an over-the-shoulder view of the arms and hands of seven onsite workshop participants holding a variety of tools over a wooden workbench

Hands-On Team Building Workshops

Invigorate Creativity & Relationships
Support Social Impact
Contact Us To Help Your Team Connect

WHY TEAM BUILDING

Are you and your team looking for more connection and inspiration while working from home during the pandemic? Do you want to develop your team’s leadership skills, and meaningfully contribute to your company’s diversity and inclusion efforts?

Unlike traditional team building, our incredibly engaging experiences not only elicit meaningful interactions between you and your colleagues but also further refine your soft skills. When done right, team building has been proven time and time again to build trust, strengthen relationships, increase employee engagement, decrease turnover, and improve company performance.

WHAT WE DO

Shared Experiences Deepen Relationships

Smith Assembly creates hands-on workshops for Team Building and JEDI Training. Our workshops feature hands-on activities co-created by innovators from around the world, include a participatory reflective practice on Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, and model a variety of cross-cultural techniques.

an older man and a younger woman share a moment of connection and pride after soldering a connection during the hands-on activity

HOW WE DO IT

Hands-On Activities Open Minds & Hearts

Our workshops create an environment that encourages all your team members to engage, open up, and build. We show your team the value of applying global perspectives and design thinking. You and your team leave our workshop with an object you built, fun and useful crafts/maker skills, and stories about how grassroots innovations are enabling sustainable development around the world.

two women play a kinesthetic icebreaker with their team at the beginning of a smith assembly onsite workshop

WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

Inclusion Drives Individual & Team Performance

Having fun together in an immersive experience boosts your team’s camaraderie and forges bonds across gender, race, ethnicity, age, and org chart. You and your team members will feel inspired to apply what you learned about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in your workplace culture as well as your company’s products and services.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Our clients manage teams of all sizes and types, are members of executive teams, and serve on boards.

Smith Assembly’s workshops are a fun way for your team to nurture relationships, celebrate milestones, and onboard new team members. They also augment your corporate training and development programs related to leadership and inclusion.

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client logos like decade impact, mit, backyard creative, caravel labs, global shapers, dreamrider productions, and ilab

OUR BELIEFS

We believe that embracing and empowering a breadth of perspectives results in better culture and better business.

WE WANT TO BUILD WITH YOU

Make Your Workplace Healthier & More Inclusive

Learn how we can help you build trust, strengthen relationships, and improve inclusion within your team. A regular cadence of team building and jedi training activities will increase engagement, decrease turnover, and lead to greater team and company performance.

NOTE ABOUT COVID-19

To support the home-based, remote, and/or distributed ways you and your teams are now working, we’re creating a series of online workshops that you can do via video conference whenever works best for your schedule. We’ll resume hosting onsite workshops once pandemic-related safety protocols and restrictions on gatherings are no longer necessary.

a fist bump between a man and a woman during one of smith assembly’s onsite workshops (both are wearing safety goggles and smiling at each other)

two oaxacan women collaborate to build something (one is marking a measurement on a piece of wood) while a third woman watches

In Early 2021, that nonprofit is OAXIN — an organization driving social and economic justice in the Mexican state of Oaxaca through a community maker space and participatory programs teaching inclusive and collaborative innovation practices.

OUR SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

We Love Global Innovation

Smith Assembly participates in 1% for the Planet and donates an additional 5% of our revenue to nonprofits selected by our global innovators in order to amplify the positive impact they have in their communities.

We’re committed to supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on: GOAL 5: Gender Equality, GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities, and GOAL 13: Climate Action. The policies we enact and the metrics we measure ourselves against are aligned with B Lab’s SDG Action Manager.

READ ABOUT OUR IMPACT IN 2020