EFFECTIVE TEAMBUILDING EXERCISES
Czas czytania: 3min.
Teambuilding, or teamwork, is one of the most valued and necessary skills for employees in many companies. A cohesive and engaged team cannot work poorly. As much as 80% of a company’s success and efficiency depends on well-functioning and well-matched task teams. Therefore, there are many reasons why companies decide on training in teambuilding. Developing full communication in the team, building trust, the ability to overcome mutual fears and resistance in the implementation of common tasks, developing conflict resolution skills, increasing employee motivation, or developing interpersonal communication that supports building a cohesive team, and many other factors. Games, activities, and exercises conducted during the training, developed according to an interesting scenario, will solve more than one problem in the company.
Team-building training aims to create a well-coordinated, efficiently functioning, and cooperative team, integrating it to serve more effective daily task execution. It also aims to make participants aware of the attitudes and behaviors that promote better group work. The main task of the training is to demonstrate that a team as a group of people can create more value than individual units combined. Exercises performed during the training have an integrating character and also build and strengthen the sense of trust among employees.
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The team-building exercises conducted during our training can be summarized substantively in terms of:
• communication and collaboration within the team and between teams,
• building engagement in the team,
• motivating the team (especially multi-generational teams),
• creative problem-solving,
• team management, leadership.
Below we present 3 examples
effective team-building exercises. Each exercise can be used both in a training room and, with appropriate modifications, also in an outdoor setting.
Exercises inspired by the book ‘Sessions of Creative Ingenuity’ by Prof. K. Szmidt
1. What if?
One session participant throws a ball (mascot, marker…) to another, asking a question starting with ‘What if…’.
Examples:
• What if spring in Poland lasted 8 months?
• What if everyone could play the violin?
• What if driving licenses were abolished?
The person who catches the ball must creatively answer the question and then throw the ball to another person, asking them a new question
Alternative version:
Participants take turns asking questions, and the task of the entire group is to analyze what would happen if a specific situation occurred. Brainstorming exercises stimulate creative, multidirectional thinking and develop imagination, encouraging the overcoming of established thought patterns. The process of imagining allows for the synthesis of all elements of creative thinking: associations, abstraction, analogies, metaphors, etc.
2.Hater, catering, developer
The language used by employees of some corporations (fakap, deadline, emergency…) has already become the subject of many memes and jokes. This phenomenon can be used to create a creative warm-up exercise.
Task: let’s try to find accurate and original (but Polish) equivalents for the following language ‘weeds’:
• To Google
• Catering
• Developer
• all-inclusive vacation
• brand manager
• to update
• to merge
3. Corkscrew Museum
Probably few of you know that there is a Bacon Museum in Lviv, a Toilet Museum in New Delhi, and a Dog Collar Museum in Leeds, England.
Let your imagination run wild and come up with a few new, yet-to-exist museums. Which one would you most like to visit?
Examples:
• Museum of Student and Pupil Cheats
• Museum of Drawings Created When a Person is Bored
• Corkscrew Museum