Team Building and Change Meeting

I was asked to develop a team building activity & facilitate a discussion on useful + not-useful change at an annual meeting.

How to restore or improve trust in your team

How do you restore or improve trust on a team?
If the trust was lost then it must have been there at some point, even a little bit. The people on the team know what that trust looked like. Perhaps they just need to be reminded of what they did to create that trust in the 1st place.

Choices Defining Shared Boundaries Within Work

Without a Shared Goal or a what am I doing here? what are you doing here? what are we expected to accomplish? – defined as a what by when. People will choose what they feel is best, or they choose what those around that feel is right.

How is stacking knives on marshmallows corporate development and learning?

By having people do something (not too scary or different) that appears to be novel or unique may be a sufficient change to break their “stuckness in thinking” or the existing patterns of behavior the team exhibits. Once we can shift behavior patterns people sometimes see better, novel, more innovative ways of doing their work.

How can a team building activity be useful?

Having people do something familiar, like working to solve a shared problem, in what seems like a unique or novel way, using a team building activity. You open the number and variation of choices that they may have available, therefore breaking a causal action belief.