Over time, eye contact will become less awkward and teams will be communicating more effectively and boosting productivity in no time.

Definitely, team building can be used for upper management and C-suite levels. These are valid questions when considering the state of team production.

In this chapter we'll reveal the best 5-minute or less team building activities that you can try out with your team. Each participant has to ask questions in order to determine the identity of the person on their back. 3.) The Human Knot Take What You Need. To make the game longer, you can then reverse roles and repeat. The murder wins by being the last participant standing. If participants don’t have their answer within 5 minutes, they can guess. Objective: To enhance communication skills. 3.) Every participant the murderer winks at must die in a dramatic fashion. Challenge them to maintain eye contact for 60 seconds. At work and often times in life we tend to find ourselves too wound up in distractions. Therefore, we are indefinitely pausing our operations. When looking for a team building exercise, there is a lot of focus on ones that take hours to complete.

London, N1 7GU Bring back the lost art of writing by assigning everyone in the office a pen pal buddy. At Maximillion, we are passionate about team building. Kings/Queens may approach other Kings/Queens for a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – the winner is the champion of the game. There may be some laughs and a bit of awkwardness on the first try, but that’s all part of the game. In the meantime, you will be demonstrating the number you have in mind by placing the corresponding number of fingers on your lap. Objective: Get everyone to share with each other what is on their bucket list. Tel: 0203 858 7807, View Our Corporate Team Building Activities, Book A Fun Team Building Exercise with Maximillion, Contact us for Corporate Team Building Events.

To successfully complete the challenge, team members will need to work together using their various skills in different roles. Super useful when you don't have a lot of time to organise. One might argue that measuring production analytics post-team building activities is the way to go. If two participants look at each other, both are out of the game. Set aside a time, once a week, to hold a regular show and tell session. With such challenges and time constraints, it is no wonder that many will begin folding their pieces of paper after only a few seconds of thought. There may be more underlying issues beyond team skill sets and tools to help boost productivity. Neither participant should be wearing hats or sunglasses so their eyes and faces are completely visible. Developing a fun and inclusive work environment for employees helps build better working relationships, open channels of communication, and bring employees closer together. We love this one because it is flat out fun.

This opens up an avenue team member creativity and innovation to give a major boost in productivity.

This game makes for a quick and fun time. For every correct call (heads or tails) that the coin lands on, the team that makes the right call takes two coins. Place a roll of toilet paper or a pile of … Instruct one partner of each pair to build some kind of structure, using only the items provided - they have 1 minute to do so. Ask each participant to take as many squares of toilet paper or pennies as they think they’ll need for the activity without telling them what the activity is or how they’ll use the materials.

We love this team building activity because it gets people talking about themselves, which even if we can’t always admit it, we all secretly love to do. We recommend using this when individuals are focusing too much on their own needs and need to work better as part of a team. Ask participants to raise their right hand and then grab the hand of a participant opposite them. It really doesn’t get any more quick and easy than this particular team building game. 2.) Studies have shown, over and over again, that open mindedness in team reaps many positive outcomes, such as improved team performance and increased knowledge sharing. They should not rebut, debate or agree - just summarise. Developing an efficient team doesn’t have to be a tedious or overwhelming challenge. Simply order the amount of games that will fit your team size. We love this game because it reinforces the significance of planning despite the circumstances. We use coins to perform all kinds of tasks beyond just monetary ones, like, for example, unscrewing a bolt when you don’t have a flat-head screwdriver handy. This five minute team building exercise brings both communication and strength-identification to your team’s bonding time. After the exercise, start an open discussion about how they felt at first and how long it took them to feel less uncomfortable or awkward. Or you can even make it even more fun and give the guesser 2 truths and one lie to see if they are able to distinguish between the three. If the activities aren’t received well by team members, choose another activity to do, or provide a questionnaire and let the team create a fun activity that will result in cheers instead of jeers. One partner draws a card and speaks for 3 minutes nonstop about their views on the topic 1. during this time, the other partner must not say anything.

Distribute a set of identical office items to each partner.