Top 7 Team Building Activities

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Building a great team and making them work together is quite similar to building a complex machine. Each member is a crucial part, necessary for the smooth running of the machine. In order ensure a team works smoothly and members coexist without any grudges, it’s necessary to engage in team building activities. Here are some of them.

1. Serve a cause

Get your team together to work for a social cause such as a preparing a meal for a local orphanage. Divide the work among them such that it requires a high level of cooperation among them to achieve their goal.

2. Go hunting

Divide the team into two groups and hide some pieces of a puzzle in various places all around your workplace. Ask the team members to hunt for the pieces and build together the puzzle before the other team does or ask them to do the same task within a certain time limit.

3. Guessing game

Write down names of a few work related things on separate pieces of paper and put them in a bowl. Divide the team into two and ask the member of one team to pick up a slip and hand it over to other team members. Now, the rest of the team has to describe the thing in three rhymes without actually saying what it is. The member has to guess it correctly to score a point.

4. Party!

Organize a casual party during work hours and ask your team members to get everything by themselves. This will give them a chance to know each other better and coordinate better.

5. One change at a time

Ask the team members to suggest one change they would like to see in their workplace or in the organization. Then ask them to select one suggestion at a time and think of ways to bring about that change.

6. A game in the field

On a sunny, pleasant day, take your team out for a game of football or baseball.

7. Brainstorming sessions

Organize the team into pairs and ask them to brainstorm ideas on how to imply recycling in the workplace. Ask them to evaluate each others’ ideas and the pair with most points wins. Now ask them to implement the winning idea together.

The basic idea behind all these activities is that team members should enjoy themselves and learn to imply what they understood from the activities, to build a great team.