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Corporate Team Building Activities
Corporate training and team building activities cannot be only limited to providing entertainment to the employees — they need to be intensely impactful too. Especially the kind of savvy and smart today’s workforce is, corporates need to keep evolving their corporate culture to attract the best talents in the industry to come and join hands with them. Bangalore, the hub of India’ IT sector, also aptly called the Silicon Valley of India is one of the fastest growing cities of the country. The city has ample places and spots, both indoors and outdoors, for organising appropriate team building activities in Bangalore.
Here are six top employee engagement activities that can provide the right impetus to corporate team building exercise.
Indoor activities
1. Roller coaster game
Each team is handed over wooden canes and pipes along with zip ties to develop roller coaster tracks. The purpose is to move a ball from the start point to a defined endpoint without any kind of human intervention. Only the force of gravity can be used to push the ball from one position to another. The teams are also briefed on the minimum requirements that their tracks need to meet in order to be accepted as the final work. Once all the teams make their tracks, a huge roller coaster track is made by joining each individual team track.
Purpose of this fun team game is to train team members on different aspects of building a strong team — strategizing, using creativity, placing trust in each other, communicating and instructing well and learning the finer aspects of change management.
2. Glass Walk Challenge
Very interesting activity at a corporate team outing is this challenge that demands participants to overcome their fears and challenge their trepidation. The activity requires participants to walk barefoot on broken pieces of glasses. The challenge is held under the supervision of experts and requires great focus and concentration to come out unscratched.
This challenge is organized to impart important learnings to participants to challenge their beliefs and limitations, conquer their inherent fears, enhance their confidence levels, and overall boost self-esteem and self-confidence when the exercise gets completed successfully.
3. Beat the trash
An apt corporate team offsite activity is the Beat the Trash — an exercise that revolves around making use of daily trash items. Using everyday junk materials team are asked to prepare a musical instrument. An activity that helps reinforce the thought behind recycling and reusing routine throwaways like cans, water bottles, straws, pipes etc., teams design percussion instruments, not just in appearance and looks, but also one that can be played live to compose music.
This activity promotes creativity, communication and listening skills, taking responsibility for a role, coming up with novel and innovative solutions, and to bond as a team for delivering the best results.
Outdoor Activities
4. Junkyard sale
This corporate team offsite activity can be held both indoors and outdoors. The activity is aimed at enabling team members from varying professional and educational backgrounds to work as a unified force. In this activity each team is handed over different junk and trash items — examples are plastic bottles and other such items that need to be assembled together as per a definite plan. The end product that the teams design needs to be functional and have a practical application. It cannot be just about anything that the team makes and delivers. At the end of the event, each team needs to pitch their product to a team of investors as well as explain the concept to other team members and convince everyone about the usefulness of the product.
The activity is highly successful in encouraging the creative instincts of team members and putting them on paper. The execution too needs to be precise and perfect. The exercise teaches participants to strategize well, set goals, and sharpen their presentation skills. They also learn how to negotiate convincingly with investors and other team members.
5. Cook it up
One of the best ways to encourage better understanding and bonding between team members during team building activities is to cook together. In this activity, different teams are given the task of making a particular dish from a five-course meal. The important point is that the dish cooked by different teams is what they get to eat at the end of the activity. So, it is not only about performing together or simply preparing a dish, it has to be done up well so that everyone can eat the same. Wherever the dish fails, the entire group would be required to go hungry. The entire program is held under the supervision of a team of trained chefs working with five-star hotels.
This is an exercise that is competitive and needs to be finished with finesse. Other than teaching basic team building features like collaboration, motivating one another, being creative and working in sync with one another, the challenge also imparts key learning related to managing time and completing the task within the allotted time.
6. Mini sports Olympics
The game is an interesting concept that imitates the World Olympics game. The group is divided into smaller teams. Each team represents a makeshift country — they need to come up with fascinating names. They also need to copy the original march-in ceremony to the stadium and take the entire program to another level by doing it uniquely. Then there are competitive races and sporting activities, individual and team medals to be won and be part of an award ceremony akin to the original one.
One of the greatest learnings from this corporate team experience is to play the game, whether it is real life or just an activity in the true spirit of sportsmanship. The activity is also a great barrier breaker and the fun element associated with this particular activity cannot be missed. The other aspects that participants are able to develop are their bonding with each other, communication skills, trusting one another, motivating, capably managing conflicts, showing empathy and understanding each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and supporting one another.
