Egg drop
This fun activity could be used as an icebreaker for people who have just met but it can be framed as a method that shows and fosters team communication, collaboration and strategic thinking as well.
Library of facilitation techniques
Teamwork Workshop Activities
Group activities to improve collaboration and help you to build high-performing teams.
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Sticks - A Metaphorical Simulation Game
When people interact or communicate with each other, they use certain amount of energy or pressure. Here's an activity that makes participants aware of such energy exchange and helps them explore how to manage this process.
Quick Situations
Here's a debriefing card game that enables participants to reflect on a variety of situations and to come up with suitable action ideas
Missing Step
Many training topics involve procedures or processes (e.g. Team formation process; a product launching process, etc.). Here's an interactive lecture design that encourages the participants to go beyond the content of the presentation and critically examine the steps of the procedure or phases of the process.
Use This Strategy When:
* The training content is a procedure with different steps or a process with different phases.
* The participants know something about the procedure or process and can conduct a group discussion.
Group Development Stage Directions
Different teams receive envelopes labeled with the names of different stages in the development of a team. Participants brainstorm guidelines for facilitating a team at a specific stage, record the guidelines on a card, and place the card inside the appropriate envelope. Teams rotate the envelopes and generate guideline cards for other stages in the life cycle of a team. During the evaluation round, team members comparatively score the guideline cards generated by other teams.
Coriolis Affect
Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
Ultimate tic-tac-toe is variation and more strategic version of Tic Tac Toe which allows for a more dynamic and strategic gameplay for participants. This is designed for 2 main players (which can be individuals or groups).
Teamwork sequence with Marshmallow challenge
Get groups to work together on a practical challenge and then debrief the learning points to direct attention to patterns on their teamwork.
This is not Tic Tac Toe
A game to work with assumptions and to reflect on how things are being handled in the organisation. How do we learn from each other?
Flags
The goal is to create flags for each of the teams while they start to work together as a team in a creative way.
The win-win game
You will choose, as a team, which letter you will select from either X or Y. On a signal from the banker, you will show your chosen letter. The banker and the teams keep a tally of debits and credits.
Each must select 'X’ or ‘Y' in each round. Money is awarded or taken by the banker according to the scoring key below. Play as many rounds as is necessary to find a winner.
What Occupies your mind
SHARE WITH US WHAT OCCUPIES YOUR MIND AT THIS VERY MOMENT BEFORE STARTING THE SESSION TOGETHER
Basic Rules
- Sharing what occupies your mind is absolutely voluntary
- Everyone listens and perceives the message someone wants to share with the group
- No comments, no reaction but recognition
Time estimation: Allow 1 min per participant who wants to share what occupies their mind.