Team Profile: (Re)Get to know each other!
Creating links at a distance – How to capitalize on an exchange of viewpoints to get to know each other better, understand each other better and progress together.
Benefits:
- Communication
- Getting to know others
- Exchanges
Duration of the activity:
- Between 30 minutes and 1h30
Format:
In-person
The challenge:
Capitalize on an exchange of points of view to get to know each other better, understand each other better and progress together.
Use a powerful diagnostic and communication tool to enable everyone to take a stand, express their ideas, learn to respect differences, develop a form of shared leadership and strengthen team spirit.
Smart Networking lets your participants meet in sub-commission rooms, and start conversations. These conversations can be focused on topics chosen in advance, and everyone’s point of view is given anonymously. This makes for a truly interactive plenary session.
What is Team Profile?
Enlightenments
- Communication is frequent between team members on operational issues; it is rare when it comes to relational quality and optimal team functioning.
- When accepted and understood, different points of view represent an intangible resource contributing to greater collective intelligence.
- Listening, respecting differences, committing and taking responsibility are essential to creating and developing a winning team.
- The free expression of points of view will encourage consensus-building and teaching.
How it works
- Each teammate receives a small leather satchel containing 7 different-coloured stones.
- Participants are seated in a circle.
- Questions are asked about the team, its strengths, weaknesses, challenges and priorities. For each open-ended question, 7 answers are proposed. They were agreed in advance with the leaders.
- Each person chooses the stone corresponding to their point of view and keeps it hidden in their hand.
- At the signal, each person shows the chosen stone.
- Each participant in turn explains the reason for their choice.
- A histogram projected on a screen will reveal the profile of the teams and enable the lessons to be drawn that will help the teams to progress.
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