HR organize team building activity: FuN TiMe !

On 15th January 2008, we, the HR Team organized TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY within our organization to boost team spirit and better co-ordination in a team. We had five teams with us, NUMEROUNO, D-COMPANY, SPARTANS, INVINCIBLES & PDME for the final event. The event started with the game MINE FIELD. A mine field was set up with the help of plastic bottles half-filled with water and two members from each team were asked to participate. One member was blind-folded and the other person was asked to direct his/her member through that mine field by giving instructions (left, right, forward & back). The rules were that no part of the body (person blind-folded) should touch any bottle or it would be considered as foul. A team committing three fouls was liable to be disqualified. The first team to participate was D-Company which got disqualified as they did 3 fouls. Similarly SPARTANS and PDME also got disqualified. INVINCIBLES (Abhishek & Akash) started out well but could not go far and got disqualified too. It seemed as though no team would be able to complete the race but towards the end the last (but not the least!) participants, NUMEROUNO proved everyone wrong! The credit goes to the team members Vivechana and Anuradha. They were so well coordinated that they completed the full race with only two fouls and stood as winners (Number One as their team name justifies).

Second Game was Tug of War. Two teams comprising of three members each aligned themselves at the end of the rope and as the referee said GO they attempted to pull the other team such that their opponent crosses the center line. First came to battle were, Invincibles and Numerouno of which INVINCIBLES won. Then came SPARTANS & PDME, of which SPARTANS won.Last team left was D-COMPANY who played against the winners of first round, INVINCIBLES and once again INVINCIBLES stood undefeated. Finals round was played by INVINCIBLES (Kulwant Singh, Abhishek & Jagdip) and SPARTANS (Jay Ram, Nikesh & Amit), everybody was trying to guess the winner and once the game started and the teams started to pull, the INVINCIBLES won the game, thereby being the OVERALL WINNER with 3 wins. But the the pull between INVINCIBLES and SPARTANS was a treat to watch, SPARTANS gave a tough win to INVINCIBLES.

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Last but not the least was the game ‘Make a Decagon’.
Here the participants were given plastic balls and they were instructed to make a decagon using the balls taking utmost care that the shapes are exactly appearing as the decagon that too within minimum time. Every team tried its best to make the exact shape but once again here also the INVINCIBLES stood as proud winners. And their team members celebrated with claps and cheers for the team. Other teams also joined in to celebrate their victory.

In the end we had the prize distribution ceremony where prizes were given to the winner teams and ended the event with the melodious song of Jagdip Singh.

Seeing the good response of all the employees we are planning to do such activities once in every month. Such events help in building strong teams, develop employee motivation & are fun-for organizations.