Session Builders Series 300: 50 Exercises for Teams

Getting a team to gel, produce and be successful is never easy. Invariably, you’ll have team members who are inflexible or oversensitive ... babble or clam up ... point fingers or stir up conflict. These 50 exercises are a terrific way to confront these and other issues you may be facing as a team leader. And you can implement any and all of them quickly, without a big budget and with little or no training experience.

You’ll find engaging exercises to help you:

• Lessen the anxiety of new team members
• Clarify the team’s mission and what it’s expected to accomplish
• Define the characteristics of a good team
• Get team members to relax and feel comfortable with each other
• Introduce key concepts about teams, teamwork and cooperation
• Bring to the surface concerns team members may have about working with those different from themselves

Each exercise requires only 10 to 45 minutes to implement. And each comes with everything you need to facilitate it – including a purpose and objectives, convenient review of the exercise, group size, time required, type of exercise, materials needed, discussion points and step-by-step facilitator notes.

Do you need to break the ice, start a discussion, demonstrate content or close a session? Are you looking for a way to gauge the attitudes and feelings of team members? A handy at-a-glance table makes it easy to find just the right exercise – whether you’re training a group as small as six or as large as 30.