GAME #42: A Cup of Group Cheer
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To promote cross-company and interdepartmental collaboration and partnering.
❖ Time Required: 10 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: None.
❖ The Exercise in Action: Irene Ward, president of Irene Ward & Associates, Columbus, OH, helps participants of a one-day team-building seminar foster a true sense of teamwork by asking pre-assigned small groups to develop a team cheer. They are given about five minutes to do so, Ward says, before sharing the cheer with the entire group. Then, for the remainder of the day, each time the various teams complete a problem-solving assignment and prior to reporting to the entire class, they are asked to do their group cheer to celebrate the victory (usually about three or four times per day, Ward says). She also asks the groups to do their cheers right after lunch to demon- strate how much the energy level has dropped since the morning session. “It gets everyone laughing at how pitiful the various team cheers sound,” Ward says, and the strategy helps heighten awareness about staying alert after lunch.
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