For strangers, great problem solving activity can be first take introduction by speaking full names and one fruit or animal that describes them. Then make them all recall the full names of each other when you read out the fruit of animal name suggested. Group them for more fun problem solving. It needs concentration and memory to be able to recall and relate. Divide the group into teams. Blindfold one person from each team and give a shape or figure couples is more fun for team members to take chances and make the person draw.
Remember they can not name the shape or item just 5 directions to be used. Go straight, draw left, draw right, draw circle and stop.
Whichever team draws the figure first wins it. Make a twist to classic dumb charades. Give a name of a board game or place or movie to be enacted by one member of each team and make rules for no sounds at all. A lot of concentration and observation is needed. Make a laser web kind of bright colored web in a corridor or room and let the team members walk out of it without touching the yarn. If any one touches the yarn, the entire team repeats it again.
Divide the group into 3 with separate tasks: Drawer, talker, viewer. The talker describes the design to the drawer. While the viewer sees whats drawn and whats viewed. Just non verbal communication of 2 or 3 movements allowed using head or hand which are pre decided. Whichever team makes first, wins. Problem solving in groups is more of a challenge as the group dynamics sometimes get complex. These will be the real life challenges the teen will soon be facing. These kinds of activities not only enrich the creative juices and thinking process but also help teens to clan among themselves.
Find their group goals and try to coordinate and cooperate for accomplishing them. These group activities are beyond the bars of age and stage. These activities have helps me for ice-breaking, team bonding skills and most importantly, problem solving skills for the groups. For this game, you will need a full carton of eggs and construction material like plastic wrap, balloons, rubber bands, etc. In this activity, you encourage all of your team members to quickly think of the dumbest ideas they have in their heads in solving a particular problem.
Once they have done so, check the list and find out the ideas that are not dumb at all and you can shape that into an effective solution for your problem. Stranded helps in building effective communication and decision-making foundations among the team members. Why is it important for teams to communicate with each other for problem-solving? Well, we live in a time where people mostly work remotely, good communication skills on different channels are critical to solving problems.
This is why, when the team starts working on their communications skills being present in one physical space, they will be able to better understand each other when they will be apart.
This is an amazing activity that lets you backtrack your way into finding a solution. To create the perfect solution, you first have to start off with the end in your mind. The main purpose of this is to move backward. Establish important milestones and dates that might be useful, in reverse order. These dates have to start with the end-of-project party and finishing with today. In this activity, you have different solutions for your problems that can be projected via mock-ups. This way you can try out a bunch of solutions for your problem to find the perfect one.
You can create a solution using office supplies or even making images from the internet. This technique helps to increase collaboration among the team members and requires 4 things to be performed.
They are:. This activity is incredibly fun as it turns your problem into a sort of a game for the whole team to participate into. This activity helps with Decision Making and Adaptability and requires three things to be performed. With this activity, you can add a bit of fun to your work by executing the solution to the problem as if you were an imaginary character.
This is a useful technique where you can experience different perspectives on the solution you came up with for the problem your team has been facing. You will interview members of the team about the solution and get to know how they feel about it.
Move It also helps with adaptability and Collaboration among the team members and requires an item that can mark a space. That can be chalk, paper, tape or a rope.
Another fun activity that you can do to find out solutions for a particular problem is to have mock trials about your problem. They will go through their opening and closing statements and also call witnesses to support their ideas. The final activity on the list is the most fun one and that is creating a monologue that covers the main aspects of the problem or some funny moments that happened during all of the activities.
Share them with your team and make them feel relaxed. Organizational cultures are complete mayhem nowadays with different problems haunting the teams daily. This game involves working in teams to build the tallest possible freestanding tower using only marshmallows, uncooked spaghetti, tape, and string. The kicker? This all has to be done within an allotted timeframe.
We recommend about thirty minutes. For an added dimension of challenge, try adding a marshmallow to the top of the tower to make it a little more top heavy. The principle is simple: lock your group in a room, hide the key somewhere in that room, and have them work through challenges within a set time frame.
Each challenge will lead them one step closer to finding the key and, ultimately, their escape. That way, you and your team can simply step inside and get to work collaborating, using creative problem solving, and thinking outside the box. In this smartphone-based scavenger hunt team building activity , your group will split into teams and complete fun challenges by taking photos and videos around the city. Some examples of challenges you can do in this activity are:.
It takes a ton of critical thinking and problem-solving to be crowned the Wild Goose Chase Champions! Can you imagine a higher-pressure situation than being stranded at sea in a lifeboat with your colleagues? To get the activity underway, divide your group into teams of five and ask each team member to take ten minutes on their own to rank the items in order of importance in the respective column.
Then, give the full team ten minutes as a group to discuss their individual rankings together and take group rankings, listed in that respective column. Ask each group to compare their individual rankings with those of the group as a whole. The goal of this activity is for everyone to be heard and to come to a decision together about what they need most to survive. If your team works remotely, you can also do this activity online. At the end, you can bring them back to the full video conference to go through the answers together.
Many problems are intricately complex and involve a ton of moving parts. And in order to solve this type of problem, you need to be able to examine it systematically, one piece at a time. Especially in the business world, many problems or challenges involve multiple different teams or departments working through their respective portions of a problem before coming together in the end to create a holistic solution.
As you can imagine, this is often easier said than done. Then, all teams will regroup and assemble the entire machine together. Being a great problem-solver means being adaptable and creative.
The idea here is simple: break your group out into small teams and then stand in the form of a pyramid. Your challenge is to flip the base and the peak of the pyramid — but you can only move three people in order to do so. Alternatively, rather than doing this activity with people as the pyramid, you can do another version — the Pyramid Build — using plastic cups instead.
This version is a little bit different. We recommend groups of five to seven people. Give your group 20 to 30 minutes to complete the activity. To get started, place one cup face down. Then, lift that cup and place the subsequent two cups underneath it. The real challenge here?
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