Team Time

Welcome to Team Time!

Teambuilding and group development is critical to creating a great place to work.  This downloadable resource is designed to provide you with valuable tools and information that will help your staff develop into a cohesive team.  Try a teambuilder at each of your staff meetings. 

You will find teambuilders are grouped into categories that are geared to address specific topics and areas of group development.  In addition to teambuilders, Team Time provides valuable insight into planning retreats and off-site training experiences.  Involve your staff in this journey as you strive to create an outstanding place to work and grow.

Check out the following topic areas to understand more about the value of teambuilding and to gain specific information about how to facilitate activities. 

•Why Teambuilding? 
•Rewards and Recognition Ideas
•How Facilitate an Exercise
•Quick Ideas

•How to Partner Up and Sub-Divide Groups
•Format for Teambuilders

•Share a Smile

Here are the teambuilders and activities in Team Time.  Each category provides different possibilities for you and your staff to explore.  (If there is a worksheet, don't forget to download it too!)

Introducers

•Don’t get Board
•Inside Out  and Worksheet
•Nuts and Bolts
•Shh . . . It’s a Secret
•United Nations
•A Visual “Who Am I?”

Reinforcers

•Clues For Life
•Group Power and Worksheet
•Why Are We Here?
•Post-It Reinforcement
•The Walls Tell All

Energizers

•Bag Of Personality
•Beach Party
•An Elephant Of A Different Color
•Envision
•A Long Race In A Short Distance
•Pack A Sack
•Pack It In
•Partner Affirmation and Worksheet
•Poster Maker
•The Puzzle Fits
•Road Map
•Rock Paper Scissors
•Small Talk  and Worksheet
•Success and Worksheet
•Two Truths And A Lie
•Tree House and Worksheet

Communication

•Back To Back and Worksheet
•The Challenge
•Dynamic Duos and Worksheet
•Obstacle Course
•Off The Walls
•The Pasta Project
•The Room Is Full Of Questions
•Stand Up And Spin
•Treasure Hunt
•The Writing On The Wall

 

Conflict Management

•The Conflict Wall
•Question The Group
•Stomper

Goal Getting

•Goal Jar
•The Goal Link
•The Long And The Short Of It
•Many Reasons

Change

•Can You Spare Some Change?
•Change It Up and Worksheet

Value Creator

•What Do We Value?

Diversity

•It's Not Just a Game and Worksheet                                                                                               

•Relay Your Feelings and Worksheet
•Work Zones and Worksheet

Stress Relief

•Count To Ten And Breathe

Retreat and Off-Site Training

This section offers leaders and managers specific information regarding organization and planning of retreats and off-site training.  Click on the links below to download each category:

•An Introduction to Planning Rereats and Off-Site Training

•Goals and Content
•Retreat Planning in a Nutshell
•Choosing a Site
•Needs Assessment
•Potential Retreat Sites
•Retreat Site Ecology
•Planning Checklist
•Food for Thought (meal planning)

•Rules for Running an Effective Retreat or Off-Site Training
•Facilitation Tips
•Example Schedule
•Retreat Extras
•Involving Group Members
•Follow-Up and Evaluation

 

 

Created by Kely Meier and Samantha Eckerson as an ASF Special Initiative Project to enhance MSU and support the great place to work initiative.  Enjoy!