4. Small group games develop various skills and this is the main reason to use them on a regular basis in your team building activities. Games are fit for everybody and they are a really enjoyable activity by kids and adults alike. This is what makes them so popular.
There are many approaches to learning and no doubt the most efficient learning tools are the ones, which require no effort, but lead to results. In this aspect small group games are a real champion because it has been proven that people of any age can learn through games.
In order to make small group games really useful, you need to carefully pick what games you use. It is hard to make universal recommendations and definitely there isn’t a best game you can use in all situations. Maybe you should be prepared to use a couple of games, so that if your first choice is not accepted well by the members of the team, you don’t run out of options.
Some of the factors to consider when choosing team building activities to use for small groups is what you want to achieve and what the structure of the team is. For instance, if you are dealing with a newly-formed team and the people in it are total strangers, you will go for a game, which is good for ice-breaking and for establishing an initial contact.
Small group games can help not only in the establishment of an initial contact but they can also tell you a lot about the personality of your team members. Games can reveal who is a born leader, who is fast in decision-making, who is cautious, etc.
Very often it is also possible that a game makes surprising discoveries – i.e. you were never aware of the fact that John from accounting is so good at decision-making and now that you know it, you can put him in a new role in the accounting department or elsewhere.
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