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December 29, 2008 6:29 PM

Team-building activities for 300 people?

Asking on behalf of my sister:

She is organizing a corporate team building event for 300 people. It will be held outdoors. What are some grand ideas for ways to engage all employees in an effort to build group cooperation? Activities requiring athletic ability are a no. The theme of the event pertains to gambling, although the gambling theme is not a must-have with regard to the activities.

Any ideas or tips you might have on organizing such an event would be much appreciated! Thank you!

posted by jschu to Work & Money (6 answers total)

I've always thought "Cows & Ducks" was a lot of fun. Divide group into two roughly even teams - "Cow's" and "Ducks". Then mix the two teams and blindfold them (coloured blind-folds are excellent).

Then the cows have to go "Moo!", the ducks "Quack!" and the mixed up people need to sort themselves back into their respective camps. First group to get all their members together wins.

In a large group like yours, you could add extra teams (I dunno: chickens = cluck, dogs = woof etc etc).

The only things you need are: open spaces, blindfolds of some sort, and a couple of people to acts as referees. Coloured tags for each team minimizes cheating.
posted by ninazer0 at 7:05 PM on December 29, 2008

Split them in half - instruct each half to come up with a team building activity for 150 people ...
posted by Xhris at 7:48 PM on December 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

Re-enact the battle of Thermopylae
posted by atrazine at 10:00 PM on December 29, 2008 [3 favorites]

This is a link to a askmefi of my own that has to do with building a Scavenger Hunt. We had 65 participants and broke them up into 4 person teams and it worked wonders for team building. IF she is interested, I can send over the finished documents so you can see what it looked like.
posted by wile e at 10:41 PM on December 29, 2008

We also had a scavenger hunt recently - we had teams of six, gave them a long list of trivia questions about sites of interest in the area which they then had to research, find the answers and then go and take pics of themselves there. The team with the most pics of the most correct answers, with a few extra points for originality and/or humour in the photos, won. Great fun!
posted by goo at 4:37 AM on December 30, 2008

If you're involving all 300, then work against a clock - or against a record (check a book of records, in that case). That way when you're successful, the whole team is built up instead of just half of 'em.

Team building should mean that you don't divide into anything where you've one entity opposing another. If you split in two or more teams, you've an "us against them" situation and you you're building two or more teams vice supporting the one team you're trying to build in the first place.
posted by Man with Lantern at 9:39 AM on December 30, 2008