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dontfollowme
Original Poster
637 posts
103 months
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Hi all,
I need to run a team building activity that lasts for around 30 mins and will work in a meeting room. Any suggestions?
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doogz
19,262 posts
57 months
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Gangbang.
Well, you did post this in the lounge.
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grahamr88
76 posts
43 months
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lazygraduand
1,518 posts
31 months
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Take some leaves out of this book. Get other colleagues to film. HTH
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PeanutHead
7,555 posts
40 months
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Get everyone to swop clothes and spend the rest of the day being whoever clothes you wear.
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Getragdogleg
3,725 posts
53 months
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f  king toss, modern f king toss. This is why the country is f ked, it has been taken over by w ky b ks like this. Tell the workers to do a good job and they will still have a job, do a crap job and you are out the door. That ought to take 30 seconds. You can then get back to doing your job whatever that might be and you have not just wasted 30 mins multiplied by how ever many people are supposed to attend, lets face it, if it is 16 people then you just wasted an entire workdays worth of hours.
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dontfollowme
Original Poster
637 posts
103 months
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Damn wrong forum - can a mod move to business.
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Getragdogleg
3,725 posts
53 months
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you can have a sensible reply if you put it in business.
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PeanutHead
7,555 posts
40 months
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dontfollowme said: Damn wrong forum - can a mod move to business. You really won't get the replies you were looking for if they do.
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crispian22
532 posts
62 months
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Pesty
26,137 posts
126 months
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Dont do it, or act like a t t and they will form a bond by hatin you.
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GarryA
2,544 posts
34 months
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Let them come up with an idea, then perform in next time you have 30 mins. If its s t then it wasn't your idea.
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doogz
19,262 posts
57 months
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Pesty said: Dont do it, or act like a t t and they will form a bond by hatin you. This. Give them a common enemy, be a complete prick.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
30 months
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Pesty
26,137 posts
126 months
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Tycho
8,022 posts
143 months
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A friend works for Microsoft and they had a 2 day conference. At the end of the first day the person running it said they could have the 2nd day off and the reason the conference was scheduled for 2 days was so everyones diary was free for the day off.
Schedule a team building exercise for the end of the day and give everyone an early dart or go down to the pub.
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davepoth
20,186 posts
69 months
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dontfollowme said: Hi all,
I need to run a team building activity that lasts for around 30 mins and will work in a meeting room. Any suggestions? Serious suggestion, bring in some cakes, and just let the team talk to each other about things that aren't work. The Lounge in me suggests bringing an air horn to blow at people who try to discuss work.
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Soovy
32,041 posts
141 months
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Getragdogleg said: f king toss, modern f king toss. This is why the country is f ked, it has been taken over by w ky b ks like this. Tell the workers to do a good job and they will still have a job, do a crap job and you are out the door. That ought to take 30 seconds. You can then get back to doing your job whatever that might be and you have not just wasted 30 mins multiplied by how ever many people are supposed to attend, lets face it, if it is 16 people then you just wasted an entire workdays worth of hours. So very very right. Alternatively take evryone to the pub for half an hour.
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oobster
4,616 posts
81 months
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Tycho said: A friend works for Microsoft and they had a 2 day conference. At the end of the first day the person running it said they could have the 2nd day off and the reason the conference was scheduled for 2 days was so everyones diary was free for the day off.
Schedule a team building exercise for the end of the day and give everyone an early dart or go down to the pub. Excellent idea!
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kVA
2,142 posts
75 months
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Serious(ish) answer from someone who does management training for a living: Do they really NEED to work as a team? Or id it just to make management feel good about providing a 'happy' working environment? If they do really, honestly, no bulls t, need to work as a team, get them to work together to solve some sort of problem, related to what they actually do for work, but just far enough apart for most of them not to realise it was work until it was solved  Then, for the cynical, it was a bit of training, for the rest, it was a bit of fun. If it's the management feel-good factor - DON'T DO IT!!!! For all the reasons stated by others above... I have to run all sorts of training courses where the designer has thrown in silly ice-breakers and 'energisers': They used to work about a zillion years ago, but now, people just roll their eyes and think, here we go again - another completely patronising waste of our time (and half of them know the answer already anyway...)
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