Games ~ Challenges
Knights Templar Events have a whole variety of games, ideas, excercises and activites that are suiltable for both indoor an outdoor corporate team building.
City Traders
City Traders is one of those team building activities that uses a realistic simulation. In this team building game, we have created a simulation of the trading floor that use to exist on the London Stock Exchange. This indoor team building game is an intricate simulation of the life of a 'City Trader', combining fantasy fund management with high finance share dealing. Each team receives a portfolio pack prior to the game commencing which contains company information, rules and fun money. Teams are given time to digest the information, to discuss and plan a strategy. The start of the teamwork activties is indicated by a long blast on the trading floor buzzer and share trading takes place in all of the companies, as well as oil and the euro. Share prices are displayed throughout the game on monitors. Finance daily newspapers are distributed prior to the start of trading on each day and the trading floor opens when the lights come up and the action begins as our traders take to the floor! Newsflashes appear throughout the day, along with radio bulletins.
This group team building game is simulated as operating over a five day trading period and as each day draws to a close, a countdown is given during which any final transactions are made in anticipation of share price changes after the trading floor closes. Syndicates have a short respite to gather their thoughts, re-group, discuss and plan more team building strategies before each of the next day's trading. At the end of the final day of trading all fun money and share certificates are totalled and winners are announced with all final values.
Ultra Quiz
So you thought a quiz was just a quiz? Well think again!
Bringing together fun team building and entertainment, Ultra Quiz is a mixture of all the best interactive participation games you've ever played.It has been designed not to tax or challenge participants too heavily, as this is one of our many fun team building activities, as it is ideal for ice-breaking.There are various options for our team building UltraQuiz events ranging from Quick Draw and Krypton Puzzles to Lingalong and Cunning Lyricists. This game is ideal for company team building...with something for everyone!
Maze Zone
Within the labyrinth lies zones and within them are set teamwork activities and challenges.Team members take it in turns to attempt problem solving or accomplish physical challenges but colleagues can provide advice from their observation vantage point.Sucess or partial success is rewarded with time bonsues or penatlies which will be carried forward to the final stages and all teams participate in a finale fun team building activities.
Kinetic Connections
This abstract scenario mirrors a real life business challenge and makes for one of our many fantastic office team building games. With little information and no initial direction, only the combined efforts of every individual member of the group make the impossible, possible, achieving success on schedule. Thiese team work activities are great for breaking down barriers to achieve a shared goal. It’s one of the many indoor team building games created to manage large numbers systematically and to highlight a range of skills and abilities in the participants.
Helium Rod
The helium rod is a powerful team building excercise specifically designed for teamwork and team development, as it defies the laws of gravity. It is deceptively simple team building problem solving that is as used as an exercise for learning how to work together and communicate in a small to medium sized group. Form two lines facing each other. Lay a long, thin rod on the group's index fingers and lower it to the ground all together as a team. It takes an incredible amount of well co-ordinated project team management for it to be successful because the rod rises into the air instead of lowering to the ground. How can that be? The team must work it out and find the solution.
Eventually the group needs to calm down, concentrate, and very slowly, patiently lower the Helium Stick - easier said than done.The stick does not contain helium. The secret (keep it to yourself) is that the collective upwards pressure created by everyone's fingers tends to be greater than the weight of the stick. As a result, the more a group tries, the more the stick tends to 'float' upwards.
This mirrors the business dynamic of projects starting out well, but quickly going awry. Why is that? Sometimes the best laid plans just don't work out. What you do as a team when plans go awry has everything to do with workplace. Teams come away from this activity with a deeper understanding of how they work best together.
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