It's Friday. Ready to play a few fun games? To wrap up the week, Promotional Consultant Today shares these team-building games to motivate your peers and bring in the team effort.

Team Building Game No. 1: What Makes You Tick?

You could think of this as "What makes you ticked off?" since this is an exercise in learning about each other's personalities and seeing what kind of personalities will clash. As a group, take a personality test together. Choose a personality test that isn't excessively complicated. The DISC personality test is a good choice, as is the True Colors personality test. These tests simplify things and create easily remembered results. During future teamwork efforts, when conflicts arise, a team member can say, "Remember, I am orange" and the others will know exactly what she means. Bring in a speaker, if budget allows, to expound on the different personality traits, their strengths, their weaknesses, and help explain how potential clashes can be alleviated.

Purpose: Knowing what motivates and what demotivates other team members is powerful. By establishing how each team member works best, and how they react in different situations, they can learn how to approach each other differently to succeed in work and personal interaction.

Team Building Game No. 2: Ideas As Building Blocks

Create a fictional problem that must be solved. It could be a theoretical product, a brain teaser, a riddle, a design challenge—anything that needs a solution. Assemble your team members, and have them write down an idea on a large sheet of paper. They only need to write a sentence or two.

Have them pass the paper to the person on their left, and instruct them to build upon the idea with another solution. Continue for several rounds, and then see what the results are. You may want to choose a fictional problem that allows you to reveal one aspect of the challenge each round.

Purpose: This exercise shows the value of everyone's ideas. As you work as a team, brainstorming sessions often sway towards the vocal and dominant personalities even though other team members have valuable ideas, too. By forcing these ideas to have equal footing, each team member's ability to contribute is established.

Team Building Game No. 3: Truth And Lie

Give each team member four identical slips of paper. Instruct them to write down three truths and one lie. The lie should be believable to some extent (i.e. not "I've been to Mars"), and the tenor of the truths and lie should not be offensive or crude. Go around the group, one at a time, and have them read the truths and lie in random order. When they are finished, the team should discuss which they think are the truths and which are the lies.

Purpose: This exercise fits into the "get to know each other" category. Extroverts have no difficulty in making themselves known, but introverts often remain an enigma, bowled into silence. This exercise gives them equal footing to reveal facts about themselves as well as expose the assumptions others have made. Participants learn about others and also learn about themselves through the lies they thought were true.

Team Building Game No. 4: The Barter Puzzle

Break your team into groups of equal members. Give each team a distinctly different jigsaw puzzle of equal difficulty. Explain that they have a set amount of time to complete the puzzle as a group. Explain that some of the pieces in their puzzle belong to the other puzzles in the room.

The goal is to complete their puzzle before the other groups, and come up with their own method of convincing the other teams to relinquish the pieces they need, whether through barter, exchange of team members, donating time to another team, a merger, etc. Whatever they choose to do, they must do it as a group.

Purpose: This exercise is time-consuming, but it accomplishes creative teamwork on several levels. As a team, they must build the puzzle. As a team, they must find a way to convince the other teams to help them. In other words, they must solve both the puzzle and the problem of getting their pieces back.

Source: Rob Wormley is a content marketer and author. Over the past seven years, he has developed digital marketing strategies and content for best-selling authors, speakers and businesses across the country. He is currently head of content marketing for When I Work, a company that creates simple products that helps hourly employees and managers work