Teambuilding topics

1. Team Building Activity

2. Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
- Henry Ford

3. Session
TOPICS FORMAT TIMING
Presentation of Groups
Principles of Effective Dialogue
GAME# 1
Plenary
Plenary Discussion
Lifeboat Game
25 min
10 min
25 min
Total: 60 min
Effective Dialogue
1

4. Session Objectives:
 Welcome everyone and learn
something new about
colleagues;
Understand the principles of
constructive dialogue for an
effective team.

5. Principles of
Constructive
Dialogue

6. Principles of Constructive Dialogue
If you usually speak,
practice listening; If
you usually listen,
practice speaking;

7. Principles of Constructive Dialogue
•Strive for
understanding;
•Show respect
for different

8. Principles of Constructive Dialogue
•Use
appropriate
communication

9. Principles of Constructive Dialogue
•Work through the
hard discussions;
•Be willing to be
changed by the

10. GAME# 1
Lifeboat Game
Materials Needed:
Manila Paper
Pentel Pen

11. Instructions:
1.The group will be in the boat, the boat developed a
leak and is sinking fast;
2.There is only one lifeboat and it will accommodate
only “five people” – not more than can fit and there
are no more life jackets in the boat;
3.The group will come to an agreement as to which
of the people gets to go in the life boat and be
saved;

12. Instructions:
4. They must also list those they save in order of
importance because if they run out of food and water the
“less important people” will have to be dumped
overboard;
5. The group can include a priest/pastor, a pregnant
woman, powerful leaders of political parties, a physician;
6. The group is only given 3 minutes to work out on their list
and plan;
A representative of the group will present their output.

13. Processing
1.What challenges did you experience?
2. How did you resolve it? Was it the
best way?
3. How did you resolved your
differences?

14. Reflection
Negotiation often fails because each
participant wants to get his or her way. A
better method may be to first learn the needs
and intents of others. Understanding fosters
a spirit of cooperation and therefore
agreement.

15. Session
TOPICS FORMAT TIMING
GAME# 2
What is a team?
GAME# 3
Follow the Directions
Plenary Discussion
Cup Tower
25 min
10 min
25 min
Total: 60 min
Effective Team
2

16. Session Objectives:
Agree as a group on the
definition and purpose of
teams in the work context;
 Describe the characteristics
of effective teams.

17. GAME# 2:
Follow The Directions

18. GAME: Follow The Directions
Materials Needed:
Pentel Pen
Manila Paper

19. GAME: Follow The Directions
1. Hand each participant a sheet of paper.
2. Participants will replicate a drawing through a
simple verbal instructions.
3. There are two RULES:
a.Each person must remain silent
throughout the exercise;
b.No ONE may ask a question.

20. GAME: Follow The Directions
Here are the Instructions:
a.Draw a circle
b.Draw a triangle inside the circle
c.Draw a square in the corner
d.Write YOUR NAME on the paper

21. GAME: Follow The Directions
HOLD UP YOUR
DRAWING!

22. GAME: Follow The Directions
Instructions:
a. Flip over the paper and start again;
b. Draw a circle in the center of the paper;
c. Draw a triangle inside the circle touching the corners;
d. Draw a square on the bottom-left corner of the paper;
e. Write your name, spelled out Y-O-U-R-N-A-M-E, on
the bottom-right side of the paper.

23. GAME: Follow The Directions
HOLD UP YOUR
DRAWING!

24. GAME: Follow The Directions
Y-O-U-R-N-A-M-E

25. PROCESSING
“Everyone heard the same
message, yet everyone
perceived the message
differently.”

27. Are we in the same boat?

28. Team is defined as
“a small number of people with
complementary skills who are
committed to a common purpose,
performance goals, and approach for which they
are mutually accountable”

29. An organization is a team
because it is committed to
a common vision and
mission!

30. PROCESSING
“A team needs to
communicate and listen to
get results intended”

31. GAME# 3:
CUP TOWER

32. GAME: CUP TOWER
Materials Needed:
15pcs Plastic Cups
Rubber Bond

33. Session
TOPICS FORMAT TIMING
What is a Conflict?
Styles of Conflict Response
Tips for Managing Conflict
GAME# 4
Plenary Discussion
Group Process Session
Group Process Session
Circle of Promise
10 min
15 min
10 min
25 min
Total: 60 min
Nature of Conflict?
3

34. Session Objectives:
Identify personal styles of
responding to conflict;
 Describe multiple layers of
a conflict.

35. Every relationship has
C – O – N – F – L – I – C - T

36. Conflicts can…
•stimulate discussion, sharing
of ideas and making changes
that may benefit the team
and the organization.

37. “Yet, interpersonal conflict or
conflict over key decisions can
present serious challenges to team
effectiveness and organizational
functioning.”

38. Can you still remember
the recent conflict you
were involved?
(Intra-personal, Interpersonal or Communal)

39. What was that conflict
about?

40. How did you react?
What did you do?

41. How was the conflict
resolved? If not, what
were the obstacles?

42. Styles of Conflict
Response

43. Styles of Conflict Response
AVOIDANCE
Pretending that the conflict does not exist
and allowing it to exist under the
surface;
Recognize by sensing avoidance,
delaying tactics, underlying tensions and
passive-aggressive behavior to deal with
contests.

44. EVERYONE LOSES!

45. Styles of Conflict Response
POWER
Trying to win by using one’s own
strengths to prevail over the
objections of opponents.
Focuses on the positions of the
party.
Recognized by observing threats,
intimidation or coercive force.

46. SOMEONE LOSES!

47. Styles of Conflict Response
RIGHTS
Trying to win by appealing to
legal/moral authority or external judge
Focuses on the positions of the
parties.
Recognized by the presence of
appeals to external authority to judge
or arbitrate disagreements.

48. SOMEONE LOSES!

49. Styles of Conflict Response
INTERESTS
Reconciling with the interests of
the opponent;
Focuses on the underlying
interests of the parties rather than
on the positions;
Mediation efforts that resolve
disputes by reconciling interests.

50. NO ONE LOSES!

51. Styles of Conflict Response
AVOIDANCE - Everyone Loses
POWER - Someone Loses
RIGHTS - Someone Loses
INTERESTS - No One Loses

52. REFLECTION
Reflect on your own experience
and identify the reactions that
were present.

62. GAME# 4: Circle of Promise
Materials:
NONE

63. Instructions:
1. Let all the participants stand in a circle;
2. Ask everyone to make a human knot by making a hand
locking through their elbows;
3. Have an object that can be used as a “talking stick”;
4. As it passed around, each person makes a promise of
what they will do as a result of the teambuilding activity;
5. Somebody from the group will share their insights as a
closing remarks to end the activity.

64. Reflection
“Look at some Constructive
ways to address the conflict,
which may be new to some
people”

65. Wild ducks make a lot of noise,
but they also have the sense to
benefit from occasionally flying in
formation.
- Unknown

66. Community Song
“Hawak Kamay”