“One of the best ways to improve the quality of teamwork, the researchers found, was to incorporate active involvement into team-building exercises. For organizations, this means that interventions that utilize interactivity and active learning are likely to be more effective than lectures or other forms of passive instruction.” – How To Build A Better Team? … Continued
Dialog with a team on how they view a challenge, opportunity or space. Shared understanding of what a team accepts it must also reject some aspect. Understanding and dialog of how each person and the collective group views a challenge, opportunity or space.
There is two Extremes in the Corporate Team Building World. 1. Team Building should focus on real problems and be anchored in reality. 2. Activities and Simulations are a waste of time.
It was a great 2 days of consulting & team development, plus being in the Middle East was an amazing experience. The team leaders & managers of Zain Telecommunications impressed me with their knowledge, ability to find connections of the team building with their work, plus ability to laugh while taking themselves seriously.
“…discussed the [team] performance model with some of my future hopefuls to give them confidence with difficult employees, it’s simple structured and will be effective.”
This activity is meant to illustrate that what works best in innovation and rapidly changing environments needs a different leadership and team approach.
A complex simulation illustrating listening and sharing information.
Creates an environment to transfer, strengthen and re-work systems of communication with intra as well as interdepartmental systems.
Team Building and Leadership Activities and Simulations
Using good decision-making procedures can have a highly positive effect on your team and the work that the team must complete. Using the actual work for Team Building.
Had the honor of working with Pictometry from Rochester NY. The images and comments are from a full day Team Building & Employee Engagement Kick-Off program held at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT .