List of Team Building Activities
Team building activities are commonly used for corporate events, leadership groups and training. These activities are games and projects created with the intent to help groups work together. Often the activities are done with a group of employees who will be working together on a given project. They often take place in a conference or workshop setting, from which team members can take ideas back to their workplace.
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Athletic Challenges
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Interactive team building activities get everyone moving around. These challenges can be serious like rock climbing, a rowing competition or orienteering through a park looking for flag checkpoints. Forming teams for paintball, softball or kickball games enables employees to work together, assign positions and cheer each other on.
For lighter, silly sports challenges, consider water balloon tosses or a water Olympics with games like Chicken, in which team members must get on each other's shoulders and race across the pool.
Trivia and Games
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If you don't want to create your own games, you can buy board games and puzzles and have teams compete with each other or try to finish in a designated time. The excitement of challenging each other helps groups bond as they work to win prizes.
If you want to mix things up, try Who Said That?, a personal trivia game. Participants separate into two groups. They fill out fun facts about themselves on index cards--for example, "Has two horses, two dogs and two gerbils"--and place the cards in a basket. Each team tries to guess the person on the other team to whom the fun fact belongs.
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Problem Solving
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Whether the team members play the game Clue or you send them on a scavenger hunt, pull trivia, games and interactivity together to challenge them to solve problems, riddles and clues. Scavenger hunts work well as a team-building exercise but must be prearranged so that clues lead to items that are hidden around a space.
If you have a department that is on a retreat to team-build, you can send them off to solve a problem through brainstorming. You can challenge them to devise a new advertising campaign, balance a budget or write a training manual. Using problem-solving activities as team builders helps your team bond and gets important work done.
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