There are many options for holding team building events. There are no longer customers who imagine team building only in its extreme form - “running, falling and getting dirty.”
There are also team intellectual games and quests, for example.
Creative team building is a large group of diverse programs that reveal the creative potential of individual employees and entire teams.
Organizing such events is a complex multi-stage process. In some cases, not only the organizers, but also the participants themselves need to prepare for the final stage of team building for several weeks.
I will list the main types of creative team-building programs and give comments for those who choose this type of team building for the first time. Of course, different organizers offer their own ideas for solving the tasks, but there are some common features and features in each option. It’s better to know about them in advance in order to choose the most convenient format for your team.
Culinary battle
This is an interesting and tasty event. The participants communicate a lot in an informal setting, joke, pose for the camera and praise the result of their joint work. There will be emotional cohesion and a common goal. Why culinary team building is classified as a creative program, I don’t know. More precisely, not all organizers give the opportunity to show their own creativity: participants repeat a step-by-step recipe after the chef, and you can stand out only at the stage of decorating the finished dishes. Now, if the team were offered to prepare their own culinary masterpiece from a certain set of products, that would be more interesting...
Here is a description of culinary team building
Nobody cares
An ideal option for those companies that need a short and vivid team-building program. Drum team building cannot be extended over the whole day or 4-6 hours. It’s hard to imagine... You can drum in its pure form for about 30 minutes, so the rest of the program consists of interesting tasks that help you feel the team “pulse” and “internal rhythm”. It also takes time to practice dynamic nuances, learn “primitive” dance movements, distribute instruments and rehearse each part with a separate rhythmic pattern, etc. This can be extended for 1.5-2 hours, but no more.
The big picture
Personally, I prefer to paint my own picture on a separate canvas, since in this case the work turns out to be special, even if another 100 people nearby repeat the sequence of strokes after the artist, but this is already called a master class or an art party, and not team building. When 100 people paint one picture, everything happens differently. On individual canvases, the artist makes markings with closed contours in advance. Each fragment is assigned a number and color. Participants are divided into groups of 4-6 people and asked to paint a canvas. No one knows what will happen in the end, since the overall picture consists of several separate fragments. Mosaic, in other words.
Team members must actively move around the hall and communicate with other artists in order to compare colors on neighboring canvases, otherwise there will be 50 shades of green, which then will not add up to one picture.
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Team Communication Basics
Chances are you've heard of a man named Randy Pausch. He is famous not only for his book “The Last Lecture,” written a few months before his death, but also for being one of the top computer science professionals, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a teacher of the course “Building Virtual Worlds.” He taught his students how to program virtual reality, and paid great attention to the ability to work in a team. We invite you to get acquainted with several thoughts and ideas of this wonderful person, which are definitely of great value for team building.
When Pausch had to work with other people, he immediately tried to imagine how they were sitting together with a deck of cards. He said that he always wanted to put all the cards face down on the table and ask the group what they could do together with this layout.
Crafts, needlework
These are not 10-minute master classes, which usually take place at corporate events in the entertainment area, when you can approach the master and quickly make a cute souvenir with your own design from the proposed blanks. A full-fledged training in crafts will not be possible in one day either, but this will already be a fairly deep immersion in the process. As a result of such team building, employees are engaged in some completely new activity for everyone. New facets of interaction between colleagues and unusual ways of solving problems are opening up. Most often, pottery production and painting of finished products are chosen, since people always want to see the quick result of joint work.
Team building indoors and outdoors
According to the format of the event, there are: on-site and office teambuilding.
On-site team building requires a lot of expense and complex organization, but it allows for a change of scenery and a shift in focus. The manager will have to decide whether it is possible to tear the entire team away from the work process on a weekday or postpone it to the weekend (which can negatively affect the team’s mood). A big plus is the unlimited subject matter and variety of scenarios - from active pastime to relaxing relaxation.
Office team building does not require lengthy preparation and a serious budget, but is often not taken seriously by employees immersed in the usual business process. This sometimes leads to formal unconscious participation and a sharp decrease in the effectiveness of the event. Good organization will avoid these disadvantages, and even provide some advantages:
- a familiar, comfortable environment where employees feel confident;
- breaking the associative chain in which the office is perceived as a boring place where you can only work.
Cardboard team building
For such team building, you need good weather without precipitation or scorching sun, or a fairly large room in which each team will have a convenient place to assemble a large structure. To make everything interesting and fun, the organizers develop unusual instructions and supply the teams with the necessary materials - tape, staplers, decorative elements, paints, tapes, etc. Sometimes it is proposed to secure the object on wheels or a metal frame. It's always interesting to see new leaders emerge at every stage of team building. Participants do not need to prepare for the event in advance, but they should be warned about the need for comfortable clothing for all cardboard work. If there is a body of water nearby, and it happens in the summer, you may well be offered to create a boat from cardboard and waterproof film. At this point, creative team building can turn into extreme.
Psychologist training for teachers “Team building or team building exercise”
Maria Strekalova
Psychologist training for teachers “Team building or team building exercise”
Psychologist training for teachers:
«Team building or team building activity»
Goal: creating a model of an effective team , forming and strengthening a common team spirit , accepting each other’s characteristics, team building, gaining teamwork skills and learning how to develop a common strategy.
Training objectives :
— Create a positive atmosphere during the training (unification, atmosphere of trust; encouraging participants to work together for a long time, support for each participant);
— Form a model of an effective team (direct the group to achieve a common goal and implement tasks; work out the rules of joint teamwork, taking into account the interests of each participant; develop the ability to find effective original solutions and ways of behavior in various situations; increase awareness of the rationality of the distribution of team roles and responsibilities).
— Game correction of behavior (reduction of excessive emotional stress; elimination of barriers that interfere with productive constructive actions; regulation of social relationships).
The training session uses the following techniques:
— Modeling of situations;
— Game moments and their analysis;
— Active feedback;
— Discussion of the significance of the topic;
— Participants' tracking of personal behavior strategies.
Updating the training .
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Team Building ” (website youtube.ru)
Purpose: to familiarize participants with the topic and purpose of the work, familiarize them with a component of corporate culture - team building .
Team building (eng. Team building - team , or team building . The idea of team building is attributed to the Japanese , but each of us can remember one of its first manifestations from childhood using a simple example - tug of war.
Nowadays, team building is one of the promising models of corporate management, ensures the full development of the team, and is one of the most effective tools for personnel management.
The goal of our lesson is to create a model of an effective team , form and strengthen team spirit , accept each other's characteristics, gain teamwork skills and learn how to develop a common strategy!
Exercise “Play by the rules”
(2 min)
Purpose: to familiarize group participants with the rules of work.
Groups are asked to adopt some rules of behavior and communication during the lesson .
Lesson rules :
Respect each other;
Be active;
“One microphone”
rule (everyone is silent when someone speaks)
the time allocated for (stay on topic, follow the approved rules)
I-statements (speak only on your own behalf: “I don’t like it,”
“I can’t.”
,
“I wouldn’t like to.”
, etc.);
The rule is to follow the rules.
Exercise “The Secret of a Lady’s Handbag”
(3 min)
Goal: to unite the group, create an atmosphere of trust.
Participants are asked to represent themselves on behalf of any item that is usually found in their purse.
Psychologist:
“Life is a theater, the people in it are actors”
.
Human relations in any activity, from children's play to adult work; in different social circles - family, friends, colleagues; in all spheres of life - education, sports, science, art - always role-playing. Team relationships are no exception.
The role-playing whirlpool captures everyone, raising the question: who controls whom - are we our roles, or are they us? Information message “
Team roles ” (5 min)
Purpose: to inform participants about team roles according to R. M. Belbin (Doctor of Psychological Sciences )
.
Participants receive information about team roles as defined by Meredith Belbin and review the results of previous research.
Meredith Belbin determined that to be successful, a team needs actors who can play three types of roles: thinking, acting and managing. The set of team roles according to M. Belbin includes the following roles:
"Leader"
who distributes tasks, delegates authority, and is responsible for the work
of the team ;
"Motivator"
, who is the initiator of various events, including those who are able to tear
the team from routine and orient them to a more productive pace;
"Controller"
, whose task is to protect
the team from possible mistakes and achieve the best result possible;
"Idea Generator"
who initiates new projects, ways of developing the assigned tasks;
"Implementer"
who brings ideas to life;
"Analytics"
, which evaluates competing proposals and provides for the further course of events;
"Performer"
, which turns plans into actions;
"Resource Explorer"
, whose task is to search for new ideas and resources, establish necessary contacts, and conduct negotiations.
Psychologist:
Thus, the presence and balance of all roles is a prerequisite for team success . We will now see how our groups will work, and I propose that each of the groups create their own town.
Projective test “The history of the development of your group”
(10 min)
Goal: developing the sense of “we”
, group cohesion, strengthening
team .
Instructions: “On the table in front of you there is a sheet of Whatman paper and markers. Each group member needs to draw a house on it in which he would like to live. You are given 3 minutes to complete this task.
Time is quickly running out, and I invite you to move on to the second part of this exercise. Look carefully at the drawing and find the three houses that you like best, and then draw paths to them (1 min)
.
The next task for this exercise is that you need to complete drawing in your city everything that is necessary for living in it (1 min)
.
And the last task is to name your group’s town and introduce it (5 min)
.
Issues for discussion:
— Did you like this exercise?
— What was the most difficult?
— What did you like most?
Warm-up game “Magic Carpet”
(3 min)
Goal: to develop group cohesion not only through physical contact, but also through finding and implementing a group solution.
Instructions: Participants of two groups are invited to sit on a carpet lying inside out. The task is to turn it over to the other side without leaving the carpet. But there is one rule: participants do not communicate with each other!
After some time, the ban on communication is lifted. If the group is unable to complete a task, you can suggest reaching out to specific team roles and finding a solution.
Issues for discussion
— What helped you understand each other when you couldn’t talk?
— Did it become easier when this ban was lifted?
Psychologist:
To achieve success in teamwork , you need not only to work, but also to be able to communicate, verbally or non-verbally. It is important to be able to hear each other!
Exercise “Group discussion”
(5 min)
Purpose: to find out in a discussion form the main differences between a group and a team ; develop the ability to understand each other, work in a team , and compromise.
Psychologist:
Indeed, team activity is impossible without active communication and interaction. Solving common problems requires unity, cohesion, coordination of actions, and coordination of decisions from participants. Team relationships are always a kind of co-creation, when the thoughts of one are enriched due to their rethinking by others. Discussion, criticism, new views and fresh points of view are the golden fund that the team and which individuals do not have.
Relationships of interdependence and interaction are the hallmarks of a team . The so-called synergy effect is the result of effective interaction between team based on common aspirations and values. It results in the total effort of the team being much greater than the sum of the efforts of its individual members.
1+1+1= 111 (team)
>1+1+1= 3
(group)
Exercise “Swamp”
(10 min)
The team is transported from one point to another, using several transshipment points (several small logs)
and two long narrow poles for crossing.
Exercise “Minefield”
(10 min)
Description:
On a flat surface (floor)
squares are drawn
mine mine mine
mine
mine mine mine
mine
mine mine mine
The team needs to navigate a minefield without talking to each other.
Exercise "Plate"
The team squats in a circle. team's task is to pass a plate of water around. You cannot: touch the ground with your hands, spill water, stand up.
Exercise “Aladdin's Lamp”
(3 min)
All participants stand in a circle and take turns passing the lamp to each other and expressing their wishes. Instructions: “Imagine that your team finds an old lamp, rubbing it, a magical genie appears. Now each group can make a wish. But there is one point, since you found the lamp together with your team , then the desire concerns your work.
Bottom line. The discussion of the results
Filming
There is no way this kind of team building can be done in 2-3 hours. It happens that customers want a film, but are not ready to attend the event from 9 to 22 hours. Why does it take so long? Team building participants write the script themselves, assign roles, and rehearse. Make-up artists and costume designers help create an image for each of your employees. Each episode is being filmed in several takes and music is being selected. After filming, you need time for professionals to edit your films (no less than 3-4 hours). And only then will there be a premiere, a red carpet and the Oscars. Naturally, such an event requires a lot of space for filming and rest of the teams, several coffee breaks, lunch and gala dinner, and many other organizational details that require additional costs.
How to organize team building yourself?
Now the service market offers coaches and specialists who organize all the necessary events, but if you want to conduct team building yourself and correctly, check the checklist:
- Define the objectives of a specific event. Allocate the required amount for a comfortable organization.
- Choose a scenario that will elicit a positive response from staff.
- Consult with experienced staff. Please take note of the comments.
- Select a date. It is better if it is a working day, since workers may have plans with their families on weekends.
- Thoroughly think over the plan (time, place, transfer, breaks, safety precautions).
- Give employees advance notice of the upcoming event.
Dance battle
Naturally, the finale of such team building is more effective if it is possible to conduct 7-10 rehearsals with choreographers. I must say that there are groups that plunge into the process with great pleasure and manage to prepare interesting dances. When all this is also in suits, with hairstyles... Great! A flash mob is especially effective, in which 30-50% of the team is gradually involved. A video with a flash mob will charge the company’s employees with positivity for many years to come, resulting in long-lasting team building.
Bottom line
Team building is a tool that allows you to effectively use human resources in the work of a company. It is carried out with the aim of improving the microclimate in the team, increasing productivity and achieving planned plans. They organize different types of outdoor and indoor activities.
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Theater, musical, skit
Yes, and rehearsals are definitely needed here. In fact, team building itself occurs during preparation for the premiere of the play. Company employees receive a creative task in which new roles and new relationships are defined for each. Most often, companies go for the classics. The leader is the immortal “Inspector”. It is even more difficult to stage a musical, since employees go through a multi-stage casting, rehearse vocal and dance numbers, take stage speaking lessons, etc. I heard a story from colleagues about the preparation of such a musical... They went towards their goal for 9 months!!!
Historical reconstructions
Most often it comes down to a beautiful photo project, and that’s good too. The result is a beautiful booklet or calendar in which each employee will have a new image from some historical era. If the company's management is ready for a large-scale event, during which it will be possible to truly plunge into the historical era, everything will be much more interesting. The organizers will offer a variety of tasks in which you can compete, fight, dance, cook dishes from the chosen era and take part in an unusual master class.
Prospects
The history of team building can be considered since the times of the USSR (Octobers, pioneers, party members, parades, matinees, religious trips, agricultural work). Everyone has been through this and still remembers it. In those days, the team style of work was being introduced throughout the country and the mistake was that no one was asked whether he wanted it or not. And the “Japanese miracle” did not happen in the USSR, and people did not become faithful to their work, like a second family.
One of the prospects of team building
– developing in employees a warm sense of attachment to work. An employee who is faithful to his work and does not find it a burden to come to work, who likes what he does, likes the team in which he works - this is the direction that is worth following.
Developing the “work – positive emotions” attitude requires a completely different approach than usual activities. Team spirit is developed during confrontation, affection, as in a mirror, in response to goodwill. Gifts for employees, team lunches, creative clubs (so what if we're not at school?!), board games and much more. As a result of such actions, the concepts of “leisure” and “work”, “friends” and “team” are confused. Which employee do you think works more efficiently: always tired and waiting for the end of the working day or cheerful and full of enthusiasm?
This perspective is focused on preparing a stable foundation for team building that ensures psychological integrity and harmony.
Team building is definitely popular, but it also has a number of opponents who consider it a useless investment of money, a “dummy”. Usually these are managers who build working relationships in the team, relying on the professionalism of employees and solving real business problems. Their arguments are well-reasoned. But then what about the fact that team building gives visible results in many enterprises? The fact is that supporters and opponents of team building have the same goal, but the methods are different. Either we teach it playfully, or we go straight into the deep end.
Another perspective
– use of special software (software) when forming teams, for example, such as “1C: Personnel Assessment”. Despite the fact that the value of a strong team is recognized in the business community, managers do not always resort to the use of complex techniques when forming a team. But in vain. Team building itself cannot produce results if the team is incompatible in professional or psychological qualities.
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Poetry, songwriting
I heard about the successful implementation of such a project from colleagues at the Golden Puzzle. It was a grandiose creative team building event, in which company representative offices from 25 cities of Russia took part. They all came up with words and music, selected performers, recorded compositions for a corporate album in professional studios and released a printed collection of poems. The organizers' idea aroused great interest, as hundreds of employees took advantage of the offer and discovered new talents.
Creative team building is perhaps more difficult to organize than others, since not only the organizers, but also the company employees themselves participate in the preparation of the event. The success of the idea itself depends on their desire, effort and creative mood.
Irina Panasyan
What determines the effect of team building?
There are several factors that influence efficiency:
- Systematicity. One sporting event will not change anything from a global perspective. Regularity is important.
- Preparation. If participants do not understand the purpose of the event and the tasks they need to solve, they should not expect results.
- Selecting the appropriate format. If it causes negativity, efficiency tends to zero.
- Analysis of what is happening. Reception not only by the manager, but also by the employees. You can conduct an open or anonymous survey to learn about successful and unsuccessful moments and take them into account for the future.
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