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Trust Outcome Based Team Building Activities

 

People tend to only trust people that they know and understand. When you first start a team, it is important that you share your background with the team. Encourage the team to also share information about themselves and create opportunities for the team to socialize together. The better the team members get to know each other, the easier it will be for them to trust each other. When there is a general feeling of mistrust in a team no amount of team building will motivate the team members to work together. Communication is another essential component of trust building. When team leaders keep their team informed, they send a clear message that they trust their team members. When you give trust, you gain even more trust back.

Other Outcome Based Activities: Goal Setting, Leadership, Communication, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Resilience, Creative Thinking, Time Management, Decision Making

 

 

The team building exercises under the Trust theme are selected to help achieve the specific objective of trust. Your facilitator will select the appropriate exercises from this list to match the venue and team on the day.

Electric Fence - The aim of the challenge is for the entire team to cross from one side of the fence to the other without touching the fence line. There are two variations of this challenge a more basic version and the more advanced one, both are great for developing teamwork and trust...

 

Spiders Web - The aim of the challenge is for the whole team to travel through the web. At the moment, the web is blocking your path to safety. Be careful though, as the web is extremely poisonous and any time a team member touches the web, the challenge will be restarted...

 

Blind Retriever - In this fun and challenging blindfold activity, groups are split into smaller sub-teams and must compete against each other to try and retrieve an object. One person is blindfolded in each team and directed by a team mate to try and find the object before the other team do...

Blind Shapes - Teams are blindfolded and tasked with forming a number of geometric shapes defined by the facilitator. Participants have to put their hands in front of them and then place the length of rope in their hands.They are given a shape to create with the rope...

Blindfold Maze - Blindfolded participants are given a route by their partners, and then tasked with retracing their steps without any instruction to try and end up as close to the start point as possible...

 

Night Trail - Working as a team, blindfolded participants follow a rope and try to navigate their way round a series of obstacles. Trust, support, leadership and communication is essential for this challenge. Participants must follow the rope at all times. No overtaking is allowed, they have to stay in the same order unless instructed otherwise...

Sheep and Shepherd - In smaller teams, blindfolded team members must be guided into a pen by the shepherd giving them verbal commands. The team that pens the most amount of sheep in the quickest time, wins the challenge...

Trust Walk - Working in pairs, blindfolded participants are led on a walk around the surrounding area or a course by their partners. This is great activity for focusing on communication skills and developing trust...

Customize your team building event by adding a TBAE's Interpersonal Skills soft skills course to your team building activity.

Interpersonal skills commonly refer to the skills a person uses when interacting with others. These skills include communication, persuasion, active listening, delegation, problem solving, decision making, stress management and leadership. Interpersonal skills in business is measured by the extent to which a person operates successfully within an organization through social interactions.

Interpersonal skills are often referred to as people skills and include a person’s confidence and ability to listen and understand. People with strong interpersonal skills are perceived as calm, confident and charismatic. They are usually successful in their personal and professional lives. Interpersonal skills can be developed by learning and practicing them.

In TBAE’s Interpersonal Skills Course, participants are taught to identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names and managing tricky situations. This course will help improve the communications skills and negotiation techniques of the participants. Participants will be given skills needed in starting conversations, moving a conversation along and progressing to higher levels of conversation.

Subjects covered in the Interpersonal Skills Course include verbal communication skills, non-verbal communication skills, making small talk, moving the conversation along, remembering names, influencing skills, bringing people to your side, sharing your opinion, negotiation basics and making an impact.

For a virtual team building option of the Interpersonal Skills course see our Online Soft Skills Workshops for Teams.

 

 

Trust Team Building Gallery

 

Recent Trust Outcome Based Team Building Events
Distell at Arabella Hotel and Spa in Kleinmond, Overberg
Gibela Rail Transport Consortium at The Lakes Hotel in Benoni
Wits University at Wanderers Club in Johannesburg
Adapt IT at The Summit Venue in Kyalami, Midrand
Western Administration Services in Stellenbosch
Gradidge-Mahura Investments in Muldersdrift
M2TD Consulting at Amanzingwe Lodge in Hartbeespoort
Rubric Consulting Team Building Event at The Amazing Place in Sandton
Cornwall Hill College Team Building Event in Pretoria

Blog Posts About Trust
How To Earn The Trust of Your Team
The Importance of Showing Trust in Your Team of Leaders
The Importance of Trust in Building a Team
Getting Your Team On Your Side

See Also:

Trust Based Outcome Team Building in Cape Town
Trust Based Outcome Team Building in Johannesburg
Trust Based Outcome Team Building in Pretoria

 

Trust Events Testimonials

Wow, what a truly lovely day and conference as a whole! Thanks again for all your efforts and for helping us out at last minute. Will definitely recommend you and your team. - Jacky - Distell

 

"Thank you for organizing everything last week for our team building event, it was a fruitful day filled with lots of fun for everyone." Kay, Adapt IT Johannesburg

 

"I just wanted to thank your team James and George for the awesome experience they gave us. We learned a lot on Saturday. Our aim is to complete your outcome based activities during our growing phase we are busy with." Chantal Du Plessis, Lumacon

 

"A big thank you to you and your team for our team building activity last week Friday. All our staff enjoyed the activities." Cyril Chetty, Gradidge-Mahura Investments

 

Trust Outcome Based Team Building Venues

Arabella Team Building Venue
Nestled deep in the heart of the Kogelberg Biosphere, a breath-taking 1 hour and 15 minutes’ drive from Cape Town, is the unique Arabella Hotel & Spa. Located 30 minutes’ drive from the world-renowned whale watching haven of Hermanus, the region enjoys pure champagne air and quite possibly the most stunning scenery the picturesque Western Cape has to offer. The hotel itself offers the ultimate in luxury and a wealth of leisure and business options. From elegant restaurants and bars to indulge even the most discerning palate with fine cuisine and wine, to dedicated hotel staff at hand to help create a memorable and unique event...

 

The Lakes Hotel Team Building Venue in Benoni
The Lakes Hotel Team Building Venue in centrally located in Benoni only ten kilometers from OR Tambo International Airport, Emperors Palace and the Gautrain. It is also situated close to the major routes, golf courses, shopping centres and local entertainment. Situated on the banks of a natural lake, the venue offers world class conferencing and team building facilities. The Lakes is a Three Star graded hotel featuring 150 comfortably styled en-suite rooms. For overnight team building events, The Lakes Hotel offers 150 elegantly styled rooms. The single rooms, family rooms and suites are all air-conditioned with double or twin beds...

 

The Wanderers Club Team Building Venue in Illovo, Johannesburg
The Wanderers Club mission is to be the Premier Sporting Club in South Africa, striving to understand, recognise, and meet needs of members, stakeholders, and partners through ongoing product development, investment, service delivery systems and by developing a technological capacity, promoting partnerships, new revenue streams and recognising the need to transform the demographic profile of the Club. They boast some of the top sporting facilities in South Africa, from their cricket fields to basketball courts to bowling greens

 

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