How Do I Make My Company Away Day ‘Fun’?
My name is Aaron and we’re Laughtercise. As you can tell by our name, we’re a bit unusual.
Unusual = fun.?
Because who wants the usual all the time?! Not us and not the teams who play our unusual team building activities! ??
Whether you’re looking for unusual team building activities to facilitate yourself or for team building companies to facilitate, this newsletter is for you.
What are unusual team building activities?
Unusual team building activities are ones that your team and colleagues will not have done before. Activities that raise eyebrows and bring out laughter! Picking an unusual team building activity will take your team by surprise and create the fun factor??
All these activities have been tried and tested on thousands of people in our Laughtercise Corporate Team Building Workshops. They go down a treat and certainly tick the ‘wow’ box ?
Pencil Pouting & Pencil Pushers!
Which team member is the best pencil pusher? Who has the strongest pout?
Playing these games will answer these questions ??
Check out several teams having pencil fun!
Pencil Pushers Instructions:
?? Step 1 – Split your group into two teams (or more teams if you have more than 20 people)
?? Step 2 – Place one empty drinks bottle on a table for each team
?? Step 3 – Give two pencils to each person and instruct them to place the pencil like in the below picture ??
?? Step 4 – Instruct everyone that they have to get both pencils into the bottle (like in the video)
?? Step 5 – Make sure you put some pencils in the water bottles before you start to weigh the bottles down
?? Step 6 – First team with all their pencils in the bottle wins ??
Pencil Pouting Instructions:
?? Step 1 – Split your group into two teams (or more teams if you have more than 20 people)
?? Step 2 – Place one empty drinks bottle on a table for each team
?? Step 3 – Give a pencil to each person and instruct them to place the pencil like in the below picture ??
For both games, you will need:
?? Two pencils per person
?? Two empty bottles (non-glass!), more if you have +20 people
You can also do a variation where every person has a pencil in their mouth! ??
Tissue Mayhem & Pass The Clap!
How fast can your team work together? How competitive are they vs each other?!? These two games will answer these questions (and create lots of laughter!)
Tissue Mayhem Instructions:
You will need:
?? One tissue box per player (make sure its the similar kind of box to the one in the video)
?? Tables for the tissue boxes to be placed on
Instructions:
?? Step 1 – Decide on whether you’ll play this game 1v1 or as a relay (like in the video)
?? Step 2 – Make sure you get the first tissue ready to be plucked from each box
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?? Step 3 – Instruct each player that they can only use one hand to remove tissues (one hand to remove the tissues and the other hand on the box)
?? Step 4 – Instruct everyone that they can only remove 1 tissue at a time
?? Step 5 – Make sure no one does any digging with their hand to pluck out loads at once!
?? Step 6 – Get players started on your command and get ready for the mess! ??
This is what your team will look like playing this game ??
Pass The Clap Instructions:
You will need:
?? All your team to be standing in a circle
There are multiple levels to this game!
Level 1 instructions:
?? Step 1 – Tell everyone that they will be timed how fast they can pass a clap around the circle. Pick someone to clap first. As soon as they clap, the person on their left has to clap. Then the person on their left, and so on etc.
?? Step 2 – Make sure the first person to clap goes exactly on your command to go
?? Step 3 – Get them started and time them!
?? Step 4 – Give them 5 goes to post the fastest time
?? Step 5 – Play the game at a later date and see if they can beat their previous PB!
Level 2 instructions:
?? Step 1 – Tell everyone that they will be timed how fast they can pass a ‘low ten’ and ‘high ten’ around the circle (like in the video). Pick someone to go first to pass on a ‘low ten’ to the person to their left. After receiving the ‘low ten’, that person then has to pass a ‘high ten’ to the person on their left. This needs to go around the circle (low to high to low to high etc.) until it returns to the starting person.
?? Steps 2 to 5 – Same as level 1
This is what your team will look like playing this game ??
Drawing Ahead
This is a brilliant and bitesize activity. It can take less than 5 minutes:
You will need:
?? 1 paper plate (or piece of card) per person
?? 1 pen per person
Instructions:
?? Step 1 – Instruct everyone to put their paper plate on their head?
?? Step 2 – Instruct everyone to draw a picture on the paper plate. You can pick what picture they draw. Maybe you’re talking about customer care and you can get everyone to draw a smiling customer. Or if it’s Easter, get them to draw an Easter egg
?? Step 3 – Instruct everyone to write their name underneath their drawing
?? Step 4 – Give them 1 minute and get them to draw!
?? Step 5 – After 1 minute, ask everyone to remove the plate and show to everyone around them?
This is what your team will look like playing this game ????
So there we have it! Five unusual activities guaranteed to be effective in your next team away day or meeting.
If you’re looking to organise a professionally-facilitated team building session, feel free to reach out via our website or comment below.
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Speak soon,
Aaron
CEO @ North Star Training Solutions | 1000+ CEOs/Execs/Directors coached | I build your leadership bench so you can focus on building your business.
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