The tough economic environment should not be used as an excuse to skip on team building activities. Given all of the negative news around us, now is the best time to lift the team’s morale. Here are three low-cost team building ideas that you can do during lunch breaks.
Interesting Facts Treasure Hunt: Each team member submits an interesting personal fact to the activity leader. The activity leader lists all of the facts. Each team member selects 25% of the facts from the list and attempts to match them to individuals. Award prizes as appropriate.
Impersonation Video: Ask them to make a funny video of their manager. Watch the videos during lunch. Vote on the top videos anonymously.
Team Potluck Lunch: Have each team member bring a home-made dish to be shared with the entire team.
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If you are like most people, a box alarm clock wakes up for your 9-to-5 routine. You leave your box house using your box car or sit on the same seat in your box train.
In all of my consulting engagements, be it in Asia, North America or Europe, I often hear my clients demand high-quality results—appealing appearance, greater glory, impeccable implementation, minimal maintainability, rapid response and so on. The benchmark for the aforementioned high-quality results shapes the opinions of the stakeholders when judging, upon completion, if the project objective was met or not.
To get things done, we delegate tasks to others. Hopefully, the delegated tasks were SMART—specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.
In the April 2009 issue of Quality Progress, John E. “Jack” West described that minor revisions in the new fourth edition of the International Organization for Standardization’s quality management standard (ISO 9001:2008) can lead to major benefits.
