Creative team building is necessary because implementing a vision means hitting against breakdowns – again and again.This means you team needs to be creative. Thinking laterally, allowing for chaos and right brain thinking are part of team building development.
Take your team out of their head. Design a creative process.
The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. - Abraham Maslow -
Creative team building ideas
This list is simply to stimulate ideas. Some team building companies may offer these activities as part of a comprehensive team development program but most specialize in the activity and fall short of facilitation. We recommend that you first look for highly skilled facilitators who are able to assist a group through change and learning. Then, find people who know how to do any of the below activities. A good facilitator will know what to do with any activity. Fun without depth does not a team make.
Mosaic art
Treasure hunt
Game show
Fire walking
Story Telling
Metaphor games
Ice sculptures
Finger painting
Circus skills
Clowning
Drama and improvisation
Create and perform a play
Graffiti
Cooking
Dance
Lateral thinking games
Make a movie
Produce a song/singing
Get on radio for charity
Themed parties
Theater sports
Produce a newspaper/ magazine
Music – drumming, jamming
Sound journeys
Pottery
Crafts
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. - Edward de Bono
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau
