Drawing out your team members and finding their potential as individuals is imperative. While traditional sports or even workshops may be great for team building and strengthening, sometimes the best fun and games for encouraging self discovery are the unique fun and games the amusing diversions and the activities that are genuinely fun. Putting players in unusual situations allows them to react naturally. The most traditional team building exercises, and even role playing to an extent, can be faked or professionally dealt with. However, some fun and games allow exclusively for personal articulation and for an outside the box mentality that you cannot have with more formalised fun and games.
Ice Breakers
Some interesting ice breaker games to contemplate. Host a competition in your office for each team or individual to produce the unsurpassable sandwich. This requires some team work, as various players will be voting, tasting and buying. It also gives players the chance to be original and to think up an edge to their design why is the unsurpassable sandwich? Is it the ingredients or the size? Is it an innovative design or a brand new marketing gimmick? The possibilities are limitless when you have so many traits involved in collaboration.
Marketing and observation can also be a part of the process; you could send a team out to lunch and report back on the marketing experiences and observations they made throughout their trip to the store or restaurant. You could buy a large assemblage of sweets and take careful note how each member responds and which pieces they select. There is always a reason behind actions, and in marketing this is of particular significance.
Subgroup Games
Another interesting event is developing subgroups from one large team. Begin with a extensive range of people, your total team, and then have the members begin their own subgroups according to the categories you set. The categories could be anything from mission philosophy, experience, role models, or even the mundane for example hobbies, favorite TV shows, dream vehicles and homes, and preferred music. The significance of this event is to review with your team members the process and ask pointed questions. What was predictable and what wasn't?
How did behaviour change when there were more subgroups created?
What hidden expertise or passions came out, only upon splitting up up into groups?
This is an excellent way to team build, break the ice and learn each other's strengths.
As long as the game is related to work in some way, many unique concepts will work very well with your team building efforts. There is hardly anything wrong with having fun at work. Staff like to be rewarded and enjoy themselves; besides, many of these games are genuinely effective educating techniques that have been used successfully for many years. Learning should always be fun! Whoever suggested otherwise was not a great teacher.
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