Team Dynamics - If I didn't think you'd judge me
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Caroline Love & Aileen Goodman
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Sculpture can be a powerful medium for increasing understanding about how teams work and the interrelationships that may help of hinder team learning and development. These can give clear pictures of how team members make judgements about each other and give valuable feedback between members. This activity gives team leaders the opportunity to use sculpture, to consider how this might help in understanding their own team's dynamics and how the whole team can work better together.
The group is divided into small teams and each one has fun making dough and producing a sculpture of each team member. Individuals reflect and make notes on what happened. They then take turns to set up and discuss sculptured scenes to show their perception of what team dynamics were happening during the dough-making exercise. Pairs or trios explore deeper into what dynamics were operating and then the teams complete questionnaires about what helped achieve the task and what helped the group work together. In the short plenary session the full group discuss what affects group learning. The activity closes with a brief discussion about using team members themselves to form a sculpture, and participants then individually complete a learning log about the application to their own work teams.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to identify team dynamics and explore whole-team relationships.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 21 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Materials for making dough: for each team of four or five people - 1.5kg bag of plain flour; cup or bottle of water; mixing bowl; aprons; tray or chopping board (optional) - for all teams to share: weighing scales; measuring jug; salt; a variety of food c
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, or as part of any programme about teams such as Leading a Team and Team Communications. It can also be used for courses on Making Meetings Work and Personal Development programmes or as part of an Organisational Development initiative.
Download the training activity, Team Dynamics - If I didn't think you'd judge me as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role