Get Your Team Together!

Team building may sound like a tedious task, yet for some its just a matter of one day to form a team and let all its members work in harmony. Bigger organizations have bigger teams and so they require bigger talent but not if you have some few simple guidelines which if followed, you can see whole your team supporting each other and working uniformly. Some organizations struggle really hard to form and bring the team players together, so that they perform tasks,a and achieve the company targets, the key challenge lies in letting themselves let free in a group, sharing their ideas, their commitments, their role models, their achievements, their targets, etc. when a particular employee opens up freely to the other members of the team he can truly enjoy the fruits of being in a team. That is the main reason, why manager stress more on forming teams, the groups, which works together, plays, together. Companies occasionally sponsor sports event, fun-fair events, group performances so that members let down their fears and be open to the huge audience, those are their clients, group partners, managers, colleagues and so on.

Today, we are definitely going to do something exciting which you can use in your company as an ice breaker between the teams and in no time you will see all of your employees knowing each other well and understanding each other’s point of view and sharing the lessons they learnt in their management schools. Successful implementation of management lessons is a key to successful operation of teams in an organization. There are various activities you can do as a ice breaker between the teams in an organization, organization as a drama in groups for a company social gathering, dance or singing in a group, then arranging fun activities like indoor games, outings, sports activities, arranging a picnic, etc. this things hardly take any of your time and can create great results for company in future as teams are the most powerful productivity generating resources of a company.

Here is an activity which I have been following in my management classes for some time now, you can use it in your company premises, seminars, workshops or just social get together, it will help in building the confidence, enhance the personality of your team members and also let them talk freely in the company:

1. Ask the participants to form groups of 5 members each, whom they don’t know really well because most of the times they will select the people they are already familiar with. So let them select the partners they don’t know.
2. Ask each of the groups to select one person, who will make notes and also to read out the list when asked to for the said group.
3. You can ask them to discuss things that are common amongst them, this will create discussions amongst them and they will be more familiar to each other.
4. Then you can ask the volunteer of each group to come forward and share the things they found common in the group. It will be really funny for them to know, what type of things are common amongst them and this will break their silence and break the ice which was stopping them. The best way to reach a person’s heart is through the laugher so get going with funky jokes and laughter stories together.
5. When in a group, people are always going to look upon something and have fun, these are the best times to bond with the group and let them know of your skills too.
6. Group discussions are the best way you can create interaction going amongst themselves and it will surely bring some great idea for the team and can benefit the whole company too.

The activity takes hardly 10 to 15 minutes of your time, depends on the activity, which you select, and the number of groups you have. Other than this, you can arrange for general knowledge quiz, company process quiz, and other stuff, which will let them take keen interest in-group activity. So what are you waiting for? Break the ICE today!