Team Building Fun!

If you have ever been on a team building event for work then you’ll know they can traditionally be tedious, dull and hardly inspire you to greater things.

But office/work team building doesn’t have to be like that… a series of boring paper exercises, building a bridge out of straws or scribbling keywords on a Nobo whiteboard!!!

NO, NO, NO … BECAUSE TEAM BUILDING CAN ACTUALLY BE SO MUCH FUN – YOU’LL FALL ABOUT LAUGHING…. read on my corporate friends!

Wake Up, Go Crazy with Fun Team Building Programmes

As a person who has been on far too many management team building and corporate team activity days I can say that 90% of the time I came back to the office cynical, manipulated, tired and bored or a mixture of them all. I lost count of the times I said to colleagues “what a waste of time”!! And I heard others say that too!

So if your staff are thinking it – then it’s probably true. So please wake up to a new breed of corporate event management and team building that are much more sports in nature. It WILL get the staff laughing, motivated and talking positively for many months to come…. for sure.

Team Building Has Changed For Good

Corporate games, team building activities and leadership exercises of old are dead! – People learn much better in a relaxed and fun environment. So all manner of group games and team bonding activities have been designed around crazy antics and fun day events such as “It’s A Knockout” games or Outward Bound courses. And I know what I’d rather do… have some fun outdoors!

If you do, you can expect a lot of running around, shouting, laughing, and falling over, getting wet, foamed up, crashes, silly costumes…. and more falling over! But it can have its serious side in that these are team games with a purpose to succeed, show leadership, communication skills and use both physical and mental strength. You’ll observe your teams in ways that will not be observed in the workplace and with all that frivolity about you’ll see team bonding like no other… it’ll be a team love fest and they be begging for more! Honestly.

Making Team Activities Fun

Yes, as the corporate event planner you want to ensure your team day offers a series of interesting team building ice breakers, problem solving games, group activities, motivational games and team bonding activities… but hey, let’s make it enjoyable. We are not here to punish the workforce or turn them into robots right? We want to motivate and stimulate them – the rewards of which are well documented – a keener, happier workforce is a more efficient and productive workforce… in essence the whole point of team building programmes.

Say NO MORE to indoor team building exercises in the workplace or office – GET OUTDOORS! Book an It’s A Knockout Games Event and you’ll see the staff’s eyes light up. When did that happen with overhead projector?

Plan Your ‘NEW’ Corporate Event

If you are a corporate event planner or team leader looking to do something new and fun for your team morale or leadership training then start Googling key phrases like: “teamwork games, corporate event ideas, fun team building activities, corporate fun days or corporate team building activities”… there are loads of ideas beyond the ‘brainstorm’ and PowerPoint lists… As the team organiser if you CANNOT be motivated to do something different then how can you expect your team to be?

SOURCE: ArticleBase.com 2010 / Remember the Its A Knockout TV Show?