If someone talks over someone or repeats a number, the exercise starts back at one. This exercise creates stillness and encourages team members to listen closely to one another. This exercise is best practiced with five or more people. Have each person come up with three facts and one lie about themselves.
After someone reads their list aloud, the rest of the team is left to guess which statements are true and which are a lie. This helps teams to improve communication by getting to know one another better. It also gives introverts a chance to share facts about themselves that others may have been unaware of.
This activity requires four or more small groups and a different jigsaw puzzle for each group. Divide your participants into small groups of equal sizes and give them each a jigsaw puzzle of the same difficulty level. The teams will then be challenged to see who can complete their puzzles the fastest.
The twist, though, is that some pieces will be mixed around in the puzzles of other groups. The teams must identify the mismatched pieces and then figure out a way to get their own back. They can use whatever methods they want, including negotiating, trading pieces or even trading team members. Have everyone put their right hand out and grab the hand of a person across from them. The group must then figure out how to untangle the knot of arms within a set amount of time without releasing hands.
Have the participants stand in a circle holding a piece of the rope. Have everyone set the rope down and put on their blindfolds, then ask everyone to walk a short distance from the circle. Next, have everyone return to the rope and try to form a square while still wearing their blindfolds. To be effective at this activity, team members will need to practice strong communication and leadership skills. Each team will receive an envelope of mixed cut up playing cards. The teams then have 8 to 10 minutes to barter and trade pieces in order to complete their cards.
The team with the most completed cards wins. This game works well because it helps people hone their negotiation skills to achieve the most successful outcomes. It also helps with accepting loss and figuring out what could have been improved to achieve the desired outcome.
After the game, talk to your teams about what worked or failed. This helps them tailor their communication more effectively. Were they actively listening to one another? Construct an obstacle course with your various items. Divide your players into teams of two. The second member must then guide the blindfolded member through the course by calling out directions. This game encourages cooperation, successful teamwork and trust, which is crucial for effective communication. When there is a lack of trust, it builds suspicion and prevents buy-in.
Clarity in giving instructions is a must for effective customer service, especially in technical fields. Brevity and careful word selection is key for better communication. Building Blocks builds descriptive and instructional skills, as well as teamwork.
Assemble a team of at least four people, and give them two identical sets of building blocks. Assign one person in the team as a director, one as a builder, one as a runner and the remaining members as observers. Stand the director and builder on opposite sides of the room facing away from each other. Have the director build a unique structure from the building blocks and give directions to the runner who will relay them to the builder.
The builder will then use the directions to create a structure identical to that of the director within 10 minutes. After each round, discuss the exercise with the team. This activity teaches participants to be more brief and express points concisely. The leader repeats the request, lowering the word count. Players must revise their answers to fit within the new word count, without losing the meaning of the original message.
Spread peanut butter on one slice of bread, jelly on the other. Combine slices, wet ingredients inside. This game shows how the meaning of messages can change or stay the same depending on the number of words used, and can help teammates decide how lengthy or brief to be when sending emails, delivering updates, or giving presentations.
Shuffled Storyboards is a storytelling game that encourages players to talk through a chain of events. To play the game, first split the group into teams.
Give each team a randomly shuffled series of related illustrations. In five minutes or less, the team must put the cards in the sequence they think is correct, and come up with an accompanying story. Teammates will have to communicate why they believe an image comes before or after another picture, and work together on a coherent story.
At the end of the activity, teams present their stories to the rest of the group. Pro tip: After each team presents, the gamemaster can reveal the intended story, and if the two tales are radically different, then the audience can vote on which version is best.
Say It With Feeling is a communication game that stresses emotional intelligence. Each round, a player receives a random phrase and a random emotion.
The player must read the sentence in that specific style, and teammates must guess the feeling. Telephone is one of the most popular communication games. To start the game, one player whispers a phrase to the next closest player.
This process repeats until every player has heard the message. The last player in line says the sentence out loud, and the first player reveals how close the end phrase was to the beginning phrase. The game emphasizes clear communication and careful listening. Another fun version of the game involves players taking turns alternately writing or drawing a phrase, and seeing how close the end result comes to the original meaning of the message. Charades is one of the most classic nonverbal communication games for work.
In this game, players take turns acting out words while the rest of the team guesses the phrase. Players can use a charades generator to come up with terms, and leaders can time rounds or allow participants to guess until correct.
You can also play themed games, for instance, classic literature, movies about work, or moments from history. Charades can improve communication skills because the game encourages participants to communicate in unconventional ways and to pay attention to body language. Frostbite is a problem-solving game that requires good communication.
The premise for this exercise is that players are arctic explorers who must build a shelter to withstand the harsh winter weather. However, due to a sudden blizzard, the group leader has frostbitten hands and the rest of the group is snowblind.
The follower teammates wear blindfolds, and the leader must talk the group through building a shelter. Players can erect full tents, or build replicas of a shelter out of cards and tape.
At the end of the activity, the gamemaster turns a fan on in front of the shelter to determine whether the hut can withstand the arctic winds. Tree or Bob Ross?
Each round, a thinker decides on a random object, and guessers try to figure out the object by asking this or that style questions. For example, if the object was a pumpkin, then the answer would be tree. If the object was a wood nutcracker, then the thinker would use their best judgment when responding. Guess the Emoji is one of the easiest virtual communication games. Players send messages to each other using strings of emojis, and other players must decode those messages.
The first player or team to figure out the phrase wins a point. You can give the game a theme, such as songs, movie titles, or famous phrases, or leave prompts open-ended. Twenty Questions is one of the best communication activities for work. The players must also come up with a convincing lie. The other participants will then ask questions in order to determine which are the two real facts and which is the lie.
Make the game more fun by coming up with facts and lies as extravagant as possible! This team building game encourages the players to open up to each other and see their teammates in a completely different way. In this quick improv team building activity, your employees will count to 20 to practice active listening, teamwork, and forward-thinking. Sound too easy? Give it a try! How to play: Divide the players into smaller groups and have each one stand in a circle.
The alternative would be to have one large circle for a smaller number of players. All participants are looking at the ground with closed eyes. The goal of the exercise is to count to 20 as a team. Not really into karaoke? How to play: Split your team into groups of three or four people. Have them pick a band name, a song and do their best impression of performing it with air instruments and lip-syncing. Props and costumes are always a welcome addition to the performance!
In order to be objective, select a group of judges from the teams to pick a winner. This music-based activity is a great alternative for team building games for employees indoor. It enables your team to step into the spotlight and promotes team bonding. This is one of those team building activities that will require your entire team to work together as one and follow a secret leader who will make simple movements for the entire group to mimic.
How to play: One person from the group is chosen as the guesser and briefly leaves the room. While the guesser is gone, the group elects one person to be the leader. This person will make movements that the followers can quickly mimic scratch their head, jump on one foot, pat their stomach, etc. Improves non-verbal communication, cooperation skills, builds trust and team cohesion, as well as leadership.
This super easy team building game will take your employees back to the time when they were just kids and teenagers. What were their accomplishments at the time? Who was the local spelling bee champion and who broke records in track?
Find out! How to play: Ask your employees to share their biggest accomplishment that occurred before they turned This game will reveal a little more about your employees and get them to open up.
Get your team out of the office but still managing to stay indoors for an escape quest — a live action game where the team works together in order to find an exit by solving riddles and puzzles.
How to play: Your team will be given a mission and placed into a themed room. In there, you must explore to find hints and clues to ultimately free yourself. This can be anything — from containers with passwords to locks needing a key. If your company is large in numbers, split up into several groups and have each team try a different quest.
By solving puzzles and riddles together, coworkers build a stronger bond and start feeling more comfortable around each other. In murder mystery games, one of the dinner guests is secretly playing a murderer, while the other attendees must determine who among them is the criminal. The dinner party then follows the instructions on your chosen murder mystery scenario, passing out name tags, maps, suspect dossier files, and more. This fully immersive team building game improves critical thinking skills, boosts teamwork, and is simply very fun.
In this improvisational team building game also called PowerPoint roulette or Battledecks , each person presents a slideshow to an audience without knowing the contents of the slides. Based on the slides, the players give presentations to a live audience — their coworkers. To see which presentation wins, have the audience applaud for each presenter once all the presentations are done. The name that has the loudest cheer is proclaimed the winner.
This team building activity tests presentation and improvisation skills, and will easily get people laughing. You probably played charades as a kid or in parties, but this old-school game can also be used in a workplace setting for enjoyable team building. How to play: Before beginning the game, pick several categories like Movies, Bands, Cartoon Characters and so on. Write them on separate envelopes. Think of about items or words for each category and write them down on a small piece of paper, then put them in the particular envelope.
Separate people into two teams. Each team will take a turn and send out a representative to act out the items in the category of his or her picking. The actor cannot speak or draw any words, while the others in the group try to guess the item. If the group guesses the name of the item, they get a point for each right answer.
The team with the highest score wins. This team building game can help build team camaraderie through lots of acting. If you think video games are just about fun, think again. Create your own small collection of video games focusing on the ones that require coordination between players — like Halo, Rock Band, or Just Dance for an added physical activity bonus. The next step would be trying to introduce a video gaming break once a week or organizing a video gaming tournament after work hours.
Engaging and stimulating, video games are proven to boost business morale and improve productivity even in adults. This fun drawing-based game will make a great addition to the next board gaming night at the office. Googly Eyes is similar to Pictionary and requires you to draw, but comes with a silly twist — you have to wear goggles.
How to play: Players are required to get to the finish first by winning the drawing challenges. Each player wears goggles that blur their vision while guessing what their teammate is drawing. This game is easy to learn, yet it will bring your team lots of laughs. A simple, yet meaningful team building game that will set the tone for the event and build consensus on shared values. In this activity, teams list what matters to them on a whiteboard. Each participant tells the group what makes this event or seminar meaningful or pleasant.
Record the notes on the whiteboard with sticky notes. The activity builds mutual trust and establishes group values. Perfect for the start of an event, seminar, or a workshop. Going down the memory lane is a great way to get team members to bond with each other. However, not everyone will recall an event in the same light as others.
One team member shares a negative experience from that experience, while the other team member shares the same experience, but focuses on the positive aspects of it. Then they switch, the latter telling a negative memory, while the former tells a positive one to counteract it. This team building activity reframes experiences, improves morale, and shifts perspectives. This team building activity will let people appreciate their differences, and at the same time find something in common to improve team bonding.
How to play: Create a list of odd pairs of objects that go well together — salt and pepper, Sonny and Cher, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, peanut butter and jelly, etc. Write down the objects on separate pieces of paper.
The participants then mingle with the group. When the players have figured out what they are, they have to find the other half of their odd pair. How to play: The group stands in a straight line side by side. The goal is for the participants to organize themselves in order by their birthday month and day without any talking.
If they do start to talk, they need to start from the beginning.
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