The Secret to a Successful Teambuilding is Constructive Collaboration
Research carried out on many teams in large corporations show that they use suboptimal solutions when dealing with conflicts in teams. Every time there is a conflict in the team, they respond in a ...
Problem Solving Exercise: Solve Problems Under Pressure and Stress
This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of several key principles, such as “Parkinson’s Law” as well as managing their performance in the face of change or increasingly challengi...
Feedback Exercise: Analyse People’s Lives
This exercise helps delegates to better understand each other and also gives them an opportunity to provide anonymous feedback. It is a rather simple exercise though can be quite revealing as peopl...
Team Building Exercise: Make it Square
This is a physical exercise with an aim to encourage team work and collective problem solving. Use the variations to adjust the difficulty. It also highlights the importance of self-organisation an...
Personal Impact Exercise: This is Me
Use this exercise to get delegates describe themselves as they like and showcase it to others. There is a lot you can learn when people have to state something about themselves. The choice of words...
Cooperative Teamwork Exercise: Sort the Cards
You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.
This a simple and entertaining exercise which can be used as an icebreaker as well to make team members feel more comfortable with each other through contact. It is rather physical and the casual i...
Team Building Exercise: Shrinking Platform
This is a simple yet challenging teambuilding game which puts pressure on a group to solve a problem as the clock is ticking. The shared problem solving can help to improve relationships and encour...
Team Building Exercise: Make a Shape
This is a physical team buiding exercise that encourages self-organisation within a team when confronted with a challenge. You can test the group to see how quickly they can come up with a self-ass...
Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...
This is a suitable exercise for getting people in a team to express their feelings about each other but in a very indirect and controlled way. It also gives delegates a chance to see how others thi...
Feedback Exercise: Share Your Thoughts
The purpose of this team building activity is to encourage delegates to share their feelings about the organisation they are in. Using a systematic approach, delegates get to talk about their posit...
Memory Exercise: Did You Catch That?
This exercise helps delegates to practice focusing, paying attention to detail and memorising. It can be easily customised to suite specific needs or even turned into a competition to address team ...
Creativity Exercise: Design a Game
This is a fairly flexible team building activity that you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the g...
Group Problem Solving Exercise: Re-Zoom
This is a creative exercise which can be used to explore topics such as communication skills, leadership, problem solving decision making and perspective taking. Effectively, delegates must work to...
Attention to Detail Exercise: What Was in The Box?
The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates practice memorising and paying attention to detail. Repeated exercise can increase focus and help people to become more aware of their surroundings...
Leadership Exercise: Follow My Instructions
This is a powerful team building activity that brings out the potential qualities of a good leader. It is a fairly physical exercise and you may need to brief the participants beforehand so they ca...
Creativity Exercise: Design a Flag
Use this creativity exercise for team building. It is an ideal exercise for a group of people who are already working together or are about to start working together. Groups should work together to...
Diversity Exercise: Am I Right?
In this entertaining activity, delegates get to evaluate each other based on predispositions and assumptions. You can use the exercise for training on diversity and political correctness. It is run...
