5 Team Building Exercises That People Will Want to Participate

From sports, to work, to even family, everyone can benefit from team building activities in some aspect of their life. They encourage cooperation and understanding of the other person or people as the case may be.

The major problem with team building exercises, it seems, is figuring out how to build interest in them. Oftentimes, vacations, practices, and seminars are thought of as a waste of time, because free time is supposed to be fun, and, no offense to your coworkers or teammates, but you probably wouldn’t be spending your day away from it all with them if you had a choice.

The question remains, then, of how to make it all work. How do you get people interested in team building? How do you make an otherwise mundane event into a special occasion?

Well, here’s a few ideas to help get people involved and working as a team.

This activity is an old one, but a good one. It pits teams against each other as they try to find objects scattered around the workplace.

If you want to make the game even more interesting, make the items metaphysical or intangible.