subject: Creating a Unified Team with Fun Bonding Activities [print this page] Creating a Unified Team with Fun Bonding Activities
Maintaining enthusiasm and motivation within the members of a team is an important part of developing an effective team. The ability to promote the bonding between team members is vital to the success of most projects and team building games are a fun way to initiate that. Team Building Events can take time to set up, but the results are worth it when you can take all of the individuals in a group and make them feel as though they are all intrinsic pieces of a team. Team Building exercises should be created which require the use of trust, patience and communication in order to involve each member in a thought-provoking way. The leaders of the team building event should walk around and cheer on each team as the members work together to win challenges and accomplish common goals. When conducted in an atmosphere of fun, team building activities promote open communications and will increase the productivity of the teams.
Team Building Games such as Balloon Animal Creation encourage teamwork by demanding the members of each team work together to create a balloon animal. Groups of two are established and one member is given the balloons and the other member is given a set of written instructions. Without saying the name of the animal and doing nothing more than talking, the team member with the instructions must communicate verbally how to create the correct animal. There are many more ideas for team building that can be more physically challenging or intellectually taxing, dependent upon the needs of your team.
