Team Building Activities can be a fantastic way of addressing tough business challenges and boosting team effectiveness and employee engagement.
Team Building Activities are a great tool to bring a new team together. The team building activities are an ideal platform to test teams working skills as part of an assessment as well as an environment to educate management on the best practise for team management practices.
Other benefits that can be derived from a team building session is to improve communication between teams which can be taken back to the workplace and improve communications with customers.
An experimental learning event can prepare a team for a challenging workplace project. It can further boost emotional intelligence and employee engagement, while also address issues relating to poor quality, efficiency and productivity.
Another potential benefit of a team building event can be to re-energise teams during or after a tough period and to remove ‘Silo’ working and develop cross department collaboration. It is a great way to reward teams for a great effort.
Team building events are best when they include a large dose of fun. There are few more powerful enablers of teamwork than laughter. But the laughter needs to be partnered with a sharp focus on encouraging and enabling team members – individually and collectively to raise their standards. And that is achieved by creating and nurturing a safe learning environment where real business problems can be discussed and solved, where personal weaknesses can be strengthened rather than simply accepted or exploited and where group emotional intelligence can be boosted.
It is a well-known fact that we all remember and learn by doing – far more so than by reading or listening. The hands-on approach of our team challenges is designed to make people work together and EXPERIENCE the power of teambuilding in problem solving. Team-building ranges from pure fun to specific in-depth training programs. A company will benefit from using a good quality team-building day in several ways. It is people getting to know each other, it is people spending quality time with each other, people getting a chance to learn about each other. It is people using all their resources wisely… read more about the benefits of team building activities
Team Building Themes
Team building companies usually group their team building activities into various themes. These themes can either relate to the desired outcome of the activities, describe the type of activities or relate to popular television or game shows… read more about team building themes
Team Building Companies in South Africa
TBAE is a completely mobile team building facilitation company in South Africa. They offer interactive team building activities that are adventurous, but safe. One of the best features of their activities are that everybody is able to participate, no matter their fitness level or physical abilities. TBAE’s team building facilitators are all highly skilled, experienced facilitators who are committed to exceeding your expectations and making your next team building event the most memorable ever… find out more about TBAE
The Following Activities Are Ideal for Team Building
This plan can be implemented if participants want to meet and continue discovering learning opportunities after the formal activity has ended.Activity ObjectivesTo analyse the pros of forming a professional group of peers.To recognise the steps and guidelines used by such groups.To enable the formation of a resource group.
This engaging activity helps participants see that leadership growth is like taking a journey. The participants move from place to place within the room and narrate through oral, written, or hands-on activities, how their own leadership journey is evolving.Activity ObjectivesTo review what participants have learned in the leadership event.
As a closing activity, this game reviews concepts that relate to the skills demonstrated in the leadership activities. Working in groups—and against the clock—the features of the activity are “unscrambled” from pre-made cards.ObjectiveTo review key concepts learned in the leadership event.To have fun while closing a program or event.
The participants gives a summary of what they learned throughout the round-robin discussion and responses to questions asked by the facilitator.ObjectiveTo simplify what participants have personally learned and are willing to share with the group.To provide a chance to review the day’s topics.To outline thoughts and feelings.To articulate ideas with precision.
In this energizing activity, players throw and catch a large koosh ball as they ask or answer questions relating to leadership.ObjectiveTo review key concepts or information.To have fun.Activity training methods MovementDiscussionMaterials RequiredBuy a Koosh ball, or a soft rubber ball approximately the size of a baseball.
This activity is useful after meals, as it provides a proper physical exercise during which one review what has been learned and surveys what other leadership competencies will be presentedObjectiveTo review what participants have learned so far in the workshop.To explore areas or aspects that still need to be coveredTo provide physical exercise and a good chance to reenergize.
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to highlight their strengths or competencies that would be useful to others. Each participant prepares an exhibit banner that showcases the thrust of his or her idea. Everybody is encouraged to walk from display to display and identify those people with whom they might interact with at a later time.
This activity embodies visual imagery and encourages the leadership activity participants to use a symbol to represent their leadership program.ObjectiveTo create a symbol for everything participants learn and to understand how it all fits together.To show how ritual and memory joggers can be used to fortify what has been learned and help make learning a continuous process.
This team-building activity introduces the idea of journal writing and provides a reflection opportunity that participants can acknowledge what they have learned and how they will continue challenging themselves.
Storytelling is a useful leadership capacity; this activity provides a way to exercise for the participants.ObjectiveTo recognize the significance of storytelling as a leadership trait.To illustrate how to tell a story.To practice telling a story.
By writing a poem as a way to stretch one’s creativity, leadership concepts are explored and encouraged.ObjectiveTo focus participants on the topic of leadership.Giving participants an opportunity to become acquainted and begin working together.Stimulating creative thinking.
Through taking part in an art project, leaders recognize their basic values and share them with others, so that participants who will be working together on missions have a greater understanding of each other’s strengths.ObjectiveTo have participants share some of their background information, values, philosophies of life, and leadership experiences.
