Creative Singapore Team Building Event Organiser, 32 Team Building Games Your Whole Team Will Love
Does this phrase make your team members roll their eyes and slip off to the nearest exit?
Most team building activities elicit embarrassment rather than enthusiasm. Whatever impact they might have is nullified by the sheer reluctance of your team members to participate in them.
Đang xem: Creative singapore team building event organiser
However, there are some team building activities that your people will actually enjoy. Some of these will take just a few minutes, some might take hours. A few will impact your communication with a few others will improve collaboration skills.
I’ll share a huge list of such team building activities in this article. Use them freely at your next team retreat, weekend team getaway, or after-office activities.
Indoor Team Building Activities
Broadly speaking, team building activities can be divided into two categories – indoor and outdoor activities.
Indoor activities, because of where they’re conducted, typically have a very different character than outdoor activities. You’ll usually conduct these activities during regular office hours or at most, a weekend. If you’re at a team retreat, your activities will largely be outdoors, not within the confines of some conference room.
Because of this, indoor activities tend to be more serious. The aim is the same – to improve communication, trust and collaboration skills – but they have a decidedly formal tilt.
Let’s look at a few indoor team building activities you can use in your next team meeting:
1. Code of Conduct
A simple but meaningful activity that sets the tone for an event and builds consensus on shared values. Teams list what matters to them on a whiteboard. Perfect for the start of an event or workshop.
Number of participants: 10-30
Duration: 30+ min
Objectives: Build mutual trust, establish group values.
How to play
1. On a whiteboard, write down the words “Meaningful” and “Pleasant”
2. Ask everyone in the group to shout out what will make this workshop meaningful and pleasant. Alternatively, ask them to write their ideas on sticky notes.
3. Record each participant”s suggestion in the form of a mind map.
4. For each suggestion, ensure that all participants have the same understanding of the idea. If not, change the suggestion until it has consensus from all participants.
5. Go through each suggested item and ask participants how they would ensure that the idea is carried out during the workshop. Record these on the whiteboard in sticky notes.
6. All ideas mutually agreed on as being “pleasant” and “meaningful” make up the Code of Conduct for the group. The group has the responsibility to uphold this code through the remainder of the workshop.
Strategy
For any team building activity to be successful, the team has to have a few common values and beliefs about what makes a successful team meeting. Establishing these values early in the workshop/team meeting can make the rest of the workshop run much smoother.
2. Campfire Stories
A classic activity that inspires storytelling and improves team bonding. Teams gather in a circle and share their workplace experiences. Along the way, they learn things about each other and relive old memories.
Number of participants: 6-20
Duration: 45 minutes
Objective: Informal training, encourage participants to share, and establish common experiences
How to play
1. Create a set of trigger words that can kickstart a storytelling session. Think of words like “first day”, “work travel”, “partnership”, “side project”, etc. Add them to sticky notes.
2. Divide a whiteboard into two sections. Post all sticky notes from above on one section of the whiteboard.
3. Ask a participant to pick out one trigger word from the sticky notes and use it to share an experience (say, about his/her first day at the company). Shift the chosen sticky note to the other side of the whiteboard.
4. As the participant is relating his/her experience, ask others to jot down words that remind them of similar work-related stories. Add these words to sticky notes and paste them on the whiteboard.
5. Repeat this process until you have a “wall of words” with interconnected stories.
Strategy
Storytelling is at the heart of the community experience. It is also how information gets passed on informally. A storytelling session focused on work-related stories can get a large group to loosen up and share their experiences.
It can also act as an informal training session with work experiences passing from one member to another.
3. Memory Wall
A physical activity that establishes and re-lives the team’s shared memories. Teams sketch their shared memories with each other and place them on a wall. The wall remains up throughout the event, working as a focal point of the team’s camaraderie.
Xem thêm: Chỉ Tiêu Tuyển Sinh Các Trường Tiểu Học Nguyễn Thượng Hiền Quận Gò Vấp
Number of participants: 6-50
Duration: 45-90 minutes
Objective: Build camaraderie between team members, foster relationships
How to play
1. Give each participant sheets of paper, markers, and tape.
2. Ask each participant to survey the room. Take 15 minutes to write down positive memories of shared experiences and moments while working together.
3. Once participants have a few memories listed, ask them to draw a few of these memories on fresh sheets of papers. The drawings can be abstract renditions of the “memory scene”. They can involve partners who”ve shared the memory to create this drawing. Give them up to 30 minutes to do this.
4. Once the time is up, ask participants to tape their memory drawings to the wall.
5. Ask for volunteers to approach the wall and expand on the memories they just taped on the wall with the entire group.
Strategy
A visual “memory wall” creates a welcoming environment and reaffirms the positive relationships between team members. Rendering each memory – individually or in groups – as a drawing adds much-needed levity and camaraderie to the whole exercise.
4. Low-Tech Social Network
Map the connections between team members on a whiteboard. Teams create their “avatars”, then draw lines to show how they know other team members. This can work great as an ice-breaker at events where teams don’t know each other well.
Number of participants: 5-50
Duration: 30 minutes
Objective: Introduce participants to each other and establish relationships between them
How to play
1. Give participants markers, index cards, and tape. If possible, use markers of different colors.
2. Ask participants to draw their “avatar” on the index card – their “profile picture” on this social network, so to say. Add their names and positions to each card as well.
3. Stick each avatar card on a large whiteboard. Make sure to leave plenty of room between each card.
4. Ask each participant to draw lines to avatar cards of people they already know in the room. Also, specify how they know them (“worked on a project together”, “lunch buddies”, “went to the same college”).
Strategy
This “social network” works best when you”re dealing with people who don”t know each other. Establishing the relationships between them will break the ice. It will also help others map connections between participants for the remainder of the event.
5. Spectrum Mapping
Map the diversity of perspectives on a topic by organizing them into a spectrum. This can unearth innovative ideas and show the diversity of opinions within a team. It can also encourage people with unconventional views who otherwise won’t speak up to participate.
Number of participants: 5-15
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Objective: Express views and share diverse views
How to play
1. Start by identifying a few key topics on which you want insight and opinions from the participants.
2. Write down a topic in the center of a whiteboard. Then ask participants to write down their opinions and perspectives on the topic on sticky notes. Post these notes on either side of the topic along a horizontal line
3. Once everyone has chimed in, work with the group to arrange the notes as a “range” of ideas. Group similar ideas together to the left. Place outlying ideas to the right.
4. Continue doing this until you”ve arranged all ideas as a “spectrum” with most popular ideas to the extreme left, the least popular ideas on the extreme right.
Strategy
Building a spectrum map tells you the diversity of your team”s views about a topic. If you choose a topic that”s relevant to your business, this little team building exercise can reveal an astonishing amount of unconventional thinking.
6. Back of the Napkin
Draw the solution to a problem on the back of a napkin, like all entrepreneurs of legend. Teams will have to work together and solve problems creatively for this game to work.
Number of participants: 6-24, divided into teams of 3-4
Duration: 10-20 minutes
Objective: Promote unconventional thinking and teamwork
How to play
1. Come up with a bunch of open ended problems. These could be related to your business, an imaginary product, an environmental problem, etc.
2. Divide all players into teams of 2 to 4 players – basically, what you would see in a team of startup co-founders. Ideally, these would be people who”ve never met or worked together.
3. Give each team a folded napkin and a pen.
4. Ask the teams to draw a solution to the problem as a flow chart/sketch/graph. Evaluate all solutions and pick the best one.
Xem thêm: Top 10 Quán Buffet Lẩu Buffet 99K Ngon, Giá Rẻ, Thêm Ưu Đãi Tốt Nhất Hà Nội
Optional: Offer prizes to the best solution
Strategy
The “back of the napkin” is where so many great product and startup ideas first came into being. This simple team building exercise replicates this tiny canvas, giving participants something fun to do while promoting teamwork and outside-the-box thinking.
Bình luận