Team Building Blocks
Practicing Group Collaboration

Carmine Consalvo

Renew your teams with this stimulating, hands-on training tool. Team Building Blocks gives your teams an easy-to-implement, effective, and enjoyable opportunity to practice and refine their problem-solving and communication skills.

Using the set of 14 polished wood blocks, participants work together in performing engaging exercises. Your teams will be motivated and stimulated by solving problems, reaching consensus, and resolving differences while involved with these experiential puzzles. The game comes complete with 14 wooden blocks and a 148-page activity manual, which includes 18 detailed activities, facilitator notes, post-activity commentary, and solutions.

Exercises cover:

• Information sharing
• Risk taking
• Diversity
• Trial and error learning
• Coaching
• Inter-team consultation
• Time management

Training Objectives

• Illustrate the principle of “coopetition”— the competitive and cooperative nature of teamwork
• Highlight the importance of information sharing and collaboration between teams
• Demonstrate the negative impact of distrust among team members