Team work games

After came from the training of MDP2. Got several games seems quite useful for showing the importance of team works. I am going to take them back to my team.

1. Balloon
Each team need blow the balloons, bind them and keep the balloons in the air. Which team can keep the most balloons in the air can win the game.

Debriefing: When the balloons be more and more, every team members need keep multiple balloons in the air - Multiple Tasking. Whatever you are doing now, when you see a team member's balloon is falling down, you will go to give a help - Team Work.

2. Sort the project tasks
There are 25 tasks need to be sorted according to the general project life cycle (Planning, Organization, Implementation and Control). Each team member will sort them respectively and record the result. And then, each team will discuss and have a team result.

After all teams completed, we will compare the variance between the result and expert's anwser. The lower variance will get the higher score.

Debriefing: You can find that most of the individual score will be lower than the team result. Means team work will be better than individual. And a little of the individual scores are higher than the team result. There are two reasons: the individual is not confident to his opinion or the individual is lake of the negotiation skills so he cannot convince others.

3. Swap the watch to left hand
Ask the team members to swap their watch from the usual hand to another hand. Then do something others. After about half an hour, let them to present their feeling on their hand. All of them will say its uncomfortable and some of them have swap back already.

Debriefing: Most of the changes will have the feeling of uncomfortable. And everyone want to go back to the old way. The team should be prepared to face the changes.

4. Change your body
Ask one team member to stand in the front. And ask him to do some changes on his body. Maybe he will get off his clothes one by one.

Debriefing: Most of the people will think that changes will lead losing. But why we don't think about getting something back?