The efficiency of one company heavily relies on the ability of its employees to engage in productive team play. Sometimes, though, despite the best efforts of your staff to work as a coordinated team, daily tasks throw various wrenches into the gear of your well-oiled machines. Menial as they are, these obstacles can damage personal relationships and bring workplace productivity to a grinding halt.
But, all these problems are an essential part of the corporate world and are not something that can’t be prevented or remedied with a bit of good old team-building. So, let us take a look at a couple of fun team-building activities that should push your team into the highest gear for the autumn season.
Blind Drawing
This is one of the funniest, most common, and most efficient team-building activities at the moment so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t give it a try. Especially taking into consideration the exercise is very simple and requires no considerable investment whatsoever. What you need to do is to split the workers into groups of two, where one employee will try to explain the image he or she drew without using specific terms while the other person who is blindfolded, will try to draw the same image based on the description. This way your workers can learn volumes about how their partners think and behave.
River Rafting
River rafting can be experienced with various types of rivers, and their difficulty level is mostly defined by the difficulty of the rapids. If you want something more laid back you can take employees for a fun afternoon at some slower river and treat the workers to the pleasant barbecue at the end of the day. But, if you want to get the most out of this activity you should pick some direr straits. The fast pace of the rafting session, overall sense of danger, and the adrenalin rush will help your employees to trust each other, rely on each other and work together to reach the goal.
Camping in the Woods
This activity works on a very similar principle to the previous one but it allows the workers to engage in a variety of collaborative activities in less condensed circumstances. Successful camping requires finding a good camping location, setting up the camp, preparing the food, and numerous other activities that bring people together through shared labor. The only thing you will need to perform this is to provide a couple of tents, useful gear like shovels and OTF automated knives, barbecue gear and you are ready to go. Ideally, you should take an entire weekend for this one to let all the activities really soak in.
Hidden Treasure Hunt
This idea at first may sound a bit childish and you will probably need to take some time to persuade more conservative employees to accept it, but if you get the wheels going you will get one of the best team-building experiences in existence. But, there is one asterisk. You need to devise a treasure hunt that will utilize the skills and knowledge of all employees involved in the process. If you don’t do this, more proactive and extrovert workers will take the lead, while the less outgoing persons will once again find themselves in the back seat and you will get very diminished results.
Charity Events
Charity events inherently summon a lot of goodwill for everyone involved in the process. So, if you are facing damaged relationships at the workplace, this type of activity may just be the remedy you need. Of course, the possibilities for this type of team-building are endless. For instance, as of recently, various organizations have started calling people in to build bicycles for people who can’t afford one. Since this type of activity entails collaborative work it also makes a perfect match for a team-building effort. So, let your workers learn how to work together while still doing something useful for people in need.
We hope these couple of suggestions gave you some general idea about how you can leverage various collaborative activities to make your ranks stronger and teach your team to perform more efficiently at the workplace. Of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg and the possibilities for fun, engaging, and most importantly productive team-building exercises are virtually endless. What’s important is to make some initial effort and now, you know where to start.
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