The latest news and views from the EvaluAgent Team. Here are 10 games that are effective in boosting employee engagement: 1. Individual or team KPI based prizes 2. Wheel of Fortune 3. Amazing Race Treasure Hunt 4. Office Olympics 5. Bingo 6.
Best dressed teams 7. Collect the compliments 8. Quiz games 9. Bake Off Baking competition Hangman Getting to know each other Below we've given you a bit more detail for each game and activity. Wheel of Fortune Each time an agent hits a certain target, they get the opportunity to spin the Wheel of Fortune, which has a number of prizes which could include joke type prizes through to leaving an hour early or a free coffee the next morning. Amazing Race This game is a quick blast of energy that takes minds off work for a while whilst teams work together to solve clues and run around the local area to find the next clue.
Office Olympics This can be done as a team or individually, incorporating some fun games that can be played in the office such as golf putting, Jenga or other indoor games. Bingo Each employee is given a Bingo card that has different types of targets that are linked to the daily KPIs. Best Dressed Team Hold a fancy dress competition with prizes for the best effort and use of creativity.
Collect the compliments Good customer feedback should be celebrated and having a board with the different compliments written on is a very visual reminder to agents and teams that they're doing a good job. Quiz Games Both work related and general knowledge quizzes can inject some fun into the day and agents can work on the questions throughout the day. Bake Off Baking competition It is good to try a range of different games that will appeal to different personalities, as customer service agents can have a real mix of different demographics and interests.
Hangman Getting to know each other A team that gets on well together helps to improve engagement levels so playing games that encourage finding out more about colleagues works well and can spark conversations. You may also like Sign up today, and join a growing community of call centre experts. Running your QA on spreadsheets? In addition to that, this team building game brings out the best negotiators and strategizers in your employees.
Did you know that singing is the best team building exercise out there and allows colleagues to bond with each other faster and more effectively than the typical ice-breakers? Let loose and give others a glimpse of the real Rolling Stones-loving you!
How to play: Your team can all go out to a karaoke bar or sing karaoke in the office with the help of karaoke games like Smule or SingStar. Also, while you should definitely let your talents show, try to avoid showing off too much. A great team building activity that helps coworkers get to know each other and bond. This is a simple, yet effective team building game for the participants to get to know each other in an informal setting.
The game works best in a small informal dinner or a large conference room. The players must also come up with a convincing lie. The other participants will then ask questions in order to determine which are the two real facts and which is the lie.
Make the game more fun by coming up with facts and lies as extravagant as possible! This team building game encourages the players to open up to each other and see their teammates in a completely different way. In this quick improv team building activity, your employees will count to 20 to practice active listening, teamwork, and forward-thinking.
Sound too easy? Give it a try! How to play: Divide the players into smaller groups and have each one stand in a circle. The alternative would be to have one large circle for a smaller number of players. All participants are looking at the ground with closed eyes. The goal of the exercise is to count to 20 as a team. Not really into karaoke? How to play: Split your team into groups of three or four people. Have them pick a band name, a song and do their best impression of performing it with air instruments and lip-syncing.
Props and costumes are always a welcome addition to the performance! In order to be objective, select a group of judges from the teams to pick a winner.
This music-based activity is a great alternative for team building games for employees indoor. It enables your team to step into the spotlight and promotes team bonding.
This is one of those team building activities that will require your entire team to work together as one and follow a secret leader who will make simple movements for the entire group to mimic. How to play: One person from the group is chosen as the guesser and briefly leaves the room. While the guesser is gone, the group elects one person to be the leader. This person will make movements that the followers can quickly mimic scratch their head, jump on one foot, pat their stomach, etc.
Improves non-verbal communication, cooperation skills, builds trust and team cohesion, as well as leadership. This super easy team building game will take your employees back to the time when they were just kids and teenagers. What were their accomplishments at the time? Who was the local spelling bee champion and who broke records in track? Find out! How to play: Ask your employees to share their biggest accomplishment that occurred before they turned This game will reveal a little more about your employees and get them to open up.
Get your team out of the office but still managing to stay indoors for an escape quest — a live action game where the team works together in order to find an exit by solving riddles and puzzles. How to play: Your team will be given a mission and placed into a themed room. In there, you must explore to find hints and clues to ultimately free yourself. This can be anything — from containers with passwords to locks needing a key.
If your company is large in numbers, split up into several groups and have each team try a different quest. By solving puzzles and riddles together, coworkers build a stronger bond and start feeling more comfortable around each other. In murder mystery games, one of the dinner guests is secretly playing a murderer, while the other attendees must determine who among them is the criminal. The dinner party then follows the instructions on your chosen murder mystery scenario, passing out name tags, maps, suspect dossier files, and more.
This fully immersive team building game improves critical thinking skills, boosts teamwork, and is simply very fun. In this improvisational team building game also called PowerPoint roulette or Battledecks , each person presents a slideshow to an audience without knowing the contents of the slides.
Based on the slides, the players give presentations to a live audience — their coworkers. To see which presentation wins, have the audience applaud for each presenter once all the presentations are done. The name that has the loudest cheer is proclaimed the winner. This team building activity tests presentation and improvisation skills, and will easily get people laughing.
You probably played charades as a kid or in parties, but this old-school game can also be used in a workplace setting for enjoyable team building. How to play: Before beginning the game, pick several categories like Movies, Bands, Cartoon Characters and so on. Write them on separate envelopes. Think of about items or words for each category and write them down on a small piece of paper, then put them in the particular envelope. Separate people into two teams.
Each team will take a turn and send out a representative to act out the items in the category of his or her picking. The actor cannot speak or draw any words, while the others in the group try to guess the item. If the group guesses the name of the item, they get a point for each right answer. The team with the highest score wins. This team building game can help build team camaraderie through lots of acting. If you think video games are just about fun, think again. Create your own small collection of video games focusing on the ones that require coordination between players — like Halo, Rock Band, or Just Dance for an added physical activity bonus.
The next step would be trying to introduce a video gaming break once a week or organizing a video gaming tournament after work hours. Engaging and stimulating, video games are proven to boost business morale and improve productivity even in adults. This fun drawing-based game will make a great addition to the next board gaming night at the office.
Googly Eyes is similar to Pictionary and requires you to draw, but comes with a silly twist — you have to wear goggles. How to play: Players are required to get to the finish first by winning the drawing challenges. Each player wears goggles that blur their vision while guessing what their teammate is drawing.
This game is easy to learn, yet it will bring your team lots of laughs. A simple, yet meaningful team building game that will set the tone for the event and build consensus on shared values. In this activity, teams list what matters to them on a whiteboard. Each participant tells the group what makes this event or seminar meaningful or pleasant. Record the notes on the whiteboard with sticky notes. The activity builds mutual trust and establishes group values.
Perfect for the start of an event, seminar, or a workshop. Going down the memory lane is a great way to get team members to bond with each other. However, not everyone will recall an event in the same light as others. One team member shares a negative experience from that experience, while the other team member shares the same experience, but focuses on the positive aspects of it.
Then they switch, the latter telling a negative memory, while the former tells a positive one to counteract it. This team building activity reframes experiences, improves morale, and shifts perspectives.
This team building activity will let people appreciate their differences, and at the same time find something in common to improve team bonding. How to play: Create a list of odd pairs of objects that go well together — salt and pepper, Sonny and Cher, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, peanut butter and jelly, etc. Write down the objects on separate pieces of paper.
The participants then mingle with the group. When the players have figured out what they are, they have to find the other half of their odd pair. How to play: The group stands in a straight line side by side. The goal is for the participants to organize themselves in order by their birthday month and day without any talking. If they do start to talk, they need to start from the beginning.
If you want to add an extra challenge to this activity, try blindfolding a couple of participants. Practices problem solving, cooperation and non-verbal communication skills. Have the team stretch their creativity and communication skills by having them plan, script, direct, and perform their very own cinematic masterpiece. How to play: Disclaimer: you will need specific equipment for this team building activity cameras or smartphones with decent inbuilt cameras, tripods, computers with video editing software, TV.
Split the participants into smaller teams — each of them will create their own movie. Each team picks a mystery envelope containing a film genre or theme. The final cut of each movie will need to reflect the genre. Set a deadline for each final cut for the film premiere normally hours after you begin the exercise. Now, the production starts! Each team member should have a specific role — the director, the producer, video editor, actors, etc.
At the end of the activity, all the films are watched, and the best ones receive awards. Popcorn and drinks for the final screening will be a nice touch! How often do we stop to compliment our coworkers on a daily basis?
Probably — not often enough. Improving self-esteem is a team building activity that will boost confidence in your team. How to play: Everyone writes down their name on the top of a piece of paper. They pass the paper to the person on their left. Each person must then write something they admire about the person whose name is on the top of the page.
The papers are passed around to the left until each sheet ends up back with the person named on the top. Number of players: Preferably up to 24 people split into teams of players. Alternatively, you can just play the game online at Board Game Arena , which makes remote play possible. Another game of social cues and bluffing, in a game of Coup you rely on your individual ability to smuggle lies past the other players on the table.
Or, if you are brave, you can win this game by telling bare-faced truths the whole way through! In a game of Coup, you are attempting to eliminate all other players, through a combination of robbery, taxation and assasination. There is a physical version of this game, but if you are part of a remote working team, you can play this game online at Board Game Arena.
Code Names is a wonderful game for two teams, all about communication and clues. You must attempt to pass clues to your own team, without giving away clues to the opposing team. Code Names is a physical board game, but if you already know the rules then you can play it online here.
In a game of Cards Against Humanity, somebody will draw half of a sentence from the card deck. You must then use your own personal stash of cards to complete the sentence. If your solution is voted as the funniest, you win the round.
You can print a free copy of this game from the Cards Against Humanity website , as long as you promise not to use it to make money. We believe you should encourage your teams to be physically active where possible. Not only this, but sports can encourage healthy competition, which can be good for motivating your employees to perform better at their jobs. Here are some ideas for making sports and physical activities an important part of your working environment. Organising a sports tournament between teams is a great way to encourage a little bit of healthy competition, and get the blood pumping.
Outdoor or field sports lend themselves well to tournaments — think about sports like soccer, volleyball or even extreme frisbee! Instead of organising a competition between teams, one great idea is to organise a challenge between other businesses or organisations. The reason we believe organising a challenge between other businesses works so well, is because it can really encourage that team spirit and make your teams even closer to each other than before.
Ping pong, or table tennis, is the classic indoor sport for office spaces. It only needs a small amount of space, and it provides a great workout at the same time. These can break, so make sure you have plenty spare. If you have a ping pong table, then a great game to try at work, if you want to include multiple people at once, is a big game of run-around.
The game works best with around 8 people, but can be fine to play with How a game of run-around works, is everybody stands in a circle around the table, holding a bat. The two players at opposite ends of the table will start — one will serve the ball to the other.
However, upon hitting the ball, each player will begin making their way to the next side of the table, leaving the player behind them to return the next shot. Each time a player misses a shot, they sit out, until eventually only 2 people remain. You can declare these joint winners, or have a play-off to determine the champion.
If you want something a little more gentle, which takes up even less space, then a foosball table is a good alternative for sport.
While it is not particularly physically active, it is suitable for players at a time, and can lend itself well to tournaments and leagues. In fact, a one-hour session of yoga probably produces enough sweat to fill a bucket. But seriously, yoga can be a great way to help your team focus their minds and bodies. Not only does it boost concentration and energy levels, but it helps you keep your employees physically healthy.
These games are exceptionally fun, and encourage your employees to really think outside the box, and get their creative juices flowing. In the story game, players sit in a big circle. Each player takes a blank piece of paper, and writes the first sentence of a story. Once done, everybody passes their paper to the person on their left.
The next person reads the previous sentences, then writes the next sentence. However, before passing this on, they fold the previous sentence over so that it cannot be seen.
This way, each player is only ever following on from the very last sentence in the story. This can make the stories disjointed, surprising, and most of all, hilarious. Once the bottom of the page is reached, the story ends. And everybody reads out the end result to the rest of the group. Similar to the story game, players sit in a circle and each take a piece of blank paper. Everybody draws a head, of any sort — it could be a gentleman with a moustache and a hat, or it could be a 7-eyed octopus.
Once done, players fold the paper over so that only the very bottom part of the head is showing. These heads get passed to the left, and then each player draws a torso and arms if indeed arms are required! Again, this gets folded and passed.
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