Conference Team Building
If you are looking for some short, fun activities that will: enhance the teamwork aspect of your conference; provide a perception break within your program; or simply lighten the mood of your delegates; then look no further.
TeamWorks has a range of races, games and ice-breakers desigend to be great fun while at the same time emphasising the important concepts involved in working as a team. We can easily adapt to any venue or theme and our activities will help to ensure that your conference is a memorable one.
Ice-Breakers
Ice-Breakers are brief, high energy activities that allow participants to connect in minutes ways that might otherwise take hours or even days. Ice-Breakers also help to set a positive atmosphere within the meeting that allows a team to approach a challenge or conference in a positive frame of mind.
Ice-Breakers are most successfully used at the beginning of a meeting to invigorate participants and then as active perception breaks at pre-set intervals throughout each day.
Crash Landing
Crash Landing is a strong team building game which requires strategic thinking and good team dynamics. Unless teams work together, it could all end in disaster... This is a great theoretical activity that highlights the benefits of working in teams. It works in three phases:
- Individuals are given a list of items of which they need to choose only a few to keep with them in order to survive if their space ship crash landed on the moon.
- The indivduals form teams and repeat the same exercise.
- The individual and team results are scored and then compared.
Teams and managers alike are normally delighted at the results and it becomes a talking point back in the office.
The Mast Project
In this challenge, teams would be pitted against each other in an "Apprentice" style activity to build the most profitable tower.
Each team would be given a box of lego and a page of graphs: tower height will earn them money but they will have to buy bricks and deduct money for wages according to how long they take. All the financial information is contained within the page of graphs. Teams will have half an hour to plan, then let the building begin...
Team work and thorough planning are crucial elements of success in this fun, fast-paced challenge.
The Strongest Link
This is a great variation of a TV Quiz game where participants are divided into teams in which they compete against one another to see which team has the best general knowledge and problem solving ability. The questions and categories are designed so that participants from all backgrounds and levels of experience will be able to contribute. This means that it is not always that smartest or the most senior team that wins but rather all teams have a fair chance at the top spot.
The Quiz can be designed around a theme of your chosing, tie into the conference theme or even be created around a companies key products.
Mind Munchers
If you are looking for something that inspires collaboration and great team spirit, then this is the activity for you. In this challenge the group is divided into teams which compete to see who can complete the highest number of tasks (and thus the highest number of points) within a given time. The tasks are completed through a combination of lateral thought and team work. They are engaging and stimulating and promote an atmosphere of comaraderie between all members of the team.
Some examples of the tasks are:
- Wolves & Sheep
- Triangle Tussle
- All Aloft
- Blue Peter
- Blind Intent
- Egg Drop
Crack the Code
This activity provides every participant with the chance to feel like they have slipped inside the storey of the Da Vinci Code. Teams are given a 20 letter coded phrase that they need to decipher by solving a trail of mysteiuos clues. Each clue provides a little more of the information that they need in order to peice together the final phrase. None of the clues are easy and teams will have to pool all their resources to see if they can beat the clock and the other teams...
The first team to decipher the code correctly will be pronounced the winner.
Murder Mystery
Your team members walk into their offices at the start of their day and come across an invitation inviting them to dinner. With the invitation they find a bag of props and they soon realise that this is not going to be an ordinary dinner...
At the dinner, watch and laugh as participants have to assume a character, put on fake accents, recite words from songs all while trying to discover who among them has commited the perfect crime. Particpants become increasingly involved as they grow suspicious of one another, form alliances and eventually have to lay their accusations on the table before the guilty charcter is revealed.
This is a great activity for participants to unwind after a long day working and is best conducted over dinner.
Fabulous Fashion
Take a break from the normal, conservative daily corporate activities and take part in a fashion show with a difference! Participants will be divided into teams and each team will be allocated a theme, material, sewing equipment, music and props. Teams will need to coreograph a fashion show while at the same time designing and making their outfits. The end result is sometimes reminiscent of the infamous book: Fashion Babylon.
The teams will then take to the catwalk to perform for the other teams and a panel of judges. Prizes will be awarded for creativity; the more outrageous the better.
The "Canned" Film Festival
Have you ever wanted to star in or produce your own advert or news reel? Well here's your chance! The "Canned" Film Festival challenges teams to conceptualise, practice and then perform their own advert or news broadcast. Team members divide up the responsibility for the roles of: director, producer, actors, jingle singers and celebrity endorsers. At the end of this fun and highly engaging process the productions are performed live for the other teams and a panel of judges.
A variation on this product if your team has a little more team is to put together a short film or TV episode.
Leadership Exercises
Leadership exercises are simple but startlingly effective problem solving challenges that require a great deal of team work and lateral thought in order to accomplish. The purpose of the exercises is to allow the team dynamics to become easily obervable to an appointed facilitator and to all members of the team.
Each task takes approximately 20 minutes and for each new task a new leader is appointed from the team. At the end of eah task the TeamWorks appointed facilitator will lead the team in a short but thorough task review. This will help the team to discover their strengths and weaknesses and allow the team to work on them in a controlled environment. In addition to being a tremendous learning experience, these activities are also a great deal of fun.
