Simple Team Building Activity Ideas

A business is likely to thrive and be more successful if it has employees who are happy and work well together, so spending time and money on team building activities is a very worthy investment indeed. Here are just a few benefits you can achieve with taking part in team building activities:

Quick and Fun Team Building Activities 

Here are some quick and fun team building activities that can be done in a short amount of time:

• Two Truths and a Lie: Each team member shares two true statements and one false statement about themselves. The others have to guess which one is the lie, promoting communication and getting to know each other better.
• Human Knot: Team members stand in a circle and put their hands in the centre, grabbing the hand of someone across from them. They must then work together to untangle themselves without letting go, fostering teamwork and problem-solving.
• Scavenger Hunt: Create a list of items or challenges that team members have to complete around the office or a designated area. This activity encourages collaboration and creative thinking.
• Team Trivia: Create a quiz with questions related to the company, industry, or pop culture. This fun activity promotes learning and teamwork.
• Word Association Game: Have team members stand in a circle and start with a word. Each team member has to say a word that is associated with the previous word, enhancing quick thinking and communication skills.

Benefits of Team Building Exercises 

Team building exercises offer numerous benefits for individuals, teams, and organisations. Here are some of the most significant advantages:

• Improved Communication and Collaboration
• Enhanced Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills
• Increased Trust and Confidence
• Better Time Management and Productivity
• Improved Morale and Job Satisfaction:
• Reduced Stress and Conflict
• Increased Employee Engagement and Retention
• Improved Company Culture and Reputation

Looking for some ideas? We have put together three simple team building activity ideas your team will love!

Quick and Fun Team Building Activities 

Here are some quick and fun team building activities that can be done in a short amount of time:

• Two Truths and a Lie: Each team member shares two true statements and one false statement about themselves. The others have to guess which one is the lie, promoting communication and getting to know each other better.
• Human Knot: Team members stand in a circle and put their hands in the centre, grabbing the hand of someone across from them. They must then work together to untangle themselves without letting go, fostering teamwork and problem-solving.
• Scavenger Hunt: Create a list of items or challenges that team members have to complete around the office or a designated area. This activity encourages collaboration and creative thinking.
• Team Trivia: Create a quiz with questions related to the company, industry, or pop culture. This fun activity promotes learning and teamwork.
• Word Association Game: Have team members stand in a circle and start with a word. Each team member has to say a word that is associated with the previous word, enhancing quick thinking and communication skills.

Dog, Rice, Chicken

Skills Required: lateral thinking and planning

Encourages: creative problem solving

In this game one person plays the role of the farmer and the other team members are the villagers. The farmer has bought a dog, some rice and a chicken and he needs to get them across a river in order to get home. His dilemma is that he can only carry one item in the boat with him at a time. However, he cannot leave the dog alone with the chicken because the dog will eat the chicken and he cannot leave the chicken alone with the rice because the chicken will eat the rice. The team of villagers must help him come up with a solution and, if there are multiples teams, the winner is the team who makes the least amount of trips across the river or solves it in the fastest time.

The Minefield

Skills Required: communication

Encourages: trust within a group

Start by marking out an enclosed area with tape or string. Then, place several small objects randomly within the marked out area, as well as some sheets of paper that act as the “mines”. Divide the group into teams of two where one person from each team will be blindfolded and the other one is the instructor. The instructor has to direct the blindfolded person across the enclosed area, with the aim of collecting all the objects while avoiding the mines. You can make it more difficult by creating a specific route the blindfolded person must walk or have certain words that cannot be used when guiding them.

Goodie Bag Skits

Skills Required: planning, lateral thinking

Encourages: teammate collaboration and confidence building

This one is not only entertaining, it also lends itself well to larger groups as teams can be made up of many people. Each team is given a goodie bag containing several random items and given 5-10 minutes to prepare a 3 minute long skit. Topics can be chosen by teams on the day or can be prepared ahead of time. The performing team is judged by the other teams or someone impartial who isn’t taking part, by their creative use of the item within the skit.

Team building activities provide an opportunity for your team to have time away from the norm to recharge and refresh the mind. While the activities alone are great for this, they work even better outside of the everyday workspace. SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium has some of the city’s most spectacular corporate event spaces for hire with incredible, creativity-inspiring, living backdrops. Some of the crowd favourite spaces are Dugong Island and our Day & Night Reef exhibit that allows you to experience the Great Barrier Reef from within Sydney's CBD.

Not only will your staff be blown away by a beautiful and unique venue for team building, you can also provide them with full access to the aquarium afterwards. They can spend the rest of the afternoon exploring our beautiful underwater world and return to work the next day feeling ready to tackle whatever comes their way. Find out about SEA LIFE Sydney events below.

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