Team Building Grounded in Reality or Activities?
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.
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.
Making team building stick is what people on the team want to see happen and you can make it happen with some discussion, planning and follow-up.
Before, During, After a team building activity and workshop the questions asked transfer the lessons learned and can guide the people to find connections to their work and lives.
The questions don’t need to be fancy.
Great team building activities have the lessons built into them, and when properly framed the team just sees and gets the connection, without much prompting.
We’ve all heard it “You should be coaching your staff”. Then you walk away agreeing and thinking “I barely have time to do my own work never mind coach and do the work of my staff.” Agreed.
This makes team building work – creating a shared context of language to open a dialog. Leading to life situations; leading to personal experiences; leading to shared context setting; leading to successes and continued learning.
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“It’s good to know what doesn’t work, but it’s really helpful to know what does.”
sometimes you just have to be quiet and allow the group to speak.
Similar to the leaders influence in a meeting and project; the facilitator when offering experiential activities and discussions is looked at by people for approval and disapproval. This is evident when teams are struggling with an team-building activity.