5 Non-Work Team Building Activities

With non-work related activities such as group bike rides or exploring an unfamiliar building, taking time away from work for non-work related activities reminds employees they’re more than just coworkers – helping improve morale by giving employees something exciting to look forward to!

Icebreakers

Icebreakers can help create conversation and laughter to lighten the atmosphere at the beginning of a team session or meeting, as well as introduce new team members or warm up participants before more in-depth conversations begin.

As part of a fast-paced and entertaining team building activity, have participants stand in a circle while their teacher asks a series of quirky yes or no questions that require yes/no answers in order to remain standing; otherwise they sit down. Continue until one student remains standing.

An effective icebreaker could include having participants take a quick video tour of their homes. After doing so, they could share this footage with teammates via a collaboration tool like Zoom or Slack.

This team building activity asks groups to find something in common between themselves, like a movie or hobby that they all share, then find a way to demonstrate this shared interest to their teammates.

Team Building Games

Team building games provide your employees with an entertaining and interactive environment for getting to know one another better and foster collaboration, problem-solving and trust among members of your workforce. While these types of activities work great during in-person meetings, they also work well for remote teams.

Establish groups of two members from your team. Have one member in each pair wear a blindfold while their partner guides them around the room without them stepping on any objects; this team-building exercise promotes trust, communication and effective listening.

Scavenger hunts can be an engaging and fun way to get to know your teammates better, providing participants with a great opportunity to show off their creativity, problem-solving abilities and ability to work under pressure. To add another layer of challenge, give teams a specific time limit within which to complete it – any team not finishing in that allotted period must restart; this practice fosters creative thinking as well as rapid problem solving skills.

Problem-Solving Activities

Problem-solving is an essential business skill that allows teams to collaborate together in creating and executing solutions. Team-building problem-solving activities provide a fun way of strengthening this soft skill while encouraging communication and collaboration between members.

Give participants an imaginary emergency scenario, like being marooned on an uninhabited desert island or Arctic location, then select a group leader to construct shelter to survive. With only their hands moving due to frostbite, team leaders will provide verbal instructions for blindfolded team members in order to complete this task successfully. This problem-solving activity develops supervisory and instruction-taking abilities while improving problem-solving techniques.

Put multiple objects in a circle. Have teams take turns reaching across and grabbing one hand from another person without leaving the circle, creating an imaginative problem-solving exercise which encourages creative thinking and teamwork, as well as helps members discover what commonalities they share among members of their group. This activity promotes creative problem-solving while simultaneously helping individuals discover shared traits among team members.

Scavenger Hunts

Scavenger hunts offer an innovative way to build teams and develop problem-solving abilities. You can arrange them either noncompetitively, offering rewards at the end for finishing, or competitively with incentive prizes awarded to those who complete all challenges. Scavenger hunts can even take place virtually using apps which ask participants to upload pictures or answer questions about completed tasks or take pictures as they complete them.

Make it more engaging by tailoring the list to each team member by providing personal or work-related details about them, enabling employees to get to know one another outside the office setting – for instance, ask about favorite hobbies and whether any pets reside among your staff members.

Use video scavenger hunts as another variation on this theme, encouraging team members to perform creative tasks. For instance, one teammate could record themselves lip-syncing to a Backstreet Boys song while their partner acts as the muse – this provides an excellent way to reinforce creativity and innovation within your company culture.