Motivate Employees with Company Lines

Teambuilding activity that uses important quotes from company leadership

Purpose

A fun bonding and

teambuilding activity to improve enthusiasm in your workforce and

leverage messages from leadership.

First Steps Find an interesting quote or statement that has

been said or written by your company’s leader, preferably the CEO.

The quote should contain the same number of words as there are people in your meeting or retreat.

If you have a large number of employees in your meeting, break them up into groups of approximately 10 each.

Sample QuotesHere are two quotes taken from annual reports. The first quote would be appropriate in a meeting at Google with 15 - 17 people. The second quote is an excerpt from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report 2009 and would work for a Berkshire Hathaway meeting with 25 people.

1. The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put "Don't be evil" into practice.

2. Long ago, Charlie Munger laid out his strongest ambition: All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.

Next Steps Take each word of your selected quote and

write it on a large card or piece of paper. (large index cards work just fine). As each person comes into your meeting, hand them one card.

If less people show up than there are words/cards, let one person have all the cards that contain small article words, such as “the” or “of”.

Objective The employees are expected to work together

to place their cards in the right order that showcases the selected quote.

They can find space on the floor to work with the words or they can use a table top. But they must all work together.

The Prize The employee who states the exact quote

first, wins a prize!

More teambuilding ideas

Need more ideas for games and teambuilding activities? Here are two good resources:

http://www.GamesandTeamBuilding.com

http://www.IcebreakersForGroups.com