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Team building on real hives

Team building in the Garden brings together time outdoors, an introduction to the world of bees and a shared activity for the team. Participants put on beekeeping suits and, with our beekeepers, get to know a hive and the way a bee colony works. We shape the programme around the size of the group and the interests of the team.

Dom kulture Silosi, the Danube bank 45 bee colonies in the garden Led by Dario and David

Send an enquiry Compare with „Learning from bees”

A beekeeper holds a frame of bees, team-building participants in beekeeping suits around him

01 What the team does with its hands

The suit goes on, the smoker is lit

The gear comes first. The suit zips up to the throat, the gloves go over the sleeves, and until that is done nobody goes near a hive.

Guided by our beekeepers the whole time, the participants get to know the hive from close up, hold the frames and work through practical tasks suited to the group and to the conditions on the day.

The beekeeper is there the whole time, reading the frame out loud: brood, honey, the queen if she turns up.

A group in white beekeeping suits gathering around the painted hives beside the timber cabin

02 How the day goes

All of it happens in the garden, none of it in a hall

The order is always this one. We agree the length in advance, according to how many of you are coming and how much time you have that day.

Arrival and the briefing

Everyone gathers in the garden, no slides. We go through what you may do, what you may not, and why nobody waves their arms near a hive.
The gear

Everyone gets a suit and checks the zips on the person next to them. The first shared task is that nobody walks in among the hives badly fastened.
Opening the hive

The smoker, then the roof, then the first frame. The team gathers around the hive.
Working the frames

The frames come out and go back in order, with our beekeepers alongside.
Closing up, and the conversation

The hive is closed, the suits come off, everyone sits down and talks about what just happened inside the group.
Time in the garden

Shade, the pallet amphitheatre and BeeFe, our own bar in the garden.

Because one bee cannot do what a hive can.

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03 Why a hive

A shared experience away from the office

In a colony of a few tens of thousands of bees, nobody issues orders. The work is divided by who is where and what they found, and information travels by dance and by scent.

The programme is designed as a shared experience away from the office: the team puts on protective gear, enters the world of the hive with our beekeepers and, through concrete tasks, gets to know how a bee colony works. The aim is not to assess employees but to give them an experience that encourages cooperation, curiosity and conversation within the team.

So once the hive is closed, the conversation turns to the team, and the bees stay as the example.

A beekeeper in a white suit and veiled hat lifting a frame of bees above an open hive

04 The difference between the two programmes

Here you work, at „Learning from bees” you learn

Team building is a physical day: the suit, the smoker, an open hive, frames in your hands. „Learning from bees” is Bee a Team, business training at a table, where the hive asks the questions and the people from the company answer them.

Team building Suits, smoker and frames. The hands work, the talking comes afterwards.
Learning from bees A table, questions and discussion. The hive is the example, the team gives the answers.
Shared by both The same garden, the same hives, the same beekeepers.
If you want both Write that in the enquiry and we will agree the order.