Successful Team Building: 20 Tips, Tools, and Exercises

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. WHAT IS TEAM BUILDING?
   1. Why Team Building?
   2. Why Not?
   3. Team Building Process
5. CONTRACTING FOR TEAM BUILDING
   1. Data Collection Interview Guide
   2. Data Collection Survey
   3. Data Collection: Observation
6. THE ROLE OF THE FACILITATOR
   1. Mistakes Team Building Facilitators Make (And what to do about them)
7. TEAM BUILDING ICEBREAKERS
   1. Resources for Icebreakers
8. USING STYLE SURVEYS
   1. Style Surveys
9. TEAM DECISION-MAKING
   1. Conditions for a Consensus
   2. Guidelines for Reaching a True Consensus
   3. Team Decision-Making Methods
   4. Decision-Making Exercise
10. INTERGROUB TEAM BUILDING
    1. Barriers to Intergroup Teamwork
    2. Strategies for Improving Intergroup Teamwork
    3. Intergroup Team Building Exercise
11. DEVELOPING TEAM NORMS: A TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY
    1. Sample Team Norms
12. USING GAMES IN TEAM BUILDING
    1. Sources for Team-Building Games
13. ADVENTURE TEAM BUILDING
14. CLOSING A TEAM BUILDING EVENT
    1. Evaluating Team Building
    2. Team Building Resources
    3. Parker Team Series
15. About the Author