It is said that one of the secrets to organizational success is to recognize and value your employees. One of the steps necessary to accomplish that goal is to organize team-building activities for your employees. These activities are aimed at determining strengths and talents, unifying the team, developing relationships and trust, improving communication and other skills and increasing employees’ happiness, effectiveness, and productivity. Engaging in team activities encourages team members to help each other, get work done faster and learn from each other.

Few of the top 10-team building activities have been listed below to help your team bond.

1. Shared experiences

This activity helps in team bonding and ice breaking. On a white board write some topics that can get the team to start talking and sharing experiences like my first day at work, best team outing, funniest work incident, unforgettable moments at work and the most embarrassing incident at work. Ask your team members to pick any topic that they would like to share with the rest of the group and talk about it. A lot of bonding happens over shared experiences.

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2. Company insignia

Provide your teams with papers, markers, glue and scissors. Get them to create the company emblem or banner depicting a major achievement, company values and their vision for the company. Once done the completed design can be framed and put up on a memory wall in the office. This activity improves team bonding.

3. Pitch the Tent

Pitch the tent encourages problem-solving and coordination skills. The members are divided into groups of 4-5. A leader is selected for each team. The rest are blindfolded. Materials for pitching the tents are provided to each team. Each team has to pitch the tent blindfolded, by coordinating with their team members and leader. The leader can only give instructions and not help with his hands at all. To make things more difficult, you can turn on the fans or provide tricky construction materials like candy sticks and toothpicks.

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4. Story time

If you have a large workforce, break them into smaller teams. Have a series of pictures printed on different sheets of paper in such a manner that they depict a story. Each member is given one sheet from that story. Give them time to study the picture. They are not supposed to show each other their picture. The goal is to place the pictures in sequential order only with the help of discussions on the matter featured in the picture. This activity encourages communication and unity in problem-solving. It can also reflect leadership qualities of members who naturally come forth and take charge.

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5. Human Knot

This activity is fun and at the same time promotes team bonding, problem solving and communication. Form groups of 8-20 people each. Ask each group to stand in circles. Instruct them to put their right hand up and catch the right hand of someone standing across the circle. Repeat the same with the left hand. Only this time they have to catch hold of the hand of a different person. It is not allowed to hold the hand of someone standing right next to them. Now ask everyone to unentangle themselves without letting go of any hands. If anyone does so, the game starts again. To make things difficult, you can set a time limit.

6. Salt and pepper

To play this game, the number of people needs to be even numbered. A team size of 20-40 people would be ideal. Think of pairs of things that generally go together, like salt and pepper, shadow and light, Tom and Jerry, hot and cold, fire and ice, bread and butter and so on. Write a part of each pair on different pieces of paper and tape each one to the backs of the participants without letting them see the word. The objective of the game is for them to find their pairs by talking to each other and asking only yes or no questions to find out what word they have taped on their backs. Once they know their word, they need to find their pair. In order to ice break further, let the pairs then talk to each other and learn three interesting things about the other person.

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7. Egg Drop

This is one creative and fun teamwork activity. Divide the members into teams. Provide material like newspaper, tape, plastic bags, balloons, and rubber bands. The task is to drop an egg from 10 feet height without letting it break with the help of the materials provided. How they do it, is up to the team.

8. Construction

This activity looks like child’s play but it s a lot more difficult than that. It is great for teaching team members planning, communication and problem solving. Get a few set of children’s building blocks and build a sculpture. Keep it away from sight. Divide the participants into small teams. Each group is given building blocks enough to replicate the sculpture to the exact detail of size and color. One member from each team is allowed to have a look at the sculpture. They go back to their team and guide them to recreate it brick by brick. To make things a little easier, after a certain time, another member of each team can have a look at the sculpture. The first team to duplicate the sculpture exactly wins. Alternatively, you could provide the teams with a set of playing cards and scissors to create a tower. The team that builds the tallest standing tower wins. This teaches team members how to get work done with limited resources.

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9. Mine field

Form teams of two members each. You may use a big empty hall or open space for this activity. There are many party venues in Mumbai, which provide large spaces for corporate parties and meetings. Across the area, scatter “mines” randomly. The mines can be any object like a bottle or small box. A member from each team has to walk across the” minefield” without touching any of the mines. The challenge here is, he or she will have to do so blindfolded guided only by the instructions of his team mate who can guide the partner from outside the minefield. In order to make this a little more challenging, have three or 4 pairs walking through the minefield at the same time. This forces the members to focus and listen. This game is great for lessons on trust and communication.

10. Room  Escape Games

This game has many variations and can be played using a variety of puzzles and tasks. It would help to book a banquet hall in Mumbai to allow for the space required to play this game and some others. Gather everyone in the hall and lock the door. The objective of the game is to solve a series of puzzles and complete certain tasks in order to find the key to the room and open it before time runs out. To make things interesting, get one member to play the ghost who will be tied to rope in a corner of the room. Every 5 minutes the rope is let loose one foot, and the ‘ghost’ gets closer to the people. The members have to find the key before the ghost is able to reach them. This game is a lot of fun and promotes creative problem solving and collaborative skills.

Team building activities are great for the health of any organization. It is well known that happy employees mean happy customers, and that is good news for businesses.