Creating a Positive

Work Environment:
A Team Building Activity

Team CNHS-JHS Guidance

 Positive Work Culture
Today's Points 01

02 Factors that Helps us Build Positive

Work Culture

03 Practicing Positive Thinking

What does a “negative” work environment look like?
What does a “positive” work environment look like?
WHY WE NEED A Employee who experience
positive workplace culture are
a

POSITIVE WORK happier and more productive,

leading to improved productivity
CULTURE A good workplace culture
encourages employees to stay
longer in the organization
A steady and positive workforce
will foster meaningful relationships

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 Building Trust
Trust is a critical part of all interactions that we
have as humans. It also plays an integral role in
communicating in the workplace.
Learning how to build trust at work is critical and
the first step to building trust is building rapport.
If you don’t have trust, it’ll be more difficult to
communicate and coordinate with your peers or
colleagues.
Two types of Trust
 Let's have an activity.....
Group Order
Time: 15 Minutes
Goal: Have the team correctly line up in order of a specific criteria.

Ask the group to line themselves in order based on certain criteria.

Make it more challenging by setting a rule that members can't speak to each
other.
You can do this as a get-to-know-you-better activity.
Birthday, Height, Shoe size, Haircolor, Eyecolor, birth month
As members move around the room to organize themselves in order, you'll
notice how they communicate to complete the task and who takes on the
role of organizers or leaders.
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Processing Questions
Did you make any assumptions when you were lining yourself
up?
Did you learn anything new about your team members?
Did anyone take on the role of leader?
 Let's have an activity.....
Perfect star
Team size: 4–12 people
Materials: rope, blindfold
Time: 15–30 minutes

How to play:
Divide your team into groups of ten and ask them to stand in a tight circle with their
group.
Ask everyone to blindfold themselves or close their eyes and give one person a rope.
Without looking at what they're doing, the teams now have to pass the rope around
so everyone holds a piece of it and then form a perfect star.
Once the team is sure their star is perfect, they can lay the rope down on the floor,
take off their blindfolds (or open their eyes) and see how well they did.
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Perfect star

Why this exercise is great:

This game is about more than perfect geometric shapes, it’s an amazing
listening and communication exercise. Because no one can see what
they're doing, your team members have to communicate clearly while
figuring out how to create a star out of a rope. Besides, it’s often really
funny to see how imperfect the stars come out.
 PROCESSING QUESTIONS

What was the hardest part of this challenge? How did you
overcome that?

Who was responsible for communicating designs between the

teams?

When it came to accomplishing the task , what worked the

best?
 Positive Communication
80% of the words should be positive.
Seven Minute whining rule.
A positive communicator sounds like….
*What can I learn from this situation
*I can totally handle it
*I need help
* How can I help you
* I want to understand, make sure I hear what you are
saying.
Mix up the way you communicate, some verbal, some
email, some text, some phone.
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Build a Tower
Team size: 10 people
Materials: 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, 1 yard of tape, one yard of string and one
marshmallow
Time: 20–30 minutes

How to play:
The facilitator will divide the team into groups of 10 and the team will be provided
with 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one
marshmallow.
The facilitator will challenge each team to build the tallest tower possible using only
the supplies given them.
When finished, the tower has to support the marshmallow sitting on top.
After 20 minutes and everyone should step away from their masterpiece.
There is no talking
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Processing Questions:
What was the most difficult aspect of this exercise?
Did you have a sense of working together? Why/why
not?
How frustrating was it when you could not talk?
What was necessary in order for you to be
successful?
How important is good communication in groups?
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Why this exercise is great:

This challenge is a great way to improve problem solving skills and

communication within a team.The team members will have to make
a prototype, build, and present the tower in a short amount of time,
which can be stressful.

The better we work together, the more likely we are able to

succeed.
 Setting Expectations and Needs

Be honest about what you Be a good planner

can and cannot do

Always set the bar as high Listen, Listen, Listen

as you possibly can
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PASS THE HOOP
Team Size: 10 people
materials: 5 hula hoop
time: 15 minutes

The group stands in a circle, holding hands. first round the hula
hoop is sent around the circle counterclockwise.
Second round, the hula hoop is passed clockwise.
Passing the hoop from one person to the next without breaking
the circle takes teamwork because only arms and bodies are
used, not hands or fingers.
 processing questions
PASS THE HOOP

What was your strategy during this activity?

How did you depend on the players who were next to you during
the activity?
How can you relate this activity to working together and setting
goals as a group?
 Building Team Work

Every team member needs to:

Have a genuine interest in every team member.
Be an empathetic team member
Feel free to express opinions and ideas.
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Cartolina Hole Activity
Materials: Cartolina with holes, pingpong balls
Team Size: 10 members
Time: 15 minutes
Goal: Guide a ball around cartolina without letting it fall into a hole

Place the team evenly around the cartolina Have each member hold the edge with
both their hands. Instruct the team to shake the cartolina so it begins moves
around like a wave. Once it is moving, throw in a ball.
Participants must navigate the ball around the cartolina, the ball must fall through
a a designated hole (numbered hole) and i If the ball falls through a hole an
unnumbered hole or off the side of the cartolina the team must restart the game.
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Cartolina Hole Activity

Processing Questions:
How successful do you think you were?
Was there any forms of communication that worked
better than others?
Did you assign a leader (formally or informally)? Did that
help or hinder your progress?
 Find Meaning in Your Work

•Recognize that people want to know that their

job matters.
•Show value
•Fit their work in the big picture
•Get involved in community activities as well
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One body, many parts
Materials: Crayons, Scissors, Bond papers, Pentel pen, Double adhesive
tape,Upbeat music
Team Size:
Body parts:
1. Face without any feature 11. Trunk
2. Hair 12. Right thigh
3. Right and left eye 13. Left thigh
4. Nose 14. Right leg
5. Lips 15. Left leg
6. Neck 16. Right foot
7. Shoulders 17. Left foot
8. Right arm 18. Hip
9. Left arm 19. Right &left ear
10. Right hand & left hand 20. eyebrows
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One body, many parts

How to play:
The facilitator will divide the team into groups of 5 and the team
will be provided with the materials needed and the list of body
parts they need to make
The group will be given ten minutes to accomplish the task
When finished, the group representative shall put their output in
the designated place identified by the facilitator
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One body, many parts

We are different in some way. God loves each of us and we are all
important and valued.
The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up
one whole body. Just like in an organization many departments
but this make up one whole organization.
In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least
important are actually the most necessary.
If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it and if one part is
honoured, all the parts are glad.
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Slither Activity
Materials: small pail, any objects to be picked, blindfold
Time: 20 minutes
Team Size: 10 members

Have participants form groups of about ten people and stand in a line in a relatively
open room.
Place objects around the room that can be easily picked up.
The first nine people in the line will be blindfolded, and the last person can see.
The sighted person will then direct the “snake” where to go to pick up the object by
tapping the person in front of them on the shoulder, who will tap the person in front of
them on the same shoulder, and so on. Once they’ve secured the object and they must
put in a pail, the person in the front moves to the back and becomes the sighted
person.
 Accept Responsibility
Responsibility is important in the workplace because it shows
your professionalism, can advance your career, helps build
professional bonds with coworkers, and shows company
leadership that you are a valuable employee
Be prepared for:
The stressful days
The negative people
The mistakes
The conflicts
The disappointments
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Shipwrecked
Team size: 10-15 people
Time: 30 minutes

How to play: The premise of the game is that you’re stranded on a deserted island
and only have 25 minutes to secure survival items off the sinking ship.

Why this exercise is great: This game will challenge problem-solving abilities,
encourage collaboration, and enable your team to flex their leadership skills.
Typically, teams with strong leadership qualities will have the most success in
making these quick decisions.
 Humor in the Workplace
10 Benefits of Humor in the Workplace
 Humor in the Workplace
The downsides of using too much humor at work
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HANDS-FEET JUMPING GAME

HOW TO PLAY A HANDS-FEET GAME?

A fun game full of laugh. You can play as a family or a child can play with
friends.
Hands and feet prints are prepared as printable in letter size.
Place 3 different hand and footprint printouts in each row.
In each row, try to touch the hand or footprint correctly. The farthest wins.
 Practicing Positive Thinking

When you're in a generally positive frame of mind,

you're better able to deal with every day stress in a
more productive manner. This capacity might play a
role in the well-documented health advantages of
optimistic thinking.
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