Games TMS People Play 3.0

There are 10 category listings to help you locate the perfect game or specialized activity.

Icebreakers are games designed to 'break the ice' and put people in the right frame of mind for learning. Whether used to launch a session or embedded in a program, they help participants feel relaxed with each other and you as the facilitator.

• Australian National Living Treasures
•   Better Connections
•   Birds of a Feather
•   Chinese Whispers/Broken Phone
• Clusters
• Colors
• Fear in a Hat
• First Impressions
•   Fish, Bird, Tree, Flower or Animal
• Flag Pole
• Gotchya! (Grab The Finger)
• Have You Ever?
• Hello in Different Languages
•   How Do You Like to Work?
• Who is Here Today?
• Who's Who

Energizers can be invaluable to achieve a high-energy start to a session, reinvigorate participants following breaks, and as 'attention-switchers' during a session.

• Act Fast, Think Clear
•   Armed with Obstacles
• Australian National Living Treasures
• Back to Back
• Ball Game
•   Birds of a Feather
•   Coin Toss Learning
• Dance Designs
• E I E I – OH!
• Enjoying the Pulse of Diversity
•   Fish, Bird, Tree, Flower or Animal
• Four-Fold Fun
•   Fun with Snowballs
• Gotchya! (Grab The Finger)
• Have You Ever?
• Hoops
•   Imaginary Bodies
• Knees
•   Morse Coding on Foot
•   Picturing TMS
•   Pole Runner
• Psychic Cards
•   Silly Walkathon
•   Truth or Lies?
• Who is Here Today?

Outdoor Games provides a range of activities from treasure hunts to physical challenges and puzzlers for fun and interactive learning in the outdoors. Ideal for taking participants from their comfort zone into an action learning environment.

• Boats
•   Frenzy
•   Hard Battle
•   Holy Tubes, Batman!
• Hoops
• Minefield
• Poker Points
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Sheep Dog Trials
• Spy Mission
•   Tarp Flip/Reorganization
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Time Capsule
• Treasure Hunt
• Vision Square

Puzzlers includes a broad range of games from the mathematical to fantasy scenarios and word games to challenge your group and stimulate thinking.

• A Bridge Too Far
• A Woman’s Ingenuity
•  Acid River
• Act Fast, Think Clear
• Active Listening Exercise
• Ball Recovery
• Boats
•   Bottle Tower
• "Bouncing Bazooka"
• Bridge-Building Team Activity
•   Cash Game: Change management
•   Channels
•   Color Blind
•   Communication Activity
•   Frenzy
• Heads will Role
• Hollow Square
•   Holy Tubes, Batman!
• Hoops
•   Identifying Work Preferences
•   Lego® Construction
• Martini Time
• Minefield
•   Morse Coding on Foot
• Myths, Monks & Thai Teams
• Nails
• Paper Plates
• Pins & Straws
• Poker Points
• Psychic Cards
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Reversible Aphorisms
• Role Call
• Spy Mission
•   Tarp Flip/Reorganization
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Teamwork Jigsaw
• Telecommunications Tower Exercise
• The Doodad
• The Jigsaw Puzzle
• The Okker Plant Exercise
• Those Magnificent Teams and Their Flying Machines!
• Time Capsule
• TMS Trivia
• Towers
• Traffic Jam
• Treasure Hunt
• Vision Square
•   Who is the Captain?

No Materials are activities that can be run without any resources. Perfect for the last minute addition to a session or for travel.

•   Active Listening: Building skills
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 2
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 3
•   Analytical-Beliefs: First impressions
• Back to Back
•   Body Language: Calibration
•   Changing Timelines
•   Creative Visualization
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 2
•   Extrovert-Introvert: Requests and offers
• First Impressions
• Forced Comparisons
• Four-Fold Fun
•   Giraffes & Stretch Goals
• Gotchya! (Grab The Finger)
• Have You Ever?
• Hello in Different Languages
• Historical Figures
•   How Do You Like to Work?
•   Imaginary Bodies
• Investigative Journalists: Developing Questioning Skills
• Knees
• Line Up
• Mnemonics
• Practical-Creative: Activity 2
• Reversible Aphorisms
•   Role-Play: Operational Pacing
• Stop Start Continue
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 1
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 2
• Team Colors
•   The Beach Rhinoceros
•   The Wheel of Experience
• Thumbs
•   Truth or Lies?
• Voluntary Vocations
•   Who is the Captain?
•   Your Personal Movie

Time Conscious games are aimed at those with a need for short activities of 10 minutes or less.

• A Woman’s Ingenuity
• Active Listening Exercise
•   Alphabet Review
•   Analytical-Beliefs: First impressions
•   Another Way with the Types of Work Cards
•   Armed with Obstacles
• Australian National Living Treasures
• Back to Back
•   Birds of a Feather
•   Changing Timelines
•   Chinese Whispers/Broken Phone
•   Coin Toss Learning
• Communication Skills
•   Creative Visualization
• Dance Designs
• Enjoying the Pulse of Diversity
•   Extrovert-Introvert: Requests and offers
• Fear in a Hat
•   Fish, Bird, Tree, Flower or Animal
• Four-Fold Fun
• Gotchya! (Grab The Finger)
• Handwriting
• Have You Ever?
• Hello in Different Languages
•   How Do You Like to Work?
•   Image-ination
•   Imaginary Bodies
•   Knee to Knee
• Knees
•   Lego® Construction
• Line Up
•   Picturing TMS
•   Playing with Numbers
• Psychic Cards
• Scale Readings
•   Silly Walkathon
• Standing/Sitting in the Wheel
•   The Beach Rhinoceros
• Thumbs
• TMS Trivia
•   Truth or Lies?

Games for Pairs is a selection of activities designed for sessions where participants are grouped into pairs.

• A Woman’s Ingenuity
• Active Listening Exercise
• Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
•   Better Connections
•   Body Language: Calibration
• Communication Skills
• Famous Faces
• First Impressions
•   How Do You Like to Work?
• Interpersonal Awareness
•   Knee to Knee
• Last Will and Preference
• Leadership: What does it look like?
•   Morse Coding on Foot
• Myths, Monks & Thai Teams
•   Picturing TMS
• Red Lining Your Style
• Reversible Aphorisms
•   Role-Play: Operational Pacing
•   Speed Dating
• Teamwork Jigsaw
• The Other Side
• Three Step Interview
• TMS Trivia
• What is the World Like Through Your Glasses?
•   Your Personal Movie

Team Games are all about injecting interactivity and experiential learning into sessions with multi-teams. These games are competitive on an inter-team level while also requiring each team to hone their teamwork skills.

• A Bridge Too Far
• Boats
•   Bottle Tower
• "Bouncing Bazooka"
• Bridge-Building Team Activity
•   Cash Game: Change management
•   Communication Activity
•   Frenzy
•   Hard Battle
• Hello in Different Languages
• Hollow Square
•   Holy Tubes, Batman!
•   Innovation Leader
•   Lego® Construction
•   Market Mindfield
• Martini Time
• Minefield
• Mnemonics
• Myths, Monks & Thai Teams
• Nails
• Paper Plates
• Pins & Straws
• Poker Points
•   Pole Runner
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Sheep Dog Trials
•   Silly Walkathon
• Spy Mission
• Team Performance
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Telecommunications Tower Exercise
• The Jigsaw Puzzle
• The Okker Plant Exercise
• The Points Don't Matter
• Those Magnificent Teams and Their Flying Machines!
• Time Capsule
• TMS Trivia
• Towers
• Traffic Jam
• Treasure Hunt

Group Games are games designed to involve all participants in a non-competitive arena. These games are either conducted with the group as whole, as individuals or in sub-groups formed for discussion and learning.

• A Woman’s Ingenuity
• Abstract Awareness
•   Acid River
• Act Fast, Think Clear
•   Active Listening: Building skills
• Alligator River Story
•   Alphabet Review
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 1
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 2
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 3
•   Analytical-Beliefs: First impressions
•   Another Way with the Types of Work Cards
• Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
•   Armed with Obstacles
• Australian National Living Treasures
• Back to Back
• Ball Game
• Ball Recovery
•   Birds of a Feather
• Blackstuff Coal Mine
• "Bouncing Bazooka"
•   Bright Blurry Blind
• Caging the Raven
•   Changing Timelines
•   Channels
•   Chinese Whispers/Broken Phone
•   CIA: Constructive, immediate and active
• Clusters
•   Coin Toss Learning
•   Color Blind
• Colors
•   Compelling Visions
• Conversational Stress
• Court in the Role
•   Creative Visualization
• Crosstalk
• Dance Designs
• E I E I – OH!
• Enhancing Team Communication
• Enjoying the Pulse of Diversity
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 1
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 2
•   Extrovert-Introvert: Requests and offers
• Famous Faces
• Fear in a Hat
• Feedback Throne
• Fiction Facts
•   Fish, Bird, Tree, Flower or Animal
• Flag Pole
• Forced Comparisons
• Four Corners
• Four Corners II
• Four-Fold Fun
•   Fun with Snowballs
•   Future Pacing
• Getting a Round Tuit
•   Giraffes & Stretch Goals
• Gotchya! (Grab The Finger)
• Handwriting
•   Hat Factory
• Have You Ever?
• Heads will Role
• Hello in Different Languages
• Historical Figures
• Hollow Square
• Hoops
•   Human Train
•   Identifying Work Preferences
•   Image-ination
•   Imaginary Bodies
•   Innovation Battle
• Investigative Journalists: Developing Questioning Skills
• Knees
• Last Will and Preference
• Leadership Qualities
• Leadership: What does it look like?
• Line Up
• Linking Skills Cards One
• Linking Skills Cards Two
•   Maintaining Creative or Positive Tension
• Minefield
• Mnemonics
•   My Skills as a Listener
• Nails
• Pack Your Bags
• Paper Plates
• Perception, Realities and their Application in
• Team Management Profile Workshops
•   Picturing TMS
•   Playing with Numbers
• Practical-Creative: Activity 1
• Practical-Creative: Activity 2
•   Projectivity™: Performance review and future planning
•   Projectivity™: Project planning
• Psychic Cards
• Recipe
• Red Lining Your Style
• Relationship Bank Account
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Role Call
• Role Confessions
•   Role-Play: Strategic Pacing
• RSVP TMS
• Scale Readings
• Sheep Dog Trials
•   Sociogram Linking Activity
• Standing/Sitting in the Wheel
• Stop Start Continue
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 1
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 2
•   Tarp Flip/Reorganization
• Team Colors
• Team Ground Rules
•   Team Values and Ground Rules
• Teamwork Jigsaw
•   The Beach Rhinoceros
• The Connor Crisis
• The Doodad
•   The Feedback Trap
•   The Triad
•   The Wheel of Experience
• Three Step Interview
• Thumbs
• Time Capsule
• Traffic Jam
• Trio Review
•   Truth or Lies?
• Turn It Around
• Types of Work Cards One
• Types of Work Cards Two
•   Types of Work: Poster review
•   Value Cards: Introducing the Window on Work Values
• Vision Square
•   Visioning
• Voluntary Vocations
• What is the World Like Through Your Glasses?
• Wheel Circles
• Who is Here Today?
•   Who is the Captain?
• Who's Who
•   Your Personal Movie

TMS Games are designed to highlight Team Management Systems concepts in a fun and interactive way while providing real learning through demonstration and application. There are 7 subcategories: High-Energy Teams Model; Linking Skills; Pacing; QO₂™, Types of Work; Values; Work & role preferences.

High-Energy Teams Model

• Team Ground Rules
•   Visioning

Linking

• A Bridge Too Far
• Active Listening Exercise
•   Active Listening: Building skills
• Back to Back
• Caging the Raven
•   Compelling Visions
• Flag Pole
• Getting a Round Tuit
• Heads will Role
•   Knee to Knee
• Knees
• Last Will and Preference
• Leadership Qualities
• Linking Skills Cards One
• Linking Skills Cards Two
• Minefield
•   My Skills as a Listener
• Recipe
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Role Call
• RSVP TMS
• Sheep Dog Trials
•   Sociogram Linking Activity
• Spy Mission
• Standing/Sitting in the Wheel
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Telecommunications Tower Exercise
• The Connor Crisis
• The Doodad
• The Okker Plant Exercise
• Time Capsule
• TMS Trivia
• Towers
• Vision Square
• Wheel Circles

Pacing

• Abstract Awareness
•   Body Language: Calibration
• Crosstalk
• Enhancing Team Communication
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 1
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 2
•   Future Pacing
• Last Will and Preference
•   Picturing TMS
• Role Call
•   Role-Play: Operational Pacing
•   Role-Play: Strategic Pacing
• RSVP TMS
•   The Beach Rhinoceros
•   The Triad
• Voluntary Vocations
• Wheel Circles

QO₂™

•   Changing Timelines
•   Creative Visualization
•   Giraffes & Stretch Goals
•   Image-ination
•   Imaginary Bodies
•   Your Personal Movie

Types of Work

• A Bridge Too Far
• Act Fast, Think Clear
•   Another Way with the Types of Work Cards
• "Bouncing Bazooka"
• Caging the Raven
• Getting a Round Tuit
• Hoops
•   Maintaining Creative or Positive Tension
• Pins & Straws
•   Projectivity™: Performance review and future planning
•   Projectivity™: Project planning
• Team Colors
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Telecommunications Tower Exercise
• TMS Trivia
• Types of Work Cards One
• Types of Work Cards Two
•   Types of Work: Poster review
• Wheel Circles

Values

• Boats
• Team Ground Rules
•   Team Values and Ground Rules
•   Value Cards: Introducing the Window on Work Values

Work & role preferences

• Abstract Awareness
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 1
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 2
• Analytical-Beliefs: Activity 3
•   Analytical-Beliefs: First impressions
•   Armed with Obstacles
• Australian National Living Treasures
• Caging the Raven
• Colors
• Court in the Role
• Crosstalk
• E I E I – OH!
• Enhancing Team Communication
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 1
• Extrovert-Introvert: Activity 2
•   Extrovert-Introvert: Requests and offers
• Famous Faces
• Feedback Throne
• Fiction Facts
• Flag Pole
• Four-Fold Fun
• Handwriting
• Heads will Role
• Hoops
•   Identifying Work Preferences
• Interpersonal Awareness
• Knee to Knee
• Knees
• Last Will and Preference
• Leadership Qualities
• Line Up
• Minefield
• Perception, Realities and their Application in Team Management Profile Workshops
•   Playing with Numbers
• Practical-Creative: Activity 1
• Practical-Creative: Activity 2
• Recipe
• Red Lining Your Style
• Relationship Bank Account
• Retrieving the Bucket
• Role Call
• Role Confessions
• RSVP TMS
• Scale Readings
• Sheep Dog Trials
•   Speed Dating
• Spy Mission
• Standing/Sitting in the Wheel
• Stop Start Continue
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 1
• Structured-Flexible: Activity 2
• Team Ground Rules
• Team Performance
• Team Treasure Hunt
• Telecommunications Tower Exercise
• The Doodad
• The Okker Plant Exercise
• Thumbs
• TMS Trivia
• Towers
• Trio Review
• Vision Square
• Voluntary Vocations
• What is the World Like Through Your Glasses?
• Wheel Circles