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This inter-team activity takes the concept of 'prisoners dilemma (if I help you escape first, can I trust you to help me escape afterwards?) to a new level: no matter how hard teams try, one must win unless both settle for a very poor performance.
The activity demands effective analysis, clear and effective communication, leadership between teams, planning, building and retaining trust, negotiating and.....
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Although this powerful team working activity is done is silence it explores attitudes and approaches that influence effective communication.
Everyone has a task, so looking after yourself first is tempting, and personal achievement satisfying, but what if your short-term success prevents others (and therefore the team) from completing the overall task? Working with others is one thing, but undoing your own work to help someone else may be a different matter.
Team success demands that, despite the frustrations that may build as the problems unfold, individuals are; sensitive to what others are trying to achieve, aware of what everyone is actually doing, seeking ways to ensure that their personal actions enable the whole team to succeed.
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Two halves of one team with different parts of the same task are separated by; a door, the knowledge that one team cannot divulge all its information, different work loads. Pressure and frustration build as effective communications diminish.
If only people could step back and think...... the task becomes so easy if the sub-teams work together solve the problem of developing effective communications rather than focusing on the detail of the task.
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Two teams that work in different locations have the opportunity to meet in a third location. The teams have to work together to build an articulated truck and two skips that can be transported by the truck. One team has to build the tractor unit and a skip that can hold all of the unused materials, the other the trailer and a skip for any scrap that is produced.
To be successful teams need to be aware that their actions will have an immediate effect on each other, so they must communicate and work accordingly.
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10 short activities that can introduce 'team concepts' as well as 'breaking the ice' or energising a flagging group. All involve lots of action and most an element of competition. Each is quite different, and despite being quick, will raise salient points about the way individuals in the group are working with each other.
The manual includes; a matrix to summarise the features of each activity, an overview of how to use the activities, facilitator's notes and re-usable briefs for each task, learning review worksheets.
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Designed to deepen and broaden individuals' understanding of effective team working, these activities build on the basics by developing the skills, abilities, attitudes and the personal confidence needed to perform effectively in teams that are working with more complex issues.
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7 activities that develop attitudes and behaviours associated with effective communication.
Aspects of effective communication are introduced in the team working activities, but these 7 activities are more focused. Besides raising issues about the style and content of communications, they highlight its two-way nature, the importance of people being ready and willing to give and receive information, and the attitudes that help and hinder communication.
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Two long activities that build on messages introduced in Leadership 1 and 2.
'Maxi Market' uses a project management scenario where groups have to clarify project aims and priorities before working out how to use and bring together each other's personal strengths to meet a customer's needs, whereas Waste Away involves leaders using a team to create a team: subsequently members of these teams manage others who work under pressure to turn the designs into end products.
The task is straightforward (although people may see it differently). The problem is that to succeed everyone who is involved must work together, keep up to date with progress, offer ideas clearly and concisely, listen and respond positively to others'.
As all team members wear eye-shades throughout the task increasing their sensitivity and awareness of others. This heightened awareness emphasises the impact of differing personal styles, e.g. compliant, assertive, aggressive.
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Using similar components, 2 or 3 teams work independently to assemble a model of their own design.Then, using only face to face, verbal and telephone communications (nothing written or drawn) each team has to build an exact replica of another team's model. The task becomes more complicated because each group only has enough components to create one model at a time.
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The aim is to make money by producing a model oil rig. The value of the oil rig depends on set criteria and everything has a cost. The group has freedom to organise itself in anyway it wishes, but there are 3 set locations (tabletops) where sub-assemblies must be made before they are moved to the final assembly area.
It is all too easy for the task to take over and for the overall aim (making money) to be forgotten.
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The leader has promised that two teams will each deliver a price and a product within a set time. Each team has different constraints, but the tasks seem achievable. Very quickly the stores become a major bottle neck and the promises become daunting. As pressure mounts the need for the manager to focus on the key issues (meeting customer needs and managing human resources) is critical.
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