Team building is a proven approach for helping people become respectful competitors, cooperative team members, and community leaders. Now you can help your students or group develop those same important skills with Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices.
The authors, with two successful books on team building and 30 years of team-building experience, offer a day-by-day guide for implementing activities and challenges for individual sessions, units, or an entire semester.
The activities and challenges are geared to beginning through advanced participants in a variety of settings, and they help participants develop the following valuable skills: Ã¯Â¿Å“Problem solving Ã¯Â¿Å“Appropriate risk taking Ã¯Â¿Å“Building working relationships Ã¯Â¿Å“Cooperation Ã¯Â¿Å“Leadership and communication Ã¯Â¿Å“Creative thinking Ã¯Â¿Å“Building trust Ã¯Â¿Å“Making decisions Ã¯Â¿Å“Setting goals Ã¯Â¿Å“Developing physical skills
In chapters 1 and 2 the authors introduce the concept of team building, including its benefits, its connection with adventure education and community building, and the process involved in building a team. Chapters 3 and 4 provide assessment tools and safety strategies. Chapter 5 offers a sample college course outline in team building. You'll find icebreaker and community activities in chapter 6, and in chapters 7 through 9 you can choose from an array of introductory, intermediate, and advanced challenges. Chapter 10 provides character development and community-building challenges, and an appendix lays out challenge cards, useful forms, reports, and examples.
In addition, Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices includes Ã¯Â¿Å“58 activities and challenges for beginning through advanced teams; Ã¯Â¿Å“reproducible forms for organizing, presenting, and evaluating team-building challenges; Ã¯Â¿Å“ready-to-use unit and semester plans with evaluation tools for each activity; and Ã¯Â¿Å“a bound-in DVD with video clips of 25 challenge demonstrations and reproducible challenge and organizer cards.

Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices

Midura, Daniel W.

Glover, Donald R.

Business & Money

Human Kinetics

Help your students develop interpersonal skills as well as motor skills with the activities in Team Building Through Physical Challenges. These 22 Outward Bound-type tasks challenge students to work together to achieve a common goal. Along the way, they'll learn to value teamwork, practice leadership skills, improve listening skills, and appreciate individual differences.
The activities in Team Building Through Physical Challenges are broken down into three levels--introductory, intermediate, and advanced. These levels make the challenges ideal for students in upper elementary through high school. For each of the physical challenges, you'll find a summary that includes:
 -a detailed description,
-success criteria,
-an equipment list,
-set-up instructions,
-rules and sacrifices,
-possible solutions, and
-additions and variations.
Throughout each challenge, kids learn teamwork. As they struggle, fail, reorganize, persevere, and finally succeed, students learn to brainstorm solutions, work together to develop a plan of attack, listen to others and consider their ideas, and praise and encourage team members. Each member of the group is important, because everyone must meet the challenge before the team can succeed. Team members learn, in addition to motor skills, important social skills by taking turns filling the roles of organizer, praiser, encourager, summarizer, and recorder.
Team Building Through Physical Challenges is easy for physical educators, classroom teachers, and recreation leaders to use. Cards that explain each challenge to your students are contained in the text; simply copy and laminate them, and they're ready to use. The activities require equipment that is readily available--tumbling mats, ropes, balance beam, cage ball, tires, and others. Diagrams show you exactly how equipment should be set up, and photos illustrate possible solutions for each challenge.
Watch your students develop self-confidence and new skills as they explore these physical challenges. Not only will they improve their fitness and motor skills, but they'll also learn important social skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.
Sample physical challenges:
Alphabet Balance Beam (introductory)--Group members attempt to rearrange their starting order while positioned on a balance beam. They begin in a random order and the instructor or members choose a way to rearrange (alphabetically by first name, by street address, etc.)
Bridge Over the Raging River (intermediate)--All group members must travel from one end of a gymnasium space (land) to the other end without touching the floor (river). The group can use only the following equipment: four automobile tires, two 8-foot length 2 x 4's, and 2 jump ropes (preferably sash cord).
Power Line (advanced)--Group members cross over a high horizontal bar by using an 8-foot 2 x 4 board to help transfer teammates from one side of the power line to the other side. Individuals cannot touch the bar (power line) with the board or their bodies.

Team Building Through Physical Challenges

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Teamwork is critical to the success of any group—students, athletes, businesspeople, community members, and others. Team Building Through Physical Challenges: A Complete Tool Kit, Second Edition, takes a proactive approach to building teams as it explains the concepts of team building, shows how to set up teams to facilitate growth, and provides 67 mentally and physically challenging games and activities that will foster team building and the development of numerous social and emotional skills. These activities are an ideal way to start the school year, a sport season, corporate training, an adventure trip, or any endeavor that requires working together. New and updated materials for this resource include the following: 
<ul>
<li>Updated content on how to implement the activities</li>
<li>A new emphasis on social and emotional learning</li>
<li>A new web resource with video demonstrations, reproducibles, and a sample team-building course outline</li>
</ul>
Team Building Through Physical Challenges features 67 ready-to-use, field-tested activities and challenges for introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. They are presented in a clear and practical format that addresses setup, rules, equipment needs, and variations for each challenge. The web resource offers video clips showing team building in action, as well as reproducible forms to make implementation easier. The web resource includes challenge and organizer cards for all challenges; these cards give the teams all the information needed to begin the activities. Another important feature of the book is the rationale it offers to obtain support and funding for the implementation of team building in schools, organizations, and businesses. Participants will focus on and build a variety of skills and character traits: <ul>
<li>Trust building</li>
<li>Conflict resolution</li>
<li>Leadership</li>
<li>Self-control</li>
<li>Collaborative problem-solving</li>
<li>Effective communication</li>
<li>Critical thinking</li>
<li>Creativity</li>
<li>Optimistic thinking</li>
<li>Listening skills</li>
<li>Appropriate risk-taking</li>
<li>Resilience</li>
<li>Growth mindset</li>
</ul>
Team Building Through Physical Challenges assembles the best team- and character-building resources developed by the authors since the first edition of this popular book was published, plus new activities and supporting material. The authors are recognized experts in the field who have been creating, compiling, and experimenting with team-building activities for nearly 50 years. Team Building Through Physical Challenges is the only comprehensive book of team-building activities that focus on physical challenges. Through the clear instruction and guidance on team building, the useful web resource, and the exciting and challenging activities, participants will learn to become respectful competitors, valuable problem solvers, selfless leaders, and high-character members of their school, team, company, or community.

Team Building Through Physical Challenges: A Complete Toolkit

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Anderson, Leigh Ann

Exercise & Fitness

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