Team Building Activities

Team Building Activities is very much essential for the project success. The objective is to help the individual and team to work towards the project goal in an effective manner. This can be formal or informal and the duration can range from a few minutes to hours to days. Some of the ways how you can use this technique is by having communication, onsite and offsite activities. Even the status meetings help in team building.

The project environment is very much dynamic because of the movement of the people, organizational changes, and individual attitude towards the work. The project manager needs to monitor these project environmental changes and use the team building activities technique throughout the project.

The model which can be used is Tuckman ladder. There are five stages under this model namely Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning.

Forming is the team formation and assigning the roles and responsibilities.

Storming is the stage where the people having difference of opinions, clashes, conflict.

Norming is the team start adjusting toward the environment and begin to work.

Performing is the team is interdependent and starts achieving the results.

Adjourning is disbanding to their respective functions.

Team Building Activities technique is used under the process Develop Project team.