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64 TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES TO BRING YOUR TEAM TOGETHER (AND HAVE FUN!)

by James Smart on on November 3, 2023 34 min read 2 comments
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Team building activities can make all the difference when it comes to job
satisfaction, employee engagement and organizational success. But even with the
best intentions, it’s not sufficient to simply bring a group of people
together. Effective team building activities can help your group feel more
connected and able to collaborate more effectively.

But how do you choose the right activity, and where do you get started when
trying to encourage team bonding or alignement? We're here to help with this
collection of simple and effective team building activities!


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Building a highly effective team takes effort, consideration, and the deployment
of a thoughtful group process. Remember that teams are composed of relationships
between people and all relationships need care and attention. The team-building
activities below are a great place to start!

That said, some employees may bristle or cringe at the mention of team building
activities, and with good reason. Done badly, team building at work can be
unimaginative, unproductive, or a waste of time for all involved. 

We’ve put together a collection of proven team-building activities, games, and
exercises that cover everything from communication and collaboration to
alignment and vision. 

Whether you’re working in a small team or as part of a large organization,
taking the time to develop your team and enable everyone in your group to do
their best work is time well spent. Let’s take a look!

Team get to know you activities
Funny team building activities
Corporate team building activities
Team communication and collaboration activities
Team problem solving activities
Team bonding and trust building activities
Team purpose and alignment activities
Checkout and recap activities for your team building workshop
Team building workshop templates


WHAT ARE TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES? 

Team building is an activity or process designed to help build connections
between members of a team, create lasting bonds, and enable better teamwork and
working practices.

Team building activities might include running team games and activities,
holding group discussions, hosting away days, or simply doing things together as
a team. They key is that the exercise is designed to bring your team together in
a fun and engaging way.

Building connections, creating alignment and opportunities for team bonding are
just some of the benefits of running team building activities in your
organization.


WHAT IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF A TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY? 

The main purpose of any team-building activity is on improving some aspects of
how a team works together while bringing everyone together in a shared
experience.

This might include working on communication, collaboration, alignment, team
values, motivation, and anything else that can enable a group to work together
more effectively. It might also include resolving conflicts, sharing skills, or
simply bringing your group together in a shared experience.

Broadly speaking, any team building effort should be designed to help bring team
members closer or find ways to first define and then move towards your shared
goals as a group.

As Forbes notes, team building is “most important investment you can make for
your people.” On this point, it’s worth noting that team building doesn’t just
happen during the activity and so being purposeful your choice of exercise is
important.

The best team building activities hold space for building connections in a way
that spills over into day-to-day work and creates lasting bonds. It’s not enough
to throw your team into an escape room or scavenger hunt without first thinking
about why or how this will benefit your team!

After you’ve chosen some engaging team building activities, it’s time to design
a complete process that will engage your team while achieving your desired
outcomes.

SessionLab makes it easy to build a complete team building agenda in minutes.
Start by dragging and dropping blocks, add activity timings and adjust your
session flow to create an effective session.

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instructions for every activity.


WHAT ARE THE MAIN TYPES OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES?

Team building activities are games and exercises that help a group collaborate
on a shared goal, discuss important issues constructively, share in a fun
experience or find better ways of working together.

These activities can take forms – from quick and funny games you use in your
regular meeting, or the may be part of a larger process or team development
workshop.

Being purposeful and knowing the objective of your session means you can choose
an activity accordingly. Sometimes, your team will come together because they
have problems to solve, or you might just want to have fun and celebrate your
wins. Pick the right activity for the right time to ensure your team is onboard
and ready to engage!

Here are the main categories of team building activity that you might want to
use with your team. We’ve made it easy to get started with the right activity
for your team by including the length of each game, how many participants can
play and how hard it is to run alongside clear instructions.

Team get to know you activities
Funny team building activities
Corporate team building activities
Team communication and collaboration activities
Team problem solving activities
Team bonding and trust building activities
Team purpose and alignment activities
Checkout and recap activities for your team building workshop
Team building workshop templates




TEAM GET TO KNOW YOU ACTIVITIES

Starting the team building process can be difficult, especially if you’re
working with a new team who don’t yet know each other well. The activities in
this section are focused on helping teams get to know each other better and
start to develop bonds and trust as a team.

Even if your team has been around a while, learning more about one another and
building deeper bonds is useful for both team cohesion and group happiness.
These are also great activities to use when trying to improve employee
engagement and company culture – any organization is only as strong as the bonds
between its people!

Try these get-to-know-you games to encourage conversation and break the ice –
especially if you’re working with a remote workers who might not be in the
office together.

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficulty3 Question Mingle30
– 60 2 – 40Low9 Dimensions Team Building Activity20 – 603 +LowAwareness Circle10
– 305 +LowBest and Worst10 – 155 – 10LowThe Four Quadrants Activity30 – 1203
+LowGroup Order5 – 105 +LowHappiness exercise10 – 204 – 30LowJust One Lie15 –
305 – 20LowLife map30 – 603 + LowName Juggling1 – 155 +LowOpen Fist5 – 103
+LowPersonal Presentations60 – 2402 -40MediumCross the Circle5 – 1010 – 25Low


3 QUESTION MINGLE

Conversation is often the best starting point when it comes to team building,
but without structure, it can be difficult for groups to get moving. In 3
Question Mingle, each team member writes three questions on sticky notes and
then has a one minute meeting with another person. They each ask another one
question and then trade those post-its. Invite the group to move around the room
asking questions in pairs and swapping questions afterwards. 

Not only does this team building activity help an entire team get to know each
other, but it also invites the group to ask the questions they want to ask. By
combining structure with self direction, you can get your team building workshop
off to the right start! Bonus points for adding those sticky notes to a memory
wall for later reflection!




9 DIMENSIONS TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY

Building better team relationships and improving group dynamics often means
sharing something about ourselves and finding space to discuss and be honest. In
this team building exercise, give each team member a set of red, green, yellow
and blue dots alongside the 9 dimensions you’ll be looking at. Each participant
puts a dot on each dimension based on whether they believe they’re crushing it
or need to do more work. 

By sharing some of their 9 dimensions, your team gets to surface things they’re
proud of, as well as those that need work. You’ll explore what your group is
aligned on in the debriefing section and then move forward together as a team.




AWARENESS CIRCLE

Getting to know people is easier for some members of a group than it is for
others. While extroverts can start chatting to new team members with ease,
introverts may find it more difficult to bond with their team and create
meaningful team bonds.

In this activity, you’ll encourage a group to get to know each other without
speaking and show that everyone in a team has a connection. Another great
takeaway from this activity is to take note of the diversity (or lack thereof)
in the room and consider this as a point for future team development. 




BEST AND WORST

Teambuilding activities are often at their most effective when you ignite the
passions of everyone in a group and bring up talking points that enable people
to share something of themselves with the team.

Best and Worst asks each participant to ask one question about the best and
worst thing they want to learn from the group. For example, “What’s the best
recipe you know?” or “What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?” After putting
all the questions in a hat and choosing a random pair, invite the group to share
their answers and related stories.




BREAK THE ICE WITH THE FOUR QUADRANTS ACTIVITY

Sometimes pictures are better than words when it comes to helping a team get to
know one another. Creative games like this one can also be especially effective
at helping introverts or distanced teams share with the group.

Start by handing out sheets of paper and inviting each participant to draw a 2×2
grid and pose four questions to the group. Each team member draws their answer
in one of the grid squares and once the time limit is up, invite the group to
share. If you’re looking for a fun game that encourages creative thinking while
being visual and memorable, look no further! 




GROUP ORDER

Supporting the get-to-know process at the start of a session or with a new team
can be as simple as asking participants to group themselves together based on
what they know about each other and inviting them to find out what they don’t.

This activity requires nothing more than getting your group together in a room
and asking them to line themselves up in an order based on a criterion such as
distance from home to the workplace, birth date in the calendar year or number
of different countries visited. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to get
people talking and sharing when in pursuit of a common goal.




HAPPINESS EXERCISE

Good teams know how to appreciate one another and share joyful, happy
experiences. When a new team is getting to know each other, using an exercise
that encourages the sharing of positive stories and experiences not only allows
people to connect but also builds a positive atmosphere in the room.

You might also use this team building activity at work or with a more
established team. If your team has been going through a challenging period, it
can be transformational to share things that make everyone happy and defuse
stress or tension as a team.




JUST ONE LIE

Not all team building games need to reinvent the wheel. Particularly with new
teams or groups that aren’t used to team building, keeping it simple with a
tried and tested method can be your best bet.

Just One Lie is adapted from the well-known icebreaker two truths and a lie,
though encourages participants to mingle and share lots of facts about
themselves with one another – great for breaking the ice and getting to know one
another too!




LIFE MAP

Both groups and individuals go through many twists, turns and changes throughout
their life. At its best, team building not only helps create better teams but
allows time for reflection and deeper sharing between participants.













































































































































































































































































































































































































With Life Map, encourage your group to draw or create a collage of their life
story they can then share with the team. This kind of deeper getting to know
your exercise can really help bring a team together and allow for meaningful
self-reflection too! 




NAME JUGGLING

Working with new teams means having new names to learn. Team building starts
with getting to know everyone, but how can we make this more fun and dynamic
than simple introductions?

In this get to know you game, start by having everyone stand in a circle and
introduce themselves by name. Introduce a ball and have people state someone’s
name before throwing the ball to that person. That person thanks the person who
passed the ball by name before then passing the ball on to someone else. Once
people get comfortable, spice things up by introducing more balls and trying to
keep them in the air!




OPEN FIST



































Finding you have things in common with other team members is one of the
cornerstones of effective teamwork and communication. While conversation games
or other team building activities might ask for an in-depth approach, Open Fist
helps teams bond with a simple, effective activity.

Sharing little known facts about ourselves can help teams be more cohesive and
by limiting the number of shared facts to the amount of fingers on a hand, this
quick team building activity can fit into an agenda with ease.




PERSONAL PRESENTATION

Team building is all about building trust and openness between teammates.
Sharing personal experiences and enlarging the social aspects of the group with
presentations not only allows everyone to get to know each other but also
encourages team development skills too.

For this team building method, ask each participant to prepare a presentation
including three things that have shaped who they are as a person. Encourage
creative thinking by asking teams to use simple drawings and words to visualize
their presentation too.




CROSS THE CIRCLE

Finding common ground and shared experiences across a diverse group is what team
building is all about. In this playful team building activity, participants are
encouraged to cross the circle in response to questions posed by a person in the
middle.

For example, “Cross through the circle if you have worked here more than 5
years.” or “Cross through the circle if you can play an instrument.” After each
stage, a new person gets to pose a question and your team gets to know one
another and their commonalities in a simple, effective way.


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FUNNY TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

In an increasingly stressful environment of deadlines and meetings, it’s worth
remembering the value of joy, play and simply have fun as a team.

Injecting fun and laughter into your team building event is effective on many
levels. We often recommend starting a session with one of these activities, as
they can help set a more relaxed and personable tone in an instant.

We’ve also found that some of the more memorable moments of our sessions have
come out of these kinds of activities. It’s lovely to have something funny to
reference in future meetings too!

Bringing team members out of their shells and loosening them up with a funny
game can also help prevent existing hierarchies or team structures from
affecting the team building session. 

You can also use these funny team building activities to kick off your session,
or when the energy levels drop and you need to get your team re-engaged for the
team workshop ahead. Let’s take a look.

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyBang5 – 30 10 –
40LowBuild-a-Shake5 – 104 +LowCount Up5 – 3010 – 40LowFollow the Leader5 – 202
+LowPortrait Gallery30 – 602 – 40LowSnowball20 – 408 – 50LowCelebrity Party30 –
605 – 20LowNon-Verbal Improv10 – 205+LowRock, Paper, Scissors (Tournament)5 –
104+LowThe Viking5 – 3010 – 40LowWink Murder5 – 156 +Low


BANG

Having fun and energizing your team is a great way to kick off your team
building event. Bang is a simple and effective game that encourages quick
reactions and fun – perfect for both new and established teams to play
together! 

Start by electing a sheriff and having the rest of the group stand in a circle
around them. The sheriff spins around and points at one person in the circle and
says “bang!” That person then crouches as quickly as possible. The two people on
either side of the person crouching must quickly point at each other and shout
the other’s name. Whoever does not react quickly enough is eliminated. Try using
this one at the beginning of a team building event to really loosen up the
group!




BUILD-A-SHAKE

Creating a secret handshake was something many of us did as kids. This team
building activity taps into that same sense of creativity and also encourages
team members to get to know each other while sharing and building on their
handshake in pairs. By moving between pairs and teaching others the steps of
your handshake, this also helps create group closeness and cohesion. We love
team building activities or office games that encourage people to bring a little
of themselves to the table and Build-a-Shake is a great example of that!  




COUNT UP

Simple tasks that require team focus, cohesion, and awareness are great for any
group working on team building. In Count Up, a team has to come together and
count up to twenty with their eyes closed and without any other communication.
People cannot say more than one number at a time, and if two people speak at the
same time, the group must start over. 

Though it seems simple, this team building exercise can really demonstrate the
power of effective teamwork and is a great opener for a team building workshop. 




FOLLOW THE LEADER

When performing online team building, simple activities are often the best
strategy in ensuring participation and removing frustration. Follow the Leader
is a great team building energiser suitable for online and offline teams.

In virtual settings, put Zoom into gallery view and invite people to perform an
action in the frame of their screen that other participants have to follow.
Being a little silly is encouraged and this team building exercise often results
in laughter and energy as a result! 




PORTRAIT GALLERY

Creative team building activities are great for breaking the ice or energising a
team via play. In Portrait Gallery, you and your team will collaboratively
create portraits of everyone in the group and have a fun, electric set of
portraits to display afterward.

Start by splitting your group into two teams. Team B will draw portraits of Team
A, though every 10-15 seconds, they’ll pass their current drawing to the next
person to continue. By the end of this team building game, you’ll have a set of
eclectic portraits for everyone in the group and have broken the ice
significantly too! 




SNOWBALL

Fun team building games are a great way to start any group development process,
and they’re even better if they energize the team too! Snowball is a great
activity for getting people out of their seats and moving around while also
breaking the ice. 

Start by asking a question relevant to your group and ask each participant to
write an answer on a piece of paper. Once that’s done, invite everyone to
crumple their paper and come to the centre of the room to have a snowball fight!
After a few minutes, ask everyone to keep a snowball and find the person who
wrote the answer. Not only does this team building exercise invite energy into
the room, but it encourages people to get to know each other too.




CELEBRITY PARTY

You’ve likely played the game where you stick the name of a random celebrity on
your head while then asking questions to help you guess who it is. (Or at least
seen a film where someone else does it!) It’s simple, but it absolutely works
when you want to break the ice or just generate some laughter and conversation.

This classic team building game is a great way to warm up large groups,
encouraging mingling and have fun too. Ask participants to be creative, keep it
light and not to give hints and you have all the makings of an effective team
building exercise.




NON-VERBAL IMPROV

Whether you’re working with remote teams or co-located groups, having fun when
you get together should never be undervalued. We love simple games that are also
ways to begin conversations about how we’d like to work together more
effectively.

This improv game is easy to touch and is a great way to build team connections
while raising some smiles. Start by preparing some actions on post-it notes,
such as drinking a glass of water or eating pasta. Next, invite participants to
mime the action without speaking. Include more difficult and amusing scenarios
to challenge the group and create some funny opportunities for team connection!




ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS (TOURNAMENT)

Encouraging team members to play and have fun is an often overlooked aspect of
building better teams. Play is an inherently human activity, and by doing this
as a team, we can start to see ourselves as more than just a group of people who
work together.

In this version of Rock, Paper, Scissors, large groups pair off until only two
players remain for a final showdown. We love that losing players become fans of
the winners and cheer them on. This is a quick and easy team game that can build
excitement and get the group ready for deeper team building activities to come!




THE VIKING

Fun team building activities often ask the group to let go of their inhibitions
and find space to be playful and silly. This game from Hyper Island encourages
the group to perform some loud, exuberant moves to emulate our favourite
historical raiders – the Vikings.

You might use this activity during a longer workshop or meeting to energize a
group and create a memorable moment with your team. For bonus points, have a
group photographer capture those moments and put them on a history wall for
reflection later!




WINK MURDER

We love team building exercises that include space for friendly competition and
laughter. Wink murder is a variation on a classic party game that asks every
team member to try and catch the wink assassin, whose job it is to eliminate the
other players by winking at them without being caught.

We especially like the fact this game makes team members to use creative
thinking while playing. Run multiple rounds with extra rules such as adding an
accomplice to spice things up and have even more fun!


Team building activities are especially important in a remote team, where
connections and communication skills help reduce feelings of isolation.


CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Running team building games in the office can be a great way to finish up the
week, onboard new team members or just boost employee engagement.

While all of the activities in this post are suitable for the office, the team
building games in this section are especially effective in a corporate
environment where some team members may need some coaxing or you want to gently
introduce important topics.

Try these activities if you want to add an opportunity for your team to bond
during a corporate training session, all-hands or other office event.

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyAppreciations
Exercise10 – 206 – 12LowCover Story30 – 902 – 40MediumCoat of Arms40 – 606 –
12LowMy Favourite Manager20 – 456 – 50MediumWho are you?10 +2 +LowHistory Map60
– 1202 – 40LowBirds of a feather10 – 1515 – 50LowHuman Knot15 – 307+Low




APPRECIATIONS EXERCISE

Office trivia can be fun, but you know what’s better? Taking a moment to
appreciate each team member and uplift everyone in the group.

This method is designed to help everyone in a group receive appreciative
feedback on their strengths from others. Start by sitting the group in a circle
and having each participant write their name on a piece of paper and pass it to
the person on their left. Each person writes down what they have most valued
about the person whose name is on the sheet before passing it along.

At the end, share these appreciations and celebrate everyone in the group! You
might even include this activity during a happy hour to truly celebrate one
another!




COVER STORY

Bringing an activity that encourages creative thinking and imagination can be an
effective method for getting team mates involved at your next corporate event.
In this game, small groups create a magazine cover with your team on it and add
headlines and taglines that show the best possible version of your team.

By defining the ideal future state for the organization your group can see what
actions they might take today while also creating a fun and useful artefact for
the team. Use as many sheets of paper as you need!




COAT OF ARMS

Even established teams have more to learn about one another. A corporate team
building activity is a great time to encourage groups to go deeper and share who
they are as a team.

In Coat of Arms, each team member begins by drawing a personal coat of arms and
then sharing it with a partner. The partner interprets the coat of arms and then
presents it to the rest of the group. This kind of getting to know you activity
taps into group creativity and is a fun way of helping your team bond. 




MY FAVOURITE MANAGER

Leaders and managers can be a deciding factor in creating a great company
culture and employee happiness. In this game, get started by bringing your team
together to discuss their favourite and least favourite managers.

This corporate team building activity is great at creating a safe space to
discuss management styles and create empathy between teams. You’ll often find
team members can shift their perspective, learn something about how they relate
to their leaders and have fun too!




WHO ARE YOU? THE PIRATE SHIP EXERCISE

Explore team roles and responsibilities in a lighthearted manner is a great way
to spend time during an office event.

In this simple but powerful team building exercise, share the image of the crew
of a pirate ship. Next, invite participants to reflect on who they most identify
with on the ship. Who is the captain? Who is looking out for land or maintaining
the deck? By reflecting together around a fun premise, you can encourage
meaningful discussions with your grop.




HISTORY MAP

Building effective teams is often a process of ideation, reflection and
iteration over time. Sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of just how much a team
or organization has grown. With this corporate team building activity, invite
your group to reflect and build on their collective experience with a memory
wall that collects moments over a fixed period of time.

It’s a great way of reinforcing major takeaways, celebrating the highlights and
creating a sense of closure and progress. By also encouraging the creation of a
shared visual resource, History Map also enables creativity and a sense of fun
that can provide the perfect end to a project or working session. 




BIRDS OF A FEATHER

It’s not uncommon for teams to naturally form sub-groups with common
characteristics. This exercise effectively shows how consciously creating more
diverse groups can make teams more resilient and productive.

Get started by giving each team member an index card with a single letter on it.
Then ask people to form a group of five people as quickly as possible without
any further instructions. Next, ask the groups to form the longest word possible
from their cards. It will quickly become apparent that the best way to win the
game is with a team that has diverse cards.

This simple game is a great introduction to a wider conversation about diversity
or inclusion. As always, debrief learnings and invite deeper conversation in the
group to make this activity a success.






HUMAN KNOT

Corporate meetings can sometimes be heavy going, but they don’t need to be. In
this fun teambuilding game, encourage your group to loosen up while working
together to solve a puzzle that involves their bodies!

Start by getting your team members into groups of 7-12 people. Ask each group to
stand in a circle, close their eyes and then link hands with two other people in
the circle. Next, ask each group to work to untangle the human knot they have
created without breaking the chain. This is a really fun game that requires
clear communication, collaboration and a little flexibility too!




TEAM COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION ACTIVITIES

Team work doesn’t always come naturally, and effective team collaboration needs
attention, reflection and work in order to happen. It’s not enough to just
assume your team members will be able to work together efficiently: all teams
can benefit from a strategic and well-thought approach to how they communicate
and collaborate.

Whether you’re having a team away day or using methods expressly designed to
improve collaboration, you’ll find inspiration in the activities here!

These team building exercises are helpful whether you’re trying to solve
miscommunication or collaboration issues, or just want to strengthen your
company culture or communication skills.

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyConflict
Responses60 – 1202 – 40MediumHeard, Seen, Respected (HSR)35 – 454
+LowMyers-Briggs Team Reflection60 – 1202 – 40MediumStrength Building Exercise15
+4 +LowStrength Envelopes40 – 605 – 40LowTeam of Two20 +2 +MediumWhat I Need
From You (WINFY)55 – 7010 +Low


CONFLICT RESPONSES

It’s important to remember that every team is made up of individuals and
sometimes, conflicts or disagreements can arise. While its regular working
practice to disagree, our responses to conflict and how we deal with them when
they arise are in our control and can be improved.

In this exercise, reflect on previous conflicts as a team and collectively
create a set of guidelines to use in the future. Resolving issues effectively is
a massive part of team collaboration, and by including all team members in this
process you can get more meaningful results too.




HEARD, SEEN, RESPECTED

Team empathy is a vital ingredient of good team work though whatever the size of
your organization, it can sometimes be difficult to walk in the shoes of others
and see things from other perspectives.

Heard, Seen, Respected is a team building activity designed to help participants
practice deeper empathy for colleagues and build the kinds of bonds and working
practices that can improve team collaboration. By inviting participants to
notice patterns in the stories shared and find common takeaways, it’s a great
way to get everyone involved on the same page and improve communication skills
too.




MYERS-BRIGGS TEAM REFLECTION

One potential obstacle to effective team collaboration is when members of the
group don’t fully understand one another. Team building activities for work that
encourage participants to not only try and understand their colleagues but
themselves can be especially helpful when helping a team be more cohesive.

In this activity, invite your group to first take a version of the Myers-Briggs
personality test. Start by asking each team member to reflect on their own
personality type before then moving towards small group discussion. 

When using this activity, it’s important to correctly frame the usage of the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) framework: This can be a useful framework to
understand different communication preferences between people, but team members
should not be labeled or put into boxes based on their self-reported
preferences. 




STRENGTH BUILDING EXERCISE

Exercises for team building come in many varieties. In this activity, the
emphasis is on the team championing one another and increasing confidence, self
esteem and mutual trust.

Start by asking team members to share an event where they accomplished something
that made them feel good about themselves. The rest of the team chimes in to
suggest two to three strengths they must have exhibited in order to achieve the
accomplishment. Team collaboration often means helping others on the team
achieve their best, and this activity helps the group uplift one another
meaningfully and effectively.




STRENGTH ENVELOPES

All members of a team have unique strengths, capabilities and working
preferences. When working as a group, you can improve engagement and group
workflow by having each participant utilize their strengths and do work that
interests them the most.

With this team building activity, ask participants to write their name on an
envelope and invite other members of their team to spend a few minutes writing
down strength statements for that person. Place these in the envelope and pass
them along so at the end of the session, each person has a set full of strengths
they can use as the basis for reflection. 




TEAM OF TWO

Whether you work in a small startup or a multinational organisation, the reality
is that a large part of your working day will be spent working in pairs and
interacting on a one-to-one basis. Whether in-person, over email or on video
chat, finding ways to work together more effectively is vital for effective
teams.

Try this team building exercise to help empower your groups toward more
effective communication skills and have more meaningful interpersonal
relationships at work. As a member of a remote team, I’ve found this method to
be personally useful time and time again.




WHAT I NEED FROM YOU (WINFY)

Some of the best team building activities focus on helping your group improve
their teamwork skills and communicate and collaborate better as a team. A
sometimes overlooked part of working as a team is clearly articulating what you
need from other people and knowing how to ask for it.

What I Need From You is a team building method designed to help team members
better articulate their core needs and be transparent with the group. This leads
to a more cohesive team that works together with integrity and understanding.


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TEAM PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITIES

Teams often come together to solve collective problems as a group. Whether these
are large projects or simply finding better ways to work together on a
day-to-day basis, solving problems is something all teams should do – in or out
of a conference room!

Enabling better team practices with a game that asks for creative problem
solving is a wonderful way to bring everyone together. We love using these kinds
of team building exercises to bring large groups together to solve a fun, simple
problem.

By engaging team members in this way, they not only have fun, but they learn how
to work together more effectively and reflect on how they can take that learning
back to their day work.

In this section, we’ll look at team building exercises you can use to encourage
creative thinking, problem solving and teamwork in an experiential way!

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyBlind Square – Rope
Game40 – 454 – 20LowCrocodile River60 – 12010 – 40MediumEgg Drop10 – 205
+LowHelium Stick5 +5 +LowLEGO Challenge60 – 12010 – 40MediumMarshmallow
Challenge45 – 606 – 100MediumSpider Web15 – 306 – 20LowStress Balls10 – 155
+LowScavenger hunt30 – 455 – 50Medium


BLIND SQUARE – ROPE GAME

Nothing energizes a team workshop like a seemingly simple problem that also gets
everyone moving and engaged. In this team problem solving game, start by tying a
length of rope into a circle and invite the participants to plan how to make the
rope into a perfect square while blindfolded.

After planning time, team members is blindfolded and has ten minutes to form the
square. By debriefing afterwards, your group will find communication, planning
and attention to detail are all important aspects of team problem solving – all
while having fun too!




CROCODILE RIVER

We love team building activities that challenge the group to work together in
inventive ways and also help energize a workshop setting. Crocodile River is a
team problem solving exercise that challenges team members to support one
another physically as they look to move across a wide outdoor space.

By changing the setting and inviting problem solving and strategic thinking to
solve a challenge, your group not only stretches their problem solving muscles
but also works on team communication, leadership and cooperation. As with any
more abstract team building game, be sure to debrief afterward for best results!




EGG DROP

Classic team building games like Egg Drop offer tried and tested ways to
encourage teams to solve problems together while improving the way they
communicate. This game often generates a bunch of laughter and creative thinking
too – how can we save this poor egg!

In this team problem solving activity, invite small groups to build a
freestanding structure that can support the dropping of an egg from seven feet.
Include some caveats and challenges to make it more difficult and encourage an
even greater degree of team collaboration. Just make sure you bring a mop for
afterwards!




HELIUM STICK

Bringing team members together with problem solving activities that also
encourages play can perform multiple functions. Not only do you encourage
teamwork and the building of various team skills but you can have fun and
promote laughter too.

Helium Stick is an example of a simple team building game that does double duty
by encouraging fun, physical activity while introducing and exploring some core
team building concepts. Ask the group to lower a long pole to the ground while
keeping all of their fingers in contact with the pole at all times – more
difficult than it first appears!




LEGO CHALLENGE

Creating something is often the purpose of bringing your team members together.
Tap into the engaging process of co-creation and collaboration with this team
building game using LEGO.

Building on the concept of LEGO Serious Play, this exercise is a great way of
encouraging play, out-of-the-box thinking and creative approaches to existing
problems. Additionally, each team member has a secret assignment which increases
the challenge and encourages finding inventive ways to cooperate effectively and
achieve both personal and team goals. 




MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE WITH DEBRIEFING 

Real-life challenges are often time-sensitive and need to be considered
thoughtfully and pragmatically. Team building activities for work are especially
effective when they help create this same sense of urgency while encouraging
team work.

In just eighteen minutes, groups must build the tallest free-standing structure
out of materials including: spaghetti, tape, string, and one marshmallow,
placing this last item on top. In this version of the team building game,
there’s a debriefing section which encourages reflection on the roles of
everyone in the team. 




SPIDER WEB

Getting outside and doing fun, physical activity can be a great way to bond
teams and mix up a normal working routine. In this team problem solving game,
participants are asked to work to make holes in a grid of string and rope that
can safely and effectively accommodate everyone in the group getting through at
once. Team members are not allowed to touch the string or rope and with diverse
groups, the difficulty this presents makes for an interesting problem solving
challenge for teams to solve. 




STRESS BALLS

At one point or another, most teams will be asked to perform effectively under
pressure, whether that’s generated by internal or external stressors. By using
team building games that help participants work together and communicate
effectively even under difficult circumstances you can prepare your team members
for almost anything!

Stress Balls is a fun game to help start exploring team resilience and problem
solving under pressure, and it’s easy to run with large groups too! Start by
simply passing a single ball around the room before adding more complex rules to
help team members learn a valuable lesson about communication and teamwork!




SCAVENGER HUNT

Activities that encourage groups to use teamwork and communication to achieve
their goals are great ways to build team spirit. A classic scavenger hunt is a
wonderful way to bring large groups together and have fun doing something a bit
different!

Be sure to use office trivia, inside jokes or aspects of your company culture to
inform this fun team building activity. You’ll find it much more effective if
it’s tailored to your group. Bonus points if you can mix in activities that
speak to the various departments or skillsets in the group during your scavenger
hunt!

In the virtual-friendly version below, you’ll also find rules to help you run
this activity with a remote team.




TEAM BONDING AND TRUST BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Mutual trust is a vital ingredient for any group of people working together,
though it doesn’t always emerge organically. Taking the opportunity to build
team bonds and create trust creates benefits for team connection, happiness and
your company culture too!

While many of the fun team building activities above will bring your team
together in some way, these methods are designed to expressly create better team
bonds and build trust.

When working on improving team trust, we recommend being open about the goals of
the exercise and encouraging the group to be honest. Being intentional during
these activities can really help bring the group together!

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyTrust Battery20 –
404+LowTelling Our Stories60 – 1202 – 40MediumBetter Connections20 – 302 –
100MediumFeedback: Current Strongest Impression60 – 1202 – 40HighTrust40+2 –
40HighTranslated Rant10 – 304+Low


TRUST BATTERY

Great teamwork isn’t just about bringing a group of people together into the
same space. Without honesty, openness, and trust, your team can’t collaborate
effectively and can lead to frustration or frazzled relationships.

Trust Battery is a team building activity designed to help all members of your
group reflect on their trust levels and rebuild those batteries with lower
levels. By encouraging all members of a team to meaningfully reflect, you can
enable better team collaboration and help your team feel closer and more
cohesive too.




TELLING OUR STORIES

Everyone has a story to tell, though without a framework or guiding principles,
surfacing those stories in a way that makes everyone feel safe and head can be
tricky – especially for new teams. Team building activities that combine self
reflection, sharing and structure are great for helping people to get to know
each other deeply and build better bonds.

In Telling Our Stories, invite participants to reflect on childhood, young
adulthood and today while answering questions on colored post-it notes. By
sharing from the full gamut of our experiences, your team can get to know one
another meaningfully and create trust too. 




BETTER CONNECTIONS

Great teamwork and collaboration is all about building stronger relationships
and connections and this often means taking the time to see each other as more
than just our job title. Once we get a fuller picture of who we are outside the
office, everyone can feel more seen and understood. This is one of the
cornerstones of team bonding and trust!

Encourage people who know each other the least to pair up and create space for
meaningful reflection too – your team culture will thank you for it! It’s also a
great way to improve communication skills and break down silos.




FEEDBACK: CURRENT STRONGEST IMPRESSION

Giving and receiving feedback is a great team building activity that sees
benefits long after your session. When we find ways to be more open with one
another and say what we really think, the results can be transformative for any
group.

This activity is a great one to bring to any event where you want to improve
team bonding, as it creates a safe and simple way to start practicing more
honest feedback. The next time you think about how to improve the way your team
works together, think about whether you have a good feedback culture. The trust
that good, open feedback can create is a fundamental part of any high performing
team!




TRUST

When a team doesn’t trust one another, the atmosphere and culture of a team
suffers. Creating space to align and create a shared understanding of what trust
means to your team is a great way to build team bonds and improve the way you
all work together.

Start this activity by bringing together a set of trust cards containing
characteristics, behaviours, attitudes, habits, values, and beliefs associated
with trust in the workplace. Next, ask participants to create their own trust
cards and move towards creating three core trust cards for your team.

By co-creating the output together, this team building activity is great for
ensuring buy-in and creating long-lasting trust.




TRANSLATED RANT

Team building workshops are a great place to give your team room to have fun,
vent and be honest with one another. Creating space for honesty while also
building communication skills is the goal of this fun team building activity!

Split your group into pairs and have one person rant about a pet peeve for 60
seconds. Next, have the other person translate this rant while focusing on what
the person really cares about. This kind of deep listening activity is
fundamental to creating team trust, and sharing some of our annoyances in the
group is great for building bonds too!


Effective collaboration is a cornerstone of any high-performing team.


TEAM PURPOSE AND ALIGNMENT ACTIVITIES

Even the best teams can have differences of opinion and approach. While
different viewpoints and perspectives are useful in many situations, it’s also
vital that everyone is aligned on team purpose and vision.

Aligning on how the team will work together is an important part of helping the
team be happy, productive and pulling in the same direction.

In this section, we’ll look at team work activities to help improve team
alignment and get everyone working towards the same purpose. Let’s get started!

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyAlignment &
Autonomy60 – 1202 – 40HighEngineering Your Team OS60 – 1202 – 40MediumGenerative
Relationships STAR20 – 255 +MediumTeam Canvas Session90 – 1502 – 8MediumTeam
Self-Assessment60 – 1202 – 10MediumLetter from the Future60 – 1206 – 30LowTeam
Purpose & Culture60 – 2402 – 10Medium


ALIGNMENT & AUTONOMY

Activities that help improve each member of your team work more effectively and
feel empowered to operate autonomously can be great for improving employee
happiness and productivity. If we feel aligned on the core purpose and goals of
our team while also being given the space to work in the way that is right for
us, we can boost employee engagement and job satisfaction too! 

In Alignment & Autonomy, invite participants to reflect on times when they felt
aligned and autonomous versus non-aligned and non-autonomous. By sharing,
reflecting, and then ideating on solutions, your whole group can move forward
together.




ENGINEERING YOUR TEAM OS

When seeking to improve teamwork, it can be useful to think of your team as a
system with complex, interlocking parts which may need a gradual refresh and
redesign. This kind of abstraction can help prevent discussions from becoming
too personal or difficult and ensure that your team alignment efforts are a
success.

In this activity, your team designs an ideal working system by making
aspirational statements and then methodically chooses a single statement to work
towards ahead of the next meeting. By making positive changes incrementally,
your team can achieve alignment and better working practices in a meaningful and
sustainable manner. 




GENERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS STAR

Better working relationships start with shared reflection and the discovery and
discussion of existing working patterns. This team alignment activity invites
participants to assess their team along four vertices: Separateness, Tuning,
Action and Reason and jointly shape next steps and future actions.

By including the whole team in the alignment process from start to finish, you
can get meaningful buy-in and see real results! We love using this on an online
whiteboard too. It can be a great way to help remote workers consider their
inter-personal relationships!




TEAM CANVAS SESSION

Team alignment isn’t always straightforward. The more large, complex or
multi-discipline your team is, the trickier it can be to help the group mesh and
understand their roles and responsibilities to the team and each other.

In Team Canvas Session, you and your team create a shared visual resource for
understanding and articulating your goals, values and roles of your team. It can
be used for general alignment, for onboarding new team members and even for
defining the structure and purpose of a brand new team – simply recreate or
download the team canvas and get started today!




TEAM SELF ASSESSMENT

All groups need to go through a period of reflection and self-assessment in
order to grow. But without structure or a guiding framework, these discussions
can become bogged down or unproductive. With this reflective team building
activity, you can enable a thoughtful and thorough team self-assessment along
six guiding dimensions.

Start with individual reflection before bringing everyone back together to
debrief and see what you’re aligned on and what needs more work. By then
narrowing these down to the most important elements, you can align and enable
better co-working practices quickly and efficiently!




LETTER FROM THE FUTURE

Without a cohesive shared vision, teams can become unproductive or harbor
frustration on team direction. By spending time with visioning activities, you
can help everyone push in the same direction while still utilizing their unique
talents.

In Letter from the Future, invite your team to imagine all the changes that
might impact them in the next 5 years and write a letter back from that point.
Ask your team to cover what’s been accomplished in those five years, and what
kind of challenges and obstacles were overcome to make this happen. Remember to
remind teams that good letters have a beginning, middle, and end and that they
should read clearly – this will help during the sharing and debriefing section
of this method!




TEAM PURPOSE & CULTURE

Defining your team’s purpose and culture is an integral part of team building.
By clearly articulating why your team exists and how you will all work together
to fulfill that purpose, you can align and bring focus to all the work you do.
This team values and vision activity aims to create a shared visual resource
that your team can refer to in the future.

It also uses wisdom from other successful organizations to help enable
meaningful conversation and move from individual purpose statements to a single
one for the whole team. If you’re looking for a complete process that can guide
your team values and vision efforts, this method from Hyper Island is worth a
try!




CHECKOUT AND RECAP ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP

The process of team building and enabling a group to work together more
effectively can be involved and exhaustive.

As with any group process or workshop, taking the time to reflect, recap and
check out can ensure the lasting impact of what was covered in the session.

You’ll often find that finding time to close team building activities creates
space for further employee engagement and reflection. Getting team members
involved in choosing the next activity or coming up with a theme for the next
round of office trivia!

In this section, we’ll take a look at some great team building activities for
closing a session and for recapping the main learning points. Let’s dive in!

Team building activityLength in minutesParticipantsDifficultyCheck-in /
Check-out5 – 302 – 40LowBus Trip20 – 4510 – 30LowOne Breath Feedback5 – 152 –
20Low


CHECK-IN / CHECK-OUT

Ensuring everyone in a group is present, focused and committed to the work of a
session is a vital ingredient in making a team building session a success. With
this workshop method from Hyper Island, you can not only start and end your
session the right way, but you can help everyone in your group be seen, heard
and understood by the rest of the team.

This is especially useful with a remote team, where ensuring clear connection
between team members who don’t share a physical office is especially important.

This activity also helps encourage reflection and brings the workshop to an
effective close – be sure to give it a try!




BUS TRIP

The trip back from a team building event is a great place to share feedback and
appreciate one another. Don’t have a bus? No worries! Create a few rows of
chairs and simulate the experience for this reflective closing activity.

Once you’ve gotten the chairs of the bus set-up, ask participants to speak the
person next to them and share: what they like about the other person, what they
appreciate and what about the other person makes them happy. Speak for just 45
seconds each and then ask the group to switch seats.




ONE BREATH FEEDBACK

In particularly large teams, it can be tempting to forgo the closing activity or
individual feedback steps just because it will take so long and it can be hard
to maintain energy and interest. One Breath Feedback solves this problem by
giving each participant the space of a single breath to check out and reflect on
the session. By ensuring that everyone has room to speak and be heard while also
placing a time limit on the reflection, you can cap off a team building workshop
effectively and intelligently.




TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP TEMPLATES

Building better teams often starts with designing an effective group process.
Whether this takes the form of a workshop or meeting, you’ll want a balance of
activities, ice breakers and reflective methods in order to help your group
align and grow together.    

In this next section, we’ll take a look at some example processes with a
complete template you can use to get started. Let’s take a look.


TEAM DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR A NEW TEAM

Helping new teams to bond and find a shared purpose and value system is often
best achieved with a well designed group process. Try the team development day
template when working with a brand new team or one which has seen large growth
and is in need of development.

Here, you’ll find a complete one-day group process full of team building
activities that can take a group from getting to know each other all the way
through to defining their needs and making commitments. 

> Team Development Day for a New Team


EMOTIONAL CULTURE WORKSHOP

Good teams are empathetic and in touch with their emotions. Using the emotional
culture deck, this workshop can be run in under 3 hours and helps your team
define and improve working relationships and the emotional culture of your team.

Taking the time to articulate and define these items ensures that everyone in
your group is seen, understood and valued, and that you have a shared language
for moving forward.

> Emotional Culture Workshop


TEAM DYNAMICS WORKSHOP

Cohesive teams that work well together are those with an understanding about
what makes a team and how it functions.

Support your team building activities with this half-day workshop template and
guide your group through a process of understanding and building on the dynamics
of working together. 

> Team Dynamics Workshop Template


TEAM BUILDING SESSIONS MADE EASY

Designing an effective team building workshop means creating a balanced agenda
of activities and group discussions while also keeping everything on time.

With SessionLab, you drag, drop and reorder blocks to build your agenda in
minutes.

Your session timing adjusts automatically as you make changes and when you’re
done, you can share a beautiful printout with your colleagues and participants.

Explore how teams use SessionLab to collaboratively design effective workshops
and meetings or watch this five minute video to see the planner in action!


A workshop printout created in SessionLab, ready to share with participants and
prepare them for an effective session.


OVER TO YOU

Enabling better teamwork and building stronger, more cohesive teams isn’t easy.
Whether you’re running a team building day, team workshop, or simply adding some
team building activities to your meetings, we hope that some of the methods
above can help you and your group come together and do better work. 

Got a team workshop to plan? Check out our complete guide to workshop planning
to make the process a breeze. Want to start creating your agenda quickly? Use a
meeting or workshop template to save time designing or get inspiration.

Which of these team building activities is your favourite? Is there anything
missing from the list above? Let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear
about how we can all improve our team building efforts.

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2 COMMENTS

 1. Paul Haney — July 15, 2021 as 12:17 pm
    
    Hey there, Thank you so much for sharing this interesting stuff ! I will
    share these ideas with my HR Departments. And I am sure this blog will be
    very interesting for me. Keep posting your ideas!
    
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    1. Gen rajesh Sahai — September 10, 2021 as 12:04 pm
       
       All the training techniques have been well thought pit, planned and
       illustrated with tangible objectives which in itself is incredible to say
       the least. Have learnt so much which O shall incorporate and refine in my
       Workshops…Than you Team Session Lab
       
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a team on a certain topic or project. You are looking for brilliant ideas, new
solutions and, of course, great participation. To begin the process that will
get you to workshop success, you’ll need three ingredients: participants willing
to join, someone to facilitate and guide them through the process (aka, you) and
a detailed agenda or schedule of the activities you’ve planned. In this article
we will focus on that last point: what makes a good agenda design? Having a good
agenda is essential to ensure your workshops are well prepared and you can lead…


WHAT ARE FACILITATION SKILLS AND HOW TO IMPROVE THEM?

Facilitation skills are the abilities you need in order to master working with a
group. In essence, facilitation is about being aware of what happens when people
get together to achieve a common goal, and directing their focus and attention
in ways that serve the group itself.  When we work together at our best, we can
achieve a lot more than anything we might attempt alone. Working with others is
not always easy: teamwork is fraught with risks and pitfalls, but skilled
facilitation can help navigate them with confidence. With the right approach,
facilitation can be a workplace superpower.  Whatever your position, career
path, or life story, you probably have…


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