How To Lead a Teambuilding Workshop Using Google Hangouts
This is a live 75 minute interactive workshop I led using Google Hangouts. I was in my home office in Asheville, North Carolina and the 30 participants were in Oswego, New York. The workshop title: “How To Teach Leadership in the Engineering Classroom” The audience was made up of middle school and high school technology […]
Example of poor leadership and coaching
The video clip below shows a team competing in “The Amazing Race” (a TV program). Pay close attention to the coaching. Coach: “Don’t give up on me now. Just focus.” Launcher: “I’m not giving up. I’m just frustrated.” Coach: “You got this sister. You are super, super close. Right in the kisser. Show that knight […]
Build a tower, build a team — a teambuilding activity by Tom Wujec
The Challenge: Build the tallest free standing structure (with a marshmallow at the top) using the supplied materials. Setup: Create teams of 4 and each team works at their own table. Supply each team with the following: 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of masking tape, one yard of string, one marshmallow
Free Teambuilding Game: Duct Tape Spider’s Web
Here’s a classic teambuilding game called the “Spider’s Web” that requires a team to start on one side of the web and travel through the holes to finish on the other side of the web. This teambuilding game requires a high degree of trust and teamwork (and good planning). Click on the link below to […]
New Teambuilding Game: Ground Slap
How important is timing and coordination of efforts on your team? Here’s a simple no-prop game that can help a team practice and refine these skills. This teambuilding game called “Ground Slap” and can be played sitting around a table or (preferably) kneeling on the ground in a circle. The setup is important – – […]
New Teambuilding Game: Interference
This teambuilding game – called “Interference” – helps a group explore effective communication and planning. This game works best with a minimum of 15 people. Create three equal size groups and position them in the playing area. “Group A” will be the message senders. “Group B” will be the message interferers. “Group C” will be […]