Teamwork Activities and Games

Use this method if you would like to show the participants the importance of collaboration, team strategy and team effectiveness.

An ice-breaker activity that is fun for everyone.

This fun activity could be used as an icebreaker for people who have just met but it can be framed as a method that shows and fosters team communication, collaboration and strategic thinking as well.

This method gives goal setting or vision sharing into a more creative, associative frame, making participants move out of their comfort zones.

This is an active team building game and requires participants to move about a lot and so can be also used as an energiser.

This a simple game in which participants play in teams and their task is to replicate an image shown to the first team member as they are set up in a chain. The winner is the first team to correctly reproduce the "email"

A fun, physical activity designed to help a group work on communication, problem solving, to understand roles of leader and follower within the group.

The game enables participants to get to know each other and have fun at the same time. Also since it takes a lot of moving it can be used as an energiser too.

An activity to get to know each other- from a different perspective, as children

Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.

Invite participants to identify and reflect on which parts of their identities they bring into regular interactions.