They can either take newspaper clippings and paste them or write the headlines directly on the whiteboard. The exercise is great for spotting hidden opportunities or threats.
Like in the previous activity, divide your team into groups of 3 to 6, then grab a copy of your mission statement for each team so they can replicate it. The team that comes up with the most authentic mission statement wins.
Create a deck of cards with photos or words about your company. These might be photos of your team, logos, products, or value statements. Face all the cards down, then split the group into teams. Each team has to take turns and lift only two cards at a time to see if they match. The one that finds all the pairs in the shortest time wins. The activity is ideal for new hires who need a fun, yet quick way to learn more about the company.
Old hires can brush up their knowledge and stay up to date with the latest organizational changes too. Instructions: On the pinboard, draw a blank timeline. Make sure to date it back to the year when your oldest employee was born or when the company was founded. Add years to it, then write down on paper slips the most important company dates like when it was founded, merged, etc. Pin them to the corresponding year. Next, ask your team members to think about 3 or 4 events that marked their lives like graduating college, moving abroad, having a child, etc.
The activity brings into perspective the gap between generations. Getting your team to work together in a productive manner is not a walk in the park.
To help them get out of their comfort zones and strive for a common goal, decide on problem-solving activities. Some of them require little logistics and time. Others are more elaborate and involve prolonged states of focus. Instructions: Break the group into teams of equal numbers. Then have each team form a web of wools, the more intricate the better. Here comes the best part: switch the teams so everyone has a different web than their own.
Each team should then blindfold a team member and have them untangle the web following only their verbal instructions. The first team to do it wins. Sounds easy, right? You have to give concise advice and be receptive enough to follow your colleagues and instincts — should you be the blindfolded one.
Instructions: This murder mystery team building activity combines an engaging challenge with a twist! When the session starts, the Event Manager will brief the group virtually, providing intel about the murder.
Teams then use their smartphones to work their way through the evidence by tapping on the interactive map and objects. Whilst picking up clues, participants must also use video and augmented reality on their smartphones to collect intel and figure out who the killer is. The winning team will be those who find the killer and score the most points. Instructions: Before entering into meetings that require serious brainpower, warm up with this game. Split the group into two teams.
Then explain how they each have to build half of a bridge with the materials provided. In the end, the bridges should be similar in design and connection. Remember to set the room up first and place the sheets to divide them. Also, provide the same number of items to each team. In terms of timing, give them 10 minutes to come up with a design, and 30 minutes for building. Let them negotiate to find out.
Divide them into teams of 4 or 5. Then, give each team a different jigsaw puzzle equal in complexity. Explain to them that the puzzles are scrambled, containing parts from the other ones. The goal is to be the first ones to complete their puzzle while engaging in negotiation activities like bartering, exchanging team members, assigning leader roles, etc. Remember that these actions need to be taken by the whole team, not individually.
To make things more interesting, you can hand each team a few trading chips with no value assigned to them. Although time-consuming, this activity brings up the best negotiators in each person and gives you a sneak peek into how they strategize decisions.
The Paymo team playing the Barter Puzzle. Instructions: The goal of this exercise is to cross marbles of different sizes from one side of the room to the other, without touching the floor. Through short lengths of half pipes. Each team member gets one and has to balance it so that it passes down seamlessly. The facilitator, you in this case, can add obstacles between the start and endpoints to make the activity more challenging.
You can even come up with extra rules which require team members to take turns or both feet need to remain on the floor, for example. Break the group into teams, let them come up with a plan, then time how long it took for the marbles to pass down. The team that keeps the marble going for the longest time wins. A small word of advice: try to make the race hard, but not impossible, so that each team member is aware of what they can achieve together. Communication, balance, and trust — are the traits of healthy teamwork.
Instructions: This group team building activity is a great way to see how your team works together in an uncontrolled environment. The objective?
Each team contains 3 to 5 members. There are three key roles to remember:. The team game begins with the observer who can use any other communication channel to signal the direction to the communicator. The communicator in return has to interpret those signals and give instructions to the robot to retrieve the bomb. As a facilitator, your goal is to observe how each one is communicating both in a verbal and nonverbal way.
Pay special attention to the robots when it comes to active listening. This is one of the team activities that are great for people who want to better understand the Scrum mechanics. Robots might represent the Scrum team that carries out the sprints. The communicator is the Scrum Master who acts as a servant-leader for the Scrum team. The number of players decides the number of teams competing. Imagine their surprise to see misshapen objects littering the office and then being told they need to use an air pump on them.
Eventurous offers a mission-impossible challenge as part of their indoor team building activity. For this, teams will get only a snippet of information to move onto an unknown location. The mission gets more complicated as you move up, and the plot is revealed as you go along. It will last for about 3 hours and allows upto 90 participants.
Nothing like a good workout to feel better afterwards,right? An indoor rock climbing activity can seem intimidating at first but you can ease into it with some professional help. If a colleague is belay-certified, you can ask them to do this bit for you. This is one of the best unusual team building activities for the dog-loving community!
Stake out a trail and convene there at a designated hour with your pooch. None should see an invasion coming, especially one involving Zombies.
Simply have them pick chits which are mixed up beforehand. Go around to each of them and have them whisper what their chit says to you. Send them off to separate rooms based on their responses. You can hire a makeup artist to put on prosthetic makeup on your colleagues. To the other side containing the actors playing humans, tell them an attack is coming their way and they can either talk, defend or outwit the zombies to prevent turning into one of the Zombies!
Interestingly, the London Tombs offer people to get backstage and become one of the undead for a day for a fee of GBP which runs from London to Southwark.
The fee is valid for 12 months, so you can drop in anytime to cash it in and scare a few visitors. How about innocently suggesting that your manager come see you on X date?
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If you never want to miss one of our articles, long-form posts or any updates subscribe to our newsletter. What are Fun Team Building Activities? FAQs 2. Written by Namratha Mohan. Subscribe to Sorry, I was on Mute. Full Name. This activity is excellent for pulling members out of their comfort zones and creating meaningful working relationships. In this fun activity, give your team a fictional emergency scenario, such as being stranded on a desert island or in the middle of the Arctic.
For example, Scrat would definitely choose his acorn in both the Arctic and island scenarios! Give an object to each small group. Participants must take turns acting out a unique use of that object, and teammates have to guess what that use is. In this quick team building activity, instruct each group to find one thing they all have in common.
To take it a step further, have each person end with one quality about themselves that typically lies outside of the stereotype of the common quality.
Give each member of the group a square and a full-sized square sheet of paper. Instruct them to draw their pieces at scale. In the end, all participants will put their puzzle pieces together to identify the picture. This activity aims to demonstrate how each member contributes to the larger picture. For example, if you manage a marketing team, create a scenario that the company has released a marketing campaign that many people found to be distasteful and discriminatory.
Instruct them to brainstorm ideas and create a plan for a public apology and strategies for moving forward. Problem solving activities allow members to recognize mistakes before they take place in real life.
They also enable companies to put processes in place to deal with such scenarios if they actually happen. Instruct participants to get a team photo at each location. Outdoor activities can be a fun way to let team members engage with each other outside of the workplace.
Note: A scavenger hunt can also be an organized team event indoors around the office. Each team must stand back to back and work together to lower the pencil into an empty water bottle between them. Repeat this with the other hand. Set a time limit and instruct the team to un-knot themselves without releasing their hands.
First, hand out newspapers to each small group and instruct them to mark down 10 fictional headlines of what the company will be doing in the future. This team building activity helps teams contemplate long-term goals and establish a common goal amongst team members. Write a series of names on sheets of paper or sticky notes, such as celebrities or historical figures.
Participants will then go around the circle asking questions to find out clues of who they are. Gather the materials needed for this problem solving activity, such as building blocks, chairs, blindfolds, and sheets. Instruct groups to imagine that they are stranded in the Arctic. The objective is to elect a leader to build a shelter to survive. The team leader must give verbal instructions to their blind team members on how to build the shelter.
Teams must then accomplish a goal while tied together, such as completing a board game or jigsaw puzzle, making a sandwich, tying each of their shoes, acting out charades, or racing other teams across a finish line. One team member will have a pencil and a piece of paper, and the other will have an object or picture.
For this fun team building activity, lay out a series of random objects with seemingly nothing in common. Have each group write down their answers. Once the time limit is over, each group will share their categories aloud and explain why they grouped them this way. These cardboard squares can be moved as a person goes across the river.
Ensure that all the cardboard squares put head to head do not cover the entire length of the river. This hands-on learning activity will require a large bucket of Lego building blocks or Jenga blocks. Next, the team leader must relay what they have seen to their teammates to build the free-standing structure based on memory. As this is a memory team activity, your team will also create some fantastic memories while playing it! Objective: Collaboration, communication, building trust, problem-solving, building rapport.
Participants must be touching one team member with a hand at all times and cannot go under the fence. This includes the rest of the team on either side of the fence. Objective : Team collaboration , problem solving, communication.
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