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Improve Team Communication and Collaboration in the Sutherland Shire
Crime Story Corporate replaces tired team building activities and events with high-energy investigations. Our multi-scene crime challenges are the perfect way to get people moving, talking, and thinking together. We work with small teams and large corporate groups alike. Whatever your size, our Sutherland Shire team building experiences lift communication, build trust, and bring out the competitive spirit in your people.
The result? A company team that's more connected, more capable, and more motivated to work together.
What We Offer
Immersive crime scene experiences
Your team analyses forensic evidence, interviews witnesses, and questions suspects in realistic, fully staged investigations.
Practical skill development
Hands-on challenges build problem-solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal awareness in ways a workshop never could.
Real-world applications
Teams develop resilience, sharpen communication, and build psychological safety they carry back into the workplace.
Specialised training
Workshops in domestic violence response and child protection response are available for teams that work in sensitive environments.
We come to you
We transform your office, venue, or event space into a life-sized, interactive crime scene. No travel required on your part.
Unite your team with a distinctive and interactive experience that encourages collaboration and equips participants with transferable skills they can apply long after the day ends.
Explore Our Sutherland Shire Corporate Team Building Workshops
From the first clue to the final reveal, our team building activities and workshops keep your team engaged, challenged, and genuinely invested. Each one combines collaboration, skill-building, and real fun. Missing out would be the real crime.
Workshop #1: Crime Scene 1 -'Diner’
The Diner is not your average team activity. Your group steps into three separately staged crime scenes that are each unique, yet connected. Investigate them individually, or dig deeper to find the links between them. That's where the real breakthroughs happen.
The experience features three life-sized, 6 x 2.25 metre digitally sublimated backdrops paired with authentic hands-on exhibits. Every detail is designed to make the investigation feel real.
What Your Team Will Achieve
- Evaluation of evidence – Assess the quality and relevance of information before making a call.
- Observations vs inferences – Learn to separate what you see from what you assume. It's a sharper way to think.
- Interpersonal awareness – Build communication, adaptability, and perspective-taking skills under real pressure.
The Diner is problem-solving, creativity, and genuine fun rolled into one. Your team will carry the skills and the memory of it long after the session ends.
Workshop #2: Crime Scene 2 - 'Alley’
Step into the shadows with Crime Scene 2 – Alley. This is one of the most high-energy team building experiences the Sutherland Shire has to offer. Your team enters a gritty, detail-rich urban crime scene layered with mystery. You'll need to think fast and work together.
You'll move through a three-part, 6 x 3 metre floor run of exhibits. Each station has 8 forensic evidence markers and 4 to 6 key objects to examine. With hundreds of clues to sift through under specialised lighting, every observation counts.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Problem solving – Break down complex scenarios, connect fragmented details, and find logical solutions.
- Critical thinking – Evaluate evidence, challenge assumptions, and draw strong conclusions under time pressure.
Alley turns investigation into a collaborative adventure. It's an experience that sharpens thinking and strengthens the bonds between your people.
Workshop #3: Witness Interview
In the Witness Interview, your team steps into the investigator's chair. Using evidence already gathered, you'll interview a civilian witness to uncover the details that could break the case wide open.
This is not just about asking questions. It's about asking the right ones. Your team will practise open and closed questioning techniques, manage conversations under pressure, and use verbal and non-verbal cues to build rapport and draw out accurate information. With other groups chasing their own leads, you'll also need to stay focused and adapt quickly.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Conversation management – Keep discussions productive and on track.
- Resilience – Adjust your approach in real time when things don't go to plan.
- Strengths profiling – Spot and use individual and team strengths when the pressure is on.
- Ethical and moral frames – Make sound decisions without cutting corners.
- Efficacy of objectives – Stay aligned with clear, measurable goals throughout.
The Witness Interview is memorable, practical, and packed with skills your team will use every day.
Workshop #4: Suspect Interview
The Suspect Interview raises the stakes. Like the Witness Interview, you start by questioning someone to gather key information. Then the situation changes. That person becomes a suspect. They must be cautioned and arrested, and they may choose to say nothing at all.
Your team needs to think fast, stay composed, and work within strict legal and ethical boundaries. Precision matters. So does adaptability.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Conversation management – Steer discussions effectively, even when the dynamic shifts without warning.
- Resilience – Hold your focus and composure when you're met with resistance.
- Strengths profiling – Put the right people in the right roles at critical moments.
- Ethical and moral frames – Balance your investigative goals with integrity and responsibility.
- Efficacy of objectives – Keep the whole team aligned, even under pressure.
The Suspect Interview is challenging, powerful, and an experience that builds real confidence in your people.
Workshop #5: Empathy & Responsibility
Empathy and Responsibility pushes team building further than most programmes dare to go. This workshop focuses on self-awareness, genuine connection, and understanding others when things get difficult.
A profile gives you a surface-level outline. Real insight comes from recognising your own thought patterns and using that awareness to respond with clarity and purpose. Through dynamic scenarios and reflective exercises, your team sees firsthand how empathy and accountability shape decisions, communication, and collaboration.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Strengths – Identify and apply individual and collective capabilities for stronger results.
- Resilience – Stay calm, constructive, and solutions-focused when the pressure builds.
- Profiling – Understand behaviours and motivations more deeply to improve how you respond.
Empathy and Responsibility helps Sutherland Shire teams communicate with greater awareness and build working relationships that actually last.
Workshop #6: Domestic Violence
The Domestic Violence workshop tackles one of the most complex areas of criminal investigation with care and clarity. It's built for organisations that want meaningful, skill-based team building with real-world application.
Participants explore the domestic violence charter of victim rights and gain a deeper understanding of the multi-faceted nature of these cases. A key takeaway is this: no single person carries the whole burden. Everyone has a defined role. Everyone has a responsibility. The workshop builds practical skills in resilience, psychosocial awareness, and precise factual reporting, all within a framework of compassion and professionalism.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Resilience – Build emotional strength and adaptability in challenging or sensitive situations.
- Code of Practice (Psychosocial) – Apply best practices to support others while maintaining professional standards.
- Factual reporting – Deliver information with clarity, accuracy, and impartiality.
This workshop builds skills that reach well beyond the workplace.
Workshop #7: Brief of Evidence
In investigative work, clarity and objectivity can make or break a case. The Brief of Evidence workshop is built around that principle. It strips away hearsay, opinion, and assumptions, leaving only what can be verified and proven.
Through practical, hands-on exercises, your team learns to separate observations from assumptions, distinguish evidence from information, and produce concise reports that hold up under scrutiny.
Key Outcomes for Your Team
- Reduce emotion and time at court, with solicitors, clients, and tribunals – Present facts clearly and avoid unnecessary disputes.
- Report observations rather than inferences – Increase accuracy and credibility in every form of communication.
- Know evidence from information – Make stronger decisions by working only with what can be proven.
Brief of Evidence gives your team a sharp, results-driven environment to refine their analytical and reporting skills. The confidence they gain carries into every challenge they face after.
Create a Crime Story Experience Just for Your Team in the Sutherland Shire
Every team is different. Your goals, your people, and your workplace culture are unique to you. That's why we build experiences around what you actually need, whether you want to develop specific skills, boost morale, or give your team an event they'll genuinely look forward to.
Get in touch today and let's put together a programme in the Sutherland Shire that your team will still be talking about long after it's over.
Why Choose Crime Story?
Engaging Experiences
Our immersive crime scene investigations create moments that captivate, motivate, and stay with your staff. This is team building that people actually want to do.
Experiences Built Around You
We shape each event around your company's goals, team size, and workplace culture. Every session is relevant, meaningful, and designed to get results.
Skill Development That Sticks
Participants build real soft skills: communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and more. These aren't just useful in the workshop. They carry directly into everyday work.
Expert Facilitation
Every session is led by trained professionals with extensive backgrounds in criminal investigation. You're in experienced hands from start to finish.
Sutherland Shire Team Building Activities FAQs
Do you come to us?
Yes. We bring everything to your workplace, event space, or conference venue in the Sutherland Shire. Your team doesn't need to go anywhere. All equipment, exhibits, and materials are provided and fully covered. You just supply the space and the people.
What are transferable skills?
Transferable skills are abilities developed in one setting that apply directly in another. Problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking are all great examples. Our workshops are built to develop exactly these kinds of skills.
What is experiential learning?
Experiential learning puts participants in the middle of the action. Rather than sitting through a presentation, teams learn by doing, then reflect on what worked and why. It's more engaging than any team-building game you've ever played, because the stakes feel real and the pressure is genuine. When you're battling through ambiguous evidence and competing interpretations, the learning sticks in a way a presentation never achieves. It builds stronger connections, deeper skills, and a sense of team spirit that sticks. There's also genuine laughter along the way, which is one of the reasons participants consistently leave with memories that last well beyond the session itself.
How much space do I need?
We recommend a space roughly the size of half a basketball court or gym. A double classroom with most of the partition open also works well. Tables and chairs are best arranged in groups of four to keep teamwork flowing naturally.
Where can you set up in the Sutherland Shire?
Almost anywhere. The Sutherland Shire has a great mix of coastal, outdoor, and indoor venues, and we're experienced at working across all of them. Whether you're located near the beach in Cronulla, close to the Royal National Park, or simply working out of your own office, we can transform the space into a fully staged crime scene. If you're not sure whether your venue works, just ask us.
What's the maximum group size?
Our standard workshops are designed for up to 40 adults, giving everyone equal access to exhibits and room to work at their own pace. For larger events, we can scale up to accommodate as many as 120 participants.
Is there a minimum?
No minimum. That said, the investment stays the same regardless of group size, so we recommend opening it up to other departments or teams so more people get to participate and you make the most of the session.
What's the ideal group size?
Forty participants is the sweet spot. It creates a fantastic balance where everyone gets fully involved and the experience stays interesting from start to finish. For larger groups, we set up multiple crime scenes and bring in additional staff to keep the experience running smoothly for up to 120 people.
Do you charge per participant?
We offer a range of investment options. If you're hiring us for a smaller group, we're happy to explore solutions like combining teams or opening the session to other departments to maximise the value.
Do you run sessions on weekends?
Yes. Weekends are a popular choice for corporate team building, and we're available to accommodate them. Whether you'd prefer a Saturday afternoon or want to wrap the working week with a session on a Thursday, we can work around your preferred date. Some groups even head out on a Sunday so that colleagues who are also close friends can relax and take part without any weekday pressures. It's a great way to run a session without cutting into the usual office schedule, especially for larger teams or retreat-style events.
Can we combine the workshop with food and drinks?
Absolutely. Many teams pair our workshops with catering, and it works really well. If you'd like to host a proper event around the session, food and drinks are a great addition and we're happy to share ideas on how to structure the day. You're welcome to organise catering through your venue or a catering provider. We can advise on timing so the session and the meal complement each other rather than compete.
When do you arrive to set up?
Wherever possible, we set up the day before your event. On the day itself, completing the crime scene build takes around 1.5 hours. We also like to throw in a briefing for your team before the session kicks off, so everyone knows what to expect and hits the ground running.
What is 'conversation management'?
Conversation management is a structured communication method developed by Dr Eric Shepherd for law enforcement. It keeps discussions focused, productive, and goal-driven. It works just as well in corporate and investigative settings as it does in the field, and it's used by practitioners right across Australia.
