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Give me your best team building ideas

My co-worker is insisting that doing skits is an awesome idea. I am against it. This is going to take place at a local restaurant and is for new hires and their managers.
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Re: Give me your best team building ideas

  • No skits. Booze.
  • Perhaps your coworker is trying to encourage bonding by giving everyone a common enemy -- her.  Doing skits in front of the general public (i.e. other restaurant patrons) would pretty much make anybody homicidal.

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  • I know, right? I was like "um, doing random games and stuff is super old school. Can't we just eat and drink?" She said no.

    I mentioned the creulty of doing the stupid skit stuff at a restaurant and she said point taken. I just want other ideas so that I can have something to convince her that making them do rookie skits is a truly terrible idea.

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  • Can you do Win, Lose, or Draw, or Trivia where the winning teams get free drinks or fried finger foods?  I'd probably be willing to sacrifice some dignity in exchange for a margarita and some mozzarella sticks.
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  • As much as I loathe 2 truths and a lie, it's a nice low-maintenance game that requires some degree of creativity, but no goofy antics.

  • I second both trust falls and booze.
    We, we like to party.
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    Yes, I am five years late. 

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  • My husband just had to play new hire bingo (even though he has worked there over a year but that aside) everyone going had to give a list of 5 things they had done and everyone got a bingo card and had to talk to people and get them to sign a square (but only one) on the card. He saw everything from "has 2 kids" to "has never eaten taco bell" to "has camped in the Sahara" to "speaks Cantonese". He said it was way more fun than he thought it would be and it gave him something to talk to the people about later.
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    My husband just had to play new hire bingo (even though he has worked there over a year but that aside) everyone going had to give a list of 5 things they had done and everyone got a bingo card and had to talk to people and get them to sign a square (but only one) on the card. He saw everything from "has 2 kids" to "has never eaten taco bell" to "has camped in the Sahara" to "speaks Cantonese". He said it was way more fun than he thought it would be and it gave him something to talk to the people about later.

    Similarly, my office used to do "secret facts," where someone reads out three facts that pertain to a specific person and everyone else has to guess who those facts describe. 

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  • I like Mod's idea. Mine was to lock them in the basement of the restaurant and make them work together to figure out how to get out. 

    It's probably for the best that I don't work with people face to face anymore.

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  • Go to wilderdom.com. Lots of fabulous non skit team building. I loath skits, they always turn into wield private joke filled awkwardness. Ultimatecampresource.com is also great. Try the ice breaker sections of both. 
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