A Leader’s Guide to Choosing the Right Corporate Challenge Event

By Tom Frearson | Be Fearsome Events

Not all corporate challenges are created equal.

Some are designed to energise. Others expose team dynamics. Some test resilience. Others demand calm under pressure. Choosing the right event isn’t about what looks exciting — it’s about what your team needs to see in themselves.

That’s why we don’t offer a catalogue. We offer outcomes. And everything starts with one question:

What are you actually trying to change?

1. If You Need to Break Silos — Choose a Task With Shared Information and Limited Time

Silos don’t break because people talk more. They break when people depend on each other.

Challenges like Crystal Quest or StratNav are built so no single team or individual has all the answers. Progress requires coordination — across roles, departments, and personalities.

Teams start to see how isolation slows progress. It becomes obvious — because they feel it.

2. If You Need to Reveal Leadership Potential — Remove the Map

Leadership doesn’t show up in titles. It shows up in pressure. Ambiguity. Disagreement.

Tasks like Thunder Games and Command Tasks introduce complexity without a clear chain of command. There’s no single “leader” unless the team creates one. This forces people to step forward, step back, or stay still — and you quickly see who’s doing which.

We don’t tell you who your leaders are. The activity does.

3. If You Need to Improve Communication — Add Complexity

Communication isn’t about talking more. It’s about shared clarity, active listening, and timely action. And those only get tested when people are under strain.

We build layered challenges with incomplete information, conflicting demands, and hard time limits. We watch what happens when:

• Two people think they’re leading

• No one speaks up about what they know

• A quiet voice holds the key, but no one asks them

  
  

These moments are gold — not because they’re easy, but because they’re real.

4. If You Want to Develop Trust — Create Honest Stress

Trust is built when people see each other clearly.

Challenges like PlanX, Codebreaker, or Navigation-based missions introduce natural moments of tension. But they’re structured — which means we can control the pressure and debrief the response.

Trust doesn’t grow in comfort. It grows when people share hard moments and come through them together.

5. If You Need to Build Resilience — Get Outside the Comfort Zone

Resilience isn’t about pushing people to breaking point. It’s about helping them understand their limits — and learn how to recover well.

Activities that involve movement, decision-making under fatigue, or time-based constraints help surface how people respond under pressure. Then we debrief those behaviours calmly and constructively.

It’s not about making it hard. It’s about making it real.

How We Design the Right Challenge

We start with a consultation. No forms, no pick-lists. Just a conversation about:

• What your team is facing

• What’s missing in the culture

• What you want people to feel, see, or change

  
  

Then we design the challenge from there — aligning it to your outcomes, context, and capability. Nothing generic. Everything tailored.

What Makes It Work

Any provider can run an event. Few can use that event as a mirror — to help teams see what’s really going on, and what it’ll take to perform better.

That’s what we do. We don’t deliver gimmicks. We deliver challenge, insight, and action — designed to fit your team and your business.

Because real change only happens when teams face real pressure — with purpose.

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