Team Development

This case study is designed for managers to help them analyse potential blocks to team effectiveness and design a team building programme to address these issues. Allow around two hours for discussion and feedback.

Use this diagnostic with a team to assess the team climate, identify how everyone wants to work together, and adopt a set of values to uphold this.

This diagnostic will help a team to identify what stage of development they are at, and to discuss what actions they can take to attain maximum performance.

This is a quick and lively exercise that encourages participants to recognise each other’s strengths by expressing positive points about each other in a creative and fun format. Allow around 20 minutes for completion.

This short exercise allows team members to explore other team members’ strengths and characteristics and feed this back in a fun, light-hearted way. Allow 35 minutes for completion.

This is a non-threatening paired exercise that helps to explore the power of feelings in a team and how they can be managed positively. Allow 50 minutes for completion.

This fun group exercise will help a team learn a bit more about each other’s experiences by sharing stories from their past. This exercise can have any required duration.

This exercise is designed to help a team get to know each other better by learning how their colleagues approach difficult situations. Allow 30 minutes for completion.

This is a fun and participative group exercise designed to get a group to work as a team to solve a problem. Participants will work together to decide which items they will need to take on a treacherous expedition. The exercise is suitable for groups of 4 to 10 people and takes up to one hour to complete.

Use this exercise to help participants at a teambuilding session get to know each other better. They might be surprised at how much they don’t know about their colleagues, even if they have worked with them for a long time! Allow 30 minutes for completion.

This group exercise presents a challenging scenario, to expose participants to the challenges of decision-making in high-pressure situations. Allow an hour for completion.

This exercise, which can be used as an icebreaker, will help team members to get to know their colleagues better by means of an informal session in which they present themselves to the rest of the group. Allow 5 minutes per participant.

This exercise, which can be used as an icebreaker, can reveal a lot about how team members develop strategies and engage with a task. It is a fun game that pits two members of the team against the rest in a do or die scenario. Allow 50 minutes.

Celebrating success and good times, as well as reflecting on and learning from bad experiences, is an excellent way to recognise achievements and highlight progress at the end of a project or financial year. This lively exercise will help you do just that. Allow 20 minutes for completion.

This fun icebreaker/energiser is a test of concentration and team togetherness. No tasksheet is necessary for this exercise.

This exercise helps a team to formulate a set of basic principles and standards for working together in order to create a supportive and productive team environment. Allow 50 minutes for completion.

This exercise is ideal as a warm-up or energiser exercise for a team session. It is a fun teambuilding game designed to get participants to work together in a race against time. Allow 45 minutes.

This exercise encourages participants to use their creative side and to write a limerick about a fellow team member’s strengths. Allow 30 minutes for completion.

This exercise will enable team members to explore their own values and get to know their team members better, through the sharing of personal values. Allow 50 minutes for completion.

A game to help team members understand one another’s style of working and how individuals interact as a team. Allow 45 minutes to complete.

This fun exercise encourages team members to recognise strengths in their colleagues and express them visually. Allow up to an hour for completion.

This exercise could be used with a team where there is a lack of trust. Allow up to 15 minutes to complete.

A fun teambuilding game in which participants have to work together to solve a puzzle. Allow 40 minutes to complete.