Battery Check ... How are YOU?
Battery Check ... How are YOU?
Library of facilitation techniques
Teamwork Activities and Games
Facilitation techniques and activities to support team work and create better aligned and more effective teams. Foster trust and openness, improve collaboration and manage team dynamics effectively with over 150 activities to improve team work.
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Let the beat build
This activity can serve multiple purposes. It can be used as an energiser or ice breaker for groups that a bit low on energy or first meet each other. Another purpose of the game could be enhance teamwork and show that different people with different beats can make an orchestra.
Whose adjective is it anyway?
The objectives are to build group member relationships through verbal and nonverbal cue-sensing and effective adaptation to others' displayed emotions through entertaining and nonthreatening skits.
Collage Our Progress
Individuals or groups prepare a collage of photos, icons, or quick art that reviews the concepts and skills previously learned in the program. Others interpret what the art and images mean based on their own learning.
The Brick Team Exercise
This exercise can be used as a warm-up for project and other planning processes. It can also be used in team building.
Build a tower
Use this method if you would like to show the participants the importance of collaboration, team strategy and team effectiveness.
Birthday Lineup
This is a simple warmup game where people use non-verbal communication to organise themselves into lines based on the give criteria
Teammates
Participants work individually, thinking about three teams and the behaviors of desirable teammates and undesirable teammates. Later, they work with a partner (and still later, in teams) to prepare a list of dos and don'ts for being a desirable teammate.
Choose your words wisely
Humans live in language. It defines what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. Language is the bedrock of our cultures and societies. As with fish in water, we go about our daily business without paying much attention to the language around us and how it influences us. Information architect and author, Jorge Arango developed Semantic Environment Mapping years ago to make visible the everyday language through which we so naively swim.
Song Battle
Most people have a repertoire of song lyrics in their head. This activity offers the fun of recalling them, the opportunity to belt them out without anxiety about singing "well", and the aspect of learning which songs "everyone" in the group knows and which are familiar to only you.
Hot Surprise Pillow
An ice-breaker activity that is fun for everyone.