Team building helps employees get to know their coworkers and build relationships. Establishing and strengthening the rapport between coworkers translates into improved understanding and communication skills that will carry over into the workplace. Take on this ultimate list of Nashville group team building activities and hand out custom t-shirts to create a team environment.
Benefit of Team Building
Team building activities can run the gamut, but they all set out to achieve the same goal. Efficient team building does just that - it builds team skills, increases communication and improves both moral and productivity. Employees learn more about their fellow team members and begin to see them as people with lives outside of work, instead of just coworkers. Completing a challenge also gives Nashville team members a sense of accomplishment from working together.
Creating a Team Atmosphere
The activities themselves build a rapport, but you can further create a sense of a team by providing employees custom tees branded with your logo and corporate colors. Designed tees will set the tone and get everyone ready for whatever activities are to come.
Rewarding Team Building
Custom tees can also be used as a reward for whatever group wins your team building competition. A uniquely designed shirt can be enough of an incentive to encourage employees to take team building activities seriously.
Customize Your Tee
Creating custom tees is quick and easy. Include your company’s logo and feature a message about the team building experience. Design the artwork you want to be printed on your shirt and send it in. Our team can help answer questions or give lend a hand with the design work if you need help.
Team Building Activities
Different Nashville group team building activities will appeal to various groups. Take into account the size of your group and how much space will be needed. For outdoor activities consider the weather and have a backup plan or set a rain date.
How to Tie Shoelaces
As individuals or in small teams have people write instructions for tying shoelaces. It is a simple task that everyone knows how to do, but explaining the process requires attention to detail. Once everyone turns in their instructions, have other groups test out those instructions. Going through the instructions teaches team members to pay attention to details and communicate clearly.
Quiz Game
On slips of paper write out questions specific to the company. Fold the slips of paper, toss them in a box or bucket and have team members draw slips. Each team member will read their question and answer the question to the best of his or her ability. Other team members can speak up to answer the question if the initial employee does not know the answer, or they can supplement info to the answer.
Examples of questions can include who founded the company and when, what is the top-selling product, what is the customer service phone number, what trade shows or other industry events does the company attend and more.
Group Drawing
Break everyone into equally-sized groups and give each group pen and paper. One member of each group begins to draw a shape or outline of their choosing, or you can privately give the first artist instructions ahead of time. The first drawer will stop and pass the pen and paper along to the next team member, and the second person adds to the drawing. This process continues until each team member has contributed. The goal is to identify what is being drawn and participate in a meaningful way.
This exercise pushes team members to lay the useful groundwork that will help other team members build upon the work of one another. When the drawings are complete, evaluate the finished products. If the final drawing is identifiable as what the first artist intended it to be, that group is declared a winner. Ideally, all teams will be identified as winners.
Scavenger Hunt
Depending on how many people you have, divide everyone into groups. Hand each group their first clue that will lead to a previously hidden clue that will also lead to more clues. The first group to reach their final clue is the winner. This exercise encourages team members to put their heads together to figure out the riddles that will lead them to the next clue.
Get Athletic
From bowling to mini golf to more serious endeavors your team building activities can be sports based. Make sure you have enough participants to round out the teams if necessary and make sure everyone is physically able to play along. Such activities encourage teamwork, but also add a social element to the exercise.
Building Your Team
Team building activities create stronger and more efficient teams, which in turn helps your business. Custom printed tee shirts can be used to further create a sense of team or as a reward for participating in team building activities.
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