58 -  Involve Your Team with these Team Building Games that Employees Love

Are you here because you are bored of the usual team bonding game? These are some tried and tested games that are fun and exciting to play with your colleagues at your workplace!
These game ideas are free for all and with just some preparation, you will certainly have a lot of fun playing and bonding together over these games!


Survival Game

1. In a hypothetical circumstance where your team was sailing on a ship in the sea, but a huge storm was about to sweep them away and the only landing place nearby is an unexplored Island just up ahead. After checking the possessions they have, what is near them that they could grab are, a knife, a compass, a handphone, 2 bars of chocolate, a lighter, a can of beer, a water bottle, an umbrella, a blanket and a first aid kit before they leave on a small boat and sail towards the island.
2. On a piece of paper, with the listed items, allow the team some time to rank the importance of the items that they would grab first in order of 1 – 10. 
3. After everyone is done, allow discussion and explanations of their ranking choice.

​Purpose: Helps develop decision making and analysis, while provides learning opportunity to the differing viewpoints of people through the exchange of everyone’s perspectives and reasonings for their items’ ranking.

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Guess What?

1. Prepare a few sets of descriptive sentences or nouns, write them on pieces of paper separately. For example, “a rabbit in a field of daisies or a Donald Trump, Adidas, or even naming a country, like Australia”.
2. Selected 2 people (person A and B) from your team to sit with their backs against each other.
3. Person A will choose a paper with the written sentences and nouns (place the papers upside down, so they could not see what they are choosing. 
4. In one minute, Person A must describe what the sentence or noun is in an indirect way to person B. For example, if the picture chosen was “a rabbit in a field of daisies”, person A is allowed to say, “white, furry, eats carrots, long ears, flowers”, but is not allowed to directly say any word from the sentence.
5. Person B, while facing the back of Person A, will try to understand and guess what the sentence or noun is and answer within the one minute.
6. Their roles can rotate after that or other people from the team and take turns to play in pairs.

Purpose: A hilarious and fun interactive game to develop communicative skills and to learn how to give accurate yet key information.


On the Spot Skits

1. Prepare several opaque bags (can use black garbage bags) and place several different props in each bag that do not have to be relevant to each other. For example, one bag can have a basketball, magazine, hair tie, and a shoe. Another bag could have a book, an umbrella, keys, and even an insect repellent. Note: The number of bags corresponds to the number of teams you have.
2. Each team will choose a bag and from the props inside a bag, give each team 30 to an hour mins to come up with a short 5min skit.
3. After the given time, each team will perform the skit and the judges will judge base on creativity, rationale and their thoughtfulness behind the plot, story dialogues and characters.

Purpose: Allow creative and quick thinking to innovate on urgent problems. Encourage collaboration and team play as well.


Complete My Story

1. To begin, seat everyone down in a circle. Select a person to start with a phrase of their choice; for example, “I was walking my dog and…”
2. Then the next person in clockwise direction will carry on with the “story” that the person before has spoken. Do note that the sentence should be logical. Humour can be added to enliven the game.
3. The story should come to a conclusion at the last person of the circle. Therefore, the last person must try to conclude the story and the person before the last should try to allow an easy conclusion for the next person to continue.
4. The game can repeat with another story and select another person to start first.

Purpose: To learn communication, thinking and observation skills on how to use words that are not only relevant to us but to others, and also to learn to analyse and try to understand how the person before you, might want the story to proceed.

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Last TakeawaysThese are some ideas that may match you team’s needs, to have fun together while learning and bonding over these games.
You may also want to seek for novel Workshops to attend with your team. I would suggest Perfume Workshop as it encourages not only creativity skills but is also a fun and novel team building experience as well.

 

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