To reduce inter-department competition and to promote collaboration and cooperation around common values and objectives;

To launch change or organizational development programs, with a view to increasing individuals' attachment to the new directions;

To rapidly get to know the members of a core team, with a view to speeding up the project implementation pace;

To acquire the needed abilities for efficiently making group decisions, which should be better than if made separately by that group's members;

To increase cohesion within a management team, during a strategic planning process;

To improve the satisfaction of working group members, after a period of time that brought dissatisfactions among employees, subsequent to a decrease in the quality of the working relationships;

To receive a great number of new members within a department, subsequent to a rapid increase in operations;

To reward a group for the exceptional results they obtained and for encouraging the behaviour that led to these results;

To provide a newly appointed manager with the opportunity to rapidly get to know his/her subordinates and the working style of the group he/she manages;

To supplement the schedule of an internal conference so as to convey strategic messages during some amusing activities;