Instead of organising a competition between teams, one great idea is to organise a challenge between other businesses or organisations. While this isn’t appropriate for everyone, if you work in an area where many businesses operate, then you might find they are more than willing to put a team forward for the occasion. Another game of social cues and bluffing, in a game of Coup you rely on your individual ability to smuggle lies past the other players on the table. Or, if you are brave, you can win this game by telling bare-faced truths the whole way through! There is also a chapter suggesting that one should redefine work. Essentially, one should realize that in addition to being paid for performing at work, they are also given the opportunity to learn and maybe even enjoy their work.

We like this game because it encourages fun, positive conversation – and opens up opportunities for colleagues to learn new things about each other’s childhoods. No matter how long you’ve been doing it or how little you think there is to learn about it, your job can become an opportunity to sharpen skills, increase pleasure, and heighten awareness. And if your work environment has been turned on its ear by technology, reorganization, and rapidly accelerating change, The Inner Game of Work offers a way to steer a confident course while navigating your way toward personal and professional goals. Another game that’s all about digging into each other’s histories, a game of Never Have I Ever is typically used at parties, and alcohol is often involved. It can get pretty wild, and the subject matter can sometimes get a bit inappropriate… so you might want to set some house rules first. But this game can actually be a really great ice-breaker for new colleagues to get to know one another better. Human nature is a powerful thing. Yet our lives seem to be littered with initiatives that encourage us to go against our nature—our human nature. We try to lose weight by eating the right foods and avoiding those foods that are not good for you. In our elementary schools we expect a ten-year-old boy, full of energy and curiosity, to sit still for hours performing repetitive tasks. In business, we all say that our people make the difference. The strategies we pursue talk of innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. Yet we reward predictability and those who get along.W. Timothy Gallwey (born 1938 in San Francisco, California) is an author who has written a series of books in which he has set forth a new methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields, that he calls "The Inner Game." Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner game of Music (with Barry Green), Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work. Gallwey's seminal work is the The Inner Game of Tennis, with more than one million copies in print.[1] Besides sports, his training methods have been applied to the fields of business, health, and education.[1] However, unlike the game of Heads Up, which is turn-based, a game of Who Am I will see all players walking around at once, asking questions about the character on their head. And the questions can only be answered with a “yes” or “no”. For example, “am I a comedian?”. The ideas of the triangle of Performance, Learning, and Enjoyment and bringing key variables to awareness were also fascinating and applicable.

If you can afford to, why not bring a yoga instructor in to run classes once a week? Creative games to play in the office Gallwey concluded that SELF-1 was a from of interference that led to nothing else than an underutilization of the person's potential. In other words: Performance = Potential - Interference. In still other words: don't let SELF-1 distract you from your task and goal!We perform our best when we allow the Self 2 (think inner child) to perform and not let Self 1 (think overly critical coach) get in the way Spaceteam is possibly one of the wildest collaboration games played on a mobile app that we’ve ever seen. If you like the idea of shouting at your colleagues, while working together to stay alive, then this is the game for you. We believe you should encourage your teams to be physically active where possible. Not only this, but sports can encourage healthy competition, which can be good for motivating your employees to perform better at their jobs. Here are some ideas for making sports and physical activities an important part of your working environment. 19 – Team Sports Tournament So we have decided to include a few of our favourite tabletop games that can generally be played in under an hour. Many of these work better in person, but we will also include links to where you can play some of these games online, in case you’re working remotely. 14 – Chess

OUTLAST: The digital transformation of your core infrastructure increases the survivability of unprecedented events. Look at establishing your system or implementing one for your organization. Similar to the Human Snakes game, you’ll need to split your group into teams, who will stand in a line. In the story game, players sit in a big circle. Each player takes a blank piece of paper, and writes the first sentence of a story. Once done, everybody passes their paper to the person on their left. Whether it was a head-to-head competition (who can complete a repetitive task faster) or simply sharing the individuals' total throughput each day, the 'games' worked well. Code Names is unique in that you’re not just having to consider how you can best communicate with your friends. You’re trying to work out ways to prevent your communication being understood by your enemies!

Obviously, this is a fairly seasonal game… but actually, you can play this all year round. Just call it something else! Next, I read the The Inner Game of Golf. Although it too was helpful and provided some insights, it was clear that the author was less comfortable in the context of golf rather than tennis. It was also clear that the "inner game" method, as it applied to golf, was less rigorously tested. TALENT SCOUTS: Ask teams to identify the most results-driven outlier personality types in the organization and see if they’re on the high-potential list. If not, get them onto it. It gets noisy. It gets a little bit stressful. And adrenaline levels can run high. But it is a very rewarding game that can teach you and your colleagues the value of communicating under pressure, while helping you to understand each other just a little bit better. 4 – Psych! The Inner Game of Work reveals an approach to Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace. This bookchallenges you to re-examine your fundamental motivations for going to work in the morning and your definitions of work once you’re there. You will be able to look at work in a whole new way.