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October 2019, teamquests.ca Team Building Newsleer

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what’s INSIDE Digital Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger hunts are fun and engaging to play with almost any audience. There
2. Interview with Colin Deans are many different ways you can organize one. The most popular is to have a list
Colin who is the coach of Oshawa Ringee U19 of tasks and challenges that you need to complete in different loca0ons. A newer
team tells us about teams and team building version of scavenger hunts is the Digital Scavenger Hunt. It uses technology to let
players complete different kinds of missions. Digital Scavenger Hunts track mis-
4. Admin Jasmine’s Corner sions remotely to award points and convey informa0on. If you need help organ-
Jasmine’s spent years observing the world of izing your Digital Scavenger Hunt, QuestBox offers a range of games with differ-
business, and now shares her thoughts with us ent themes. We have mystery hunts, seasonal, and many more!

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 INTERVIEW

Colin Deans
Coaches Oshawa Ringees’ un-
der 19s team. We asked him
about team building in sports.

Q: What's CD: Some of the things that come to mind for

needed to me: a common goal, singular focus and a com-
mitment to stay the course. This is achieved
build a great
by a team working in unison, cheering each
team?
other on and deliberate prac0ce & focus.

Q: What are CD: Teams will fail when they start to splin-
the signs of ter. Teams that establish cliques and begin to
focus on singular needs, versus the greater
and reasons
focus for the team, may find individual suc-
for a failing
cess, but will o%en hurt the team in the long
team? run. Teams will also fail if they are not fully REPORT
commied.

Q: What's CD: : Some of the things that come to mind for Team Building f
me: a common goal, singular focus and a com-
needed to
mitment to stay the course. This is achieved TeamQuests recently facilitated a team-
build a great
by a team working in unison, cheering each building ac0vity for a group of young ringee play-
team? ers. We met them at a restaurant a%er their morning
other on and deliberate prac0ce & focus.
game. When we arrived they were finishing up their
lunch right before we were to take them through the
ac0vity. They were cha?ng, laughing, and joking
around with each other.
Fun Facts About Ringette It’s easy to understand why members of a
staff team would need team-building ac0vi0es. For
corporate staff, there can at 0mes be very lile inter-
Ringee is a team sport played on an ice rink, primarily by fe- ac0on and overlap between what different team
males and requires the use of ice hockey skates. members do. Other than lunch breaks, it can be very
difficult to get to know each other and establish a
The number of registered ringee players sense of community. This is where team-building
who par0cipate in a range of levels including comes in.
30,000 House League, Regional, Provincial and Na- But what about teams that work together
on coopera0ve things that are fun and exci0ng, like
0onal across Canada .
sports teams? Teams like this are different than a
team in the workplace. They are encouraged to get
The year ringee was invented and playing to know each other on a personal level, bond, and
1963 began in Espanola, Ontario in Canada establish trust with each other right from the get-go.
Do they s0ll need team-building?
The players already had a chance to get to
Number of countries beside Canada where
know each other well; they had plenty of experience
6 ringee is played.. working together because they were seasoned mem-
bers of their ringee league. All signs pointed to a
Source: Wikipedia strong, cohesive team that and knew one another

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 SMILE

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 JASMINE’S CORNER
Admin Jasmine is a young working professional that has spent
years observing and contempla0ng the world of business and
what makes it 0ck. With a fresh perspec0ve, she shares her
thoughts on how we can be stronger, what needs to change,
and what we owe to each other as leaders, entrepreneurs, and
innovators. She loves her job and feels fulfilled by caring for
others on staff and making sure that the business has everything it needs to do
the job well. Read more of her columns at teamquests.ca.

Simple Team Building Games for Your Events

One of the most vivid memories I for those folks who have recently
have of working on a food truck is joined your team and need a lower-
when we drove to an employee ap- risk ac0vity, “Mix and Meet” is the
precia0on event. Every employee on perfect one. All you need is a pack of
their lunch break was en0tled to a M&Ms, and to assign a meaning to
free scoop of ice cream. It seemed each colour. For example, red could
simple enough on the way there. be friends, blue could be family, yel-
However, we realized that we would low could be music. Once everybody TeamQuests’ CEO, Saeed Vahid, standing beside
have to scoop around three hundred grabs their M&Ms, they need to state
company booth at a mee0ng.
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two hours. So we pulled up to the For example, if someone has two red
corporate building, parked our truck, ones, they need to say two facts
and the inevitable happened: it start- about their friends.
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confusion. I could not believe that GAMES
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notecards for every player and pens
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fact about themselves on their note-
it was never about the ice cream it- • 101 team building games
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