Free Team Building Game

 Objective : 

• A team-based scavenger hunt requiring participants to find and bring back digital photos of places, people and things.
• Encourages participation from all team members. Use it for team building or just for pure fun! A great activity to use as a way of learning more about your own town/city, or a new location in which you hold a conference or other event.

Development Areas:

• Cooperation

• Organizational skills

• Problem Solving

• Collaboration

• Communications

Time & Space:            

• Time allowance depends on the number of items/locations that the teams need to find.

• Outdoors (but could be staged in a large indoor venue such as museum)

Participants:

• Groups of any number, organized into small groups of 5 to 10

Facilitation :

• Ensure that each team has at least one digital camera (or other photo-taking device).

• Establish a time limit when the game will end.  All teams must return to a designated location.

• Hand out a list of tasks/locations/items that the team must find.  They must take a photo of each assignment that includes all team members.

• Be sure to include any necessary rules that will fit your venue, such as "no wheeled transportation," etc.  You should generally forbid participants from driving vehicles for safety purposes.

• To add additional challenge, assign varying point values to each item, depending on the difficulty of the assignment.

Ideas for Photo Assignments :

• The most unusual food

• A group photo with someone famous

• The biggest tree

• A photo with a purple car

• The tackiest tourist souvenir

• A brochure from a specific public attraction

• A paper placemat, takeout menu, or book of matches from any Chinese restaurant

• The funniest thing you can find

Debrief questions:

1. What was the initial reaction of your team?

2. How well did the team cope with this challenge?

3. What skills did it take to be successful as a team?

4. What would an outside observer have seen as the strengths and weaknesses of the team?

5. What did each team member learn about others?

to more team building programs for change management:

The Amazing Race

The Apprentice

Survivor

Millionaire

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Deal or No Deal

The Idol

Pyramid

Jeopardy