Free Team Building Activities
Teamwork & Enthusiasm

Free team building activities for improved enthusiasm introduction:

Energy and enthusiasm provides life to an otherwise lifeless team. We all need our spirits lifted from time to time. So it makes perfect sense to assume that your team mates need to be taken away from their routine every once in a while in order to rejuvenate and re-fuel themselves.

These free team building activities will assist you in helping your team to replenish their energy reserves.

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Reflect the Positive
Purpose of this activity: To re-energize employees and provide fun solutions to team issues.

Explanation: Leaders must constantly be looking for ways to re-fresh and re-new the workplace. Providing fun and creative ideas, through free team building activities, is most helpful to a team that is experiencing a low point.

The key to this exercise is getting your employees to see themselves differently. You can utilize a variety of props to help you quickly accomplish this with your team.

For example, provide each team member with big circus sun glasses and have them attached big smiley face stickers on the front of the glasses. Don’t have any glasses? No problem, just have them stick the stickers right on their forehead.

Hey, it’s no big deal. It won’t leave a scar and the whole idea here is to have some fun, so got for it, okay?

Anytime you feel the room becoming too serious, slap a smiley face sticker on your forehead and remind folks that “Our future is only getting brighter.”

Yes, your team will probably think you are nuts. BUT THEN YOU TELL THEM HOW THEY CAN EARN THEIR STICKER OFF THEIR FOREHEAD. AH, now everyone’s listening.

Instruct your team that every few minutes you will call on a team member and that person will have an opportunity to make a witty comment or joke about the “smiley face” and then they can remove their sticker.

With the glasses and the sticker in place, direct your team to tackle the important task or issue at hand. Enjoy the laughs and the team building aspect of the exercise.

Write down all the funny statements. After everyone has earned their sticker off, take a vote for the best comments, award prizes and have fun

Bits O’Honey
Purpose of this activity: To support and maintain a positive, energetic working environment among all staff members. To raise confidence and help promote a sense of teamwork.

Explanation: Everyone likes to be recognized and appreciated. To some extent they even expect that it’s the boss’s job to do that on a fairly regular basis.

However, sometimes the boss can provide the opportunity for other team members to be the one to praise, recognize and reward their co-workers.

This is one of our easiest free team building activities. All it takes is a little bit of planning, some pencils and pieces of paper.

Prior to your next meeting, perhaps during each of your weekly one-on-one coaching sessions with your team members, ask each member of the team to write down on a small piece of paper something nice and positive about each of her co-workers.

Instruct your employees to be brief in their description, while at the same time providing enough information so that their comments will be clearly understood.

Ask each team member to hand these notes in to you as you will be collecting them.

As the leader your job is to sort all of the notes and to gather the collection of positive comments in to a small package for each employee. You might even want to wrap the package up with a nice big bow!

At your next staff meeting, present the Bits O’Honey package to each employee. It’s not necessary to have people read theirs aloud. Simply have your team open and read their notes to themselves.

Watch their faces. Watch their body language. Take particular note of how the mood of the room will lighten up as everyone is enjoying the gift of praise and recognition.

You might begin a quick conversation with your team about how this gift made them feel, pointing out that each team member has the power to give gifts like this to other co-workers at any time. Encourage your team members to look for opportunities and reward and recognize each other.

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» Expectations
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» Fun
Work is so much work, if people are having FUN. Use our team building tools to promote and encourage fun in the workplace.

» Goal Setting
Working hard and experiencing the rewards of reaching a goal is a gift that every leader must steward for each team member.

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