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Team Building Research
What is the purpose of Team building exercises?
Improve Communication:
Facilitates more effortless and natural communication
Opens a sense of vulnerability with each team member
Helps team members feel more comfortable with each other
Creates a more open team environment
Develop Trust
Ensures each team member is comfortable sharing their ideas and feels like they belong in a team which recognizes and appreciates their input
Gives each team member confidence to share their thoughts
Creates a safe team space
Encourage Collaboration
Increase productivity through getting to gauge an understanding of everybody’s strengths and weaknesses
Supports trust to occur naturally
Allows members to delegate roles to reach their goals
Maintain or Increase Motivation
Understanding a project’s purpose and objectives, then ultimately reaching that goal allows the team to build momentum and reach towards more challenging goals
By understanding their worth and value to the team, each member is likely to feel more connected to their role and more motivated to do well.
Successes in team building allow each teammate to believe their contributions are valuable
Why is successful teamwork essential in the world today?
What types of teambuilding activities exist and where are they generally used?
Communication Team Building
Focus on developing communication skills, relying on different forms of expression of ideas from teammates to reach a goal. Examples; Pictionary, Charades, Twenty Questions
Personality Assessment Team Building
Focuses on determining the variety of personalities within the team to allow the productive designation of roles in how we can best collaborate and produce a certain outcome.
Problem Solving Team Building
Focuses on putting the team under pressure in order for them to manage their different abilities in the most efficient ways and determine how they can harmoniously use their strengths together. This equips the teams to fce future challenges under pressure. Example; Escape Rooms, Murder Mystery Games, Desert Island Survival Games
Skills Team Building
Specifies a specific skill to develop collectively and enrich knowledge (this also can relate to the communication team building).
Example; In Glenunga’s context, we can develop one of the 5C’s
Values Team Building
Focuses on building and enriching knowledge on an establishment’s values or ideals. Alternatively, these values could constructed by the group (such as values curated from the Matt Krieg Workshop in our Values, Identities and Actions sheet)
Examples (these are dependent on the values you decide to pursue); Community service (aiding local foundations such as the Hutt St Centre, Youth Program Volunteering)
Team Bonding
Often conducted to celebrate after a time of hard work or success in order to recognise the team member’s achievements and motivate them for future challenges. These activities are oriented towards relaxing and having fun in order to relieve stress and strengthen bonds within the team to sustain the team’s productivity.
Examples; Team Dinner, Board Game Night, Movie nights, Community Giving
Virtual Team Building
Designated for times where team members cannot be face-to-face and have to utilize online software in order to connect with the rest of the group (relates to the COVID-19 pandemic). These activities can also be utilised as a problem-solving activity, allowing the groups to employ the resources they have online in order to work together to produce an outcome.
Examples; Home Scavenger Hunt Photo Challenge, Virtual Show and Tell, Virtual Escape Rooms
How do these exercises benefit the individual, the group and the workplace? :
What essential skills are built through working in teams?