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The document provides several quick and easy team building activities that can be done in the workplace with little effort. It introduces activities like "Numbers Don't Lie" where employees count off and call out each other's numbers, and "Blind Alphabet" where staff form letters with a rope while blindfolded. Additional activities described are "Scissors Communication" where employees pass scissors between each other in different positions without seeing them. The document promotes that quick team building can boost productivity, loyalty and make a company stand out from its competitors.

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Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com If you are looking to jump on the team building band wagon, we dont blame you. The results that companies have been seeing all over the world are amazing. The productivity of the workplace will jump as will the staff loyalty, making team building something every company wants in on. In todays market you must stay above the crowd, and be noticed. That is why your staff must be the best, they are the reason companies thrive. If you are hoping to instill some team building ideas quickly and easily, this can be done. Without much hassle you can have a quick team building event, making team building not only a great way to see results, but easy to do. Below are listed some quick and easy team building activities for the workplace, and beyond. Numbers dont lie: 1) The group stands in a horseshoe formation. Count off down the line so that each player has a number. 2) The first person (Number 1 in the lineup) calls out someone elses number: Twelve! That person immediately calls out someone elses number: Five! That person quickly calls out another number: Eight! and so on. The first person to hesitate, at all, or call a wrong number (either their own or one that doesnt exist), relinquishes his or her place and goes to the end of the line. That person and all who were previously behind him or her in the lineup now have different numbers. 3) As it continues, people will constantly blow it and have to move to the end of the line. BUT heres the hitch: Rather than grimacing or groaning, they must raise one fist in the air and say Yes! with All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com triumph, and trot proudly to last place. Everyone else must applaud admiringly. Blind alphabet: Everyone grab a section of the rope and make sure every other person is located on the opposite side of the rope with both hands on the rope. Tell everyone to look around the room and familiarize themselves with the things around them. Have them do the following activities, with both hands remaining on the rope at all times: 1) Close their eyes and form an S with their bodies and the rope 2) Close their eyes and form a C with their bodies and the rope 3) Allowing only one of the end people to open their eyes and speak, have the group form a Z. The other people in the group can NOT speak; maybe communicate by stomping feet or nodding, etc. 4) Close their eyes and without speaking line up in alphabetical order by their first names Scissors communication: 1. Have all participants sit in a circle facing one another 2. The object of the game is for the participants to figure out the communication pattern taking place. 3. The leader of the group should show participants the scissors in 3 different positions (that do not match the words they are using to describe them. (I.e. scissors open call that scissors closed or crossed, etc.) 4. The three positions being used are open, crossed, and closed. All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com 5. The pattern goes I am receiving the scissors ______. I am passing the scissors _______. You should fill in the blank with whichever position your legs are in at the time you receive and pass off the scissors. 6. You may change the position of your legs between receiving them and passing them, or you may leave them in the same position. Either way, you should be discreet so that it is harder for other people in the circle to decipher the pattern. 7. Participants should attempt to figure out how the scissors are being passed and received each time they get them. The leader should let them know if they are correct in saying how they have received or passed them. These are only a few examples of how to can bring team building into your workplace, easily and quickly! All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com To learn more about team building activities for the workplace come visit us at: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com If youd like 31 free icebreakers to take your team building activities to the next level you can get that for free by visiting: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com/31-icebreakers/ And if youd like an advanced toolbox of team building activities, then I recommend you take a look at this: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com/toolbox All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com

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  • 1. Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com Quick Team Building Ideas Brought to you by Team Building Activities HQ All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
  • 2. Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com If you are looking to jump on the team building band wagon, we dont blame you. The results that companies have been seeing all over the world are amazing. The productivity of the workplace will jump as will the staff loyalty, making team building something every company wants in on. In todays market you must stay above the crowd, and be noticed. That is why your staff must be the best, they are the reason companies thrive. If you are hoping to instill some team building ideas quickly and easily, this can be done. Without much hassle you can have a quick team building event, making team building not only a great way to see results, but easy to do. Below are listed some quick and easy team building activities for the workplace, and beyond. Numbers dont lie: 1) The group stands in a horseshoe formation. Count off down the line so that each player has a number. 2) The first person (Number 1 in the lineup) calls out someone elses number: Twelve! That person immediately calls out someone elses number: Five! That person quickly calls out another number: Eight! and so on. The first person to hesitate, at all, or call a wrong number (either their own or one that doesnt exist), relinquishes his or her place and goes to the end of the line. That person and all who were previously behind him or her in the lineup now have different numbers. 3) As it continues, people will constantly blow it and have to move to the end of the line. BUT heres the hitch: Rather than grimacing or groaning, they must raise one fist in the air and say Yes! with All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
  • 3. Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com triumph, and trot proudly to last place. Everyone else must applaud admiringly. Blind alphabet: Everyone grab a section of the rope and make sure every other person is located on the opposite side of the rope with both hands on the rope. Tell everyone to look around the room and familiarize themselves with the things around them. Have them do the following activities, with both hands remaining on the rope at all times: 1) Close their eyes and form an S with their bodies and the rope 2) Close their eyes and form a C with their bodies and the rope 3) Allowing only one of the end people to open their eyes and speak, have the group form a Z. The other people in the group can NOT speak; maybe communicate by stomping feet or nodding, etc. 4) Close their eyes and without speaking line up in alphabetical order by their first names Scissors communication: 1. Have all participants sit in a circle facing one another 2. The object of the game is for the participants to figure out the communication pattern taking place. 3. The leader of the group should show participants the scissors in 3 different positions (that do not match the words they are using to describe them. (I.e. scissors open call that scissors closed or crossed, etc.) 4. The three positions being used are open, crossed, and closed. All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
  • 4. Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com 5. The pattern goes I am receiving the scissors ______. I am passing the scissors _______. You should fill in the blank with whichever position your legs are in at the time you receive and pass off the scissors. 6. You may change the position of your legs between receiving them and passing them, or you may leave them in the same position. Either way, you should be discreet so that it is harder for other people in the circle to decipher the pattern. 7. Participants should attempt to figure out how the scissors are being passed and received each time they get them. The leader should let them know if they are correct in saying how they have received or passed them. These are only a few examples of how to can bring team building into your workplace, easily and quickly! All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com
  • 5. Brought To You By http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com To learn more about team building activities for the workplace come visit us at: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com If youd like 31 free icebreakers to take your team building activities to the next level you can get that for free by visiting: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com/31-icebreakers/ And if youd like an advanced toolbox of team building activities, then I recommend you take a look at this: http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com/toolbox All Rights Reserved 息 2011 Team Building Activities HQ http://teambuildingactivitieshq.com