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Decision Making Outcome Based Team Building Activities

 

Decision making can be defined as the act of choosing between two or more courses of action or solutions to a problem. Decisions can be made through either an intuitive or reasoned process, or a combination of the two processes. Intuition is also referred as ‘gut feeling’ and is a combination of past experiences and personal values. Reasoning uses the facts and figures available to make decisions. Complicated decisions tend to require a more formal, structured approach, usually involving both intuition and reasoning.

Other Outcome Based Activities: Goal Setting, Leadership, Communication, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Resilience, Creative Thinking, Time Management, Trust

 

 

The team building exercises under the Decision Making theme are selected to help achieve the specific objective of decision making. Your facilitator will select the appropriate exercises from this list to match the venue and team on the day.

All Adrift - Whilst on a sailing holiday, an accident causes the boat to set on fire, with just enough time to grab a few items at hand – the team have to decide which items are top priority. Working together, the team have to use their decision making skills to prioritize the ten items listed...

 

Minefield - The team have come to a battlefield that has been laid with mines. One person at a time must attempt to cross the battlefield without stepping on a mine. Once a team member steps on a mine, they must return back to the start position and the next person must try to navigate their way across the minefield...

Spiders Web - The aim of the challenge is for the whole team to travel through the web. At the moment, the web is blocking your path to safety. Be careful though, as the web is extremely poisonous and any time a team member touches the web, the challenge will be restarted...

 

Traffic Jam - Traffic Jam is a real, ‘brain buster’ that requires a lot thinking and communication. This challenge is very similar to a human chess game. The group is split in two, with both sides working together to complete the challenge. Cooperation and planning are essential to complete this task...

 

Blindfold Maze - Blindfolded participants are given a route by their partners, and then tasked with retracing their steps without any instruction to try and end up as close to the start point as possible...

Customize your team building event by adding a TBAE's Teamwork and Team Building soft skills course to your team building activity.

The word ‘team’ is widely used to describe a group of people working together on one common goal and reporting to a leader. Teamwork and team building are essential to any team. Often teams of highly talented individuals perform worse than teams of lesser talented individuals simply because they are not working effectively as a team.

Broadly speaking a team can be described as a group of people working towards one common goal. Team building is the process that enables the team to reach their goal. Team building may mean different things to different teams. It can be about creating better cohesion among team members while, in other instances, improved communication may be the main aim of team building. Team building is anything that helps to improve the performance of a team.

Teamwork is an essential part of our life, and we are often required to be a functional part of a performing team. Having a strong team is vital to the success of any project. In TBAE’s Teamwork and Team Building Workshop, participants will learn about the different aspects that make a team. They will learn ways to become top team performers and be given concepts of what makes a successful team.

In the Teamwork and Team Building Course, participants will learn about the different types of teams such as the traditional team, self-directed teams and E-teams. The course also covers the benefits and disadvantages of team building activities. Participants will be taught how to make the most of team meetings and how to solve problems as a team. Further subjects covered in the Teamwork and Team Building Course include defining success, the stages of team development, solving problems as a team and encouraging teamwork.

For a virtual team building option of the Teamwork and Team Building course see our Online Soft Skills Workshops for Teams.

 

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