#396: Use These 10 Exercises to Inject a Sparkle Into Your Next Team Meeting or Awayday

Introduction

In today's "People Skills" newsletter, we're sharing with you our selection of 10 of the best course exercises for teambuilding.

These exercises are fun to play and, when designed well with good introductions and feedback, a memorable addition to your training.

The exercises include "I Need Them and They Need Me", "The Trust Maze", and "Who Would You Choose?".

Everyone in your organisation is almost certain to be part of a team, so, why not work through these fun teambuilders now and select one, two, or more for your next team meeting or awayday?

01. The Best-Ever Team

This exercise gets trainees to think about the common characteristics of successful teams.

02. The Spokes of the Wheel

This exercise gets trainees to identify their most important workplace team and to show their team relationships in the shape of a wheel.

03. Team Spirit

This exercise requires teams to devise a way to depict team spirit.

04. Where Is Our Team?

This exercise gets trainees to decide where their main workplace team is in its team development.

05. Developing the Team

This exercise gets trainees to decide where a once-off team they belong to is in its development.

06. I Need Them and They Need Me

This exercise gets trainees to complete a set of statements saying why they need the team and why the team needs them.

07. The Trust Maze

This exercise gets the members of the team to help their colleagues find their way round a maze of chairs blindfolded.

08. Thanks For Being In Our Team

This exercise gets each person to tell every other member of the team why they appreciate them being in the team.

09. Who Would You Choose?

This exercise gets trainees to think about the different contributions to teamwork other team members could make.

10. Hawthorne Re-Visited

This exercise uses the model of the Hawthorne experiments to show how teams can improve when given recognition and special treatment.

What Next?

In today's business world, being a skilled team player is one of the most important things you can do to achieve personal and business success.

That's why regular team exercises when you first join an organisation and again regularly throughout your time with them is a must-do for creating the best team possible.

Luckily, you don't need to worry about how to do this as we, at MTL, have all the materials you will ever need. Let us help you and your teams succeed.

Thanks for reading this edition of the "People Skills" newsletter and good luck with your ongoing learning.

Oh, and one last thing.

In the spirit of making the world a freer, happier and more enlightened place...

...please pass this newsletter on.

Thankyou!

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