Team Building Activities for Adults
There are several activities that you could easily arrange for your team members, even with limited resources. To start with, chart out the objective of the program and decide the time frame for your activities, this will help you in the planning process. Here are some free team building exercises for adults.
Card Castle
You will need a few decks of cards, newspapers, and couple of table fans for the card castle game. Divide the team members in two to three groups, if required you can make more groups. Give each group a couple of decks of cards and assign them an area where they can build their castle. Give each group a set of newspaper and put a running table fan on the assigned spot to increase the difficulty level. Set a time limit for the activity and observe as the teams struggle in building a castle with a running fan blowing it away. In most cases teams will get a member to block the fan with the newspaper while they build the castle. At the end of the game point out that without team work this simple task would be very difficult.
Treasure Hunt
This is a fun way for team bonding and inculcating the benefits of team work on an experiential level. Buy gifts to substitute the treasure and leave clues that will lead to the treasure. Make three to four groups of the participants and hand each team a set of clues that lead to the treasure. Divide the treasure hunt in 4-5 different stages and stipulate that for every stage different team members will solve the clues. Other team mates can help from the side lines if they have finished a stage. The team who finds the treasure first wins. Now highlight the winning team's success by pointing out incidences of their team work.
Obstacle Course
One of the team building exercises for adults that can be organized outdoors is the obstacle course. Divide the participants in 2 groups, mark a route which weaves around itself and make people from one group stand as obstacles on this route. Get team members from the second group to navigate the course one at a time. There is a catch here, the team member who is navigating the course has to be blindfolded. His team mates can shout out instructions to help him navigate the course without bumping in to the human obstacles. The team working as obstacle can alter the place of the obstacles for each new member of the navigation team. After everyone from the navigation team is done, they will reverse the role and become obstacles and the other team will then navigate the course.
There are several activities that you could easily arrange for your team members, even with limited resources. To start with, chart out the objective of the program and decide the time frame for your activities, this will help you in the planning process. Here are some free team building exercises for adults.
Card Castle
You will need a few decks of cards, newspapers, and couple of table fans for the card castle game. Divide the team members in two to three groups, if required you can make more groups. Give each group a couple of decks of cards and assign them an area where they can build their castle. Give each group a set of newspaper and put a running table fan on the assigned spot to increase the difficulty level. Set a time limit for the activity and observe as the teams struggle in building a castle with a running fan blowing it away. In most cases teams will get a member to block the fan with the newspaper while they build the castle. At the end of the game point out that without team work this simple task would be very difficult.
Treasure Hunt
This is a fun way for team bonding and inculcating the benefits of team work on an experiential level. Buy gifts to substitute the treasure and leave clues that will lead to the treasure. Make three to four groups of the participants and hand each team a set of clues that lead to the treasure. Divide the treasure hunt in 4-5 different stages and stipulate that for every stage different team members will solve the clues. Other team mates can help from the side lines if they have finished a stage. The team who finds the treasure first wins. Now highlight the winning team's success by pointing out incidences of their team work.
Obstacle Course
One of the team building exercises for adults that can be organized outdoors is the obstacle course. Divide the participants in 2 groups, mark a route which weaves around itself and make people from one group stand as obstacles on this route. Get team members from the second group to navigate the course one at a time. There is a catch here, the team member who is navigating the course has to be blindfolded. His team mates can shout out instructions to help him navigate the course without bumping in to the human obstacles. The team working as obstacle can alter the place of the obstacles for each new member of the navigation team. After everyone from the navigation team is done, they will reverse the role and become obstacles and the other team will then navigate the course.
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