Team building training for students
Training sessions for students are especially relevant in the first days of starting their studies. Many children come to study from other cities, have no friends, feel lonely, which makes the educational process especially difficult.
Team building for students
To achieve this, many universities hold student meetings in which teachers participate. It has been proven that after such events, classmates become closer together more easily, teachers are perceived positively, and educational activity increases.
Why team building trainings?
Personal growth training - what is it?
Team training is necessary to achieve cohesion in the business. By realizing the commonality of goals and learning to interact, a friendly team will be able to achieve better results. After successfully conducted training, the organization receives a single hardworking organism represented by a group of employees. Properly conducted trainings successfully replace competition with cooperation within the team.
Friendly cooperation
Usually, after several lessons, beginners are no longer afraid or ashamed to ask questions to more experienced specialists, who are now more willing and more intelligible in suggesting useful information to inexperienced colleagues. Team building is more effective if the highest-ranking official does not ignore the training. By participating on an equal basis with ordinary specialists, the leader turns into a positive hero and is no longer associated with control, punishment and a source of nervous tension. Having united into a team, everyone now understands the tasks of the individual member, including the boss.
How to understand that the team needs it
Self-confidence training - how to develop
A psychologist's advice will tell you how to unite your team at work. Most often, these are four scenarios:
- The organization has just been formed and recruited people to work. It is important to use the team building method to help everyone get to know each other, as well as quickly understand their own value to the organization.
- In a situation where there has been a conflict between divisions or departments for a long time. The friendly atmosphere created during the training will allow you to learn how to interact without negativity and will help you agree that the organization can achieve high results only when all participants move in the same direction.
- Training on interaction in an established team is necessary when a company is being reorganized. The merger of departments or divisions, as well as disbandment, make adjustments to the staffing table and staffing of work units. We need to help people tune into a new way.
- Doing monotonous work for a long time turns work into a routine, growth prospects are forgotten, and interest in improving skills disappears. Team exercises allow you to take a fresh look at your responsibilities and increase motivation and productivity.
Uniting to solve a common problem
Attention! Companies in which competition between departments is a necessary condition for obtaining quality results should not conduct team-building training between rival departments. In such organizations, each department needs to be united separately. An example of such a company would be an advertising agency, where departments compete with each other and strive to create more successful slogans and videos.
Lesson 3 Development of communication abilities. Non-verbal communication
1.) Warm up.
Exercise “Let’s line up”
Description of the exercise The presenter offers to play a game where the main condition is that the task is completed silently. You cannot talk or correspond during this time; you can only communicate using facial expressions and gestures. “Let's see if you can understand each other without words?” In the first part of the exercise, participants are given the task to line up by height, in the second part the task becomes more complicated - they need to line up by date of birth. In the second option, at the end of the construction, the participants take turns announcing their birthdays, while checking the correctness of the exercise.
Psychological meaning of the exercise Warm-up. Demonstration of the possibility of adequate exchange of information without the use of words, development of expression and non-verbal communication skills. The unusual conditions in which the participants find themselves include interest, force them to find ways to more accurately convey their thoughts to another person, to contact each other in order to achieve a common goal.
2) Mini-lecture
Awareness of nonverbal body language. Children are explained that often facial expressions, posture, gestures, physiological reactions, the manner of sitting, standing, and walking involuntarily express their internal state, and that nonverbal manifestations are the most important components of the communication process. Awareness of your own physical “I” helps you better understand yourself - identify your internal state and feelings, and more easily express some emotions in physical action.
The following explains what congruent communication is. Congruence, which implies the coincidence of internal experiences, their awareness and forms of expression (sensations + touch + message), determines the reliability of communication, its clarity and implementation without protective mechanisms and barriers. Congruence is a prerequisite for positive and productive interactions.
To gain insight into incongruent communication, participants are asked to look for inconsistencies (differences) by acting out scenes: for example, saying the words “I want to help”, “I love you” with a frowning face and clenched fists (inconsistency between verbal expression and “body language”). It is then explained that incongruence can be conscious or not. For example, a person at a party was bored all evening, but in parting, smiling, he says to the hostess: “What a pleasure it was to spend the evening with you...” He deliberately says not what he feels, not wanting to offend the hostess. Another example is when a person, unaware of his own anger and aggressive tendencies, speaks politely, but his posture and tense facial expressions do not correspond to his words. In this case, the incongruity is unconscious.
2) Basic exercise
"Drawing on the back"
Description of the exercise Participants are randomly divided into three teams and lined up in three columns in parallel. Each participant looks at the back of his comrade. The exercise is performed without words. The presenter draws some simple picture and hides it. Then the same picture is drawn with a finger on the back of each last team member. The task is to feel and convey this drawing as accurately as possible further. At the end, those standing first in the teams draw what they felt on sheets of paper and show it to everyone. The presenter takes out his picture and compares it. Participants are invited to discuss in teams the errors and discoveries that were made during the exercise. Draw conclusions, then, taking these conclusions into account, repeat the exercise. In this case, the first and last team members change places.
Discussion Discussion in a general circle. What helped you understand and convey sensations? How did the first and last team members feel in the first and second cases? What prevented you from doing the exercise? Psychological meaning of the exercise Development of communication skills, responsibility, cohesion within the team. Realize how important it is to tune in to understanding another person, as well as the very desire to understand another. Demonstration of the possibility of adequate exchange of information without the use of words, development of non-verbal communication skills
Final exercise Thank you!
Lesson 4 Team building
At the beginning of the class there is a sharing, everyone tells in what mood they came and what they expect from the class.
1.) Warm up.
Find and Touch Exercise
Description of the exercise The presenter suggests moving around the room and touching different objects and things with your hands. For example, find and touch something cold, rough, a thing whose length is approximately 30 cm, something that weighs half a kilogram, the word “Forget-me-not”.
Psychological meaning of the exercise Warm-up exercise. Develops sensitivity to others, but at the same time activates observational and analytical abilities. Participants communicate with each other, paying attention to different aspects of reality.
2) Basic exercises
"Puzzles"
Description of the exercise The group is randomly divided into teams of 5 people and each team member is given a puzzle. (The presenter cuts a sheet of paper with some bright large picture into pieces in advance and thus creates puzzles for this exercise). The team's task is to collect the picture as quickly as possible.
Discussion Discussion in a general circle. Each team tells what helped or, conversely, hindered the completion of the task.
Psychological meaning of the exercise Development of communication skills, cohesion within the team, the ability to coordinate one’s actions with others, and solve assigned tasks. Next, the facilitator suggests applying the experience gained from the previous exercise in the next task.
"Bumps"
Description of the exercise Each participant is given a piece of A4 paper. Everyone gathers at one end of the room and the presenter explains that there is a swamp ahead, the leaves are hummocks, all the participants are frogs, and the presenters are crocodiles. The group's task is to get to the opposite end of the room without losing a single frog. You can only step on bumps. Crocodiles can drown (take away) unattended hummocks. You can only step on bumps. If the frog stumbled, or not all the frogs were able to get to the other side because there were no hummocks left, then the crocodiles won, and the game starts over.
Discussion Discussion in a general circle. Participants tell what helped or, conversely, hindered the completion of the task. What did those frogs who walked first feel, and what did those who closed the chain feel?
Psychological meaning of the exercise Development of communication skills, cohesion among group members; Awareness of the importance of these qualities for the effective work of the group; Develops the ability to make concessions, cooperate and act together.
Final exercise “Balls”
Description of the exercise Participants, united in threes, are given the task: first, inflate 3 balloons as quickly as possible, and then make them burst by holding them between their bodies. At the same time, you should not step on them, use any sharp objects, nails, or parts of clothing. The psychological meaning of the exercise is Unity, breaking down spatial barriers between participants.
Discussion A short exchange of impressions is sufficient.
Class. Self-respect.
1) Getting to know each other. Establishing contact with children. Participants sign badges. The presenter introduces himself and says a few words about what will happen.
2) Rules for working in a group. Then the facilitator sets certain rules for working in the group, which are necessary to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and safe. The rules are written out in advance on a piece of Whatman paper, and after acceptance by the group, they are fixed in a visible place. During all subsequent classes, the group rules are located there and are reminded by the presenters at the beginning of the class.
List of rules:
1. Listen carefully to each other. 2. Do not interrupt the speaker 3. Respect each other’s opinions 4. I am a statement 5. Non-judgmental judgments 6. Activity 7. “Stop” rule 8. Confidentiality
Each point of the rules is explained by the presenter.
3) Warm up.
"Switch places"
Description of the exercise Participants sit on chairs in a circle. The driver goes to the middle of the circle and says the phrase: “Swap places” those who... (knows how to fry eggs).” At the end, some attribute or skill is called. The task of those who have this skill or trait is to change places. The presenter’s task is to have time to sit in any vacant seat. The one who did not have time to sit down becomes the new driver.
Psychological meaning of the exercise: Warm-up, creating conditions for getting to know each other better, understanding how much we have in common, and increasing the participants’ interest in each other.
4) Dialogue and Mini-lecture.
The presenter invites each participant to think for a minute and answer the question - What is self-respect? Anyone can speak out. Then the presenter summarizes and talks about the importance of self-esteem, a person’s psychological comfort and what self-esteem depends on, about feelings, such as boasting, that mask low self-worth, about the desire to be an ideal person and what this can lead to. Then he offers to complete the task.
5) Basic exercise
"Good and Bad Deeds"
Description of the exercise Participants are randomly divided into two teams. Each team is given a sheet of Whatman paper, felt-tip pens or markers and A4 paper. The task of one team is to write as many actions as possible that allow a person to respect himself more. Accordingly, another task is to write down as many actions as possible, because of which a person’s self-respect is lost. If desired, each team can support the words with pictures of corresponding actions.
Discussion Each team presents its topic. Then there is a general discussion, at the end the presenter summarizes everything that has been said. It is very important to pay attention to the fact that everyone has a choice between certain actions, but every time we choose one or another behavior, we gain or lose self-respect.
Psychological meaning of the exercise Children’s awareness of the connection between actions and self-esteem. Isolating the very concept of self-respect and discovering its connection with mutual respect. And this is a necessary condition for full communication, without which the development of cohesion is impossible.
Final exercise Thank you!
Description of the exercise Participants stand in a circle, and the leader invites everyone to mentally put on their left hand everything they came with today, their baggage of mood, thoughts, knowledge, experience, and on their right hand - what they received new in this lesson. Then, everyone clapping their hands hard at the same time and shouting - YES! or THANK YOU!
Psychological meaning of the exercise Final ritual. Allows you to reflect on the content and result of the last lesson, as well as end it beautifully on a positive emotional note.
