Outdoor Team Building Games For Work
A team that works well together is more effective, more productive, and more successful — not to mention happier and more fun to work with! But team building at work can be tricky, especially when typical team building activities tend to induce more eye rolls among teammates than high-fives. Whether you were hired to put together some team building initiatives or you think your team just needs to get together and do something fun, workplace team building activities are the way to go. Adults can have fun, too! Instructions: Gather the team into a conference room or other empty space and 'lock' the door. Beforehand, select one team member to play the zombie — dead eyes, arms outstretched, muttering 'braaaaiiiinnnnssss' and all. The volunteer zombie will be tied to the rope in the corner of the room, with 1 foot of leeway.
Once the t e am exercise starts, every five minutes the rope restraining the hungry zombie is let out another foot. Soon, the zombie will be able to reach the living team members, who will need to solve a series of puzzles or clues to find the hidden key that will unlock the door and allow them to escape before it's too late. Instructions: Ever seen one of?
Cost effective and fun outdoor team building activities to bring your team together easily. Team-building skills are built upon from the days of naps and snack time to several years after you've been in a professional work environment.
Expand the idea to a full battle of the airbands. Split your group up into teams of 3-4 people and let them decide who will be the singers, guitarists, drummers, etc. Give them some time to choose, rehearse, and perform a lip synced version of whatever work-friendly song they like. If they have a few days, teams can dress up or bring props. After the performances, teams can vote on the winner (with the caveat that no one can vote for their own band).
Or, let a neighboring department in on the fun and have them choose the winner. Instructions: Use the rope to make an 8-foot circle on the ground that represents a toxic waste radiation zone.
(You can make the radiation zone bigger to increase the difficulty.) Put the balls in the bucket and place it in the center of the circle to represent the toxic waste. Place the large bucket about 30 feet away. Teams must use the bungee cords to find a way to transfer the toxic waste balls from the small bucket to the large bucket within a certain amount of time (15-20 minutes). Anyone who crosses the line into the radiation zone will be 'injured' (you can blindfold them, or make them hold one hand behind their back), or 'die' (must sit out for the rest of the game).
Dropping toxic waste balls will similarly result in injury, and spilling the entire bucket means everyone on the team is dead. Instructions: Write a few general work-related topics on the white board or on sticky notes posted to the wall: “My first day,” “Teamwork,” “Work travel,” etc.
Team Building Games For Work
Gather your team together and have everyone choose one of the topics and share a story from their time with your company to laugh and bond over shared experiences. Or, pass out sticky notes and have everyone write down positive memories of working together or special team accomplishments. They can use words or pictures to record these memories.
Then have everyone share their memory and post it on the wall, forming a positive memory cloud. Instructions: Your teams of 4-5 are no longer sitting in your office, they're Arctic explorers trekking across the frozen tundra!
Have each team elect a leader to guide their expedition. When a sudden storm hits, the team must erect an emergency shelter to survive. However, both of the team leader's hands have frostbite, so s/he can't physically help construct the shelter, and the rest of the team has snow blindness and is unable to see. Give each team a set of construction materials and start the timer.
When time runs out, turn on the electric fan's arctic winds and see who successfully built a shelter that will keep them safe. Adjust the difficulty with sturdier construction materials (provide popsicle sticks instead of toothpicks, etc.), by changing the fan's settings, or by having the fan running while the team constructs their shelters. Instructions: Use boxes, office chairs, water bottles, etc. To create an obstacle course of 'mines' within your empty space. Divide the group into pairs, where one partner is blindfolded.
The other must guide that person from one end of the course to another without setting off any mines. The person guiding their partner cannot enter the course and must only use verbal instructions to get their partner through. Depending on the number of people you have and how difficult you want this activity to be, you can vary the number of pairs trying to complete the course at the same time so that pairs have to work harder to listen to each other and communicate clearly. Instructions: This one is a fun team building icebreaker for work that will get your team to test their limits. Write a dare on the surface of each block. Make them fun dares around the office such as: do 15 pushups, sing ' Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ' out loud, or wear the oversized sombrero for the rest of the work day (yes, we have an office sombrero).
Adult Outdoor Team Building Games
When all the blocks have dares on them, stack them up like in Jenga. When people pull a block out, they have to perform the dare that's written on it. Team Building Activities for Remote Teams.