Everyone loves to celebrate. Whether you have achieved all your smaller goals or completed a major project, both are worthy of recognition.
Indoor Team Building Activity – Masterpiece Creation
Bright Vision’s Masterpiece Creation is the ultimate in collaborative team building challenges where all delegates have one combined goal – to recreate an artistic masterpiece on a grand scale! In this activity, all individuals must work together. Their one common purpose, one objective and utilise all their individual skills in pursuit of that one collaborative goal. Masterpiece Creation is truly the ultimate team building activity.
How this Team Building Activity Works
Masterpiece Creation sees the delegates working together in sub-groups to recreate an artistic masterpiece as accurately as possible. Each group receives a small segment of the picture to complete and the equipment to do so. The teams do not know what the picture is at this stage.
The aim, and hope if teams work together, is that when these smaller segments of the larger picture come together the result will be a fantastic and accurate recreation of the original picture.
Easels, canvasses, brushes, paints, pens, mixing bowls and overalls, are provided along with our experience and technical knowledge. Even better you don’t need to be an incredible artist to enjoy and take part. This really is an all-inclusive and engaging event, with various roles and tasks are required.
From mixing paints so that all colours match from canvass to canvass to measuring lines so overlaps are accurate to trying to establish if you can what the end picture actually is, it’s all about teamwork.
Contact Us About Masterpiece Creation
Masterpiece Creation is just one of the the team building activities that we offer at Bright Vision Events. If your company is looking for a fun, exciting and team building activity that really works, contact us or call us on 01295 770933 for an initial chart.
Have a look at some of our team building activity testimonials from satisfied customers.
Team building ideas for large corporations
Corporations are associated with a formal atmosphere and a sense of seriousness. Team members may feel pressured to fit in and meet certain criteria.
In the big business there things that seem too big and the idea of getting to know everyone sounds like an impossible task. The role of team building programs is to enable employees at all corporate levels to work as one big team.
Holding sessions with over 20 people is both a challenge and an adventure. You can approach the situation in both ways:
- Divide the large group into smaller ones according to the game they have chosen
- Keep the big group together and go to the beach for example. Spend time together and have fun without following a set schedule of activities.
The elements of good motivational team building Ideas
Here are some important elements of a team program that can empower positive emotions and motivate:
- Have fun! Do not underestimate the value of entertainment.
- Set goals and find activities that focus your efforts on achieving them.
- Use imagination! Create a program that requires everyone to be resourceful and to look for non-standard solutions to problems.
- Put what you have learned into your daily teamwork practice. This ensures that team-building activities will deliver real value.
‘There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.’ Dale Carnegie
Read this article to find out how to understand and manage emotion in teams: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
Create a team building activities schedule
Prepare a program for the week where:
- Colleagues can fill in with activity suggestions
- You (the team leader) will announce the time of the sessions
- The necessary tools/accessories are listed
Keep this in mind when making your team schedule: All schedules have one thing in common – they are flexible and tell the employee what needs to be accomplished during a given workday.
Put the team building program in a visible place. If you want to grab the eye, decorate it. Make it colourful and bright. You can even put stickers with your team building ideas on it!
Team volunteering
In team-volunteering, participants:
- help others
- improve themselves as individuals
- feel part of a cohesive community
This type of bonding is different from other team building activities. People feel good about helping others. The team sees the results of the collective efforts and thus build a sense of mutual success.
You can find many team building ideas on how to participate in real community projects at the volunteering platforms such as UNV, Volunteer Match, Volunteer World, Do Something or Catch A Fire.
Colleagues go through the process of setting and achieving goals as one. They realize that together they can achieve a lot.
Encourage collaboration, not competition
If the games have a competitive element, some employees will focus their efforts on winning to such an extent that they may not be able to benefit from the facilitation.
Select team building activities that encourage the team to work together. Let the focus be on exceeding one’s capabilities, not those of other colleagues.
A good deed brightens a dark world
As a manager, it’s important to monitor team members’ performance and help them improve. But encouraging their efforts is another thing you should do. When any of the team members do their best to achieve the goals, reward them.
This should in no way impair the dignity of the rest of the team. The goal is to build a model of positive behaviour and value system:
- responsiveness
- industriousness
- perseverance
- responsibility
It will become part of the business culture and will guide the actions of everyone.
Team building ideas to encourage
Low employee engagement leads to:
- low revenue
- poor results
- low quality of service
An actively engaged employee is more productive. He is inclined to work harder and believes that what he does has value. Such employees can increase the productivity of the corporation by up to 200%.
Let’s illustrate our emotions
Sometimes words are not enough to express our feelings. Sometimes we need a pencil and a sketchbook.
One of the KissTheFrogNOW decks includes 30 illustrations. Each of them can reveal how the individual feels about belonging to the team, and how they are connected to others. You can understand what qualities each one appreciates about the others. The drawings reveal their personalities.
Take care of each other
One of the easiest ways to connect with people is to spend more time with them. Schedule meetings with your team members. Spend time with them and discuss:
- what challenges do they face
- what projects are they working on
- what ideas do they have
With KissTheFrogNOW you can hold these discussions both individually or in small groups. The PersonalQuestions deck consists of 30 cards designed to improve communication and help members get to know each other.
Use a suggestion system
Workers must be respected. They need to know that their opinion is valued. Make a proposal system for your team. This way employees will be able to share ideas, suggestions, observations on the business processes, and teamwork.
How do you create a proposal system? With a cardboard box, pen, and cards to write on. To submit their ideas a person should write them on a card and put it inside the box. Put your system in on a central place and notify your colleagues about it. Schedule time to review and discuss proposals.
ADVICE: Make sure participants’ anonymity is guaranteed.
Expand teams’ potential
Allow team members to get to know the different parts of the company. Let colleagues change roles for a day. You can gather two company departments for a joint session. Invite a colleague to an event he hasn’t attended before. This approach will make people feel like an important part of the business and help them accumulate knowledge.
Have fun brainstorming
During team meetings, dedicate time for open discussion. Teammates can use this opportunity to share:
- ideas
- solutions to challenges
- interesting projects
- ideas for new initiatives
During brainstorming sessions let the team lead the conversation. This is an opportunity for shy team members to express their thoughts and collaborate with their colleagues. In the end list all the ideas and organize them on different topics. They will be reviewed, considered, and eventually implemented later.
