Space station
Featured in the Indoor and Outdoor Team Development training manual
By Michèle Barca & Kate Cobb
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Most organisations assign a role to use according to the nature of the job we hold. We may also ‘play’ other roles, depending on our other interactions within the organisation. In this training activity, participants are assigned roles and asked to carry out a specific task. They analyse their effectiveness while in their assigned role and reflect on the nature of the roles they hold in teams at their workplace.
You explain that the purpose of this training activity is to examine the importance of different roles within a team and how these interact to produce a smoothly functioning team. Participants are assigned different roles in an exercise to build a model space station. You encourage them to explore their experiences, in particular how restricted they felt within their designated role. Working in pairs, participants then look at the roles they play within their organisations and how effective they are in these roles. You end the training activity by asking the participants to consider how they can increase their impact and effectiveness in the roles they play in the workplace.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to help participants explore the issue of team roles and to examine their importance in an effectively functioning team.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 10 |
| Max Group Size: | 16 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 24 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Sets of Lego bricks (one per team and one for you).
Purpose: Use this training activity in any team-building training programme. This training activity is suitable for use in the normal training environment and requires little in the way of ‘special equipment’.
Download the training activity, Space station as featured in the Fenman training manual; Indoor and Outdoor Team Development