Intergroup Team Building Exercise
Purpose: To help reduce conflict among two teams and develop a plan for more effective collaboration between them in the future.*
Preparation: The exercise requires one large meeting room, one small breakout room, two flipcharts, markers, and tape or push pins.
Process:
1. With both teams in the large meeting room, explain the purpose of the activity and set some positive norms in key areas (e.g., listening, openness, no personal attacks).
2. Ask one team to move to the breakout room while the other stays in the meeting room. Each team is given the task of preparing a list of answers to two questions:
• What does the other team do that inhibits our ability to get our job done or just annoys us?
• What do ...
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