Performing as a Team – How to Succeed

In the world of group development, if you’ve gotten this far, you’ve gotten the brass ring. You’ve won the game. You have boldly gone where no team has gone before.

Okay, so maybe you’re not the only team to get here, but you’re still kind of a big deal! You know what I’m talking about right? The big, hairy audacious goal – performing as a team!

The Performing stage of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development is the icing on the cake. As tough as it is for teams to get to the Norming stage, it’s even tougher for them to get to the Performing stage.
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Mini Golf + Charity = Effective Team Building

It would be entertaining to watch Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson play a round of mini golf!

Alas, the majority (exactly 50% actually) of you guessed wrong. This playing field is best equipped for the infamous Tiger Woods.

Looking for an effective team building event?

Team Building Exercise: Toys R Us

Get started with this simple DIY team building exercise.

EXERCISE GOAL: Participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and those around them.
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Wordless Wednesday: Sporting Chance

Team Building Tip: Don’t Scare the Venue Staff

Set the expectations of the event for the venue staff, so they don’t panic at all the activity and potential noise.

Some Team Building events can get pretty crazy (by design, because that makes them more fun… and more effective!) But don’t scare the venue staff when they see your team running around being crazy.
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Building A Team: Norming

Now Departing: “Storming”, Next Stop: “Norming”

It’s the calm after the storm. The battles have been fought, the decisions have been made, and now the dust is settling. Your team has made it to the Norming stage of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development!

Really you should be celebrating, because not all teams make it to this stage; some teams get too bogged down in ‘My Way or The Highway’ thinking, but you have learned and mastered the magic word of the Norming stage while building a team: Compromise.
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Best Team Building: School for Spies

So, did you solve this week’s Wordless Wednesday mystery?! This live action photo was taken during one of our best team building programs.

80% of you selected the right missing piece! Guess our Photoshop skills are not up to par after all…

The nation’s most prestigious espionage training academy, School for Spies, is training the next class of recruits!
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Throwback Thursday: Team Building Lessons from College

Remember the good old days of college?

Bonding with friends over late nights filled with coffee, work and stressful deadlines?

Wait… these things probably sound familiar…

There are many parallels between experiences in college and your current job. This is especially true with team bonding in your company, and team bonding in fraternities and sororities.

Here are three team building lessons learned from Greek life that you can apply to building stronger bonds today.