Team Building Activities
Understanding the Team

Title & Description

Team Building Activities – Understanding the Team is an activity that will help participants understand the personality types of each other.

By understanding the strength and weakness of each personality type, participants will be able to leverage on the strength of each individual and cover for each other’s weakness when working on a project together.

Purpose

• To help participants understand each other better
• To help the team work together more effectively

Team Size

About 6-15 participants

Materials Required

A DISC Personality Test Sheet (Download HERE!)
A DISC Facilitator Sheet (Download HERE!)

Time Required

30 minutes

Instructions

1. Divide the participants into groups of 4 and 5.

2. Give an explanation or a short presentation on the DISC Personality Test. You can read about the DISC Personality Test.

3. Pass out the DISC Personality Test Sheet to the participants. This is a simple test to roughly gauge the personality type of each individual. The instructions are on the sheet.

4. Give them about 5-10 minutes to finish the sheet.

5. When they are done, use the DISC Facilitator Sheet to talk about each personality type and what their score means to them.

6. Allow each participant to share their findings with their group, and in the process, talk a little more about their working styles.

7. Conclude the exercise by talking a little more about how different styles can complement one another, or end in conflict.

Debriefing Notes

1. What did you find out about your peers’ from this short exercise?

2. Do you think you have a good mix of personalities in your team? Why or why not?

3. What adjustments do you think you can make to your working style to suit your peers?

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Exercise #1: Building a Team Mission Statement
Create a team mission statement together with your team, and evaluate it together.

Exercise #2: Vision Setting
Set long term visions with your team.

Exercise #3: Values Definition
Create a set of organizational values that everyone in your team believes in.

Exercise #4: Goal Setting
Set SMART Goals to be achieved in the period ahead with the team.

Exercise #5: Expectation Management
Set standards and expectations together with your team.

Exercise #6: Problem Solving
Understand the problem solving methods of your team and how you can improve on them.

Exercise #7: Team Self-Evaluation
Evaluate the team’s progress together and see how you can work together to become better.

Exercise #8: Understanding the Team
A FREE DISC personality test for the team to understand each other’s working style.

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