Hi everyone,
I have a young workforce in my office, all between the ages of 25 and 35. It has been some time since we have done something exciting to motivate the employees. The last activity I organized was called "Find a Gift for Yourself." We had a few small but unique gifts hidden in the office premises, along with a few fake wrapped gifts. The gifts belonged to those who found them, and it created excitement and was appreciated by everyone.
I would like to plan a similarly exciting activity to uplift my employees. Could anyone please help me with some suggestions? Thank you!
From India, Delhi
4I have a young workforce in my office, all between the ages of 25 and 35. It has been some time since we have done something exciting to motivate the employees. The last activity I organized was called "Find a Gift for Yourself." We had a few small but unique gifts hidden in the office premises, along with a few fake wrapped gifts. The gifts belonged to those who found them, and it created excitement and was appreciated by everyone.
I would like to plan a similarly exciting activity to uplift my employees. Could anyone please help me with some suggestions? Thank you!
From India, Delhi
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Really a nice one, Jyoti. We will also try this out.
We played this quick game on Valentine's Day - everyone was given a pack of Frooti/juice, and underneath a few packs, we had made some symbols. The game was to go and find your partner. Someone who had "LOCK" as a symbol should find the one who had "KEY" as a symbol on his/her pack.
This game did not take too long but was really enjoyed.
From India, Delhi
We played this quick game on Valentine's Day - everyone was given a pack of Frooti/juice, and underneath a few packs, we had made some symbols. The game was to go and find your partner. Someone who had "LOCK" as a symbol should find the one who had "KEY" as a symbol on his/her pack.
This game did not take too long but was really enjoyed.
From India, Delhi
Hey Vinove, Indeed a quick and interesting game (find your pair - symbols)! The ones who found their pair were given some prizes or was it just finding your pair?
From India, Delhi
From India, Delhi
Hi Jyoti,
They were given gifts on Valentine's Day. We distributed heart-shaped chocolates to all these pairs and organized a movie show for the first pair that found each other.
Similarly, during the last monsoon season, we played another game. We printed several pictures of things related to the monsoon that could complete a scenery representing the season. These pictures included raining clouds, raincoat, umbrella, pits with muddy water, swings in farms, kids playing in the rain, a tea cup, and more.
The pictures were then hidden in various corners/areas of our work premises. Teams were divided, and they had 10 minutes to search the entire office area for these pictures. The first team that could complete the scenery was declared the winner.
Regards,
Bhavna
From India, Delhi
They were given gifts on Valentine's Day. We distributed heart-shaped chocolates to all these pairs and organized a movie show for the first pair that found each other.
Similarly, during the last monsoon season, we played another game. We printed several pictures of things related to the monsoon that could complete a scenery representing the season. These pictures included raining clouds, raincoat, umbrella, pits with muddy water, swings in farms, kids playing in the rain, a tea cup, and more.
The pictures were then hidden in various corners/areas of our work premises. Teams were divided, and they had 10 minutes to search the entire office area for these pictures. The first team that could complete the scenery was declared the winner.
Regards,
Bhavna
From India, Delhi
Balloon Tower
For a large number of people, in teams
Equipment: About 20 uninflated balloons per person, plenty of tape
Optional: Stopwatch or timer, tape measure
This is a great game both for team-building and just for fun.
Separate players into, preferably, 3 or more teams of about 3-10 persons each. Each team is given a pile of uninflated balloons and a few rolls of clear tape. Instruct the teams that they are to build the largest free-standing balloon tower possible in a certain amount of time. Give no further restrictions on the game. Start the clock, and everyone begins building the towers. When time is called, look at the towers (measure if necessary) and declare whose tower is tallest. If at a leadership retreat, you can go on in detail about what went well and what didn't and shock (and slightly annoy) the players by suggesting that it would not have been against the rules to combine resources with each other to make a much taller tower. Note on location: Be advised that carpet works quite well, but surfaces like concrete tend to pop the balloons. Experiment ahead of time to make sure the surface is satisfactory.
Blindfolded Mobile/Bag/Shoes & Sandal Shuffle
Required: Blindfolds and Mobiles/Bags
Players: Medium to large groups
Each person puts on a blindfold and will give his Mobile to the instructor. The instructor then keeps the same on the table and then jumbles them all and then shouts GO! The first person to find his Mobile by touch will be announced as the winner.
From India, Thana
For a large number of people, in teams
Equipment: About 20 uninflated balloons per person, plenty of tape
Optional: Stopwatch or timer, tape measure
This is a great game both for team-building and just for fun.
Separate players into, preferably, 3 or more teams of about 3-10 persons each. Each team is given a pile of uninflated balloons and a few rolls of clear tape. Instruct the teams that they are to build the largest free-standing balloon tower possible in a certain amount of time. Give no further restrictions on the game. Start the clock, and everyone begins building the towers. When time is called, look at the towers (measure if necessary) and declare whose tower is tallest. If at a leadership retreat, you can go on in detail about what went well and what didn't and shock (and slightly annoy) the players by suggesting that it would not have been against the rules to combine resources with each other to make a much taller tower. Note on location: Be advised that carpet works quite well, but surfaces like concrete tend to pop the balloons. Experiment ahead of time to make sure the surface is satisfactory.
Blindfolded Mobile/Bag/Shoes & Sandal Shuffle
Required: Blindfolds and Mobiles/Bags
Players: Medium to large groups
Each person puts on a blindfold and will give his Mobile to the instructor. The instructor then keeps the same on the table and then jumbles them all and then shouts GO! The first person to find his Mobile by touch will be announced as the winner.
From India, Thana
Hi Jyoti,
We conducted a team-building workshop at our college, which comprised 6 different team-building activities. We divided the students into groups of 8, resulting in 6 groups. The activities were as follows:
1) Mega Jigsaw (Mumbai map jigsaw to be arranged in 3 minutes)
2) LEGO (Make a construction in 3 minutes out of given LEGO pieces)
3) Team Drawing (One sheet of paper given to each team, and each participant given 20 seconds to draw and pass on the paper to the next team member. The next member should continue from there and so on for 3 minutes)
4) Absurd Storyteller (Team members are given a scenario and then they have to pick up chits having pictures of random objects and famous people to make a meaningful story out of that)
5) Trip Planner (Participants are given a budget, places to visit, and activities to be done in a given time span of one week. They have to plan the trip with many specifications. If you want, I can email it to you)
6) Continuous Passing (Team members had to pass a ball by allowing it to bounce only once before passing it to the next member. Each member can touch the ball only once at a time)
Due to time constraints, each activity was allotted 3 minutes.
You can allocate 5-10 minutes as per your wish.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
ihmbond.
For any queries, please revert to:
From India, Mumbai
We conducted a team-building workshop at our college, which comprised 6 different team-building activities. We divided the students into groups of 8, resulting in 6 groups. The activities were as follows:
1) Mega Jigsaw (Mumbai map jigsaw to be arranged in 3 minutes)
2) LEGO (Make a construction in 3 minutes out of given LEGO pieces)
3) Team Drawing (One sheet of paper given to each team, and each participant given 20 seconds to draw and pass on the paper to the next team member. The next member should continue from there and so on for 3 minutes)
4) Absurd Storyteller (Team members are given a scenario and then they have to pick up chits having pictures of random objects and famous people to make a meaningful story out of that)
5) Trip Planner (Participants are given a budget, places to visit, and activities to be done in a given time span of one week. They have to plan the trip with many specifications. If you want, I can email it to you)
6) Continuous Passing (Team members had to pass a ball by allowing it to bounce only once before passing it to the next member. Each member can touch the ball only once at a time)
Due to time constraints, each activity was allotted 3 minutes.
You can allocate 5-10 minutes as per your wish.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
ihmbond.
For any queries, please revert to:
From India, Mumbai
Yeah, Giridhar...
I have that on my list... or to ensure the answers do not leak out, make teams of the employees (like we used to make houses in school times).
Get the childhood pictures of the managers. This would even help in maintaining healthy relations between managers and the executives/associates.
I have some more ideas... will put them here shortly...
From India, Delhi
I have that on my list... or to ensure the answers do not leak out, make teams of the employees (like we used to make houses in school times).
Get the childhood pictures of the managers. This would even help in maintaining healthy relations between managers and the executives/associates.
I have some more ideas... will put them here shortly...
From India, Delhi
Dear All,
This is a game for interaction and awareness that we have conducted with our MBA students.
Perceived VS. Real SWOT.
This is just a simple Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Trait identification game.
Ask the participants to first write down their own SWOT openly and simultaneously ask the other participants to give their opinion without mentioning their name.
Collect all the feedback and shuffle it (so that the participant could not guess who may be the person behind each feedback). Pass it to the intended person.
Continue the same for all. It's better to do with average-sized (7-10) teams.
The instructor plays a significant role in adding humor to the training hall. Otherwise, the work may be monotonous. Remember to add your experiences (stories may be interpreted as your experience, tactfully). This will help in overcoming the weaknesses in the participants.
The instructor may keep track of what development is coming because of this game.
It works amazingly...
Thanks a lot for this discussion to all the participants.
Expecting we will have more sharing...
Regards
From India, Calcutta
This is a game for interaction and awareness that we have conducted with our MBA students.
Perceived VS. Real SWOT.
This is just a simple Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Trait identification game.
Ask the participants to first write down their own SWOT openly and simultaneously ask the other participants to give their opinion without mentioning their name.
Collect all the feedback and shuffle it (so that the participant could not guess who may be the person behind each feedback). Pass it to the intended person.
Continue the same for all. It's better to do with average-sized (7-10) teams.
The instructor plays a significant role in adding humor to the training hall. Otherwise, the work may be monotonous. Remember to add your experiences (stories may be interpreted as your experience, tactfully). This will help in overcoming the weaknesses in the participants.
The instructor may keep track of what development is coming because of this game.
It works amazingly...
Thanks a lot for this discussion to all the participants.
Expecting we will have more sharing...
Regards
From India, Calcutta
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