D Quick Choice DiSC Team Building Activity
For participants to experience a D – Dominance type culture. In this activity all people are asked to use their Dominance to accomplish a task that has a tight time frame and a decision must be made.
Everyone knows the best choice
I am going to ask you a weird question, Pretend that we all go on break and during this break your team does what is normally does on break…But unknown to the members of your team everyone else was shown which rope is the correct rope to choose. BUT your team did not know this because you all were on a break. In what ways, besides just telling you which rope was the correct choice, could the people and teams support, guide, serve your team in making the right choice?
Innovation Process for Managerial Leadership DTC Operator
Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training, Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company.
Planning Path Corporate Team Building Activity
Planning Path forces the team to clarify accountabilities of the plan and necessary time-frames coordinating the effort of all the individuals into one system.
Sky Bottle Commander Team Building Activity
Sky Bottle Commander.
Team Building activity that requires planning, communication and action. The team is challenged with creating a complex plan that is seperate from where the work takes place. Then as the team encounters the work, adjustments and changes must be made for success.
This team building activity is meant to model the challenges of planning and being flexible enough to change as needed.
Words Frame Reality
So this week I felt the need to share something that I know is a challenge and we as professionals need to continually focus and strive towards mastery on. The use of clear and distinct language that is understood by those you are talking with, your peer group, and you…
The Best Team Building & Leadership Provider.
Continuing with the goal of making teams and leaders better here are some resources that will help you in working with your team or team building & leadership provider. Plus ways you can assist the team in connecting what is done in the program to the workplace.
New Door to One Word Team Building Activity
Here is an opening activity that I use in DiSC Workshops. The purpose is to open the understanding of perceptual awareness and that we all existing epistemic beliefs about ourselves, others, and our organization. By having people go through this exercise then talking about how we are our own blocks to communication and improved performance will create some “a ha” moments.
Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows
Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.
Cycle Time Puzzle Variation: Puzzle Connection
Developing variations of team building activities creates new lessons and areas for group development, plus keeps team building facilitators fresh and continually improving our own game and process. Here is a variation of the Cycle Time Puzzle Activity.