بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful)
(Examples
of Successful Team Work Activities)
In the last post, I wrote about the second objective of creativity room
which is (Successful Team Work) and I mentioned that I will provide some
examples of the activities which we are running in the room to serve this
objective.
Before I start to provide examples, I want to state that some activities
which are provided in the room are serving more than one objective, sometimes
two or three objectives. That means that the same objective will be used to
learn successful team work, creative thinking and positive energy.
For the successful team work, we have number of activities provided in
the room. The first one is called (Carpet and colored balls) where participants
will be provided with a carpet which has colored holes.
Each team member will be holding the carpet from one side and the objective
will be ensuring the balls would fall in their related colored hole.
There are five levels in this game. In every level, the number of balls
will be increased according to that level (Level 1 = 1 ball, level 2 = 2 balls,
level 3 = 3 ball…etc.). The team will be given 10 minutes to complete the five
levels.
Where is the team work in this activity? The team can’t success without
following successful team work elements. I want to state also that we concentrate
on certain elements of successful team work when running any activity related
to team work. These elements are:
· - Leadership (Selection and effectiveness of the team leader).
· - Effective Communication between members.
· - Role Distribution between members.
· - Planning and setting clear objectives and target.
· - Time Management.
Many other elements are discussed during the activity also, but we
concentrate more on the above and ensure that they are applied in the game.
Personally, I noticed that successful teams followed the above elements
while the teams which failed missed some of the elements.
This activity is so exciting and enjoyable. At the same time, it is a
powerful tool to learn the successful team work elements.
More examples of activities will be in the next post Insha’Allah J
