Tool and activities to help with team performance
Teams fall into under-performance for many reasons. Common areas of focus of workshop activity include
· Ensuring the team have a common goal and understand their interdependencies
· Ensuring effective team communication
· Boosting team morale
· Clarifying roles
· Are aware of the core shared values that underpin their work and motivation
· Motivation
From a positive psychology perspective, understanding each other’s strengths and being able to positively affect the experience of being a team member will both help the team make the most of their contributions, so the whole is once again greater than the sum of the parts.
We recommend these five tools to help with some of the challenges of team development
This fun tool can be used to help team members better know each other in a different way, building closer relationships that helps build trust and engagement, helping the team work together more smoothly. Just gently throw the ball to each other and address the question it asks.
You can use this card set to help people understand the role they are best suited to bring to the team, from trailblazer to ambassador. Knowing the full resources, the team can call on them, adding team capability.
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Expertise can often get lost in teams. Use these cards to help everyone become aware of the areas of expertise that exist in the team, from business development to technology savvy, allowing the team to expand its resourcefulness.
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These strengths cards are very popular and help teams identify the key personal strengths of each member. Everyone one works better when able to play to their strengths, boosting team performance.
Values are motivators and drivers of behaviour, the source of passion. Use these cards to help the team identify what really matters to them, collectively and individually to be sure that people can align their work and their values, creating energised performance
For more advanced team-work, you might be interested in our Team Development Toolkit, which includes a tool for boosting psychological safety and an advanced co-creative story telling kit.