The team weekend
Featured in the The Team Working Activity Pack training manual
By Rod Storey
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)
Consensus, the skill to agree and implement a course of action, is essential to any team if it is to be effective. This short exercise gives participants an opportunity to try out and develop this vital skill.
You explain the need for consensus, especially if the participants have been having difficulty in reaching agreement in other exercises. The participants discuss the key elements of consensus and then begin the exercise. The observer watches, listens and makes notes to give detailed feedback later. At the end of the exercise the participants debrief by receiving feedback from the observer and reviewing how they can become more effective in consensus, discussion and decision making.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to practise discussion, reaching consensus, listening and questioning as well as team decision-making.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 8 |
| Typical Duration: | 00:45:00 |
| No of Pages: | 9 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to focus participants on the skills of consensus, listening, and decision making, before moving onto longer exercises such as ‘The meeting’. It can be used at an early stage in a training course, but is also useful as a ‘gap filler’ in a course. This training activity is easily included in a team meeting if the members need a quick exercise to highlight the need for skills, to develop them, as an energiser, or to finish the meeting on a high note.
Download the training activity, The team weekend as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Team Working Activity Pack