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?

Working with Others

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Originally uploaded by Basel½

算是一次拓展训练吧。很有趣，也学到了不少东西。

游戏一
分成三组，两组可以通电话，但不能免提（就是只有一个人负责沟通），另外一组没有电话，只能邮件联系。

每十分钟有一次邮递服务，限时70分钟。

每组手上有不完整的若干副扑克，每组的任务是组合完成完整的若干副扑克，扑克可以被邮递。

最终我们发现一组要组成2副，一组要组成3副，一组要组成8副，而总共只有8副扑克，这个任务还能完成吗？

游戏二
分成三组，造桥，能让一部遥控车往返一次，桥不会倒塌，车不会翻。评价标准：坚固性，安全性，美观性和车速。

预算100元，但物资有限，如果各组都要买而且数量不够，那么各组均分。

有两次机会购买物资，一次是前30分钟的设计阶段，一次是建设阶段的前10分钟。

每组指派一名车手，有两分钟时间试车。

中间可能调离或者交换组员。

是不是很有趣：）？


偶都学了些什么呢？

1. 一定要想办法维持组织之间的信任。在游戏一中，只有6次邮递服务，我们想到最快捷的方法是一组拿齐所有扑克，然后再分派给另外两组。但是在这期间，另外两组手上将会没有任何扑克，而第三组如果正是那个要8副扑克的组的话，他们还会将扑克回派吗？很明显，信任在每回合的顺延中逐步降低，导致屡次的争吵。在最后，有一组已经要求写书面的承诺了。如何维持信任呢？沟通。
2. 有效的沟通很重要。在最后的总结当中，通电话的两组都发现大家的理解难以一致，更不用说另一组没有电话了。每组都或多或少缺少一些有必要让对方知道的东西，都在预期对方可以理解。但实事并非如此，一来只有一个人负责电话，在传达给组员，其中会有信息失真;二来，时间有限，很难达成共识。这是一个要深入思考的问题，如何沟通，如何建立彼此的信任？偶也在思考当中，嘿嘿，这其中真的不是一两句话可以概括的。
3. 有时候邮件比电话沟通更有效。仅仅是有效性方面。由于没有电话沟通，而且次数有限，所以没电话那组只有两个选择，给还是不给，根本没有讨价还价的余地。结果证明，和没电话那组的合作最畅顺。不过在总结的时候，那组说其实心里很没底，不知道另外两组在干什么，这扑克给出去了，什么时候回来也不知道，一切都是基于对对方的信任。
4. 要让组员知道该做什么。似乎我对组员都总有个假设，大家都是聪明人，该干什么自己拿主意。但是事实证明并非如此，我本以为分工粗略一些，然后大家看见哪里需要就到哪里帮忙，结果发现有的组员只好站在旁边不知道怎么下手。另一方面是有新组员加入的时候，我没有详细地介绍一下总体的设计和施工进展，而是让他自己看看有什么地方可以帮忙的就上手。这样导致新组员尽管很想融入工作，但是无所适从。当然我们的大桥还是顺利完工，o(∩_∩)o...哈哈，都依赖于众人都非常主动和合作。检讨一下自己，不能将组员过分理想化，分工要再详细一点，当然要有度，不能过于限制。要在新组员加入时，多做些介绍，是他能够尽快融入团队。
   

还有很多，总的来说和同事的合作还是很愉快的，Trainer也很会调节气氛，受益匪浅啊