Corporate spaces thrive in team-building events. They offer excellent opportunities for employees to connect in a stress-free environment, where they can learn more about each other and strengthen their bonds.
Team-building can increase team cohesion, collaboration and employee satisfaction by promoting a more positive and productive work environment.
To nurture your team’s communication, creativity, and problem-solving skills, we’ve gathered some of the best corporate games for team-building activities for your next team event. Some activities can be done in any location, like your office building or a restaurant, while for others, we’ve included links to recommended venues.
1. Scavenger Hunt
City exploration is one of the best ways to keep your team active and moving around the city. This challenge aims to discover new areas through scavenger hunts, problem-solving, and exploration. Teams can complete challenges, solve clues, and accomplish specific tasks while navigating a city or designated area.
There’s no one way to play cityHUNT. Some hunts are purely competitive, with teams racing against each other to solve clues and complete tasks first. Others are more relaxed and focus on exploring, creativity, or having fun.
Teams can complete challenges, solve clues, and accomplish tasks while navigating a city or designated area. They might solve a riddle that leads to a famous landmark, collect specific items or “treasures” from various spots, or reenact a historic event at a particular location.
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2. Team Sports Day
Create a poll asking the team which sports activity they like the most, whether it’s volleyball, basketball, soccer, or cycling. Based on the results, you can organize friendly matches, team rotations, or skill-building challenges tailored to the chosen sport.
Sports is one of the best ways to incorporate physical activity into team-building, as it combines exercise with collaboration, strategy, and fun.
Just make sure the activity isn’t too taxing—the goal here is to have fun, not to leave everyone feeling sore or exhausted the next day at work! Choose an intensity level that suits the whole group, considering that some participants may be less active or experienced in sports.
3. Two Truths, One Lie
Two Truths, One Lie is an excellent activity to get to know each other. Icebreakers are great and all, but they often cover the most basic of things—hobbies, favorite foods, etc. Two Truths, One Lie takes introductions a step further by adding a layer of mystery into the getting-to-know-you process.
Two Truths, One Lie is a group activity wherein participants share three statements about themselves. As the name suggests, two of these statements are true and one is a lie. The group guesses which statement is a lie.
The activity often reveals unexpected talents, experiences, or quirks about team members that wouldn’t come up in a standard introduction. It also doesn’t require a particular setting; it can be played during a picnic, a team dinner, or a group meeting at the office.
4. Heads Up!
If you’re a regular viewer of the Ellen DeGeneres Show, you likely already know of this game. It’s a fun and fast-paced activity where one person holds a card (or a phone) to their forehead, and their team gives clues to help them guess the word or phrase written on it.
For example, if the word is “guitar,” the clues might include “musical instrument” or “what Jimi Hendrix plays.”
Each round is timed 1 to 2 minutes, and teams must guess as many words as possible within that time frame. The team with the most guesses wins.
5. Birthday Line Up
This activity is best played with multiple people, at least five. The gist of it is to form a line in order of birthdays without explicitly mentioning the date or exact zodiac sign.
Participants can ask one question per person, and based on the answer, they must determine where each person fits the lineup.
To gather clues, participants might ask, “Is your birthday in the first half of the year?” or “Does your birthday happen near or at a major event?”
Once lined up, participants reveal their birthdays to check the group’s guesses. Participants can use month cards to visualize their positions and adjust accordingly.
6. Common Thread
In this activity, teams of three to five people must guess a common trait or characteristic shared among the members of the group. This characteristic could be anything from a shared hobby, a favorite type of food, a travel destination they’ve all visited, or even something unique like a favorite movie genre or a childhood memory.
To make it a bit more interesting, add a rule that makes it so that the commonalities aren’t too superficial or obvious, like the entire group liking the color blue or enjoying cake. The more commonalities the group shares, the better!
This activity is fantastic because friendships often begin with shared interests. For example, if the group shares a love for hiking, they can plan hikes together outside of work, deepening their bond. Or, if the group enjoys reading, they could recommend favorite books to each other or even start a book club.
7. Penny For Your Thoughts
This activity is much like Two Truths, One Lie in a way that it encourages team members to share memories or events they otherwise wouldn’t share in regular office conversation.
Put several coins into a container, making sure they’re of different production years. Team members pull a coin out, and share a significant event or memory that occurred that year.
8. Heads or Tails
In this activity, participants are asked to answer different questions depending on the result of the coin flip. For example, if the coin lands on heads, they must share a personal goal they’re aiming to achieve. If it lands on tails, they’ll share fun facts about themselves.
9. Aspiration Challenge
On a piece of paper, have all team members write down what they want to achieve in life. It could be as simple as learning to crochet or more complex like retiring at age 40 or owning a home. They can write down as many of these goals as they want in individual slips of paper.
The papers go inside a box, and team members take turns to pull out a paper. They’ll then offer advice on how they would go about achieving that goal. If the goal is more personal, like “learning to crochet,” they might suggest starting with online tutorials or joining a local crafting group. They might even be an expert at crocheting themselves and offer free lessons!
10. Count to 20
The rules of this game are simple: each person can say up to three numbers at a time in consecutive order, but they must be careful not to say “20.” For instance, the first person might say “1, 2, 3,” the next person would say “4,” and the next person could say “5, 6.”
The game continues like this until someone is forced to say “20,” and they’re eliminated from the game. It’s a fun and fast-paced activity filled with laughter as players try to outmaneuver each other and avoid being the one who’s out. The last person standing wins!
11. Sell It To Me
Have each team member gather a random item from their desk. Then, ask them to “sell” this item in the most creative way possible. Give them some time to think of a marketing plan, and ask them to present this new product.
Their marketing technique can be as unconventional as they want. Someone who chose a pen might say, “This isn’t just any pen; it’s a magic pen that can transform into any color you want with a simple flick of the wrist—perfect for artists! With this, you don’t have to buy multiple pens; you all have the colors you want right at your fingertips.”
The rest of the team can then judge the product and give it a rating of one to five. The product with the highest rating wins. This activity is especially entertaining for marketing, design, and sales teams, as the ideas could get super interesting and competitive.
12. Find Your Soul Mate
To play, write two things that go well together on two separate papers like salt and pepper, cookies and milk, peanut butter and jam, and so on. Distribute these papers to each member of the team.
Team members must then figure out who their “soulmate” is by asking each person vague questions that don’t reveal what they are. The person holding “peanut” can ask another person, “Are you sweet?” or “Do you go well with something sticky?” to find their partner jam.
The game continues until everyone has found their soulmate, and the first team to match all their pairs wins.
13. Go On a Horseback Adventure
What better way to enjoy the great outdoors than on horseback?
Horseback riding is a relaxing team-building activity that lets team members just enjoy the scenery outside of the office.
Participants don’t have to be experienced horseback riders to enjoy this activity; the horses are well-trained, calm, and accustomed to trail riding, so riders can focus on enjoying the scenery without worrying about handling the horse.
14. Book a Whitewater Rafting Tour
Looking for a team activity that’ll get the blood pumping with adrenaline? Take a whitewater rafting tour at a nearby creek!
Dozens of cities offer exciting whitewater rafting experiences, and it’s a perfect way to bring your team together while enjoying the great outdoors. It fosters camaraderie and team spirit, helping teams communicate quickly and effectively, collaborate seamlessly, and—most importantly—have fun!
15. WhoDunIt
For this activity, divide team members into two groups. Each team members write one interesting thing they’ve done in the past. The note is then placed into a container, and teammates are tasked to guess which colleague wrote the note.
The opposing team should then discuss amongst themselves which team member is most likely to do the activity written on the paper and give reasons as to why this is.
This activity is fun and gives teammates different views of what they see on the surface. A normally quiet colleague might have gone bungee jumping or skydiving, surprising everyone with their adventurous side. The contrast between the perceived personality and the actual experience can be quite insightful!
16. Conducted Story
The goal of this activity is to create a coherent but funny story. One person starts off the story with a sentence like, “Veronica went to the park to…” and a second person continues, “Visit the resident shaman who likes to…”
The story continues until it reaches the last person in the group or goes around the circle a few times, depending on the number of members participating.
This activity hones active listening and creativity and adds a touch of humor to the exercise. Participants can continue the story however they like, so it can create a super wacky story in the end that will have everyone laughing!
17. Human Bingo
Instead of numbers, Human Bingo uses personal experiences and traits in the bingo squares. Each square features descriptions like “Speaks three languages” or “Won a prize worth over $1,000.”
The descriptions should be specific, rather than vague ones like “likes dogs” or “plays video games in their free time.”
Each player announces a description and then finds someone who fits it. The first person to complete their Human Bingo card wins.
18. Create Delicious Dishes At a Culinary Arts Class
Food brings people together—this is a fact. So, why not let your team participate in a cooking class?
These classes often accommodate a range of abilities and group sizes, and they regularly offer public and private events.
After cooking the meal, the team can enjoy the fruits of their labor together. It’s a fun and memorable team-building experience that could lead to lasting friendships.