Team Building Activity

Team building is an important exercise in every organization. The main aim of this exercise is to bring out the talent in a team and this would suggest the best talent in a person as an individual and how that resource can work as a team.

In one of the organizations I served there was this team building exercise which happened initially during office hours and then on week end. At the end of the workshop we were taken to a spot where physical exercise was to be executed and this was to be done as a group.

One of the crucial task which caught my mind was an obstacle race to be done by two members in a team. During the exercise the team were given a pole and were asked to complete the race carrying the pole and at no point of time the pole should touch the ground. Additional points were given to those who could complete the task without keeping the pole on the ground.

At the end of the task it was explained to us that in each project team there would be a person like the pole and that person needs to be carried along with the project and complete the project. The pole would help the team in getting extra value.

Pole can change in each project. All the members of a project cannot have the same talent.