Team Spirit

Team Spirit offers facilitators a fun-to-play, interactive learning simulation that challenges participants to collaborate, communicate, and enhance group dynamics, as teams work to solve a fictional but realistic problem.

This experiential exercise clearly demonstrates that it takes many different talents to achieve a team goal. Team Spirit also shows how formal and informal leadership styles can influence a team's performance. As with any group-based learning activity, Team Spirit serves as a vehicle to generate candid dialogue and offers groups the chance to build on best practices in team effectiveness. While solving the simulation puzzle through a structured group and a group-wide debriefing process, participants will

• Reflect on various group and leader dynamics occurring during the process

• Explore how these dynamics apply to their everyday work or educational environments

• Identify enhanced strategies that support their roles as team members or leaders and consider which ones they will adopt at work

This Team Spirit package offers everything learning professionals need to conduct the engaging simulation, including preparation directions and instructions for running and debriefing the activity. The appendixes contain the matrix puzzles and solutions, trivia questions and answers, two electronic optional questionnaires, and masters for all the game pieces, including the puzzle tiles and clues. The companion CD-ROM includes copies of all the appendix material.

Team Spirit has been developed andproven effectivewith a wide range of teams from many different organizations. It is sure add a dose of creativity, flair, and fun to your training and development repertoire.