Corporate team building activities are a medium through which the employees can strengthen their bond and improve their communication skills. Team building activities are not only educative but also enjoyable. They help you learn a lot about each other, the way the other person thinks, works or tackle the problems. Managers in multinational companies already know that team-building exercises are an essential part to strengthen their team and bring unity amongst them. So, to make your work easier we went ahead and listed some result-driven corporate team building activities for your fellow employees. Here’s the list of corporate team building activities for your organization:
Duration – 5 to 6 minutes
No. of Participants – One or multiple people
Things needed – any random objects
How to play – Game of possibilities is a great team-building game. You need to give an object to one person in each group and someone from the group needs to go up there and demonstrate the use of the object given. The rest of the team must guess what the player is demonstrating. The person demonstrating cannot speak and must use his/her creativity for the same.
Duration – 1 to 2 minutes
No. of Participants – Any
Things needed – Nothing
How to play – this is one of the best corporate team building activities. It is a great game for indoors between employees and won’t take up much time. All you need to do is, just before the meeting, have each individual walk around and share what they are going to contribute to the meeting. To spice up the game you can offer a prize to someone who shares with most people, and another for the person who successfully contributes what they shared.
Duration – 15 to 30 minutes
No. of Participants – 8 to 20 people
Things needed – None
How to play – Make everyone stand in a circle facing each other. Then tell everyone to put their right hand out and grab a random hand of someone across them. Then instruct them to do the same with their left hand. Within a set time limit, the group needs to untangle themselves without releasing their hands.
Duration – 5 to 6 minutes
No. of Participants – two or more
Things needed – None
How to play – Player 1 shares something negative that happened in their life with player 2. It can be anything personal or professional but it has to be true. Then Player 1 discusses the same experience again but only focuses on the positive aspect of it. Player 2 then helps to explore the silver lining of the bad experience. Later they switch roles.
Duration – less than an hour
No. of Participants – Two or more small groups
Things needed – Pen and a note pad
How to play – Break the group into two or more. Make a list of goofy or fun tasks that each team needs to do. Make sure you make the tasks fun and creative like include taking a selfie with a stranger, find any random object around the office etc. Give the list to each team, along with a deadline by which they must complete all tasks. Whoever completes the most tasks the quickest, wins!
Duration – 15 – 30 minutes
No. of Participants – 6 or more people
Things needed – Raw eggs, cardboard, duck tape, several thin straws, paper towels for cleanup.
How to play – Divide people into the teams of 3 or 4. Give each team a raw egg, 40 straws, duck tape and other materials mentioned above. Their goal is to design and build a structure that will prevent their egg from breaking from a high drop. The team that is successful to save their egg wins. If mow than one team is successful then the team that uses the least amount of straws win.
Duration – 45-90 minutes
No. of Participants – 6 or more people
Things needed – sheets of paper, markers, and tape.
How to play – Ask each participant to survey the room. Ask them to write down positive memories of shared experiences and moments while working together. Once, everyone has listed down everything ask them to draw a few of these memories on a paper. After that ask them to draw the same memories on the wall and let the others guess which memory they drew.
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