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7 Most Fun Team Building Activities You Should Try
by Emma • จ., 01 เม.ย. 2019 05:47ก่อนเที่ยง
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. IT is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both, because it is so powerful and so rare.” – Patrick Lencioni
From what Lencioni uttered, it can be implied that team building is a simple yet powerful method to improve employee productivity while having fun in the workplace. A study commissioned by Neelam Saraswat and Shilpi Khandelwal also revealed that team building exercises have positive impacts on team effectiveness. It is one of best programmes to enhance communication, problem solving skills, creativity, loyalty, and leadership.
Moreover, according to some experts in Uplift Events, initiating team building exercises once in a month has several advantages for your team, such as unite your team members by finding common purpose, allocate jobs according to employee’s strength, resolve conflicts, find ways to incentivise staffs, give credit when it’s due, focus more on professionalism, and help you spend time with the most valuable assets of your company.
Whether you run a small, medium, or large-sized business, team building will help you create a high-functioning and successful team. So, have you applied these most fun team building activities that your employees might always want to try?
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Coin logo
Purpose: To encourage creativity amongst employees and help employees to learn more about their colleagues
Best group size: Small or medium group
Time estimation: 10 minutes
Material needed: None
How to play:
You can play this game when you are in a room plenty of table or desk space. Ask participants to place any coins they have in their pocket or purse on the table in front of them. Each person should create their own logo using only the coins they have and any useful materials they bring. They should then take turns displaying and explaining their logos.
Just one question
Purpose: To demonstrate the importance of asking the right questions, highlight priorities, and help them to think together as a team
Best group size: Small to medium group
Time estimation: 15-20 minutes
Materials needed: None
How to play:
Pair all the participants into smaller teams consist of 2 or 3. Then, ask them to give ‘just one question’ with a theme you decide. For example, “if you could ask just one question to discover person’s well-being, what would it be?” Let your staffs have Q&A with themselves and in the end ask how they feel about the game conducted.
Blind count off
Purpose: To have fun while teaching the importance of listening to and communicating with each other
Best group size: Small to medium group
Time estimation: 10 minutes
Material needed: None
How to play:
Have all participants form a circle and face outward, away from each other. The group should know how much they can count as a team, with only one person saying a number at a time. If two or more people say the same number, groups should start again from one.
You can also play it as ‘word challenge’. With the same circle form, start a game with a word a not expected word. Then, only one person can continue/make new word. If two or more people speak at the same time. The game is over and you should start from zero.
All aboard
Purpose: To enhance team communication and leadership opportunities
Best group size: Small or medium group
Time estimation: 20-30 minutes
Material needed: Rope
How to play:
Rope off an area that all participants can reasonably fit into to represent a boat. Once all team fit in one place, then the area should be made smaller, using a rope or tape to mark off the area. Participants must work together to find creative ways to get everyone inside area, as the area gets smaller and smaller.
Conducted story
Purpose: To sharpen communication skills, especially listening and memory
Best group size: Small to large group
Time estimation: 20 minutes or more
Material needed: None
How to play:
Gather your team to sit in circle. Start your story by story opening such as once upon a time, long long time ago, once when I was a kid, and so on. After that, have the person next to you to continue the sentence by adding one or two sentences. But, the person should first repeat the sentences from start. The goal is to create a coherent interesting story by time you get to the end of circle.
Silent play
Purpose: To practice nonverbal communication and restrain
Best group size: Small or medium group
Time estimation: 15 to 20 minutes
Material needed: None
How to play:
You should move around circle, passing an invisible material for example ball from member to member while communicating with one another. You can only pass the ball through a set of silent gesture. You can read the full instruction here. It is a fun game to try for your next team bonding.
A better place
Purpose: To encourage teamwork to solve real-life workplace issues
Best group size: Small group
Time estimation 30 minutes or more
Material needed: Pen and paper
How to play:
In a small team consists of 2-4 members, give them time to come up with a plan on how to improve certain issue around office with small budget (you can mention certain budget). Ask each team to present their ideas. Then, ask the other participants to vote the presented ideas, whoever gets the most vote win the game and get rewards.
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