Building success
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Aileen Goodman & Caroline Love
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Team learning and development require that all team members have a clear understanding of whole-team strengths and weaknesses. The use of metaphor can provoke new insights and promote deep understanding of the current situation.
Following a quick 'activating your brain' exercise, participants individually develop a metaphor to describe their team's strengths and weaknesses regarding team learning and development. In groups of three, participants move on to share their metaphors and identify any common themes that emerge from them. The activity continues with the whole group working on understanding metaphors, and sharing the common themes. Participants then return to their small groups and consider how best to use metaphor with their teams - how, when and why to use them. This work is shared visually in the whole group, and the activity ends with the completion of a learning log and with participants sharing their feelings about using metaphors.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to explain the use of metaphor as a methodology for exploring whole-team strengths and weaknesses.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:50:00 |
| No of Pages: | 24 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: 12 cocktail sticks for each participant.
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with their participants to explain the use of metaphor as a methodology for exploring whole-team strengths and weaknesses. It can also be used as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, Leading a Team, Managing for the First Time, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Processes and Techniques for Planning, or Team Development.
Download the training activity, Building success as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role