Crossing the lake
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This document discusses the importance of team building and effective teamwork. It notes that teams are now an inherent part of how most people work. An effective team can help an organization achieve great results, while an ineffective team can be disruptive and lead to failures. True team building requires more than just putting people together to accomplish a goal, as teams are complex. The document then provides facilitator notes for a "Crossing the Lake" team building exercise where participants are divided into groups and must work together to acquire the necessary resources, like canoes and paddles, to "cross the lake" as a demonstration of effective teamwork.
Crossing the lake
- 1. Team Building for Team Work John Rohe HyCap Consulting 1 317 334 5862 john.rohe@hycap.org HyCap H
- 2. Team Building Nowadays it is almost impossible to avoid being a member of team. If you're not on an official team at work, chances are you function within one in one way or another. So it's important for your personal and career development to know your team working strengths and weaknesses. Teamwork has a dramatic effect on organizational performance. An effective team can help an organization achieve incredible results. A team that is not working can cause unnecessary disruption, failed (late or no) delivery and strategic failure. An effective team is much more than a bunch of people thrown together to accomplish a goal. Because teams are such an inherent part of how we work, it is easy to believe we know what makes a team perform well; however this is often not the case.
- 3. Facilitators Notes Team Building That Actually Builds Teams  Set up flip chart stations with markers to accommodate number of teams you expect to form.  Count the number of participants.  Divide the number by 4.  A horse shoe set up works best.  Make the cards (index, sheets of paper, etc.)  Be sure to mark enough cards with Map, Canoe and paddlers to get the most participants across the lake. For example if there are 20 participants, 5 maps, 5 canoes and 20 paddlers and each canoe may only hold 4 participants. If you have 23 participants, 3 at least will drown or canoes may hold 5 participants. YOUR choice.  Do NOT give any instructions as to how teams should form.  Minimize your influence on how teams are formed. Don’t allow cliques  Be sure to tell workshop that you and you alone are the decider, judge, enforcer.  Each group is REQUIRED to have answers to each of the questions.  Challenge all answers, there are no right or wrong answers to any of the questions  As groups come to you, have them stand together first, then check the cards.  Each group must have at least one map, only one canoe and at least 4 paddlers, and the total group may NOT have more than the number of participants that you have told them are allowed in each canoe.  If the group does not meet the requirements, hand the cards back and tell them try again, if they persist, then tell them they drowned.  If the group is successful, send them as a group to one of the flip charts.  All participants that drown are in one group.
- 4. Team Building Team Building That Actually Builds Teams
- 5. Work together or drown Crossing the Lake 2016 Sales and Services Effectiveness: Training
- 6. Crossing the Lake Goal • Get across the lake • Requirements to cross • 1 canoe • 4 paddles • 4 paddlers • 1 map 2016 Sales and Services Effectiveness: Training Each canoe can carry ___ participants Keep cards face down until instructed to look at the cards The cards may be blank, or it may have the following written on it: Canoe, or Paddle, or Map YOU are the paddler Ask questions of each other to determine what each has When you have 1 Canoe, 4 Paddles and 1 Map with sufficient team members (at least 4) go to the facilitator
- 7. Crossing the Lake: Debrief Go with your team to one flip chart Anyone that drowned, your team is all of the folks that also drowned • REQUIRED answers of each Team: 1. Did you have a leader 2. Name the person that was most effective 3. Name the person that was the most disorderly 4. Name the person that was the most fun 5. Do you have to have a leader to be successful? 6. Write 3 things required of a successful Team 2016 Sales and Services Effectiveness: Training Answers are required Specific name from your team required These are team answers Ignore titles or positions of participants outside of the workshop
Editor's Notes
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