Leadership Teacher. Asbgrade.doc - Powered by Google Docs. Team Building Activities, Initiative Games & Problem Solving Exercises. The Marshmallow Challenge. The Bamboo Project Blog: A Great Teambuilding Exercise. Sass Hat asks: "A small nonprofit organization I assist on occasion is in the midst of a communication crisis among the members of its very small (<10) staff - infighting and communication breakdowns are happening with increasing frequency. I suggested they try some team building/communication exercises to get the (highly stressed) staff members to open up and understand each other a bit better.
They asked me to try to find some resources for them online, as they don't have a budget to bring in an outside consultant or anything fancy like that. I've googled around and found a lot of garbage - do you have any tried and true resources you could share with me? I'm a big believer in experiential exercises as the best way to teach appropriate team behavior. The activity takes about an hour to do and works well with groups of all sizes, although it's better if the group is under 50.
This exercise has always resulted in several "AHA! " Download puzzle_activity_lesson_plan.doc.