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Why Should We Be a
Team?
When staff use their skills and knowledge
together, the result is a stronger agency
that can fulfill its mission
To provide accurate information that would
assist individuals in achieving a better quality of
life.

People working together can sustain the

enthusiasm and lend support needed to
complete the work of each program.

How does a Team Work

Best?

A Teams succeeds when its

members have:
A commitment to common
objectives
Defined roles and
responsibilities
Effective decision systems,
communication and work
procedures
good personal relationships

Objectives of TBA
To develop through understanding
of the
Concepts of team building and its
implications
To manage various roles in the
organization
To understand the importance of
team building

Pedagogy
Team Building Event Tips
Dos and Donts
Team building exercises and excursions can increase overall employee performance, promote
cooperation among team members and across teams, enhance employee job satisfaction and help
to broaden the understanding of corporate goals and objectives.
They can also, if improperly designed or administered, do nothing.
The events you choose should serve as microcosms for the problems (and solutions) your
employees face.
Consider the following Dos and Donts when planning your next team building session:

DO
Connect the challenges of the events to the struggles your employees confront daily.
The events you choose should serve as microcosms for the problems (and solutions) your
employees face. Its imperative then to define these obstacles first. If a primary team challenge
is, for example, adapting to a new matrix-style organizational structure, then matching exercises
involving small, specialized teams working together to achieve a common goal would be in
order.

DONT
create events that are too physically demanding for any team members.
Chances are that physical endurance, strength or dexterity are not employee success factors on
your team. Fitness and physical ability should, then, typically not play a major role in your team
building events. Look carefully at the composition of your team and set the level of physical
assertion necessary low enough so that each team member can participate satisfactorily. Physical
activities, especially outdoors, can be memorable and successful; just make sure everyone can be
included.
DO follow-up on lessons learned. Even perfect exercise design and facilitation doesnt guarantee
results. Its vital that follow-up sessions are scheduled to reemphasize and measure your teams
progress. Too often, team building exercises are administered as single dose cure-alls. Instead,

they should serve as an opening ceremony for a continuing drive towards success. To help
quantify this success (and in turn your ROI), choose objective performance statistics to compare
against historical data.
DONT create events that are too taxing or too mindless.
In an effort to ensure that employees have fun while completing team building exercises, some
fascinators make them too light and sappy. Conversely some organizers create events that are
unduly draining, emotionally or otherwise. Try to strike a balance so that your events arent
overly comical or overly difficult, as either of these extremes will detract from the main
messages of the events.
DO consider hiring professionals to draft and administer your exercises. Depending on your cost
and time constraints, and the complexity of the exercises youd like to carry out, outsourcing the
process may be a wise choice for you. Professional consultants can help you identify what
messages youd like to push through your sessions, facilitate the event (or give you the tools
necessary to do it yourself), and implement the feedback and measurement components
afterward. Its certainly worth considering.

10 Innovative Ideas for Successful Team

Building Events
Teambuilding can give a powerful boost to the spirit and effectiveness of any group. Well
designed and delivered teambuilding programs can lead to better understanding, clearer
alignment and much stronger motivation.
Organizing a teambuilding event is a big responsibility. Use these ideas to make your event a
well-planned and memorable success.
1. Set the Tone With an Inspiring Theme:
Telegraph the tone and purpose of your event with a theme that hits the mark. The Third Annual
Teambuilding Program is not going to excite many participants. Here are examples of themes
my recent clients have to motivate and communicate their teams: Rocket to the Top, Together!
(for a software company seeking to achieve dominant market share), The Winning Team (for a
financial services company seeking to overcome competitors and economic adversity), Forging
a New Alliance (for a medical services group managing a reorganization of roles and
departments).
2. Prime the Pump for Full Participation:
Use internal communications to get everyone interested and ready for the event. Use memos,
bulletin boards, posters and internal meetings to arouse peoples curiosity.
You might circulate a list of objectives and issues for the meeting. You might conduct a survey
prior to the meeting, announcing actual results during the program. You might task certain

individuals with preparing a business presentation, or selected teams with creating and
rehearsing an entertainment item.
3. Conduct the Program Off-Site:
Major teambuilding programs are frequently conducted off-site. This allows participants to get
away from the workplace physically (minimizing disruptions) and mentally (opening their
thinking to new points of view).
4. Use a Mix of Energy, Enterprise and Entertainment:
Stimulate interest and get involvement by using a full range of teambuilding activities. You may
have hard work sections with speeches about the future and workshops on current business
problems. You may have play hard sections with team games and outdoor challenges. You
may include social ingredients through mealtime activities, awards and entertainment.
Be sure your range of activities are well-sequenced throughout the day and evening. Be
especially careful to follow lunches with activity, and to end your program on a note of
confidence and commitment.
5. Allow Enough Time to Process, Discuss and Apply
Allow enough time between each activity for discussion, learning and application back to the
job. Its better to have a full day with two teambuilding games and enough time for discussion,
than a stuffed day with three or four games with little time for reflection.
6. Focus on New Actions with More, Less, Start and Stop:
During the program, have participants develop clear answers to the following questions:
What do you want (the other person, department, etc.) to do more of?
What do you want (the other person, department, etc.) to do less of?
What do you want (the other person, department, etc.) to start doing?
What do you want (the other person, department, etc.) to stop doing?
Towards the end of the program, participants can make another list of personal commitments:
What am I committed to do more of?
What am I committed to do less of?
What am I committed to start doing?
What am I committed to stop doing?
7. Use Photographs and Video to Extend the Programs Impact:
Engage a photographer and/or videographer to document your teambuilding program. Give
copies of photographs to participants after the event. Post the best photographs on your bulletin
boards, in the cafeteria, or publish them in the company newsletter. If you put them up on your
companys World Wide Web site, then staffs family members can log-in and view them from
home.
Have the videotape edited with music and some snappy graphics. Show this short but
entertaining vignette at another company meeting, social gathering, dinner and dance, etc.

8. Harness the Power of Peripheral Players:

When selecting participants for your program, be willing to include those tangentially related to
the core group. Internal customers, suppliers, neighboring departments, etc. can all yield a few
participants who are closely related to your core group.
These peripheral players will often add significant value, perspective and insight to your
program. They can also help with communication back into the organization after the event is
over.
9. Get Personal:
Make sure everyone sees the link between group teambuilding and individual actions on the
job. Have each person complete a commitment card, action planning list, personal promise
statement or some other vehicle to ensure application of appropriate new behaviors. Closing a
teambuilding program by having everyone share their list is a good way to gain buy-in from
individuals, and the entire group.
10. Reward the Organizers:
Planning and preparing a teambuilding program is a major undertaking. Be sure to give
recognition to those who did the work behind the scenes. A small but thoughtful gift, given in
front of everyone at the end of the program, will be appreciated and remembered.

Team Building Slogans

"T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!"
One Team One Dream
Teamwork: Together We Shine
Teamwork makes the Dream work
Individually we are a drop; together we are an ocean.
One Team, One Goal
One for All, and All for One
The Power of Teamwork
Strength in Unity
Count on Us
Teamwork Wins Games
Theres no I in TEAM
Together we make a Difference

Team Building and Teamwork Quotes

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." Alexander the Great
Getting good players is easy. Getting Them to play together is the hard part. Casey Stengel
"Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas,
empowering others and developing trust." Dennis Kinlaw
"Teams share the burden and divide the grief. Doug Smith
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Henry Ford
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." Henry Ford
"A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle." Japanese proverb

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with
one another. John C. Maxwell
"None of us is as smart as all of us." Ken Blanchard
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much Helen Keller
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every
platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but
for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
W. Edward Deming
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they dont work well with their colleagues.
Lee Iacocca
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest
success.
Stephen Covey
Teamwork divides the task and double the success.
- Unknown
There is not I in Teamwork.
- Unknown

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream
and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it." --Brian Tracy
"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I.' And that's not because they have
trained themselves not to say 'I.' They don't think 'I.' They think 'we'; they think 'team.' They understand
their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets
the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done." --Peter Drucker
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain
uncommon results." --Andrew Carnegie