The power of our toolbox is in the diversity of the exercises

The Teambooster Toolkit is full of short team exercise you can just do with your team. On this page we share two example exercises from the Toolbox

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Tool example: goal quality

Short description:
Reflect as a team on how well you set goals

When to use this tool?

Learn to take time as a team after each period to reflect on how well you have set your goals. Take it a step deeper than “we made our goals or we didn’t make our goals” or just blame it on a factor you could or couldn’t influence that made you achieve your goals or not.

How does it work?

Step 1: Take your current goals
Make your current goals visible to your team.

Step 2: Share the arrow visual
Explain the 4 arrows to your team. Put them on a flipchart or on a virtual whiteboard.

Step 3: Ask all members to indicate where we can improve
Ask all your team members to dot vote on each arrow, or place their initials next to it. You can vote on the extremes, but also in the middle.

Step 4: Discuss the results
How would you rate the quality of your goal setting? Talk as a team about where your goal-setting could improve. Identify the arrow where you believe the most improvement can be made. And discuss as a team what that would look like for the next period. Also, celebrate where you are already great at goal quality!

Step 5: Next steps
Agree on how you use these insights for creating better goals in the future. Capture it on your how we work page, or continue immediately with another goal-setting exercise.

What do you need to get started?

Write down the goals you had for the last period. Schedule ~30 min with the team to reflect on the quality of your goals.

This exercise is for:

Team size: 2 to 13+
Team development phase: Forming, norming
TEAM framework: Mission
Difficulty: easy
Duration: 5-15 min or 15-30 min

Source: exercise designed by teambooster

Tool example: five fingers introduction

Short description:
This is a great energizer that helps you get to know each other on a deeper level

When to use this tool?

When you have new team members, are a new team, or just want to get to know each other on a deeper and more personal level. It’s a playful exercise.

How does it work?

Step 1: explain the 5 fingers. This exercise is a simple way to get to know each other a little bit better. Each finger stands for something related to the finger.

Step 2: draw your own hand. Everybody takes a flipchart and draw your hand. Write in large letters next to each finger something about you that you like to share. This takes 5-10 minutes

Step 3: speed date. Take your poster and find a colleague! Have a nice conversation together. And change to another colleague in 3-8 minutes. In a couple of rounds, you have met your whole team.

Sometimes this round feels done after ~5 exchanges. Then it’s ok to stop it even if you haven’t talked to everybody yet. If you have a small team you can present each poster plenary, but it does have a different energy level than speed dating 1-on-1.