Do you want to learn how to put the fun in team bonding activities and to avoid
the groans from your teams whenever you bring one of these up? Well watch this
team bonding video because I'm gonna teach you some stuff that your team
is going to wanna play over and over again, Plus stay tuned to the end of this video
because I have some really cool productivity hacks for you too.
Hi if you're new here welcome, my name is Adriana Girdler. I'm a business
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These team bonding activities that I'm gonna share with you are gonna change
your team's opinion on team bonding activities forever! Concentration, this
team bonding activity actually is a really easy one, super fun, and it's
something that everybody, no matter who's involved, actually really like. So what
you do is, you get two teams and you break them up, you have them facing each
other, and as we're facing each other they're supposed to study what each
other is wearing, one team turns around and is not to look while the other team
switches things up, so what's really cool is, you can go really fun by switching up
shoes, or switching up belts, but the whole purpose is the other team has to
guess. Now one thing I do, because of timing, whenever you're in a meeting and
you're trying to implement these bonding activities, is I usually say ten things,
so keep it to ten that they have to guess, the other team when they all line
up and are ready, they turn around and they start to guess what it is the other
team did, it's really cool because it shows about concentration, creativity, are
people paying attention, ironically enough and most people aren't, now after
the first team finally guesses it, the second team gets a turn at this too, I
always find the second team tends to be a lot more creative because they've been
through it once, it's a lot of fun, it's just a great way for people to kind of
loosen up, stand up, really get engaged and get to know each other, because you
start to see what people start to do, some people like to be a lot of fun, and
make it easy, other people like to be a little bit tricky, just to
see are you truly paying attention, this is a fun one. Three truths and one lie,
this is a real fun one, I actually use it in the beginning of my meetings
when I'm introducing, or when people are introducing themselves to a group, you
need to have at least three people in order to do this well, and what you do is
you ask people, introduce yourself and tell the group three truths about
yourself and one lie, and they just go around the room and as people are saying
it everyone tries to guess what the lie is, it's a lot of fun, here is an example,
hi my name is Adriana Girdler, I have a dog, this is my first youtube video, I'm a
runner, and I've been married for over 25 years, let me know in the comment below
what's my lie, if you knew this about me, this one is a great one to really get a
really cool understanding of your team members, and instructions are very simple,
everyone has five minutes to talk about themselves on this statement, if you knew
this about me you would better understand who I am as a member of this
team, okay, here are the rules around this one, which
is really important, it is a monologue, so you are supposed to talk for a full five
minutes, however, if you choose not to talk for a full five minutes then you
can sit down, that person can sit down and you're supposed to use up the
remainder of the five minutes in silence, the other point too is, because it's a
monologue, no questions or comments are meant to be asked, and once the person is
done speaking for five minutes, they then go to the next person, so on and so forth,
so you got to remember what is it that you want to share, so think of it this
way, you don't want to be sharing your resume, which is on one end of the
spectrum, nor do you want to be going to someone's deepest darkest secrets either,
it's in the middle, so you want to share something that people really don't know
about you probably, you know you may feel slightly uncomfortable and telling it,
that's probably the sweet spot that you want to have, because you're really
showing your vulnerability, and the whole point here is a bonding of a team, so do
something like that, that you're comfortable with, that people know again,
don't do the resume, don't do the deepest darkest secret, but something in between,
so let me give you an example, if you knew this about me you would have a
better understanding Who I am and how I contribute to this team, now
when I was younger not that you could tell, which is kind of ironic, I was a
stutter, in fact still to this day I'm a stutter, and it started in grade four, so
I couldn't even get out a first sentence, so letters that really caught me were M's
and I's, so I literally was like uh, it was very difficult, it really was monumental
for me, because I was a student who'd always did well, hand was up, and then all
of a sudden in grade four I stuttered profusely, very so so much so, they
actually brought me to a speech pathologist for the school and I was
doing that which was helpful, but I find even to this day whenever I get really
nervous I stutter, and what happens a lot of times is, I got to switch words in my
head, so in conversations when I have with people, if you find all of a sudden
I'm talking to you, and then all of a sudden just there's this quick pause and
maybe direction changes slightly, or a word maybe doesn't make 100%
sense to you, it's because I'm switching up a word, because I know I'm in a
stutter, and I'm gonna fall on that word, still to this day, but interestingly
enough what I did do, which I think is really important as well is I did not
let it own me, I was really big on, which is big part of who, I am a big part of
who I am about discipline and not letting things own you, so I actually did
speech pathology, and when I was in university I joined the debating team,
which was really out of my comfort zone, because I had a debate impromptu style,
and that was tremendously helpful for why I can do what I do today ironically,
I do keynotes, and I love it, I'm actually shining when I speak to people
and I've got, and mastered the stuttering, even though it will always be with me,
now that was an example of sharing my story, it wasn't for a full five minutes,
if I was in this team bonding activity I probably would have gone on for the full
five minutes, but if I didn't and that's all I wanted to share because that's
what I was comfortable with, I would sit down, and the rest would be remaining in
silence, really honoring that person this time is completely theirs and they could
do whatever they want with it, and it's also a really nice
way for other people to soak things in if there is a period of silence, there's
nothing wrong with a little bit of silence, or speak away, it's all good, but
again, this is an example of what you could do, now that you have your team
bonding activities that are not going to create any groans, but people are gonna
want to do over and over again, it is time for you to go to the link below and
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on that note, what's your favorite team bonding activity? Please share it with me
in the comments below, I love to hear from you, until then have a great day, see
you at the next video