There are many ways to inspire and engage your team members. Choose an idea that fits with your company culture and your teammates' interests and you'll see success.
Fun Activities for Employee Engagement
Teams that laugh together often communicate better. Plan a few of these activities for your organization or your work team. Make fun a priority for you and your team.
- Compete - Play a game of laser tag, mini golf, traditional bowling or duckpin bowling. Keep track of points and give the winner a trophy for his or her desk.
- Make it an Adventure - Surprise the team with an unexpected activity like ax throwing, scavenger hunting, ziplining or shooting skeet. Provide fitting prizes for the winning adventurers. (Camo, anyone?)
- Volunteer Together - Get your team out into the community and volunteer as a group. If you have multiple offices around the globe, have every location pick a local partner to serve. Have work teams grab a meal afterward and debrief all they learned together.
- Host a Collective Day of Fun - Ask each team member to choose their favorite activity and spend a day trying a variety of hobbies. Plan to include 45 minutes to an hour for each activity and be sure to factor in transportation and meals. Maybe you start off with coffee at a teammate's house in the morning while you go over the plan, then go bike riding through downtown or skateboarding at a skate park, eat at a new restaurant for lunch and have everyone try a new food, learn to play a new sport or a popular video game, plan an office prank, do a DIY craft from Pinterest or learn something new from a YouTube tutorial.
- Creative Arts - Plan a day of creativity including an art class, museum tours, music lessons, pottery decoration or a drawing class.
- Dance it Out - Hire a choreographer to get your department's team into a flash-mob routine then spring the surprise on the rest of your coworkers at the most unexpected time. Be sure to have someone turn up the music so it is nice and loud as you dance!
- Escape Room Experience - Sign up for an escape or breakout room adventure where your team has a limited amount of time to solve a problem and escape the space. Search online and see what experiences are offered near your location.
