Why is team building important?

• Integration of new members
• Bringing the team back together (Corona)
• Motivation and taking on tasks => currently many members only use the nice sides of the FSR, rarely help with the tasks that arise, this should change through team building

Theory

What is a team?

• Association of at least 3 people
• Common goal and distribution of tasks
• Communication and dependency

Roles in a group?

• Nobody always has a specific role
• There are always different roles in a team (action-orientated, communication-orientated, knowledge-orientated)
• Team leader looks at what the team members need and picks them up (gratitude, praise, etc.)

Classic phases of team building

• Forming: contact phase
• Storming: Conflict phase
• Norming: Contract phase
• Performing: Cooperation phase

General

• Communication is everything

Type theory

• Analyst (blue type=> cannot be picked up with emotions, but with facts => often quieter, conflict-averse, fact-orientated)
• Introverts (green type => in need of harmony, very reliable, calm and purposeful way of working)
• Extroverts (yellow type=> communicative and sociable, very optimistic, experience-orientated)
• Leader (red type=> leader, decision-maker, clear and explicit communication, need a clear goal)

Insights for your student body

• Initial situation (find out what makes people tick, where are the strengths, where are the weaknesses)
• Leadership (a group always needs leadership)
• Goal definition
• Motivation
• Performance monitoring
• Communication (very important! The tone is very relevant here)
• Avoid isolation (do not exclude anyone)

Team building activities

• The best team-building activities are those where you have to achieve/create something as a team
• Mixing groups to create new contacts within the team
• Examples FOR team building activities
  • Creative hours (handicrafts)
  • Sporting events (tournaments)
  • Culinary offer (barbecue, canteen group, campfire)
  • Party (funfair, pub crawl, brewery tour)
  • Winter wonderland (ice skating)
  • Movie-Pizza-Night
  • Game evenings (e.g. river crossing, shrinking ship, spider's web)
  • FSR trip

Conclusion

• Form a team - internal organisation
• Set dates
• Just do it
• Have fun
• Make friends for life