Value Based Team Building Games

Jonginenge provides a service which fosters positive working relationships through carefully planned group challenges requiring team work, problem solving and communication. We facilitate activities which teach your staff to become more efficient, effective and achieve results while unwinding and having fun. Beach based team building at its best.

These activities are suitable for people of all ages and abilities, as well as large groups.

What are the benefits?

• Relationships are formed as team members are required to co-operate in order to achieve success.
• Barriers are overcome as colleagues interact within a relaxed atmosphere and get to appreciate each others hidden talents.
• Team members analyse reasons for success and failure, and therefore develop positive group dynamics and an understanding of the requirements of effective team work.
• Individuals are challenged to step out of their comfort zone and discover what they are capable of.
• Collective problem solving develops communication skills and creativity.
• A shared positive experience is enjoyed by all.

HOW DOES IT ALL WORK?

• Participants work in small groups in order to complete a series of initiative challenges.
• Our facilitators facilitate planning and reflection on each challenge, as well as timing each activity.
• Teams also compete against one another, adding an element of competition.

DETAILS OF SOME OF OUR TEAM BUILDING GAMES

	Leaking Drain Pipe (team work/resource management) Each team must fill 2 drain pipes with water, using buckets, in order to retrieve the tennis balls inside. Each drain pipe has holes drilled in the sides.
	Team skis (synergy/communication) Team members must stand one behind another astride two planks with ropes connected. They must work as a team to race across a set distance.
	Beach Volley Ball (team work/areas of responsibility) Teams will compete in a game of beach volley ball. Points can only be won on own serve.
	Canoe Trail/Canoe Relay (personal growth/synergy) Staff can share a guided canoe trail on the Nahoon Estuary. This will be done as a relay with all teams competing as a last activity. Can be done as a communication game with a blind folded paddler, receiving directions from a non-paddling partner.
	Toxic Rescue (shared problem solving/initiative) Each team must use only 2 pieces of rope to remove a basin of water from a circle without spilling water, entering the circle or dragging the container.
	Tripod (delegation/planning/implementation) There are 5 numbered tubes arranged largest to smallest on a pole. Teams must move the tubes to one of 2 other poles without changing the order. Only one tube may be moved at a time.
	Crossing the Amazon (team work/problem solving) Teams must use two planks to cross a demarcated area. Hoola-hoops represent safe areas (islands). No team member’s feet may touch the ground.
	Jungle balls (communication) Participants form pairs. Each pair collects different colour balls from a demarcated area. The person collecting the balls is blind folded. Their partner gives them directions, but stands outside of the arena.
	Memory Game (team work/collective memory) 2 of each of a number of items found in the ocean are hidden beneath cups. Team members take turns to check two cups to find matching pairs. If they are successful, they get another turn.
	A-H Game (problem solving/logical thought) Teams must arrange letters of the alphabet from A-H with no letter connected to the letter which occurs immediately before or after it.
	Spider’s Web (team work/planning) At this activity groups must help each team member through one hole in the spider’s web. They may not touch the web, or use any hole more than once.
	Helium Stick (synergy/communication) Each group member must keep their index fingers in contact with the underside of the helium stick while attempting to lower it to the ground.
	Blind Folded Soccer (communication) A hilarious communication game involving the world’s most popular sport.
	Trust Fall (trust) Colleagues step out of their comfort zone and place their trust in the rest of the team.
	Tangram puzzle (collective problem solving) Teams must use triangles squares and parallelograms as puzzle pieces to make certain shapes.
	Bridge Building (design/implementation/evaluation) Each team must design and build a bridge spanning two tables, using straws, pins, elastic and presstick. Each bridge is then tested for strength and stability.
	Katty Target Shooting A truly African target shooting experience, using hand made catapults. Teams compete against one another, with each team member given 3 shots to hit the target.
	Raft Building Each team is given equipment and must design and build a raft to hold a few of its members.