If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.
— Julia Child

Corporate Team Building Long Beach

Are you looking for a new way to bring your team together?

If you’ve been tasked with finding a space with great team building activities, training programs, and fun team building events, you’ve come to the right place. Here at Prep Kitchen Essentials, our experienced team of catering experts design and execute a fantastic experience for you in and throughout Long Beach.

Prep Kitchen Essentials is a cooking school that offers corporate team building activities that will boost your company team morale and productivity, even the executive teams. We offer cooking classes, catering, and private events. Our goal is to educate users on what they can gain from participating in these activities.

Our activities are hands-on and interactive. We approach corporate events from the premise that good food inevitably brings out the best in people, which means teamwork is a key to success both at work and in the kitchen! Cooking classes foster cooperation among coworkers, highlight the individual skills of each member who contributes their talents for one cohesive dish, and enhance abilities to collaborate effectively.

Give us a call today at (562) 430-1217 or email pke@prepkitchenessentials.com for more information on how we can help make your next special event successful!

*Disclaimer* -please inform us if anyone in your party has a food allergy or any food intolerances

Why Do Companies Organize Team Building Events?

In order for employees to perform their jobs adequately, the workplace environment must be a healthy one. A company's success largely relies on how its people feel about themselves and what they are doing. Employees will do well when treated in an equitable way by management or working with peers who share similar interests. This is why human resources departments stress team building activities in order to help build morale among workers as important parts of any organization that wants to flourish!

Hosting a team building event at least once a year offers the following benefits:

  • Improvement in Team Communication: Team building exercises are not something you want to just read about, but participate in. The old adage of "walking a mile in someone else's shoes" is much more than an analogy for understanding the other person. It also teaches us how to communicate with one another and work together as a team, as well as still retaining our individuality. The benefits of employee morale events cannot be overstated: they foster teamwork among new coworkers by fostering trust through communication and good humor, which can help your company succeed!

  • Development of Problem-Solving & Collaborative Skills: Collaborative activities are a series of puzzles and games that must be solved as a team. Individuals work together to solve an issue, which in turn reduces the pressure on one person to solve it alone. This can eventually lead to workplace environments where problems will be dealt with by everyone working collaboratively so they know their teammates have each other's backs too!

  • Boost in Productivity: To create high morale, and therefore higher productivity in the workplace it's important to make sure that staff feels like they're appreciated. This is because they'll be putting in more effort without even being asked for it. It may sound simple, but your office should feel welcoming too. This will also help foster strong relationships with those around you, as we spend an average of 8 hours per day thereafter all! Team building events are advantageous for individual employees, leaders, and companies alike. Not only do these raise spirits among team members themselves, which leads to enhanced job satisfaction, but such events often aid cohesion within teams by encouraging friendly competition.

  • Increased Employee Motivation: When people enjoy their work, they do a better job. No matter the difficulty of the tasks at hand, happy staff with high morale will produce great work compared to those who are just going through the motions every day mindlessly doing whatever is asked without any motivation or enthusiasm for what they're working on. Motivated workers will be proactive in helping your company improve processes and reach its goals--they'll take initiative when it comes to planning activities and often volunteer for sensitive projects first.

  • Greater Attention to Detail & Tasks Get Done Faster: When people are happy where they work, productivity increases. When morale is low and employees don't enjoy their jobs, mistakes become more common on the job. Happy workers also pay closer attention to safety protocols, which reduces accidents in the workplace.

Benefits of Team Building Events with Prep Kitchen

Conveniently located in Orange County, just minutes away from Long Beach, near the 22 and 405 freeways, our accessible venue in Sera Beach offers many benefits to host your next corporate team building event:

Our team building opportunities consist of hands-on cooking classes. By participating in these classes, coworkers foster cooperation among each other, engaging in physical and mental challenges, highlight the skills of each individual team member, and enhance their ability to effectively work together, thus enhancing positive team dynamics.

Within these classes, we host team-building games like culinary contests and competitions, where teams will be awarded points for categories, such as organization, cooperation, taste, and presentation, appealing to multiple groups of personalities and ability levels, and enabling an amazing team-building experience.

Our private parties allow our talented team of chefs and caterers to guide your coworkers to learn, share, and enjoy great food, as well as quality time away from the workplace. From celebrations to retirement parties, and even holiday parties, we provide the ideal venue to host all of your activities and team bonding games.

Entertaining Clients: Since the kitchen is a warm, inviting, and great gathering place, our warm, spacious, and professional kitchen is the perfect cost-effective (affordable cost per person) environment to host activities for clients, as well as establish new business relationships while affirming current ones.

Though we have an assortment of delicious and creative menus and recipes, just say the word and we can make a custom menu for you!

So whether your party is 1-6 people, 15-24 people, or 25-75 people, Prep Kitchen Essentials is THE place to make your next corporate team building event an unforgettable experience!

Contact us today at (562) 430-1217 or email pke@prepkitchenessentials.com for more information on how we can help make your next special event successful!

*Disclaimer*: please inform us if anyone in your party has a food allergy or any food intolerances.