| One of the greatest challenges in organising team | | | | Leaves: sources of information |
| building events is the need to instil creativity in the | | | | Branches: connections and relationships |
| activities implemented. It is a fact that coming up | | | | Fruit: achievements |
| with fresh ideas yourself is painful and time | | | | Buds: ambition and ideas |
| consuming. What's more, team building activities have | | | | Truck: stability |
| to be aligned with the corporate objectives of holding | | | | Flowers: strengths and specialities |
| the event in the first place. | | | | In a team, discuss all these areas with one another, |
| Nevertheless, if you already have some idea of what | | | | taking care not to be judgemental but instead |
| you want to achieve, you can then check out the | | | | provide constructive inputs. As a team building event |
| following creative team building ideas and even | | | | organiser, you are free to customise the exercise |
| expound from them. This makes your task easier, | | | | with other elements such as birds and bees, or other |
| and also provides you with some basis to work with. | | | | items such as dead branches and leaves. |
| Joining Instructions (An ice-breaking activity) | | | | Collecting Autographs (Team building, association and |
| Get people into groups of between three to ten | | | | creativity) |
| people. In team clusters, instruct all teams to work | | | | Draw a grid of boxes on a piece of paper and |
| together to join several parts of their body parts | | | | develop copies of it to be distributed to each of the |
| together. For instance, four hands, two wrists, six | | | | team members. Give everyone a pen of different |
| knees and one thumb. The first team to complete | | | | colour, and get them to draw a matchstick image of |
| the exercise will shout "joined" to the activity | | | | themselves on the first box with their signatures at |
| facilitators. It is up to the event organiser to come | | | | the bottom. Then, within a time span of 5 minutes, |
| up with increasingly challenging commands for the | | | | let everyone go around the room collecting |
| teams and also to tabulate scores for a winner. | | | | autographs and matchstick drawings from others. It's |
| The Personality Tree (Team bonding and personality | | | | best that each person get to know one another |
| determination) | | | | better before moving on. Stop the exercise at the |
| In groups of between three and five, distribute pens | | | | end of 5 minutes and single out the person with the |
| or markers with paper to each team member. Next, | | | | highest number of signatures. Get him or her to |
| get them to draw a tree depicting the roots, trunk, | | | | describe each person that the signature resembles on |
| branches, leaves, buds, flowers, thorns and fruits. | | | | his or her sheet. You will be surprised at the answers! |
| Each area of the tree symbolizes the following | | | | These activities are just a glimpse of other activities |
| personality areas: | | | | that would make your team building exercise a |
| Root: beliefs or influence | | | | success. |
| Thorns: challenges | | | | |