Find and Discover Top Free Team building activities, games
and ideas for the workplace of your company or organization.
In this post, we will be looking at various team building
activities for the workplace that will help to build your organization. I know you may be expecting to spend some
huge amount of money in forming some team building activities for your organizational
workplace. But the truth is that the
team building activities for the workplace which you are going to discover by
the time you finish reading this article is worth a million dollar and it is
free.
Do not mind people that tell you that nothing is free. This information on how to build your team
using various activities is completely free.
These free team building ideas, games and activities are created by top
corporate officials experienced in team building. There are a number of free team building
ideas for your organization that will help improve team work in your organization.
Below is a list of team building activities for your
workplace.
Blind Wine Waiter free team building activity
Type of activity: Energiser
Exercise
Participants: 6-60
Timing: 30 minutes
Key themes: Teamwork,
Communication, Leadership
Overview
Teams of six must successfully
find, uncork and pour a bottle of wine into five glasses. Each team member must
carry out no more than one element of the task and at least five of the team
must wear blindfolds.
Pre-Work
None required.
Equipment and Layout
One bottle of wine per team,
one wineglass per team, blindfolds for 5 members of each team, one corkscrew
per team.
Running the Activity
1.
Introduce this as a light-hearted activity that will improve communication
across teams.
2.
Divide the group into teams of 6 and ask each team to elect a leader.
3.
Hand out blindfolds to all team members other than the leader, instruct all
team members other than the leader to put on their blindfold.
4.
Ask the team leader to take a seat somewhere close to his/her team and ask
him/her to sit on her hands.
5.
For each team, position one bottle of wine, one wineglass and one corkscrew in
various locations around the room. Take care to ensure that nothing is
positioned where it might easily fall or break (eg make sure the wine bottle(s)
and glass(es) are placed on the floor against a wall, or in the centre of a
table).
6.
Tell all participants that their task is to find a bottle of wine, a corkscrew
and a wine glass, open the bottle and pour their leader a glass of wine.
7.
Tell the participants the rules:
- the
team leader cannot move from his/her position and cannot use their hands
Silence free team building activity
Type of activity: Icebreaker
Participants: 5-500
Timing: 5-10 minutes
Key themes: Communication,
Trust
Overview
This icebreaker aims to focus
attention and to dissipate nervous tension at the start of a presentation,
meeting or training session.
Pre-Work
None.
Equipment and Layout
None.
Running the Activity
1.
Introduce yourself and say you are about to start your session. Give it a big
build.
2.
Then stop talking and remain silent for at least 30 seconds, walking around the
room or looking at your notes.
3. At the end of 30 seconds,
thank participants for their patience and, with a big smile, ask them what they
learned in the last 30 seconds.
Rings a Bell
Type of activity: Icebreaker
Discussion Starter
Participants: 6-100
Timing: 15-45 minutes
Key themes: Communication,
Teamwork
Overview
A simple and fun activity,
ideal as an icebreaker or discussion starter. A good way of ensuring that all
mobile phones are switched off at the start of a meeting.
Pre-Work
None required.
Equipment and Layout
Participants can remain seated
or standing.
Running the Activity
1.
Ask each participant to introduce themselves to the group. As part of their
introduction they should demonstrate their mobile phone ring tone. They should
then explain the reason for their choice or ring tone (or lack of interest in a
‘personal’ ring tone), and offer some comment as to what this might suggest
about their personality or style.
2. The discussion and feedback
among the group will be at the discretion of the facilitator, depending on the
group composition and whether the activity is used simply as an ice-breaker or
as a starter for a discussion.