Two Lies and a Truth
This is a well-known and simple ice-breaker, designed to get to know the other members of your team well, as well as practicing your own poker face!
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4 Cs
The 4Cs game is a quick way to gather and organize information about any subject using four common key concepts.
Teamwork sequence with Marshmallow challenge
Get groups to work together on a practical challenge and then debrief the learning points to direct attention to patterns on their teamwork.
Group Development Stage Directions
Different teams receive envelopes labeled with the names of different stages in the development of a team. Participants brainstorm guidelines for facilitating a team at a specific stage, record the guidelines on a card, and place the card inside the appropriate envelope. Teams rotate the envelopes and generate guideline cards for other stages in the life cycle of a team. During the evaluation round, team members comparatively score the guideline cards generated by other teams.
Virtual scavenger hunt
A fun team-building energiser that encourages groups to recreate the scavenger hunt experience in a fully remote environment!
Reflection: Team
The purpose of reflecting as a team is for members to express thoughts, feelings and opinions about a shared experience, to build openness and trust in the team, and to draw out key learnings and insights to take forward into subsequent experiences. Team members generally sit in a circle, reflecting first as individuals, sharing those reflections with the group, then discussing the insights and potential actions to take out of the session. Use this session one or more times throughout a project or program.
Five ideas
Five Ideas is an activity that encourages participants to go beyond what is good for their team or their department and work on cooperatively achieving common goals.
Teambuilding activities create high-performance teams whose members are extremely loyal to each other and to their team. Sometimes, however, the emphasis in teamwork results in reduced collaboration across teams. Similar problems occur when employees become so focused on their departmental goals that they ignore or downplay the strategic goals for the total organization.
Human Device
In this interactive, teams will come together to become a human version of the device listed on their index card. This activity is a means to build team dynamics and also a way to address any challenges a team might be working through as this activity is completely dependent on everyone coming together as a group and playing a part.
Celebrate the wins in your team
A positive and uplifting icebreaker that encourages team members to reflect on achievements, recognize each other’s contributions, and build a culture of appreciation.
Left-hand, Right-hand Column
It has been used as a part of training of facilitators and as part of team building.