Teamwork Activities and Games

Jenga Questions

A fun and interactive icebreaker that uses a classic game of Jenga to spark meaningful conversations and strengthen team connections.

If you like playing Charades (Guess the word) in a live setting, there is no reason to hold you back playing it online with your team. Here is a handy Mural board and detailed instruction of how to play Charades with your team, using the words and expressions YOU come up with.

Pass the balls!

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A fun way for participants to break the ice and interact with each other.

Interdisciplinaire onderzoeksvragen

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Studenten brainstormen met behulp van een mind map om zo tot een interdisciplinaire onderzoeksvraag met sub-vragen op te stellen.

Birthday Roundup!

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Birthday Roundup is a get-to-know game in which participants act out simple activities that has to be repeated by other members of the group. It may also be used for learning names.

LEGO metaphors

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A hands-on and creative icebreaker that uses LEGO bricks to help teams express ideas, challenges, and personal insights through metaphors.

Office Trivia Challenge

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A fun and engaging team-building game that tests employees' knowledge about their workplace while encouraging collaboration and friendly competition.

Shuffling Teams

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Studenten leren de voor- en nadelen van disciplinaire en interdisciplinaire onderzoeksteams.

Euro-Quiz

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Euro-Quiz aims to have participants learn more about other countries, while being challenged to answer the questions about them. All participants work individually, while answering the questions but their individual effort make the team whole.
"One for all and all for one"
"Teamwork makes the dream work"

Social Presencing Theater: Stuck

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The Stuck Exercise is a process by which one experiences going through the whole U journey by moving from Sculpture 1 (current reality) to Sculpture 2 (emerging future). We do not know what the movements will be or where they will stop, but we can follow the movement and then reflect on our experience. Surprising insights can arise.

Container Building

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Container Building is the process of creating a safe space for a group or a team by establishing both trust and ground rules for engagement.

The Relationship Scan

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This is a simple exercise to provide you and your partner (romantic or work) with an opportunity to interact in a contained place. The container:

Remove any distractions (no phones, tablets, laptops)
If you are parents (no kids allowed)
Choose a place where you will not be interrupted
Set a time - (non-negotiable) 30 min is a good amount of time and doable even for busy people and a place.

Ideally, you will find the same time and day every week.
If you can make it a ritual:

Go to your favourite coffee shop together
Have a morning meeting over a hot chocolate
Open a really good wine

This is a time for you and your partner to talk about how you both are doing, your relationship, any unfinished conversations or arguments or things that are unsaid, or any needs that are not being met.