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The Sabre Team Building Blog


All That Glitters is Not Gold: How Charity Prizes Help Clients Leave a Lasting Legacy Through Any Team Building Event
For decades, Sabre has proudly supported a wide range of local and international charities by linking client team building experiences with meaningful, real-world outcomes. While fun and engagement are central to every program we deliver, we also believe that the positive energy generated by a great team event can, and should, ripple outward into the community. One of the simplest and most effective ways for clients to make a difference is through our charity-based prize syst


From Serious Fun to Serious Outcomes: Delivering everything from engaging team-building fun to meaningful team and leadership development.
For decades, we’ve taken pride in our ability to design and deliver experiences that span the full spectrum, from playful themed team building activities at an off-site to strategic team and leadership development within the workplace. Far from being mutually exclusive, we’ve found that fun and development are often most powerful when they intersect. The creativity, energy, and connection sparked by a playful experience can form the perfect foundation for deeper insights and


Beyond the Boss: Leadership Lessons Inspired by Indigenous Societies
In a world often obsessed with hierarchy, titles, and fancy offices, it’s easy to forget that leadership doesn’t always have to mean absolute command and control in all scenarios. Indigenous leadership provides a useful example. With several members of the Sabre team having backgrounds in history, archaeology, and anthropology, it’s not unusual for our conversations to drift toward how leadership dynamics have shaped civilisations, and how collaboration has allowed some to t


When AI Blurs the Lines: Why Understanding Team Roles Matters More Than Ever - AI and Teamwork Insights
AI and Teamwork: AI can do great things, but if we are not careful and lose the human element too soon, functional boundaries can become problematically blurred. As artificial intelligence transforms workplaces, the clarity of functional roles within large organisations may be starting to blur. Departments once defined by clear boundaries, marketing, operations, IT, HR, are now empowered with new AI fuelled capabilities that transcend the traditional skill sets that until rec


Team Building for Homeless Charity
Great and meaningful fun with clients taking on the ‘Street Survivors’ charity team building challenge! This meaningful team building event supports people experiencing homelessness by donating Backpack Bed for Homeless survival packs. These vital packs are distributed through frontline homelessness support services to assist those most in need. Through a series of tailored team challenges, participants strengthen teamwork and collaboration while earning essential items that


Building Boats on Hamilton Island - Team Building Fun in the Sun
150 Mitre 10 team members from across Australia successfully take on our Kon Tiki team building challenge. Members of the Sabre team recently helped to launch a colourful flotilla of 15 hand-crafted boats onto the crystal-blue waters of Hamilton Island’s famous Catseye Beach. Our Kon Tiki boat challenge is a hoot, and works so well at this location.. Teams from Mitre 10 stores across Australia competed to design, build and race their vessels through a series of challenges th


It’s Never Been Easier to Access Your Own Belbin Reports Online
One of the great things about the Belbin Model is how accessible and easy to use it has become. What was once a more technical and specialist process can now be accessed online by anyone, anywhere, at any time. While formal accreditation in Belbin remains highly recommended for those looking to deepen their understanding or use the model professionally, non-accredited users can now easily purchase and use Belbin Individual, Team, and Working Relationship Reports directly


The Quest: A Tailored Team Building Journey for Balance and Understanding
The Quest is a sophisticated and engaging way to get out and about in a chosen destination with a fun team building format. The Quest...


Building Better Leaders with Belbin
Beyond Personality: What Belbin teaches us about true leadership and how to better understand and influence others. The Belbin Model is a...


Amazing Team Race for 200 People at Sea World
A 200-person Amazing Team Race around the Sea World theme park precinct on the Gold Coast was quite a spectacle to behold. The Sabre team...


Teams in the Age of AI: Why Human Collaboration Matters More Than Ever
Artificial Intelligence continues to transform the way we live and work, one thing has become abundantly clear — the human element within...


The Top 5 Benefits of Workplace Team Building Events
Success in an increasingly complex world depends not just on individual performance but on how well people work together. Team building...


Team Building Can Be Much More Than “Amazing Races”
Over the past two decades, the popularity of “Amazing Race”–style team building events has exploded. Why so many Amazing Race style...


Vale Peter Souter
Vale Peter Souter. The Sabre team are devastated that our former team-mate Peter Souter has passed away. Pete joined us immediately...


Toowoomba Team Building with an Amazing Team Race
🌸 It was a stunning Spring day in Toowoomba for an Amazing Team Race recently! Team building with a fun journey around town. With the...


Why does Sabre use the Belbin Model instead of DISC in team building?
When it comes to understanding people and improving teamwork, there is no shortage of personality models and profiling tools on the...


Around The World in 80 Minutes: A Gold Coast Team Building Adventure
A perfect Gold Coast Spring setting for a multi-national team building challenge. On a beautiful sunny Queensland spring day, the Sabre...


Spring: A Season for Out and About and Water-Based Team Building Adventures
As winter chills lift, the arrival of spring and warmer weather in Australia signals not only longer days, but also a welcome return in...


How Team Building Has Evolved in Australia Since the 1980s
Team building in Australia has come a very long way since the 1980s. Sabre has been uniquely placed to see these changes unfold and has...


Maximising Impact with Belbin Reports to Upgrade Team Building Activities
Sabre’s ‘Team DNA’ packages offer world-class Belbin reports with a tailored workshop and a choice of exciting team building activities....
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