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    Free Icebreakers, Fun Games, and Team Building Activities


    2011 - 11.25

    Effective team building activities are necessary for unity, interrelation and trust of team members. These activities increase the motivation level of staff and in this way, you can get more input from your team members. A team leader controls team building activities and other team members are associated with this leader. As a leader, you should be aware of fun icebreakers, games and team building activities in order to control team effectively. Icebreaker activities, games and group energizers are cost effective ways to initiate a meeting, training or conference. Icebreaker activities and ideas can be exercised at morning time to give a fresh start to your staff.

    Body Percussion

    This unique icebreaker game involved an experienced body percussionist. He teaches all delegates the art of creating music by using their bodies. This game creates lot of fun because this activity requires no equipment and involves everybody without restriction of age and physical ability.

    Self-propelled Vehicle

    It is a best icebreaker activity for those who want to increase the creativity of his/her team. It is necessary for a team to create a self-propelled vehicle from the assorted collection of boxes, paper plates, string, sellotape, rods, rubber bands and balloons. This activity takes prescribed time and to check the effects of self-propelled vehicles you can take test of employees. After completion of activity, a grand finale is held to see which “vehicle” can go the furthest.

    Challenge 100

    This activity is best to energize the employees to perform all tasks energetically throughout the session. It is best way to teach your team how to handle the challenge. This task is divided into different sections and encompass out the box quick icebreaker games, team tasks, solution seeking icebreaker exercises as well as manual building tasks. Challenge 100 works for 3 hours and 45 minutes.

    Egg Launch

    This is a creative icebreaker activity and use bamboo, canes, string, paper cups, bungee and ingenuity. In this activity, all teams are required to construct a freestanding launcher that can throw eggs as far as possible. Team whose launcher can throw the furthest will be the winner team.

    Film Making

    It is one of most challenging icebreaker activities. This activity involves creation of 30-second promotional advert within the hour with the help of available props and a lot of patience as well as ingenuity. This film can be used to communicate business message. It is the best way to get thought provoking ideas from the members of your team.

    Paper Projects

    It is a building based icebreaker games and requires preparing a crane to lift a prescribed weight with no outside assistance with the help of machine rolled paper rods and cable ties. It is one of most challenging icebreaker ideas and can energize team members to work with more enthusiasm.

    Quiz

    Quizzes are effective, simple and quick fire icebreaker to energize team members. You can include questions about your business message for the day or can include questions about market according to your needs. Quizzes can include music rounds, trivia, sport and general knowledge.

    I hope this information will be helpful for you to motivate your team in order to get 100% output.