Even though the occasional work drinks and dinners are pleasant once in a while, there are many more enjoyable team building activities available that can be beneficial to the team in the long run. The team building activities listed below support important workplace qualities including problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and creativity.

Being stuck in the same fast-paced, stressful situation every day with the same people is likely to result in some tension. This is why it's critical for businesses to regularly organise team-bonding activities to mend any damaged relationships, and perhaps even forge new ones. 

There is a wide range of fun team building ideas and we have compiled a diverse list that includes indoor and outdoor team building activities as well as virtual team building activities! 

Paintball / Laser Tag

What better way to release all that bottled-up rage and irritation than the opportunity to murder your office foe without actually committing a crime?

Jokes aside, team building activities like paintball and laser tag are genuinely thrilling and encourage communication and planning among participants in the many teams who are competing for the prized bragging rights. The abundance of places that offer laser tag and paintball in Malta makes it simple to organise these team building exercises.

Escape Rooms

Another popular team building idea among businesses is escape rooms.  They encourage and promote effective teamwork, bring out individual team members' abilities, and boost confidence in one's capacity for problem-solving.

The variety of escape rooms in Malta makes organising this fun team building activity a breeze. If you have more time and would like to create something unique for your business, you could convert your office into an escape room or even opt for an online escape room if you are looking for a virtual team building activity.

Cooking 

Organising a picnic or cooking classes is definitely the ideal team building activity for your business if food is a frequently discussed topic at work. Unlike catered events like dinners and parties, the focus of this team building event isn't actually on the food.

The real goal is to play to people's abilities and demonstrate how each person's contribution is essential to attaining outcomes that everyone can appreciate. Some people are great at dicing, some are better with flavouring while others are pro-bakers — three completely different skill sets that are equally essential in crafting a perfect meal. And hey, you might even learn a new skill along the way too.

Although planning this team building activity takes a little more time, the values it instils in the group (and the great lunch at the end) make it worthwhile.

Virtual Trivia

The emergence of remote working environments over the past few years has made it more difficult to plan the team building activities outlined before. Although it is recommended that groups occasionally get together in person, there are times when this isn't possible. Fortunately, there are substitute team building ideas for this, one of which is virtual trivia.

It's simple to play virtual trivia; all you have to do is enter a conference room as usual and start asking each other lots of questions. You may organise a whole quiz session about office gossip, have everyone discuss random hilarious facts, or pick a theme for people to submit questions about. It's the ideal team building activity to ease tensions and let team members get to know one another better outside of their work-related responsibilities.

These are just a few of the many team building ideas available that you can plan for the rest of your team.