When I worked with the Ministry of Government Services, I
had the opportunity to attend a team building event. This event was designed to
answer Ontario government employees’ perception that little or no change was
taking place in the Ministry. The team building game is called “Turning over a
new leaf”! The concept was to demonstrate
to team members that change is happening although you may not recognize it as
such.
Here is how it plays: 8-10 people stood on a plastic cloth.
The cloth can be of any material as long as it is large enough to provide each
person with just enough space to stand up but it shouldn't be too big to make
this game too easy to complete. One
person starts to turn the cloth upside down from one angle and ask another
person next to him/her to step on the opposite side of the cloth. Gradually,
each person moves to stand on the opposite side of the cloth until the cloth is
completely turned over and everyone is standing on the opposite site of the
cloth.
While turning over the cloth, some team members won’t be
able to see what’s happening but they have to hold tightly on to other team
members and trust that their peers are actually working on turning over the
cloth and make sure everybody is standing on the opposite side one by one. If any
team member steps off the cloth, the team is eliminated from the competition.
Here is a demonstration video.
Almost every organization is experiencing some sort of
changes generated either by internally initiated actions or external influences.
It is crucial to build team confidence through explicit innovative change
management and also in less directive cycles that slowly we are making changes
but we need patience. Leadership, buy-in, trust and fully support are required
to make the change happen and ensure competitive superiority!
Interesting blog.
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