Team development measures that strengthen trust, create structures and improve cooperation in the long term

In modern organisations, one-off events are not enough to strengthen teams in the long term. Team development measures go deeper: they combine experience-oriented formats with reflection, analysis and transfer. This creates clear roles, genuine trust and a culture that lasts.

Why team development measures?

 

Every strong team grows through challenges – with targeted team development measures, cooperation turns into trust, potential turns into performance, and groups turn into real communities.

  • Clarify roles and responsibilities

  • Make strengths and potential visible

  • Improve collaboration and break down silos

  • Deal with conflicts constructively

  • Increase motivation and resilience

👉 Result: Teams work more efficiently, trust each other more and actively contribute to the success of the company.

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Team building in 4 levels – which one suits your team?

Not every event has the same effect. At BITOU, we distinguish between four levels:

👉 This page focuses on Level 3Team development: Measures that turn a team into a real unit – with structure, reflection and action.

 

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Directly bookable team development activities

Choose from our most popular team development activities, either in person or virtually. Each activity can be requested immediately and is customisable.
Adventure Everest – Team development under extreme conditions
8 – 400
180 – 240 min
Virtual | Hybrid | Face to Face

Adventure Everest – Team development under extreme conditions

With Adventure Everest, your team will experience an intensive team development exercise based on a simulated expedition to the highest peak in the world. This exercise highlights how crucial trust within the team, clear communication and joint decision-making under pressure are.
Clarifying roles, utilising resources, dealing with conflicts constructively – the simulation reflects real challenges from everyday working life. Reflection shows how these experiences strengthen team development in the company in the long term and improve cooperation.
👉 Ideal for organisations that want to promote trust and communication with practical team development measures and take their teams to the next level of performance.

Rome – Team building with historical flair
7 – 300
180 – 240 min (without reflection)
Face to Face

Rome – Team building with historical flair

In Rome, your team takes on the role of Roman city administrators and experiences how teamwork develops in a structured way – because, as we all know, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Your team strengthens essential skills such as communication, leadership and psychological safety through a lively simulation that is practical and motivating.
The result: a team development measure that makes the daily challenges of working life tangible – and improves teamwork in the long term.

Before Mars – Team development measure with measurable impact
9 – 300
120 – 180 min (without reflection)
Face to Face

Before Mars – Team development measure with measurable impact

With Before Mars, teams experience a strategic simulation that mirrors real-life business situations. In this tailor-made team development exercise, your team prepares for a complex mission – and in doing so, specifically trains communication, decision-making, risk management and teamwork skills.
What makes it special is that the results are digitally documented and evaluated. This allows you to immediately see how effectively your team is performing, where its strengths lie and what potential there is for sustainable team development.
👉 Ideal for companies that want to make their team development practical and measurably improve teamwork.

The Chocolate Factory – Team development through process dynamics
15 – 300
120 – 210 min
Virtual | Hybrid | Face to Face

The Chocolate Factory – Team development through process dynamics

In The Chocolate Factory, teamwork becomes a tangible experience. Within a realistic scenario, your team simulates chocolate production, where process optimisation, agile responses to customer changes and smooth team communication are crucial.
This team development exercise demonstrates how small adjustments to the process and clear coordination can have a big impact. Teams learn how to strengthen structures, break down silos and improve their collaboration in the long term.
👉 Perfect for companies that want to take proactive team development, increase efficiency and take joint performance to the next level.

Chain Reaction 4.0 – bringing agile team development to life
5 – 3000
90 – 150 min (without reflection)
Hybrid | Face to Face

Chain Reaction 4.0 – bringing agile team development to life

Chain Reaction 4.0 brings teams from different departments together to jointly construct a complex mechanical structure — with funnels, robot arms, 3D printers and more. The game combines creativity and technical thinking, real team roles become apparent, and individual strengths come into play.
This team development activity makes agile processes, shared responsibility and teamwork visible and tangible. In the subsequent reflection, insights are profitably transferred to everyday work — for sustainable team development, better communication and more efficient processes.
👉 Perfect for companies that want to make their team processes agile and drive effective team development.

Mission to Mars – Team development at its digital best
6 – 3000
4 x 26 min (without reflection)
Virtual

Mission to Mars – Team development at its digital best

In Mission to Mars, your team navigates virtually through a highly complex communication world: fragments of information, chat channels, deadline pressure. Only through clear communication, understanding of roles and joint decision-making processes can the mission – the “code to Mars” – be accomplished.
This team development measure for improving virtual collaboration makes communication visible amid complexity, enables data-based reflection and delivers measurable team learning.
👉 Ideal for organisations that want to strengthen their virtual communication, optimise collaboration in the home office and make modern team development digitally measurable.

Merchants of Venice – Team development through understanding roles and negotiation
7 – 300
120 – 240 min (without reflection)
Face to Face

Merchants of Venice – Team development through understanding roles and negotiation

In Merchants of Venice, your team takes on the role of historical trading houses and experiences what happens when clear roles, skilful communication and strategic action come together. This exciting team exercise raises awareness of individual strengths and highlights how different behavioural styles shape collaboration. Supplemented by a DiSG or MBTI test, Merchants of Venice makes team dynamics visible – and provides valuable impetus for sustainable team development within the company.

Benefits for companies and employees

for companies

  • Higher productivity through clear structures

  • Stronger corporate culture & resilience

  • Lower staff turnover

  • Increased innovative strength
  • Stronger employer branding

For your employee

  • Greater meaning and sense of belonging

  • Personal growth through feedback and role clarification

  • Greater satisfaction and less friction

  • Stronger sense of belonging
  • Better handling of change

Team development process

1. Analysis & clarification of objectives

2. Simulation / workshop

3. Reflection & debriefing

4. Transfer to everyday life

5. Optional: follow-up & in-depth sessions

👉 This ensures that an experience leads to lasting change.

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“Our expectations of the Before Mars team development programme were met in full! It was particularly fascinating that we were able to clearly recognise our usual team and communication patterns in the simulated mission environment. This brought real added value to our team. The subsequent reflection provided valuable insights, and we were able to experience first-hand how important it is to make decisions together and celebrate successes immediately.”

The entire process was excellently organised and reflected our real working methods very well, which made the transferability of the learning experiences particularly high. We found the targeted advice and coordination with Ms Grittmann particularly helpful – both via the online calendar and through the personal support of the sales team. This made planning much easier.”

–  HDP GmbH

Why choose BITOU for team development measures?

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Team development requires more than just good ideas – it requires experience, structure and the courage to tackle difficult issues openly. This is exactly where BITOU comes in:

  • Experience meets impact – our formats combine exciting simulations with targeted reflection, so that teams not only have fun, but also make real progress.

  • Tangible results – we make development measurable: trust, resilience and performance are demonstrably increased.

  • Individually tailored – every measure is tailored to your team’s goals and challenges.

  • Long-term impact – we ensure sustainable change through follow-ups and transfer into everyday life.

  • Experience & quality – we have been supporting teams of all sizes for over 20 years, including international and multilingual teams.

👉 With BITOU, you are choosing a partner who meets teams where they are – and safely guides them to the next level.


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