of the pictures and videos from the event (which your company gets to keep)!

The Ace Race Golf Team Building: If your group is competitive, then the Ace Race is a great choice! Participants are divided into small groups who each build a custom miniature golf course hole out of non-perishable food items like canned goods and cereal boxes. Once the entire course is built, the Ace Race begins where each group must race to get a hole-in-one on each and every hole. Before long, there are laughs and cheers throughout the room. At the conclusion, we box up all the items and donate them to a local food bank or food pantry.

Build-A-Bike®: Build-A-Bike® is the original charity team building event, and it is still, by far, the most popular -- for good reason. In this bike building event, participants earn parts of a bicycle, piece-by-piece, by solving puzzles and working together. Once they get that last piece, each group builds a brand-new bike for a needy kid in the area. At the conclusion, children from one of these local charities come rushing into the room to receive their prize. The emotion and enthusiasm in this program is off the charts high, and folks who conduct a single Build-A-Bike® often have us come back over and over again to repeat the process.

Keynote Speeches, Breakout Sessions, and Seminars: Although our instructors specialize in high-energy team activities, each is also an excellent keynote speaker as well. They are experts at delivering team oriented topics, leadership development, and motivational speeches, and because they are also experts at  presentation skills, any topic can be tailored to fit any time frame or customized to any audience. So whether you need a 45-minute or hour long keynote, a series of breakout sessions, or half-day or full-day seminars, our speakers can help.

For a list of all of our activities or topics, visit our company website at www.LeadersInstitute.com/team-building.