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Fun Ideas for Team Building Activities
Team building is an important part of developing good working relations with employees and employers. Team building activities and exercises help develop employee motivations, help improve communication and are also a lot of fun.
If you want to add a little pizzazz to that meeting or seminar, try a few team building activities to get everyone involved, it will also help people stay interested instead of zoning out. When people feel they are part of a team, they are far more likely to feel motivated, and to go that little bit extra that the job requires.
You can hire a team building company, or come up with some ideas yourself. Sandstone have some brilliant ideas, from 'Iceberg', which involves some of the team being trapped on a drifting ship, and the others being the only ones who can contact them, to Robocup, which is similar to the BBC's Robot Wars, where teams build virtual gladiators and then go at it on a big screen.
CCCGroup.com have some fantastic activities, from 'Mission Impossible', where participants have to pose as agents undergoing intensive training so that they can compete to be the heroes of the day by completing difficult assignments, to 'Drumming', where employees are given an array of drums which they then have to learn to play in unison.
As for 'do it yourself' team building activities, here are some ideas that you can expand on:
- Role Play Activities, such as 'Lost on a Desert Island'
- Quizzes, can be a variation of Trivial Pursuit in teams.
- Puzzles
- Games, indoor or outdoor, such as football or a Scavenger hunt.
- A Murder mystery game is also a lot of fun.
- Bowling, golf and Paintball are also good team building games.
- Structured workshops, for example give each team certain items that they then have to make into a working model, such as a windmill or bridge.