Secondhand story
This method teaches participants to work together as a team, even under pressure or constant changes. It requires them to be flexible and creative.
Library of facilitation techniques
Teampedia
Team building activities and teamwork tools from Teampedia
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Alligator River
An exercise designed to investigate value based conflict, decision making, highlights the challenges of establishing right and wrong with different perspectives.
Robot
Since you participants are not allowed to talk during the activity they need to get used to another "language" that could help them understand each other.
Broken email
The activity shed a light on the importance of collaboration and how often what is clear for us can be confusing to someone else thus the method can be used to stress the effects of team communication, misunderstandings and shared knowledge.
Take as much as you need
This simple activity is designed to have each person share things about himself or herself with the group after receiving a gift.
Mnemonic Name Game
Help a group get to know each other better with simple mnemonics in this fast, fun game played in a circle.
Group spot
This game helps to build up trust between participants.
Mouse traps
This is a trust-building activity that can be very rewarding for participants, and can open up a great dialogue between participants. Naturally there is an element of risk, and the activity should be practiced on yourself, before you practice it on others... Before you do any trust activity, you must decide whether or not the group is ready, and whether or not this is an appropriate activity for the group, the individual, and the sequence of your teambuilding activities.
Flags
The goal is to create flags for each of the teams while they start to work together as a team in a creative way.
Alphabet Review
A simple reflection exercises where team members recall as many concepts or phrases relating to a workshop or training as possible for each letter of the alphabet.
Birthday Roundup!
Birthday Roundup is a get-to-know game in which participants act out simple activities that has to be repeated by other members of the group. It may also be used for learning names.
Musical Chairs (Teamwork Style)
A teamwork focused spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs. Participants must come up with creative ways to keep everybody "in" as chairs are removed!