Quick and Easy Team Building Games to Incorporate Into Team Meetings

5 Simple Team Building Games

Team building games are quick, fun, easy to organise and cost effective. Below are five simple suggestions for activities that can be incorporated into part of a weekly or monthly team meeting.

Best Moments
 - A great way of introducing a little of everyones individual personality into the workplace, the Best Moments game is one of the more heart warming team building games. The group is asked to take a moment of silent contemplation and recall what they consider to be the best moment of their lives to date. The team then takes turns in regaling the rest of the room with their anecdote, whether amusing, triumphant or emotional. Being personal to each individual, it reveals a little something new about each person in turn.

The Newspaper Bridge
 - Possibly the best known of all team building games, the Newspaper Bridge (also commonly the Newspaper Tower) is excellent for teamwork and problem solving. The group is split into a number of small groups and presented with equal amounts of newspaper. Using nothing but the print and their brains, they are challenged to build a bridge (or tower). The strongest (or tallest) structure wins.

What Country Would You Be?
 - This little exercise challenges the creative mind, and the geography skills of its participants. Members of the team are put into pairs and are given a brief few minutes to learn as much about each other as possible. Each pair is then asked "If your partner were a country, what country would they be and why?" Often comical to say the least, this activity works as a fantastic icebreaker.

The Pasta Tower 
- Similar to the newspaper challenge, teams are supplied with dry spaghetti and some form of jelly sweets. With these tools, they are asked to build a structure of the highest heights. The team with the tallest standing structure are crowned the champions. To make this a little tougher, try waiting five minutes before the judges weigh in. Most structures wont stay standing for that long!

Work Related Pictionary
 - Everyone knows the classic party game of Pictionary but beyond its use as a fun pastime between friends, it is one of the best team building games to improve on group communication. Learning to draw the same conclusions from a selection of images allows the team to take their understanding of each other that little deeper. Making the task work related is an excellent way of building this understanding in a professional sense.

The above are some of the most common activities for team bonding. For a really uniting experience, why not challenge your workforce to come up with a series of team building games of their own?

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Dirty Harry Potter

Fade in:

Ext Cave Entrance-Night

SPFX: Thunder, lightning and high winds surround this cave entrance.

Announcer (Gruff Voice)

In a world filled with dark doom and nefarious beasts with two heads...

Two sets of eyes appear in the darkness. Suddenly, a third set shows up.

Announcer Okay. Three heads...

Cut To:

Int. Castle Basement-Night The same storm can be seen through the windows as an Evil Sorcerer stands at a cauldron, mixing a bubbling, smoking potion.

Announcer

Where evil sorcerers mix deadly potions...

The sorcerer forces an eyedropper full of his potion to a lice-ridden rat.

Announcer

to radically change the human population into...

Theres a puff of smoke that clears to reveal a good looking gentleman in a gaudy tuxedo. Suddenly, a spotlight hits the gentleman. He picks up a microphone.

Announcer

Las Vegas lounge singers.

SPFX: Lightning and thunder crashes loudly.

Gentleman

(singing) Danke Shoen. Darling, Danke Shoen.

Announcer

Is there anyone who can stop the madness? Yes, there is.

But, only one person can do it. And that person is...

SPFX: Thunder and lightning crash again.

Cut to:

Close Up: Squinty-eyed man wearing round eyeglasses.

The camera pulls back to reveal Dirty Harry Potter dressed in a wrinkled suit.

Announcer

Dirty Harry Potter.

Cut to:

Ext Street-Day Harry has cornered a lounge singer and has him standing against the wall. Harry is pointing a broomstick at him.

Harry

So, are you feeling lucky, punk?

A spotlight encircles the man. He picks up a microphone from out of nowhere and begins singing.

Lounge Singer

(singing) Luck be a lady tonight. Luck be a lady tonight.

Cut to:

INT. Hogwarts Professors Office-Day

A Hogwart professor stands behind his desk. Harry stands opposite him.

Professor

Potter, Im taking you off this case. You cant just go around and eliminate anyone you damn well please.

Harry

Professor, it was a case of mistaken identity.

Professor

Mistaken identity? How can you mistake this for a lounge singer?

The professor holds up a picture of Wayne Newton.

Professor

Thanks to you, the world will never be able to hear "Daddy, Dont You Walk So Fast" again.

Harry hangs his head in shame.

Announcer

Theres danger as Harry comes face to face with the evil sorcerer.

Cut to:

INT. Cave-Night

Harry has his broomstick pointed at the evil sorcerer.

Harry

This is a Smith and Wesson Hogwart Special. It holds four thousand sparks of deadly destruction.

So, youve got to ask yourself. Was that three thousand or four thousand deadly sparks he released when he came in here? Announcer

Theres excitement as Harry infiltrates the Las Vegas lounge scene.

Cut to:

INT. Casino Lounge-Night

Harry is on stage, dressed in a pink tuxedo. Hes singing, but in his Dirty Harry voice.

Harry (singing) Youre having my baby. What a lovely way of saying how much you love me.

Announcer

Theres romance as Harry and his fellow Hogwart graduate, Cynthia, finally fall in love.

Cut to:

EXT Park-Day

Harry and Cynthia, a pixyish blonde, are in an embrace.

Cynthia

Hmmm. Harry, is that your broomstick, or are you just happy to see me?

Announcer

And, of course, theres action.

Cut to:

EXT Street-Night

Harry lays on his back as he tries to shoot an onslaught of lounge singers who walk towards him, in a "Night of the Living Dead" trance.

Harry

Damn, Im out of deadly sparks.

Cut to:

EXT Cave-Night

Back to lightning, thunder and high winds.

Announcer

See Dirty Harry Potter And The Lounge Lizards, starring Johnny Depp as Dirty Harry Potter, in his most unusual role since playing both Pigeon Sisters in The Odd Couple. Dirty Harry Potter, coming next Succoth. Do all you can to avoid it when it disgraces a theater near you. Void where prohibited by law; batteries not included; refrigerate after opening; if swelling appears, discontinue use.

Cut to:

INT. Hotel Room-Day

Harry reloads his broomstick. Theres a knock on the door.

Maid (O.S.)

Housekeeping.

Harry

Come in.

An elderly maid enters carrying a set of sheets.

Cut to:

Close up: Harrys Face

Harry

Go ahead. Make my bed.

Cut to black.

The End

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How To Install a Memory Expansion Pack Into a Nintendo N64 Console

Nintendo noticed that gamers that used their console to play certain games faced laggy gameplay and had to wait for ages for the games to actually load up. Also game developers needed that extra ram capacity, this is so they could store more graphics data into their games, to make certain games have better graphics. So Nintendo decided to release a N64 expansion pack, which allows you to upgrade the current 4mb system ram to 8mb, doubling up ram capacity. This resulted in smoother gameplay, faster loading times and better graphics for some games. The expansion pak is not supplied or already installed into the Nintendo 64 from the factory, it is an optional accessory extra if you want to perform the upgrade or not. If youre wondering where the expansion pack goes into, it goes into the same compartment the jumper pack goes into.

1) Flick the power switch on your Nintendo 64 to turn it off and also remove the plug from the mains wall socket. This is because you dont want the console to be powered on while performing this upgrade, as it can cause the system files to become corrupted.

2) You will see a Memory Expansion cover/lid on the top of your Nintendo 64 console. Underneath the cover, there is a slot where you insert your expansion pack into. So remove the cover by pressing the Tab to release it.

3) You will require a Jumper Pack Ejector Tool, in order to remove the current jumper pack from the console. If you dont have the tool handy, you could use the end of a spoon to do the same job. Once you have the tool available or a similar object, insert it into the rear of the jumper pack and push it downwards. This process will remove the jumper pack from its slot, so you can now go ahead and pull it out.

4) Carefully insert the new Expansion Pack into the socket, making sure the label side is facing towards the front side of the control deck. You will hear a Click once the expansion pack is successfully inserted into its socket and is locked in.

5) Finally obtain the Memory Expansion cover you removed earlier on from the console and replace it back onto the control deck, covering up the expansion pack.

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How To Fix a Amp That Goes Into Protection Mode

All car amplifier manufacturers will integrate a protection circuit to protect the internal circuitry from getting damaged if a problem occurs. An car amplifier can go into protect mode when the volume on the head unit is turned up almost to its maximum level or can continuously be in protection mode regardless of the volume level. Most car amplifiers will have a red color LED protection light to inform you that its being protected. There are many reasons why this problem can occur to your amp, so check out the solutions provided to help your overcome it.

1) Check if the fuse is blown out. If the fuse on the car amplifier is blown out, it will prevent it from functioning and immediately will put it into protect mode. So look on the sides of your car amp and locate the blade fuse. Once you have located it, grab it from the middle and pull it outwards to release it from the holder. Look in the middle of the fuse, if the small is wire snapped or looks burnt, the fuse is blown out and needs replacing with a fuse of the same amps.

2) Check if any speakers wires connected are shorting each other out. Locate the speaker wires that are connected into the terminals on your enclosure and amp. Ensure that they are not loose and that the copper braids are not touching each other.

3) Check if the RCA leads are firmly connected. RCA leads are used to feed the amp with input signal from the car stereo. If they are connected loosely, it can cause the amplifier to see it as a major problem, so it will purposely put itself stuck into protect mode. So check that the RCA jacks are connected firmly into both the amp and headunit RCA sockets.

4) Check the grounding is solid. If you have grounded your amplifier to a weak spot, the amp will not be getting sufficient current to operate on. So recheck your ground wire, sand down the spot with sandpaper and ensure that it is connected onto a bare metal. This will provide the best conductivity with the car chassis.

5) Upgrade to power and ground wire that is a large gauge size. If your car amplifier only goes into protection mode when you turn up the volume really high, it is because the car amp cant get enough current to circulate around its electrical components. This is because the current power and ground wires you are using are below the required gauge wire size. So check out the user manual for your amp, find out what is the recommended gauge size is for both power and ground wires and buy a new amp wiring kit according to spec.

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