Team building games in the workplace?
hannerz asked:
I need to lead my groups weekly meeting. We work in transportation for a large corporation. Our duties include answering phones and emails and providing excellent customer service to our carriers, vendors, and shippers. We are split up into 4 regions; North, South, West, and Special Projects.
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I need to lead my groups weekly meeting. We work in transportation for a large corporation. Our duties include answering phones and emails and providing excellent customer service to our carriers, vendors, and shippers. We are split up into 4 regions; North, South, West, and Special Projects.
I am looking for a game or exercise that will help unite the team while providing an opportunity to teach team building and/or customer service skills.
July 19th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
You could always go with the cliche fall of trust exercise. You can also try a pair game, something along the lines of a three legged race. They might be pretty cliche, but they’re tried and true, and they got to be cliches for a reason.
However, I think your best bet is paint ball. It might sound a little bit violent, especially for the customer service department of a shipping company, but it really does work. Although it’s a little bit expensive to buy the gear for everybody, it really does work as one of the best team building exercises out there. Also, if you play an office wide game every week or two, it will pay for itself in no time. If money’s an issue, you can always go with airsoft games, which are essentially the same thing as paint ball games, except with specialized BB guns. That might be an even better option, as the BBs don’t leave any marks, so honesty becomes an integral part of the game as well.
It may not be the most traditional form of team building, but it certainly will do the job while simultaneously getting the department to engage in some physical exercise and letting them think in different, unconventional ways. JT_Grogan