Play to Win!

Play to Win is a half-day program featuring a customized combination of Ice Breakers, Energizers and fun Team Challenges. The idea here is that you speak with one of our facilitators about the specific approach that’ll work best for your team building. After we conduct a needs analysis, we will present you a detailed recommendation. From your perspective, the process will be both quick and easy.

Whatever we come up with together, Play to Win will have you moving around, but none of the activities will require anyone’s feet to leave the ground. All of the exercises present difficult mental challenges designed to help you achieve the desired outcomes regardless of physical ability. Each person will always have choices about how they want to participate. A very successful Grand Finale to Play to Win is the popular Pipeline game.

This is a perfect choice for creating team spirit and excitement while helping participants get to know each other better. A debrief led by our facilitator uncovers group dynamics, team strengths and communication issues. The group then brainstorms ways to formalize and maximize your communication and total team potential. A proven winner!

Icebreakers: These or others (but not all) may be incorporated in your customized program.

Playing Favorites

The facilitator gives topics such as favorite music and favorite pastime. Players quickly find everyone else who shares the same tastes. A mix of high-energy fun and discovering commonalties with colleagues helps people expand their relationships beyond day-to-day work roles.

Have You Ever?

Everyone is given a Bingo card with characteristics and hobbies personalized for your company on a grid. Find others who fit these descriptions, write their names in the appropriate boxes and get Bingo before your coworkers do! One of our favorite mixers!

Full Contact Bingo

The facilitator gives topics such as favorite music and favorite pastime. Players quickly find everyone else who shares the same tastes. A mix of high-energy fun and discovering commonalties with colleagues helps people expand their relationships beyond day-to-day work roles.

Quick Line-Ups

By height, by hair length, in alphabetical order by name in less than 60 seconds. Fast moving fun.

Cocktail Party

Pairs are given questions to ask each other and report on later. These generate a mix of interesting facts and humorous stories. This exercise can be used with any desired depth of questions to help people get to know each other better.

Team Challenges

• Develop critical team performance competencies. The participants must work together and communicate well in order to succeed at the activities
• Create team spirit, excitement and help participants get to know each other better

These or others (but not all) may be incorporated in your customized program.

On Target

The group is divided into separate groups and given a task, efforts to deliver a maximum number of balls into specific buckets within strict time deadlines in the midst of a rapidly changing environment. As the activity progresses the participants find that they must challenge their own assumptions about competition, problem solving, and “the way it’s always been done,” in order to reach their goals. Critical performance competencies such as innovation, effective brainstorming, finding win-win solutions with co-workers and vendors, etc., are practiced and refined.

Picture This

You have some of the information but can you communicate what you know? Who will see the big picture?

Each person gets images that are part of a larger sequence. Together the group must decipher the sequence and get them laid out in order without any person seeing anyone else’s images while the clock ticks! Will the group see the big picture in time or will they get bogged down in details…or worse yet, fail to notice a crucial part of the image in time? This complex verbal communication skill builder has a powerful “a-ha” factor that makes the grand unveiling unforgettable!

Multi-task Madness

Participants develop a system to keep a record number of objects in the air as they move them between group members

Info Swap or Bust

Two sub-teams must work to achieve success in two separate activities; however, each team’s success is directly connected to their abilities to share their best practices with the other team.

Better Get Better
On Target

In this high-energy exercise, teams are given a task with a tight deadline. They must develop and improve a solution through successive attempts. As the activity progresses, participants find that they must assign roles, clarify rules, and find ways to improve their score repeatedly. They also learn from watching other teams, and must decide whether competition or collaboration with others will achieve their goals more effectively.

Islands

The participants are divided into Managers, Experienced Employees and New Hires in this simulation. Each sub-group has its own tasks to perform, along with its own goals to reach. Just as in real organizations, they eventually begin asking questions like “What is the common goal?” and “Why are we not reaching it?” The conflict involved closely mirrors real-life dynamics participants face at work.