Team Building & Experiential Learning is not a “distraction” from the training BUT a part of the training. As long as you treat this as an ‘energizer’ it will be a silly game that you had us play.
If you treat this as an opportunity to connect the content (whatever it is) to an actual behavior change and how we get work done – you will be seen as a person who adds great value to the organization and made the training connect in the heads of the participants.