6 Unique and Fun-Filled Activities to Try on Your Next Team-Building Event

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No matter the size of your company, you should consider conducting team-building activities for your employees. These activities help boost employee morale, cooperation, and, ultimately, the company’s overall performance.

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Some key goals of team-building events include educating staff, strengthening relationships within the company, and providing an entertaining break from daily work. It also fosters stronger bonds between team members by allowing employees to get to know each other more. It is also a great way to help exhausted employees de-stress and reset so they can return to work refreshed and more productive than ever.

To help you plan a team-building event that could achieve all that, this article tackles the core of the concept and six unique activities you can incorporate during the gathering.

What is Team Building?

A team building event’s primary audience is your own colleagues or employees. It is a way to address, resolve, or even prevent issues within the workplace.

Most companies hold team buildings to mark certain milestones, like a product launch, a merger, or the accomplishment of annual targets. These gatherings also serve as a time for re-training employees and the culmination of their work in the company.

6 Team Building Activities That Will Encourage Participation

Although holding a team building event is essential to running a company, many employees and team members dread the very thought of it.

Research shows that most activities incorporated therein elicit embarrassment instead of enthusiasm. And, almost every time, team members’ reluctance to participate would nullify the impact of team-building activities.

Luckily, there are ways to remedy this. Aside from taking the time to learn where your team members’ interests lie, you can conduct activities that have been proven to bring enjoyment to the crew with specific preferences.

So, without further ado, here are six activities you can try to help maximize the benefits of a team-building event:

Go-Kart Race

Nothing says team building better than competitions. And what better way to do this than with a race on the Ferrari World go-karting track in Abu Dhabi?

Races offer adrenaline-pumping action to ensure your employees have a great time. Plus, they also serve as an opportunity for people to release pent-up tension from work.

Catch Phrase

This classic party game is great for fostering better communication among team members. It entails describing words or phrases to their teammates without saying the actual word or phrase itself. It’s akin to charades but with verbal explanations rather than actions involved.

For example, if the phrase is “needle in a haystack,” the player who gives clues to the rest of the team can describe it as “something pointy buried somewhere in the farm.”

The best part is that your employees are bound to get so enthusiastic about catching the phrase that they won’t realize you’re training them to improve their communication skills.

Board Game Tournament

Aside from serving as an excellent family bonding activity, board games can also bring members of your staff closer together. Not only do these allow them to sit back and relax, but the games also help build relationships and hone critical thinking skills in the process.

To plan this type of activity, you can pick a couple of games that are reasonably easy to play but still have that fun factor, like Jenga, Boggle, or Uno. Then, have members of the team sign up for specific time slots set for each game so that they can participate during their free time.

Don’t forget to announce prizes for first-, second-, and third-place winners to encourage more participation from your crew.

Board games are so effective in reducing stress and brightening up the mood in the workplace that one company decided to have a regular board game tournament. What started as a shared obsession became the company’s most-awaited activity during lunch break. All the departments can become involved, so the employees get to mingle with people they don’t usually meet on a normal workday.

Karaoke for team building

Karaoke Night

Karaoke night is another activity that can help employees gain more confidence and emerge from their cocoons. After all, holding a microphone can be empowering for most people.

To encourage participation, you can organize a contest for the best karaoke performance, either as a group or as individuals. You can also add some bonus points for staff members who put in more effort by wearing feather boas and cowboy hats.

This particular activity might be geared more toward an extroverted group who can take the stage when asked. If your team is composed of extremely shy individuals, it may be best to opt for an activity better aligned with their personality.

Two Truths and a Lie

One purpose of a team-building activity is to introduce employees to each other, even if they don’t work together directly. This is why Two Truths and a Lie is recommended to break the ice between colleagues and build stronger bonds.

This classic house party game entails organizing a group in a circle — here, each person is given a chance to introduce themselves. With the exemption of their name, they would then say three things their colleagues don’t know about them. Two of the details mentioned would be true, and one is a lie, and everyone else gets to guess which is which.

Virtual Reality and Interactive Games

Modern technology allows people to experience various situations, even without leaving the room. Through virtual reality, you can gamify your corporate team building event and provide an exhilarating experience for the whole team without the need for extra travel time.

Usually offered at indoor adventure parks, you can have your employees participate in an unusual situation far removed from their daily tasks.

If you can’t find a place that offers VR games, you can always take advantage of group bookings in places like Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi. Here, your team can participate in interactive attractions like The Riddler Revolution.

Whatever the game may be, your employees or colleagues must work as a team and cooperate fully on a strategy everyone agrees on to complete the tasks. This is why such activity is an excellent way to foster communication skills and teamwork.