Large-Team Team Building
Any team building with a group of people creates a bond of experience between that group of people.
This ‘common experience’ can therefore have a positive effective, but also has the potential to act as a marker that distinguishes this group from people who did not attend the team building event. The nature of any team building with a large project therefore needs to be carefully chose to counter this.
Consider the scenarios in the table below, and decide which of the following "team building workshops" would be suitable or unsuitable for each scenario:
- A team building workshop aimed at a small team
- A project workshop, bringing together the 3 small teams
- A project workshop, involving the 3 small teams, and project customers.
Scenarios
| Scenario | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| There are difficult relationships between some individuals in one of the small teams | | | |
| Each small team works well together, but they are acting as team islands and there is little cross-team co-operation | | | |
| The project team work well, but relationships with the customer are poor | | | |
| All the teams work OK both as small teams and across the team boundaries, but one of the teams gets on so well that they are starting to create a mini-culture of their own, and beginning to create resentment in other teams | | | |
| This is a new project, and it is the first time people in the small teams have worked together | | | |
It is clearly important to choose the right type of team building strategy to suit the circumstances of your project.
The next article in this online course is: Project Management Training:
Soft Skills Part 15: Project Culture
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Overview
Individuals
Trust and Rapport
Networking
Winning Commitment
Listening
Using Power
Delegation
Conflicts
Small Teams
Group Conflicts
Team Development
Managing Difference
Communication
Team Islands
In/Out Groups
Building the wider team
Large Projects
Project Culture
Putting it all together
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