Sample Team Building Activities
Profiling Devices
Time Required: 1.5 to 2 hours
The HR departments of many organisations use various psychometric profiling devices in their suite of hiring processes ~ and tend to take them very seriously. We have a different approach. There are pros, cons, strengths and weaknesses in each profiling system. We use them because we find that they are simply lots of fun and a great way for people to open their minds and hearts for a great discussion about themselves and their co-workers.
KVA Questionnaire.
Everyone learns about life in a different way. Some of us are more visually stimulated, others more auditory, while others are more kinaesthetic (they learn by doing and feeling).
This fun exercise is paper based – and allows people to examine their dominant mode of learning about the world.
We then explore how these “modalities” influence our entire lives ~ to such and extent, in fact, that if we can pick the modality of others – we stand a far greater chance of communicating brilliantly and flawlessly with them.
What a great way to enhance our relationships on all fronts!
Jung Model
This simple and fun activity provides an introduction to the Carl Jung personality types and provides a simple set of questions for each participant to work out their own type.
The key value of this activity is the opportunity for the participants to share and discuss their personality type with each other. The activity is facilitated to explore the following:
- The importance of increasing awareness of yourself
- The importance of understanding others in your team
- How this information can be useful in managing conflict and creating successful outcomes in everyday work and life
- Knowing your contribution in a team
- Promote diversity and appreciation of differences
- How to value and capitalise on each others strengths
XY – Win as Much as You Can
Time: 1.5 to 2 hours
This exercise will place people into teams (Clusters). Each cluster will have 4 sub teams and 1 observer. The object of the game is as the title states: Win as much as you can. The sub teams are given directions for how to operate within their cluster.
At the end of the exercise, the clusters will be asked to total their scores.
The debrief will look at the following things:
- Results
- Definition of tasks
- Individual vs team behaviour
- Cultural influences
- Internal Politics
This game has includes personal and team competition is both fun and a great way for people to discover more about how they operate in a competitive environment
Getting To Know Yourself & Your Team Members – Emotional intelligence Program
Time: ½ Day
Another way to describe Emotional Intelligence is Habits for Success. This course is all about how to deal with the habits we have, change the ones that we don’t want, and create the ones we do want.
The habits we have directly affect our outcomes and the results we get in our work, our home life ~ everything we do. Knowing how to manage these – and not be a victim to them will give us the success we are after. If this weren’t true, then the Success Guru’s like Anthony Robbins, Zig Zigglar, Brian Tracey and Robert Kiyosaki wouldn’t be in business.
This ½ Day course is a hard-hitting, useful, impactful and tangible adventure in understanding how to take control of your most powerful and important resource – YOU! This half day program includes a number of group activities that are both challenging and fun. Best of all, participants learn about themselves, what there behavioural tendencies are under different situations and how they can take responsibility for choosing appropriate behaviours in any situation.
Many participants will find this program highly valuable for both their business and personal lives.
5 S’es exercise
Time: 45min to 1 hour
This exercise is magic ~ there’s just no other way to describe it! This exercise presents people with a method for having success. We talk about all of the aspects….then we put it to the test! This exercise is great for:
- Understanding the impact that our thoughts have on our outcomes.
- Helping people to overcome fearful situations.
- Motivating and inspiring people to set and reach goals.
This exercise can be combined with emotional intelligence activities if you would prefer to have more work done on the motivational front.
Can It Be Done?
Time: 1 to 1.5 hours
This exercise will place people into different teams. Each team will be given a set of tasks to accomplish. The teams will be placed under a pressure situation. At the end of the exercise, the teams will be asked to explain their results and reasoning for their actions.
The debrief will address the following things:
- Decision Making Skills
- GroupThink
- Individual Apathy
- Risk Assessment
- Blaming Behaviours
- Lateral Thinking
Life Balance Scorecard
Time: 45 min to 1 hour
This activity gives participants the opportunity to explore how they manage the following areas of their lives:
- Financial Health
- Career / Business
- Physical Health & Fitness
- Social
- Relationships
- Spirituality
- Achievements & Goals
Participants are asked to consider how well they currently manage each of these areas. There will be opportunity for the participants to share ideas and suggestions. This activity is great for helping staff to get to know each other better.
Discovery Game
Time: 45 min to 1 hour
Based on the 20 questions game format this is a fun activity that restricts participants to only asking yes/no answer questions to unravel a seemingly impossible situation.
The debrief will address the following things:
- The limitations of closed questions as method of finding out information
- How the language used in a question effects the information recieved
- Thinking outside the square
- The value of not critiquing suggestions when brainstorming
- Listening skills
- Risk Assessment
- Persistence
- Lateral Thinking
Giant Dice Game (Petals on a Rose).
Time: 45min
This game is a fun brain teaser. It acts as a brilliant message that sets the tone for the entire event. It’s main goal is to put people into the right frame of mind to be:
- Open-Minded
- In a Great Learning State
- Willing to have fun!
- Open to seeing things from a different point of view
- Excited about the processes to come
- Introduced to new concepts – and willing to take them on
- Less sceptical or cynical
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