eEssence Adventure runs corporate team building in Malaysia — indoor, outdoor and hybrid programmes for companies in Kuala Lumpur, the Klang Valley and nationwide. Programmes are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers, and every one is facilitated rather than merely supervised.
We have been designing experiential team building since before it was a category, which is where the Adventure in our name comes from. The activities below are the ones we run most often. Each can stand alone as a half or full day, or be combined into a longer programme, and each is chosen for the outcome you need rather than for how it looks in a brochure.
Video: eEssence Team Development Programme
How our team building works
A team building day is easy to buy and easy to waste. The difference is almost entirely in what happens around the activity rather than in the activity itself.
Every programme we run starts with a conversation about what is actually wrong, or what you are trying to build. A team that has just been through a restructure needs something different from a team that has grown too fast to know each other, and both need something different from a department that simply works in silos. The activity is selected after that conversation, not before it.
On the day, our facilitators run the session and debrief it. The debrief is the part that turns an enjoyable day into a useful one: what happened in the activity, what it mirrors back at work, and what the team agrees to do differently. Without it you have an outing.
Choosing the right activity
If you already know what you are trying to fix, this is the shortest route to the right programme:
- Departments that do not talk to each other — Jungle Beat or Camera, Lights & Action! Both force cross-functional roles where nobody can finish alone.
- A team that needs to think, not just bond — Crime Scene Investigation or The Jumanji Escape Room. Problem-solving under time pressure, with clear roles.
- Leadership and management groups — Crime Scene Investigation, which is built to develop managers rather than simply occupy them.
- Something with a social purpose attached — Everyone Matters: Building A Dream, or Zero Waste: Rags to Riches. Both finish with a real donation to a real recipient.
- A team that needs to enjoy each other again — Jungle Beat or Camera, Lights & Action! Performance-based, and nobody stays self-conscious for long.
- An ESG or sustainability commitment to land — The Green Innovation Challenge or the Sustainability Pledge, and see our ESG team building programme.
If none of that quite describes your situation, describe the situation to us and we will tell you which of these fits — or that none of them does.
Our team building activities
Eight programmes, grouped by what they are for. All eight run as a half or full day, and several combine.
Creative and performance-based team building
Jungle Beat
Jungle Beat involves music, rhythms, costume, dancing and most important of all, teamwork. The key message is that everyone matters to the performance — whether you are a front-liner, the dancers on stage, or backend support: musicians, choreographer, make-up artists and costume designers. A team can achieve wonders when it is truly integrated.
Key learning benefits:
- Cross-functional cooperation
- Creativity and innovation
- Managing resources
- Teamwork
Camera, Lights & Action!
Your team is challenged to make their own Oscar-winning short film. We provide all of the professional equipment required to create a high-quality short movie; you provide the creativity and the performance.
Making a successful blockbuster parallels the operation of any business: it requires interpersonal and communication skills, project management, conflict management, innovative and creative thinking, time management and, most importantly, teamwork.
Problem-solving and investigation
Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
This programme is built to craft, realise and develop leadership skills among managers, and to foster better teamwork between departments. It takes your managers to a higher and more strategic level.
CSI is a multi-faceted team project that requires diverse approaches to some creative and unique challenges. It can be adapted to suit virtually any location in the world, and we have used it for everything from pure fun through to substantial team and management development outcomes.
Through interactive learning, simulations, role-playing and experiential indoor and outdoor adventure activities, participants learn the core aspects of what makes a team successful — and how that contributes to the profitability of their company.
The Jumanji Escape Room
A treasure hunt for all. Participants move around the surrounding area searching for clues and completing tasks in order to clear every level. The eEssence escape room programme is built from tasks, clues and questions, with teams assigned to different “jungles” they have to escape from.
Key learning benefits:
- Empowerment
- Collaboration and supporting one another
CSR and sustainability team building
These four carry a social or environmental outcome alongside the team development. They also form the basis of our ESG team building programme, where they are framed around a specific ESG commitment rather than around team development.
Everyone Matters: Building A Dream
Building your team can involve more than your own employees. This charity-linked activity requires the team to assemble a bicycle from scratch — but first they must solve a series of challenges, puzzles and clues to “earn” the tools and the bicycle parts before assembly can begin.
Alongside genuine teamwork and problem-solving, the activity delivers a meaningful corporate social responsibility element: the bicycles are donated to a pre-selected orphanage.
Zero Waste: Rags to Riches
Rags to Riches is a CSR activity that lets participants give back to their community while recycling and upcycling unwanted items.
After identifying a charity that will benefit from your event, we help you organise the collection of clothing and other recyclable items from your delegates. At the session itself, teams take on a networking and communication challenge: creating a giant version of your company logo within pre-marked areas, using all of the donated items. The items then go to the charity.
The Green Innovation Challenge
Teams develop innovative solutions to real environmental challenges, proposing ideas across clean energy, waste reduction and sustainable practice. The activity follows a structured process — proposal, expert evaluation, and recognition or support for the most promising ideas.
It builds a culture of environmental consciousness inside the team, and where an organisation wants to take it further, the strongest ideas can be carried forward with mentorship and backing rather than left in the room.
Sustainability Pledge
A facilitated session in which your team commits to practices that prioritise environmental, social and economic sustainability — reducing carbon footprints, conserving resources, promoting social equity and supporting ethical business practice.
Pledges are built around the triple bottom line and made as specific goals and actions rather than statements of intent, which is what makes them survive the following Monday.
Indoor, outdoor and hybrid
All of these run indoors, outdoors, or as a combination. Indoor formats work in a hotel function room, a training room or your own office; outdoor formats use a resort, a park or an adventure venue. Several programmes, Crime Scene Investigation and The Jumanji Escape Room in particular, deliberately use both.
We deliver across Malaysia. Most of our work is in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya and the wider Klang Valley, and we regularly run programmes at resort venues further afield where a company wants an overnight offsite rather than a day. Where you already have a venue booked, we work to it.
Group sizes and who it is for
Team building works for a department of a dozen and for a company-wide event of several hundred; what changes is the format and the number of facilitators, not the principle. Tell us the headcount early, because it is the single biggest constraint on which activities are practical.
- Small teams and departments — the full range, with more individual participation and a deeper debrief
- Large groups and company days — activities that run in parallel streams, such as Jungle Beat or Rags to Riches
- Management and leadership teams — Crime Scene Investigation, or team building combined with our leadership training
- Mixed groups across departments — anything cross-functional, where the point is that people meet colleagues they never otherwise work with
HRD Corp claimable
Our team building programmes are HRD Corp claimable, so eligible Malaysian employers can draw the cost against existing levy contributions rather than a separate budget. We provide the documentation required for the claim.
Common questions
How long does a team building programme run?
Most run as a half day or a full day. Several combine into a two-day programme, and team building is often built into a longer offsite alongside training or an annual meeting.
Where do you run team building in Malaysia?
Anywhere in the country. Most of our work is in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya and the Klang Valley, in hotels, resorts, adventure venues or at your own premises.
What group size do you need?
There is no fixed minimum, and large groups are routine. Headcount determines which activities are practical, so tell us the number early.
Is team building suitable for a team with mixed fitness levels?
Yes. Several of these activities are entirely non-physical — Camera, Lights & Action!, the Sustainability Pledge and The Green Innovation Challenge among them — and the physical ones are built so that nobody is excluded by fitness.
Can the activity include a charity or CSR element?
Yes. Everyone Matters: Building A Dream donates assembled bicycles to a pre-selected orphanage, and Zero Waste: Rags to Riches collects and donates clothing and recyclables to a charity you choose.
Do you facilitate, or just supply the activity?
We facilitate. Our people design the programme and run it on the day, including the debrief — which is the part that determines whether anything survives the week.
