Meanwhile, the observer resembles the Product Owner who prioritizes product specifications and coordinates the Scrum team. Instructions: A simple, yet frustrating activity, Magic Cane or Helium Stick requires teams to lower a lightweight stick to the ground using only their index fingers. To start with, the group forms two lines and face each other. They then hold their arms out with their index fingers in front with the cane placed on top of them.
Advise the group to balance their finger heights until the cane stands horizontally, then lower it down. Pinching or grabbing the stick is not allowed. The activity encourages co-workers to recognize that each one of them is needed for the team to succeed.
Instructions: Bring your team in a circle and have them sit down. Next, blindfold them and hand each one a long rope tied at each end. Their task is to form a perfect square together. You can also increase the difficulty by muting a random participant or changing the shape a star or a square for example.
The challenge demands increased level of collaboration and trust since the person who is muted has to rely on something else other than sight and verbal communication to perform their job. Instructions: Ask the participants to pair up and assume an arm wrestling position. They can either stand on the floor or at a table. The goal is to earn as many points as possible before the time goes out — usually 10 seconds.
Give them a couple of extra rounds so they can figure it out for themselves. A great incentive for both kids and adults alike. And you can use them during all activities for team building. Donna and Jena from Flourish Marketing playing arm wrestle. Quite often, the creator in each one of us lies dormant and undisturbed. To wake this spirit up, try the following team builder activities that rely on improvisation and dealing with things as they come.
Instructions: This team building game is all about improvisation. Each colleague should grab a random object from their desk and bring it to the conference room.
This is their product now and they need to improvise a sales pitch around it. Let them come up with a name, logo, and motto for it to make the drill more realistic. Have them deliver a two minutes presentation to convince the others to buy it.
Instruct the participants who want to buy any product to raise their hands and keep score of them. At the end, discuss which were the top sold products and why. This simple team activity is great for reframing the status-quo and seeing things from a different perspective. Instructions: To loosen up the tension in a fun and energizing way, play grab bag skits. Teams of 3 to 6 get a paper bag which is filled with random objects — from the office or pre-purchased ones.
Their task? To create a minutes skit using those objects. This encourages the use of common objects as replacements for different terms a pair of glasses can act as a bicycle, for example. Remember that each team member needs to be the speaker at least once. At first, this will frighten the introverts, but at the same time will give them the opportunity to get more casual and bond with their colleagues. Instructions: Ever wanted to invest side-by-side with Mark Cuban or present your idea in front of a jury?
This team building activity a spin-off of the popular TV show Shark Tank. Image source. Divide the group into teams of 2 to 6 and have them come up with a business idea that needs to be pitched in only 10 minutes. It can be anything from a brick-and-mortar shop to an e-commerce website — even an additional feature or service that can be part of your product.
To keep the atmosphere professional, ask them to draft a business plan that includes data about their target market, pricing strategy, financial forecasts, and unique selling proposition. Next, choose 4 sharks to form the jury and give them fake money to invest in the ideas. The team that gets the most funding wins. The office will bubble up with an entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking, traits that are necessary to succeed in a competitive market.
Distribute paper, pens, markers, and crayons to each one and tell them they need to draw a company emblem or company shield. Debrief the session by allowing all teams to comment and ask questions about the meaning of each emblem. These are only a few fun team-building activities that you might want to try out. Want to get out of the office altogether?
Try out some outdoor team-building activities like building a real campfire, going rafting, or doing a scavenger hunt activity — depending on how adventurous your team feels. You could even pair these with a social cause, the same way our clients at MECLABS participated in a beach cleanup with their families. The bottom line is to socialize and get to know your co-workers outside of work, in a fun, entertaining environment.
As the saying goes, you can learn more about a person in one hour of play than in a year of conversation. Of course, you can, although not as easy as before. Non-verbal cues are basically inexistent and technical difficulties might happen too often.
You can also download a bingo card to make things more fun at your next video call. Too many teamwork activities to digest, right? How you use them depends largely on your purpose, team size, and available time.
The majority can be played indoors, in your office, so logistics are kept at a minimum. Again, the whole point behind these activities is to make sure that the whole team heads united in the same direction and works happily at the same time. No overtime or excruciating projects to rob off your life. This way you have time to focus on what matters the most to you, both at work and after in your personal life.
Start your free Paymo trial to try our own way of working. Subscribe via email. Written by Marcel Tit. Published on May 7, Read Time 17 minutes. Category Work Management. If you happen to hold these assumptions as well, remember that: Team building activities are not a one-time silly event, but part of an ongoing process. How to play: Write down lots of different movie genres on slips of paper and jumble them in a cup. Divide your team into smaller teams of people; have each team choose a slip of paper at random.
The most compelling short film wins! Write out a list of pairings—salt and pepper, cat and mouse, Sonny and Cher—with one part of the pair written on one sheet of paper, and one sheet of paper for each person. Now, the team must work around the room, asking questions to figure out what person or thing is listed on their back and who might be the other person in their pair.
Once a pair has found each other, have them sit down and ask each other questions about themselves. Self-expression, artistic expression. Helps team members understand how others see themselves.
How to play: Have each person draw a self-portrait anonymously. Collect the portraits, put them up on the wall, and have the team guess which is whose. Once the right person is guessed, have them describe why they drew themselves the way they did. Teamwork, communication skills. Break down barriers by appointing a lower-level person team leader.
Materials: Basic sculpting or painting materials; a random but distinctive sculpture, object, or photograph. How to play: Split into teams of people. Once the peekers rejoin their team, they have 5 minutes to describe to their teammates what the secret object looks like while their team recreates it best they can.
Exactly what it sounds like. Step outside to do some team building in the fresh air. Breaks the ice, helps learn names, exercises memorization skills. How to play: Have about people stand in a circle. Increase difficulty by increasing speed and the number of balls in the circle. How to play: Divide the team into pairs and have one of each pair blindfolded. Layout objects in a random pattern in a sort of obstacle course, using 2 distinctive objects for the start and finish marks.
The goal is for the blindfolded person to make it out the other side without having touched any of the objects. The first person to finish wins! The first team to check off all the tasks wins! Materials: Either a pro improv facilitator or a good instruction book on how to DIY. It creates a lot of fun. I often amaze at their creativity. Posted online by Suresh Kumar. Preparation: For a group of 30 people, print 5 or 6 quotes or phrases on a paper i. Face that launched a thousand ships; Fools rush in where angels fear to tread; Picture is worth a thousand words; Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely; etc.
Fold up each of these 30 or so bits of paper and give one to each participant. When they have feel they created a phrase, they can check in with the facilitator. This involves people to suddenly get energized, both in mind and body. Posted online by Vikas Chandwani. Really easy stuff, gets them working and to a deadline.
They have to rotate the teacher to the other teams so in the end they all know all of the steps. People love it. Posted online by Jane Bowen. Each team had to get the ball through the pipe from point A to B, which should be a distance larger than the sum of the pipe sections.
To complete the task, team members have to figure out how to pass pipe pieces down the line so the ball can keep moving. Then I had them join up as one group, took out a few pipe pieces and had them try it as a unified team. The activity brings up a lot of good points on how to communicate effectively or poorly, depending on how they did , and how to identify and handle stress. Posted online by Sapna Padte.
When the group is not looking or before they arrive I put the rope in a lump on the floor. The object is to get the group to make a unanimous decision as to whether, when they pull the ends there will be a knot or no knot. In almost every case there will be those who feel strongly one way or another.
One very important part is to have the group decide on a consequence if they get it wrong. Would you still go along with the group? What if the consequence was severe? What would it take to get you to stand your ground? In the Seeing the Point puzzle each individual or small team has 7 pieces and is simply asked to create a number of identical shapes using the components supplied.
Posted online by Susan Landay. Thanks Susan! I always enjoy following this blog. I appreciate you taking the time to analyze the LinkedIn discussions and share them with us.
Yesterday I was looking for training games and while skimming through the posts I hit upon the Human Chain — It was an amazing experience to first try with 3 groups of 11 each and then the entire 33 trainees- Thank You For Sharing such Wonderful Insights. I am a Chartered Accountant and a certified corporate trainer. The games and activities mentioned are very creative, simple and thought provoking. Your email address will not be published.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Call Us: Fax: Helium Stick This is quick activity that promises to be fun. Posted online by Larry Riggs Missing Piece Get a fairly simple picture and photocopy it onto fairly heavy card. Posted online by Dorothy Persic Human Knot Have two groups of people stand in a circle shoulder to shoulder. Posted online by Bill Woodruff Get them to Draw it I give one person a piece of paper that has a circle, a square and a triangle drawn on it touching each other.
Posted online by Sharon Ritchie Object memory Create a list of at least 30 words. Arm Wrestle In this quick and easy activity, pairs are set up in what looks like an arm wrestle challenge.
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