Team Building Activity At Work [EASY AND AWESOME]
Team Building Activity At Work [EASY AND AWESOME] / Looking for a fun team building activity for work that requires little preparation? I’ve done tons of team building games for the office, and today I’m going to share with you one of my favourite quick team building games.
Quick team building exercises can really change a work environment to a more positive one in no time! Team building in the workplace is something that every organization needs to accomplish. So, if you want to get your team working together but you’re stumped about where to start, simple team building games are easy to facilitate and I can plan your team building exercises for work, for you! The easy team building games idea that I’ll be sharing in this video will work as team building games for small groups or larger groups.
So, let’s get started with these easy team building activities for meetings! Find out what team building exercises for employees you can incorporate into your team’s schedule.
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Are you going to try this team building exercise at your next workshop? Let me know in the comments below. Cheers!
Excellent one, tried it last week in Team Building workshop, works perfectly and participants loves it, it is easy, practical and so much fun. Thank you Adriana.
Hi, Medhat. That is fantastic to hear!! Cheers!
yes
yup why not
Yes, I will! Thank you, Adriana. I will do this one at our next meeting. I appreciate you putting all this together. Cheers from Southern California and Baja Mexico.
I loved this exercise! I will definitely be trying this out in the future. It is neat how it is quite a physical exercise as well (wearing the ponchos) and it is something they can keep after. Thank you for sharing.
It's a team building activity that everyone will really enjoy. It's wonderful to see those that choose to keep their poncho as a reminder. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
@AdrianaGirdler I moderated our team offsite and initiated this activity as a warm-up. The positive feedback I received was truly heartening, and words can't capture how much I appreciate it. I just wanted to express my gratitude for such a creative idea. People like you contribute to spreading joy, helping others start their workday on a positive note. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your experience. So glad it worked out so well.
I did this for my adult ESL students when I taught them adjectives. But it had the same positive effect on each student. They felt really good about themselves and the students got closer. Thank you!
Nicole, thanks for sharing. I love that you used this for your ESL students and that it had such a positive effect on each of them! Stories like these are so wonderful to hear, thank you! Cheers!
Nice to meet you Adrianna. Thank you so much for this awesome activity. I will definitely be trying this with my team. God bless. 🌹🙏🏾
You're very welcome Norma! I would love to hear how your team enjoys this activity. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Hi Adriana, what a creative, fun exercise! Very powerful for team meetings. I also facilitate team meetings for organizations and use a similar exercise. Instead of ponchos, I use stick notes. The feeling people get when they read the positive things others have to say about them is so freeing! Thank you for sharing. Will be checking out more of your videos! And subbing! BTW, I love your smile and energy!
Hi Buife, thanks for the great feedback. The poncho exercise is one of my favorites and I love watching the reactions of the teams faces when they start reading their poncho. Thanks for subbing and have a great day! Cheers!
Are yall on linked in and instagram? I'd love to communicate with other Facilitators.
Great idea, so creative! I hope we will be seeing more team building activity ideas from you soon. I'll tune in for sure.
Thank you and thanks for watching. We will definitely have more team building and ice breaker ideas coming soon so stay tuned! Cheers!
Wow, what a great idea!!! I'm a Serbian, European, guy living in Guangzhou, the South of China, and we are practically a start up company, with two small English training centers with foreign teachers, and I will DEFINITELLY do this amazing team building activity with both of my teams in both of these school! You are really inspiring and I will recommend you to all of my friends! Really thank you so much, dear Adriana! :)
Thank you so very much! Wishing you great success, cheers!
I’m hosting a 4-day workshop that starts next Monday and I’ve added the poncho exercise to my list of activities. I can’t wait!!
That's fantastic! I hope the workshop goes well, and I can promise you that everyone will love doing the poncho exercise. Cheers!
Love this exercise, Adriana! i have done where participants write letters to each other with positive words before. The outcome was amazing. This activity you shared is something I will give it a go! Thanks!
Thank you, Hazriq! I really like the idea of writing letters with positive words:) Hope you and your team enjoy doing this exercise. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
You are welcome, Adriana! :)
That was so much fun to watch! I love games that involve creative thinking and appreciation. That way, everyone feels great in the end. Wonderful example :)
Glad you enjoyed our video! It's even more fun doing the activity and wonderful seeing the reactions when they finally read their ponchos:) Cheers!
Yes, that was really the easiest way of motivating the people and connecting the team...Yes I tried this in many times in my workshop, as you said it was really cheerful to watch...the real smile of others...they feel great at each other...
I love to see how team members motivate each other. This is one of my favourite team building exercises. Nothing better than seeing the warm smiles of your team once the exercise is completed. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Great team building activity. I have actually participated in this activity once and it was so nice to read all those positive comments that people wrote. Would definitely recommend this team building activity!
Yes! Its so fun and even better watching everyone's reactions as they read their ponchos :) Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Hey Adriana, so fun, you're creative! Good ideas! I did an escape room and lots of dinners and food related team events in the past. Very happy to be a SOLO preneur to be honest :)
Thanks you Rachel! It really is a fun and engaging activity and a great way to build everyone up. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Yes, I am leading a team retreat in a week in a public school district with our department heads. I anticipate this being a great way to start the meeting!
Fantastic! Hope the retreat goes well! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Great idea Andrea and thank you. Our department is only a small group of 6 and so I'm excited to do this activity!
Hi Lori! I hope your group enjoys the activity. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Love it! thank you very much for sharing. I will use it next week for opening a goal-setting meeting!!!!
Thank you!! Would love to hear how your team enjoys doing the exercise:) Thanks for watching. Cheers!
PERFECT!! was looking for something to build a team of leaders to 'drop their guard' a little bit. Will use this tomorrow. Thank you
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
We did an escape room at my corporate job, and that was really a great way to bond and work together with coworkers.
Hi Lisa, that sounds like fun way to bond and work together problem solving with your coworkers! Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Quick, to the point and no music. Yay thanks Adriana
Thank you and thanks for watching! Cheers!
This was a great opener for one of my last team meetings of the school year. Thank you so much for sharing!
You are most welcome! Cheers!
I LOVE all of this! Thank you!
Thank you so much Makeda! Cheers!
What a neat idea for a team building activity at work. Love it ❤️
Thanks Karina, it such a fun activity for everyone! Cheers!
Great energy! Thanks!
Thanks for watching! Cheers!
I absolutely love this right up my alley with the positivity I have to read a connecting team building activity this morning at work so I am using this one one that we've never used at our agency before and I'm so excited to see the results and what everyone thinks about it thank you for sharing this 😊❤️
Hi Manda! I would love to hear what everyone thinks about it. Thanks for watching, cheers!
@@AdrianaGirdler I will absolutely come back and leave a comment headed to the meeting right now I'm excited for this one!! 😊
Love this team building game idea! What a great team building activity at work. I want to give it a try!
It's lots of fun! You could even do it with a group of friends to build each other up. Who doesn't love a little boost every once in awhile:) Cheers!
Yesss!! I'm totally going to try this team building workshop! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching Marina. We have another ice breaker video coming next week that you will want to check out:) Cheers!
Beautiful! Thank you Adriana for sharing!
Thank you so much and thanks for watching, cheers!
Thank you so much !! I am going to use this as a part of my presentation
Awesome! Hope it goes well, this is a great team building activity. Cheers!
Thanks for these team building activities for work! 👍
Hope you can use some of these team building activities at your next meeting. Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Thanks Adriana! Great activity. I'll use it next week!
Fantastic! Hope your team loves it. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Great video, thank you for sharing this. I took a note of this, to be used at the right time.
Thanks for watching Micheal! Cheers!
April 20th, my first staff meeting and cannot WAIT to try this! I am so very excited!! Thank you so much!!
Hi Priscilla! You are so very welcome! I would love to hear how it goes. Cheers!
Definitely ❤
Great exercise! Thank you!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed learning about these fun team building activities. Cheers!
Love it .. thank you so much for the energy you delivered as well. :)
Thank you for watching, cheers!
Thank you Adriana. I used this activity and it went really well.
Fantastic! Thanks for letting me know and so lovely to hear that you used it. Cheers!
Definitely trying this. I have 2 departments that work closely together and this can help reinforce the positives.
Hi Mindy! I would love to hear how the activity goes 😊 Thanks for watching, cheers!
my staff love the exercise, we even cry with each other. thank you so much.
Aww that’s wonderful. It’s amazing to see teams come together ❤️ Thanks for watching, cheers!
Thank you ! It looks great.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
I LOVE IT! will be trying this one at our next team meeting!
Amazing! I would love to hear how it goes:) Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Thank you so much Adriana
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Hey I really love this concept of telling people in a team why you appreciate them, I work in Scotland and it's quite different here where we aren't really into telling people how we feel and more reserved (I also work in engineering which is even more difficult to get people to talk about their feelings), is there a more subtle way of doing your poncho flipchart?
Hi Jasmine, I completely understand where you are coming from as I have come from engineering myself. To start the process you can begin by giving everyone an appreciation card from yourself. This is something personal from you to them and it's important you are confident about it. When you feel like the team is ready you can do a Round Robin appreciation. So what happens is everyone writes an appreciation card for the person to their right. Everyone takes the time to quietly read their card and then they move on and the key is to not talk about it. This is a good way to slowly ease the team into eventually doing the poncho exercise. Hope this is helpful and thank you so much for taking the time to tune in. Cheers!
Wow Adriana, your poncho is such a great one for me as am planning to host a team of managers on an away day. Thanks a million.
You are so very welcome! I hope your group enjoys the exercise. Thanks for watching, cheers!
What a great idea! I love the Poncho activity and will use it next week with my staff.
It's such a great team building activity, one of my favorites! Hope you staff has fun. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Great idea! I love teambuilding activities!
Thank you Kate. It really is a fun team building activity:) Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Pull through…it’s something you kind of understand in principle, but not until you truly experience various action and reaction of group dynamics… does it come together in a lucid and relatable concept. Intentions converting to intentional actions. The privacy, transparency and proper oversight of systems crosses through these matters… irony flows, the positive feedback loops help, but don’t completely ease bias. These things are not new. I had. Manager once… who was the one who hired me in my first corporate job… interesting dynamics to be sure. At one meeting, I tried to show him some books and thoughts of the work I’ve done… he had expressed an interest. I usually wait for someone to care or have a common share point. It’s really just trying toe kind. This manager still was my manger in very complex and shifting times in healthcare. It’s all just a lot. But, there are so many wonderful pathways beginning to lighten. Granted, it make the blind spots all the more shaded… that too is understandable but can’t be completely understood. Being and nothings and All… Much love y’all.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! Wishing you all the best, cheers!
I did this exercise for 50 people, it was awesome, people looooved it so much. Thank you for this great game ❤❤❤
You are so very welcome and I am so thrilled that they loved it! Cheers!
I Love It!! Will definitely try this out with my team! Thank You Sooo Much!!!!
You’re very welcome! Would love to know how your team enjoys it. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Love this idea! Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Love this idea🌷. I am going to do this with my new team members.💯 Thanks for such a fun idea.
Amazing! I really hope they enjoy it. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Love this video… thank you
You are so welcome!
yes thank you
Thanks for watching, cheers!
Love it!! Thank you for the great idea! Subbed and look forward to other videos!!
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Cheers!
What a great idea . can I use it as ice breaking .. I will try it on my next workshop . thanks a lot Adriana
Hi Mohamed. Absolutely you can use this as and ice breaker. It"s a great way for your team to see how they are all appreciated by their fellow coworkers, and will increase the positive feeling within the work place. Stay tuned for next weeks video. Its another team building/ice breaker that you won't want to miss! Cheers!
Thank you for this tips
Thanks you for tuning in, Cheers!
This is fantastic! Thanks for this excellent exercise! 😊
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
I will be trying this at my next meeting. Thank you
Fantastic! Would love to hear how it goes. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Love this idea and will be Tring at next meeting! Thanks for the idea
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Hello I will apply this one on our upcoming training, this is very nice idea, thank you for sharing...From Philippines.
Wonderful! I would love to hear how everyone enjoys the activity. Thanks you for watching, cheers!
Hi Adriana, this is terrific, thanks for sharing! Just 1 question: we have 3 new team members (out of 18 people), I am afraid they could not feel "included" doing this activity, as it will be difficult to have someone writing something "on" them. What would you suggest? I was thinking to extend the idea to also "wishes for the future", so that if you don't have nothing to thank for, you can wish him/her something.
Martino, I think that is a fantastic idea! Hope the activity goes well. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Well said.
Thank you, and thanks for watching, cheers!
I definitely plan to use this in an upcoming leadership training session.
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Simply superb.
Thank you so much Lisa, Cheers!
Definitely trying it out today!
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Great activity! I will definitely use this one!
Thanks for watching, Lysa! I would love to hear how your team enjoys this activity. Cheers!
Simply great thanks Adriana
You’re welcome 😊
Excellent and very very good idea to cheer the team-up. Thanks for the idea.
You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Yes!!! Love it!
Thanks Felicia! Cheers!
I am going to use this exercise tomorrow at our last staff meeting.....exciting
Fantastic! Hope it goes well. Thanks for watching, cheers!
I'm giving a presentation about positive school culture in a Master's course that I am taking and I am going to use this as an example of what team building looks like in a positive culture. Thank you!
That's fantastic!!! I would love to hear how your presentation goes Thanks for watching and wishing you all the best. Cheers!
@@AdrianaGirdler It went fantastically well! There were smiles ear to ear all around the room. Thank you so much!
Thenks Andriana...this is Amazing
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
love your channel ! I'm working remotely with my team. Any suggestions for a poncho like exercise over Webex teams ?
Thanks so much, Allison! We are actually putting a video together on how to do the poncho team building exercise virtually!! Stay tuned to my channel. Cheers!
This is so helpful; thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching, cheers!
I love this idea! I will pitch it to my team!
Amazing! Let us know if you and your team end up doing the activity. Would love some feedback on how they enjoyed it. Cheers!
I will use this idea. I think it is fun. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching, cheers!
The Best Exercise Wanna do it very soon
This is such a great idea filled video!
Thank you and thanks for taking the time to watch. Cheers!
I have a men breakfast this weekend Jan. 2020. I was looking for a team building/bonding exercise. I found it! Your exercise is perfect! Thanks
That's amazing Terry! Thanks for watching and please let me know how the weekend goes and the team bonding activities. Cheers!
Thanks, it is easy and powerful
You're welcome! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Awesome, I will suggest it at my workplace
You will have so much fun! Thanks for watching, Cheers!
Such great ideas!
Thanks Geoffrey and thanks for watching! Cheers!
Will definitely try this activity! 🤗
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Great ideas❤
Thanks and thanks for watching! Cheers!
I love this!! Can u share many ideas?
Hi Rekha, Thanks for watching! I have attached a few more team building/bonding activities for you to watch. Cheers! kzhead.info/sun/eMWYo72SopmggpE/bejne.html studio.kzhead.infoBvacH4AxKDM/edit
Now I am a subscriber! That you! And thank you for your enthusiastic presentation!
Thank you for watching and subscribing. Wishing you and your team all the best. Cheers!
Great exercise and will be doing it with my diverse team of Batswana, Indians and Isrealis here in Gaborone...
Excellent...let me know how it goes.
I'm so gonna try it. Thanks alot
Thanks for watching. Cheers!
I am going to do this at our weekly Department meeting today, Thank you
Have fun! Would love to know how it goes. Thanks for watching, cheers!
@@AdrianaGirdler Thank you Thank you, it was marvelous. I took a photo with them in their ponchos and then a photo of them as they were reading their messages. The smiles were a joy. While writing messages on each other, there was much laughter. So, Thank you
@patriciaedwards5653, I am so thrilled to hear that everyone enjoyed this exercise so much! Thank you for letting me know how it went! Cheers.
I will use it. Is super fun and it make staff and team closer
Fantastic! Your team will love it! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Awesome idea, I'm going to give it a try!!
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
That is really an unusual activity. But looks like fun!
It really is a fun team building activity. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
I am definitely going to use this activity with the teachers.
Wonderful! I hope they enjoy it. Thanks for watching, cheers!
The poncho exercise sounds so fun!
It is! It's wonderful to see everyone get into it and then sit down to read the positive comments the team members have given to each other . Thanks for watching! Cheers!
I am definitely going to try this with my staff
Fantastic! I hope they have fun. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Definitely am!
Fantastic, Jontae! Thanks for watching and would love to hear how everyone enjoys this team building activity. Cheers!
Definitely adopting this too
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
love it!
Thank you and thanks for watching, cheers!
going to try it tomorrow.
Fantastic! Thanks for watching, cheers!
This is amazing! I want to try this with my team. Any idea how I could do this virtually?
I love this one too! Perhaps a Shared Drive with an Excel file and each tab is one person's name. Your team goes in each tab and leaves their message?!?! Let me know what works out best for you. Cheers!