Chapter 11: Working with Project (Make web site) People 233 Doing
Chapter 11: Working with Project People 233 Doing Some Fun Team-Building Exercises Don t roll your eyes. When many think of team building, they think of making a fool of themselves in some torturous exercise that doesn t seem to really have anything to do with the task at hand. You may hear apocryphal stories of teams that go hiking through the mountains so that they can bond. I m still waiting for stories of project team members that were chased by bears and snakes, and wandered lost in the woods for hours. You don t need the Smoky Mountains, however, to do some team building. At any library (read Team Building for Diverse Work Groups by Selma G. Myers, and published by Wiley), and at a plethora of Web sites, you can find information on simple exercises that can be used to build effective teams. These include everything from the aforementioned survival mission to being able to suspend countless tennis balls for a short period of time. When you look at these, you should ask but one question: Why are we doing this? Here s a list of just a few popular team-building exercises: Golfing or putt-putt Bowling Geocaching (going on a geographically oriented treasure hunt) Outdoor rope courses (Check out The Power of Team Building: Using Rope Techniques by Harrison Snow, published by Wiley) Paintball Hide-and-go-seek The reason for any team building is to help the members establish trust in one another and come out of their shells; you want to expedite the natural team- building process in order to make the team more cohesive and get results faster. The goal of team-building exercises is really simple: Build a cohesive team. When choosing what type of exercise to employ, you should know something about the members of your team. If you take the wrong approach, you can end up with the wrong results. For example, taking a group of insecure programmers and making them play baseball against a college team probably isn t going to make them respect you much and feel as if they gained anything from the experience. Take that same group of programmers, give them a box of Lego blocks and a remote control car, tell them to create a city that the car can maneuver through, and they ll be off and running. This simple exercise demands the whole team be involved and work together towards a common cause. Its simplicity doesn t overpower the purpose of the exercise.
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