Training in Motion

CHAPTER 5

Team-Building Activities

Team-building activities break down communication barriers and facilitate the building of essential trust bonds among training participants. Moreover, team-building activities help all learners play to their strengths. At the same time, team-building activities—especially movement-based ones—create commonly shared metaphors that build relationships and encourage the achievement of organizational goals.

This chapter offers 10 different movement-based team-building activities that you can adjust to meet the needs of a particular training event. As a trainer focused on creating an effective learning environment, ...