Are you interested in holding team building events in your
workplace? You don’t have to spend a lot of money nor do they need to be
ostentatious or complicated. You just need to create structured opportunities
for employees to mingle. You can schedule team building activities in the
workplace and in your local community for your employees. Here are 15 team
building activities that fit the bill.
- Lunch discussion and team building groups: Provide lunch for the whole company, a department or a work team. Assign employees to various work groups of up to ten people to thoughtfully discuss and respond to work related questions. One fun way to divide employees, when you don’t care who is in which group, is to put numbers on the bottom of plates. All employees who have a number 1 on their plate take their lunch and meet in the library or conference room B, for example.
--Additional ways to divide employees into discussion
groups.
--Thoughtful questions for ice breakers that you can use as
samples, although you will want the discussion topics to reflect the interests
and happenings in your workplace.
- Take an employee to work day: Schedule employees to visit another department for take an employee to work day. Employees are always curious about what other employees do. Satisfy their interest and introduce the employees to a whole new work group in the process. The opportunity to observe in another department allows employees to participate in team building that enhances cross department cooperation and understanding. It also offers employees the chance to explore another career path. Here’s how one company put together their take an employee to work day.
- Provide comfortable collaboration spaces with couches, snacks and beverages. Ask employees to schedule the space as they might reserve a conference room. Require that all food and beverages must be consumed in the collaboration area in a group experience.
