Hi, I work for a software company in Bangalore. Would appreciate if you would let me know some good team building games. Thanks, Manoj
From India, Ujjain
From India, Ujjain
Hi,
It basically depends on the time you have for conducting these games and the frequency.
You can also ask each team to desing their own team building activities. That will be more fun and interesting.
Some of them are
1. Quiz
2. Spider Web
3. Helium Stick
4. Eggs can fly
etc.
you can also browse some sites for team building activities.
Cheers
Rads
From India, Bangalore
It basically depends on the time you have for conducting these games and the frequency.
You can also ask each team to desing their own team building activities. That will be more fun and interesting.
Some of them are
1. Quiz
2. Spider Web
3. Helium Stick
4. Eggs can fly
etc.
you can also browse some sites for team building activities.
Cheers
Rads
From India, Bangalore
Dear Swathi, Sumi
Greetings!
1. BRAIN TEASERS
Hand out copies of any of the following "IQ Tests". Each block represents a well known phrase or saying. You may divide a large group to teams of three or four. Give a time limit. The team with the most correct answers wins.
PLASMA - H2O - Blood is thicker than water
Arrest You're - You're under arrest
HIGH CLOUDS - High above the clouds
1 3 5 7 9 WHELMING - Overwhelming odds
PICT RES - You ought to be in the pictures
Head/ache - Splitting headache
EMPLOY T - Men out of employment
LESODUB TENNIS - Mixed doubles tennis
KJUSTK - Just in “Ks”
WRitING - Put it in writing
LOV - Endless love
T RN - No U Turn
24 Hours - Call it a day
B ILL ED - Ill in bed
PETS A - A Step Backward
Gettingitall - Getting it all together
1 T 3 4 5 6 - Tea for two
2. HUMAN SPIDER WEB
Divide the group into teams of 6-8 persons. Have each team move to a location that allows them to stand in a small circle. Instruct members of each group to extend their right hands across the circle and grasp the left hands of the other members who are approximately opposite them. Then have them extend their left hands across the circle and
grasp the right hands of other individuals. Inform them that their task is to unravel the spider web of interlocking arms without letting go of anyone's hands. They will be competing with the other groups to see who finishes the task first.
3.Mr. and Mrs. Right
Description
Have everyone stand. Read the story. When you say "right" everyone takes a step to the right. When you say "left" everyone takes a step to the left.
There are many variations of this story on the Internet.
*****
This is a story about Mr. and Mrs WRIGHT. One evening they were baking cookies. Mrs. WRIGHT called from the kitchen, "Oh, no, there is no flour LEFT! You will need to go RIGHT out to the store."
"I can't believe you forgot to check the pantry," grumbled MR. WRIGHT. "You never get anything RIGHT!"
"Don't be difficult, dear," replied Mrs. WRIGHT. "It will only take twenty minutes if you come RIGHT back. Go to Fifty-first and Peoria, and turn LEFT at the stop sign. Then go to Sixty-first Street and turn RIGHT, and there it will be on your LEFT," declared Mrs. WRIGHT as her husband LEFT the house.
Mr. WRIGHT found the store and asked the clerk where he could find the flour. The clerk pointed and said, "Go to Aisle four and turn LEFT. The flour and sugar will be on your LEFT."
Mr. WRIGHT made his purchase and walked RIGHT out the door. He turned LEFT, but he couldn't remember where he had LEFT his car. Suddenly he remembered that he had driven Mrs. WRIGHT'S car and that his car was in the driveway at home RIGHT where he had LEFT it. He finally found the RIGHT car and put his purchase RIGHT inside.
Eventually, a weary Mr. WRIGHT found his way home. Mrs. WRIGHT had been waiting impatiently. "I thought you would be RIGHT back," she said. "I LEFT all the cookie ingredients on the kitchen counter, and the cats got into the milk. You'll just have to go RIGHT out again."
Mr. WRIGHT sighed. He had no energy LEFT. "I am going RIGHT to bed," he said. "Anyway, I need to go on a diet, so I might as well start RIGHT now. Isn't that RIGHT, dear?"
Requirements
Round tables, or everyone sitting in a circle, works best.
Rgds,
John N
From India, Madras
58Greetings!
1. BRAIN TEASERS
Hand out copies of any of the following "IQ Tests". Each block represents a well known phrase or saying. You may divide a large group to teams of three or four. Give a time limit. The team with the most correct answers wins.
PLASMA - H2O - Blood is thicker than water
Arrest You're - You're under arrest
HIGH CLOUDS - High above the clouds
1 3 5 7 9 WHELMING - Overwhelming odds
PICT RES - You ought to be in the pictures
Head/ache - Splitting headache
EMPLOY T - Men out of employment
LESODUB TENNIS - Mixed doubles tennis
KJUSTK - Just in “Ks”
WRitING - Put it in writing
LOV - Endless love
T RN - No U Turn
24 Hours - Call it a day
B ILL ED - Ill in bed
PETS A - A Step Backward
Gettingitall - Getting it all together
1 T 3 4 5 6 - Tea for two
2. HUMAN SPIDER WEB
Divide the group into teams of 6-8 persons. Have each team move to a location that allows them to stand in a small circle. Instruct members of each group to extend their right hands across the circle and grasp the left hands of the other members who are approximately opposite them. Then have them extend their left hands across the circle and
grasp the right hands of other individuals. Inform them that their task is to unravel the spider web of interlocking arms without letting go of anyone's hands. They will be competing with the other groups to see who finishes the task first.
3.Mr. and Mrs. Right
Description
Have everyone stand. Read the story. When you say "right" everyone takes a step to the right. When you say "left" everyone takes a step to the left.
There are many variations of this story on the Internet.
*****
This is a story about Mr. and Mrs WRIGHT. One evening they were baking cookies. Mrs. WRIGHT called from the kitchen, "Oh, no, there is no flour LEFT! You will need to go RIGHT out to the store."
"I can't believe you forgot to check the pantry," grumbled MR. WRIGHT. "You never get anything RIGHT!"
"Don't be difficult, dear," replied Mrs. WRIGHT. "It will only take twenty minutes if you come RIGHT back. Go to Fifty-first and Peoria, and turn LEFT at the stop sign. Then go to Sixty-first Street and turn RIGHT, and there it will be on your LEFT," declared Mrs. WRIGHT as her husband LEFT the house.
Mr. WRIGHT found the store and asked the clerk where he could find the flour. The clerk pointed and said, "Go to Aisle four and turn LEFT. The flour and sugar will be on your LEFT."
Mr. WRIGHT made his purchase and walked RIGHT out the door. He turned LEFT, but he couldn't remember where he had LEFT his car. Suddenly he remembered that he had driven Mrs. WRIGHT'S car and that his car was in the driveway at home RIGHT where he had LEFT it. He finally found the RIGHT car and put his purchase RIGHT inside.
Eventually, a weary Mr. WRIGHT found his way home. Mrs. WRIGHT had been waiting impatiently. "I thought you would be RIGHT back," she said. "I LEFT all the cookie ingredients on the kitchen counter, and the cats got into the milk. You'll just have to go RIGHT out again."
Mr. WRIGHT sighed. He had no energy LEFT. "I am going RIGHT to bed," he said. "Anyway, I need to go on a diet, so I might as well start RIGHT now. Isn't that RIGHT, dear?"
Requirements
Round tables, or everyone sitting in a circle, works best.
Rgds,
John N
From India, Madras
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