Teamaholic » Team Building Activities

The Human Chair

teamaholic — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:43:54 +0000

A group of 20 people or more form a circle and stand front to back (boy girl order preferable) as close as possible.

Everyone’s feet should be facing straight in front of their body directly under their hips and they should be touching (squishing in fact) the person in front of them.

On the count of three, everyone sits on the lap of the person behind them. The circle will hold itself up.

Everyone should be able to relax and just sit. If this is not the case, someone’s feet are not directly underneath them, or not straight ahead.

When everyone is relaxed the facilitator should call 1-2-3 and everyone should move one leg at a time (the same leg) and the circle can “walk” in a circle.

Flip Chart Paper Game

teamaholic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:52:36 +0000

Give everyone a sheet of flip chart paper to post on a wall and tell them to break it up into three sections.

In each section they must draw a picture and/or write something from 3 predetermined categories.

For example, the 3 categories could be: - My strengths – My weaknesses – What I want to get out of this year/semester/exercise/week? OR - Why I am here? – What my hobbies are? - Who I want to be in 10 years?

If appropriate, people can go around after & write comments on each other’s sheets.

The Quarter Game

teamaholic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:41:23 +0000

Lay everyone down, one next to each other facing the same direction preferably alternating males and females.

If you have enough people to make more than one line, you can have races between the teams much like in the human zipper game.

Place a quarter on the chest of the first person in line. The aim is to pass the quarter onto the next person without the use of hands. This means that the second person in line must roll on top of the first person with the quarter, both people roll back over again so the second person is again on the bottom and then the first person must roll off, leaving the quarter on the chest of the second person.

In order to keep the quarter between them, the pair must hug each other rather tightly in the rolling process. Should the quarter fall to the ground, they have to start from the beginning again.

Then repeat the game going on down the line.

The Travel Game

teamaholic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:36:07 +0000

Everyone gets 20 statements which relate to different countries or cultures (ex: It is an insult to show the bottom of your feet.)

You can play this either as a competition quiz – who gets the most right or as a guessing game.

In this case everyone would get a country on their back and a sheet of paper with mixed cultural statements and have to guess which country is theirs, or have to find the other people with the same country.

The Culture Game

teamaholic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:32:28 +0000

A large group is split into two and each is given a culture to act out. The culture should be explicit and different from modern day norms (ex: Shoulder shaking means yes and hand flapping means no; men cannot approach another man without a woman’s consent; socially people should stand arms length apart at all times, etc.)

The two groups should get proficient at their own culture and then representatives should be thrown in with the other group and explain their confusion to their own culture.

Eventually both groups should end up together and discuss the differences and uncomfortable feelings associated with not understanding norms.