Free Team Building Exercises

You're planning team building exercises, and perhaps you're not sure what to do?

No problem, you'll find an assortment of team building activities right here.

Indoor and outdoor games, simulation activities and processes for employee motivation, youth group games, games for kids, business team building, ice breakers and so on. Plus suggestions for resources and facilitation skills development.

We have divided team work activities into team building exercises and games. Go straight to team building games or go to Kalavati's customized team building programs.

Team Building Exercises Index

• Indoor team building games
• Outdoor team building exercises
• Ice breakers
• Creative team building
• Business team building
• Corporate team building exercise
• Office team building
• Executive team building exercises
• Classroom team building activities
• Family team building
• Kids team building
• Team building activities for teens
• Rainy day activities
• Employee motivation
• Employee empowerment
• Leadership skill development
• Communication team building
• Time management skills
• Stress management techniques
• Winter camping
• Sports team building activities
• Team building course
• Handling conflict

Group team building exercises can range from frivolous to the serious.

The learning is not so much in the actual activity but in how the learning is extracted.

You will need to learn how to create the right team building questions, debrief the learning, and assist the team members to create change when they get back to their every days lives.

Follow through is often neglected in team building programs.

Indoor team building games

Team building games and simulations of the real world or workplace situations can be designed to heighten awareness, develop strengths and change behaviors. A problem solving activity is often used to show group and individual dynamics and cognitive behaviors. Simulation exercises can teach decision making, lateral thinking, emotional intelligence and leadership styles.

Outdoor team building exercises

Some outdoor adventure games are too extreme. Too often, this is the failure of many team work processes. If not carefully constructed, the exercise can hamper team work by alienating people.

Rainy day activities can save the day if you live in rainy climates. Nothing worse than a fun filled day spoiled because you didn't think ahead. Sometimes the rain can be used to your advantage. People think they don't like getting wet. But do you remember the last time you played in the rain. It can be exhilarating.

Night exercises provide a different experience especially for people who live in the city. Anything as simple as building a fire and telling a story or to entering a forest blind folded - will be unique for the team members. An excellent way to wind down the day instead of karaoke or the usual round of dinner & drinks.

Camping is a popular way to challenge a team. Especially for families. But if you haven't done it before it can seem pretty daunting. Summer and winter camping have different demands. So know what to take, and do some planning but not too much – be prepared. Plus you can draw from camp songs in your indoor team exercises.

Creative Team Building

Creative team building is fun, involves lateral thinking and demands a high amount of right brain activity.

For teams that operate in the numbers game, and for people who love logical thinking, this helps to integrate right left brain thinking. While the left brain helps to analyze and look for logical solutions, it is the right brain that is able to think out of the box, and see the unknowns. Greatness is seldom found in what is already known.

Business team building exercises are for the experienced and the young entrepreneur. Or for team members who want to understand business. You can use business simulation games, sales training with a focus on sales team building.

Corporate team building exercises are designed particularly to focus on corporate workplace issues. Exercises for office team building to look at office politics. Get hints on how to engage your team every day and grab executive team building exercises who have slightly different needs to management or work teams.

Team building activities for teens and kids