If you want to help your team bond and enhance morale, it is good occasionally to organise some games or competitions. Your team will become better acquainted and their collaboration will improve. You can do sports, eat or guess who is on some childhood photos. Four good games were described at Callcentrehelper.com. The original article was based on experience with motivating call centre employees who face a high level of stress at work and may, therefore, inspire all of us.
1) Game with childhood photos
If you want people from your team to know each other better and to boost morale in the team, try a game with photos from their childhood. Tell each member to bring a photo of themselves to work, then post these on a board with a number alongside but no names. Colleagues will try to guess who is who.
2) Game with "loyalty cards"
This game will motivate others to do extra work. At the beginning of the month give everybody a card with blank squares. Every time a member is nominated by a colleague for helping or doing additional work, they fill in a square. The person with the most squares filled at the end of the month will get a prize.
3) Baking day
Ask every member of your team to bake something sweet and bring it to work. Then team members can judge one another´s efforts, but in secret. It is mostly about creating a good mood in the morning and a good start to the day for your team.
4) Sports day
Another way to support team bonding and good morale is to hold a "sports day". These who are interested can participate in, for example, egg-and-spoon races, sack races or running obstacle courses. The "Sports Champion" will receive a prize.
If you want to make the competition even more effective, put a colourful scoreboard in the common room so that teams or individuals can see their results and know who is in the lead. You can allocate part of the day to such activities. If you work in a call centre, you can spend time on them when the volume of calls drops. Thus your team will be active and not bored.
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