The document outlines a team-building activity that motivates employees by using quotes from company leadership. Participants will work together to arrange cards with words from a selected quote in the correct order, promoting collaboration and enthusiasm. Additionally, it provides resources for further team-building ideas.

1. Motivate Employees with
Company Lines
Teambuilding activity
that uses important
quotes from company
leadership

2. Purpose
A fun bonding and
teambuilding activity to improve
enthusiasm in your workforce and
leverage messages from leadership.

3. 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.

4. Sample Quotes
Here 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.

5. 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”.

6. 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.

7. The Prize
 The employee who states the exact quote
first, wins a prize!

8. More teambuilding ideas
Need more ideas for games and teambuilding
activities? Here are two good resources:
http://www.GamesandTeamBuilding.com
http://www.IcebreakersForGroups.com