subject: Ideas For Team Building Activities [print this page] One of the most common team building activities is the team outing. It might be a day or half a day session program. The team members travel together, play small games together, and spend time with each other. This increases the understanding and bonding between the team members. Games involving the whole team also are good ideas for this venture. Simple games like filling the water bottle, relay race, solving puzzles, and treasure hunts can also be effective in making the team work together.
There are many refreshing team building ideas being developed by the business authorities. The team-building consultants specialize in this domain. They meet the team first and then decide on the activity required for the team. The activity is decided based on the analysis of the team members. To break the ice, small team meetings will be conducted. But if each one knows the other member in the team, but is not that friendly, then other team activities will be conducted.
Team discussions and exercises help in bringing out many ideas, views and feelings of the members of the team. This helps in a better understanding of the team mates behavioural patterns. To make the team building activity successful the members must be relaxed and should not be under any work pressures.
So you can adopt the common team building activities or come up with refreshingly new ideas. However, it must be acceptable by the whole team, meet the requirement of the activity and conducted in a perfect ambience.
