Corporate team building games can help employees learn about themselves and their business.
Corporate team building exercises can help departments and divisions come together to complete a common goal, learn something about their business and about each other, and come away with concepts or ideas that they can apply when they get back to work. However, before planning games for your next corporate retreat, consider the type of people who comprise your group and if a game is appropriate for the meeting. If so, there are many different games to get everyone on your team thinking the same way.
High Energy and Outdoor Games
Some corporations wish to hold their team building events off-site. If you have a group of people that are are energetic, your company could try activities pitting teams against each other, such as paintball and treasure hunts, or against an obstacle such as ropes courses, whitewater rafting, sailboat and regatta racing, even a race with stock cars. You'll want buy-in from the team before planning extreme activities and make sure those who are physically unable to compete or unwilling have a role in the game. Other, less strenuous games, include cooking competitions or charades. The idea is to find trust in teammates to complete a challenge or task, while learning something about each person, and taking something form the experience that can be applied back in the office.
Charitable Team Building Games
These games involve doing something as a team to help others. Instead of the typical icebreaker game or team challenge, corporations can use team building to help a charitable organization do good deeds in their own community. Obviously, a corporation can elect to go off-site and spend a morning in a soup kitchen or a few days painting homes in low income communities, but not every corporation has access to such projects. Come together to stuff teddy bears for sick children, build bikes for underprivileged children, or perhaps engage in a walk-a-thon or dance-off for a charity of your company's choosing. Anything that will bring your people together to work as a team for a meaningful cause will do the trick and might get more buy-in than the normal team-building game, challenge, or task.
Indoor Games
If you are planning games to kick-off an event or as parts of a indoor meeting or summit, you'll want to consider games, quizzes, and short exercises that utilize the brain. You'll want to find games that not only stimulate the brain but also help your staff retain ideas, have fun, and learn something that can be applied back at the office. Examples are quizzes that gauge how well each team member knows the other, role-playing to solve business problems, games where players must assemble something, and activities that look at team members' passions, interests, conflicts, and attributes in the team setting of business building.
