Team building exercises are more popular now than they have ever been, and are still growing in popularity and expanding into new areas every year. The reason for this huge increase in popularity over the last few decades is mainly because of the increase in competitiveness in a huge amount of areas, including sport and corporate business. Since there is so much competition between different groups (which could be a sports team or a complete office for example) people have been intent on finding ways to improve your own teams’ performance.
One of the newer team building exercises is to literally have a team building something together, and a great example of this is getting a team to build a bike. There are many variations of this, with the most basic one being that you put a team of people together in a room with all the parts required to make a bike and leave them alone to assemble it. Depending on the team, they might be given instructions or they might not. If you give the team instructions it will teach them how to communicate better as a group as they have to all follow the same instructions but each doing their own tasks and this is only possible if everyone communicates what they are doing. However if you don’t give them the instructions this can be a great way of teaching them how to solve problems in a group, which can be an invaluable skill. Different people in the group will try to solve the problem in different ways, and the team as a whole need to find the best solution to the problem which normally involves having input from all the people about their different methods.
There are also several ways which this exercise can be expanded or changed to achieve different results. One such way is to split the group into two competing teams and give them both the parts (with or without instructions) and see which team can assemble the bike first. This teaches the group how to work under pressure and work as a group to achieve the quickest results, since teamwork obviously improves speed in a task like this.
Another variation on this could be to expand the bicycle team building to be more than just building the bike. This could involve only giving the team certain bits of the bike, and hide some of them from them initially. Then you could make the team complete challenges or puzzles in order to receive the rest of the pieces, and they could also have to solve a challenge to receive the instructions. This is a great way of teaching a team how to manage their resources and what they need in order to achieve the required result at the end of the day.
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