{"id":16543,"date":"2018-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/team-building-exercises-that-work\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:00:00","slug":"team-building-exercises-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/team-building-exercises-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Building Exercises That Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the core objectives of any project manager is bringing the, often disparate, talents of their team together and getting them <\/span>working together and collaborating like a well-oiled machine<\/span><\/a>. That’s the “what” but the “how” of actually making that happen is a whole other ballgame. As will be quite clear to anyone who has worked in a team, especially if they have managed one, personalities, egos and work-styles all too rarely fit together perfectly like so many jigsaw pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To get a team pulling in the same direction, working harmoniously together and trusting each other, a project manager needs to be able to engage in effective team building. One of the best ways of doing this is through taking part in team building exercises. <\/span><\/p>\n

These can sometimes seem corny and get significant push-back from employees, so to avoid that and give you an idea of what you should be doing, we’ve gathered some of the most effective and well-researched team building exercises used by managers around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

What activities should include <\/b><\/p>\n

Research from the University of East Anglia<\/span><\/a> in the UK has shown that the <\/span>most effective team building<\/span><\/a> exercises contain some common factors:<\/span><\/p>\n