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Building a Winning Team
Sheveeta Gayles
Octavia Nelson
Christina Wilburn
Joy Alexander
MSL 630
Belhaven University

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Abstract
Team building is an essential element to building great teams. The research gathered in this
study concludes that team building activities enhance communication, morale, trust, motivation,
and collaboration to successfully reach team goals. As teams are formed they should continue to
use these exercises to sustain togetherness and growth within the team. The team building
exercise, snap hunt, encourages teams to work together using teamwork and competition. This
project is a great way to learn the unique skills and talents of team members as well as how team
members should use those diverse skills to complete tasks and reach team goals.

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Building a Winning Team
Teambuilding is a creative way to develop effective communication, improve team
morally, and to reinforce company ethics and values. Organizations that enforce team building
activities have developed healthy organizational cultures through building teams and exercised
the teamwork. One team building exercise, Snap Hunt, is a creative activity that encourages
teams to work together to complete the assembly of the puzzle. Competition and motivation are
the key factors to successfully completing this task as a team. This activity also encourages
teams to work with other teams to complete tasks. Through this activity, teams with specific
skills will learn how to work with teams of a different expertise. Upon completion, teams will
recognize the importance of working together, communicating effectively, and exercising their
unique skills while building teamwork.
The Bible encourages teams to be productive in order to please God. I Peter 4:8-10 says
Above all love one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to
one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good
stewards of god’s varied grace. Team building is one of the ways that teams build trust, strength,
and teamwork to ensure successful outcomes as well as please God.
Some think that team building is about playing silly games, or indulging in irrelevant out
of work activities. The managers and corporations feel that their money is worth being spent.
Others might have problems in their workplace with conflict in groups, poor performance, or
unmotivated staff uses team building as positive, and goal driven. Team building is to give clear
understanding of team building and the role of leadership in achieving high performance.

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This team building activity is a process that takes place in time. To start the process of
this puzzle activity is where there is a group of people, two or more, and a leader. The end of the
process is where a high performing team is formed through these techniques, they are highly
motivated to perform better and have been through a well-developed processes and systems to
organize their workload, and who gain immense satisfaction from their shared achievements.
The overall objective is to achieve high performance, develop the group through the
various stages of development until it becomes high performance. However, like all process,
there are different steps or stages, and there are quite different objectives and goals at each stage.
Focusing on the correct objectives at each stage, and changing your objectives as you go through
the process, will help you achieve high performance. According to Steve Schumacher the
objectives of a team building activities should be focus on the challenges that are occurring in the
company (Schumacher, S. 2013).
There is no ‘I’ in team. The objective is to bond the team together to achieve their shared
goals. Our objective is to get the ‘I’ back into the Team, to keep them together, but develop
individual excellence as a team goal as well.
The number one benefit that will come from the team building activity is communication.
In order for the team to complete the task, they have to communicate. Team members will
communicate by sharing their opinions about how to complete the activity. This activity will
increase good communication with the members. The activity will increase communication to
members who hasn’t communicated before. Communication will help build a relationship in the
workplace.

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Collaboration is another benefit that the team members will benefit from the activity. The
members have to work jointly together to complete the activity. There is no independent work in
this activity. So, members have to work together to complete the activity within the time
provided. The collaboration will help the members learn their team member’s strengths and
weakness. It will also let the members know how they could go to for things they need help with
in the company.
The activity will help diversify the team members. The team can have different diversity
within the team. Including diversity in the activity will bring different aspects and ideas into the
activity. Bringing diversity in the activity will help the team members who have a problem
working with people from a different culture. It will also give team members a chance to work
with people of different race and ethnicity if they have never worked for a company with
diversity. Cultivating teams will help positively influence culture within the company (Taplin, S.
H., Foster, M. K., & Shortell, S. M. 2013).
Teams can choose from various team building activities. However, team building
activities should be directed toward conflict or issues in the team. If the company directs the
activities towards conflicts and issues will ensure that the teams will gain some benefits. Any
team activity selected should build trust and productivity. The activity should allow the teams to
see working together will bring accomplishment.
The activity that our team selected has team members locate each other. The team
members can find each other with the same picture. This idea is that each person on the team
makes up the puzzle. In addition, each team member holds a piece that is similar to someone
else. The team members need each other to complete the picture of the puzzle. This is the same

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as the team needing different pieces of each other’s personalities to meet the team goals. Upon
the completion of putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, unity is formed. The team has a
feeling of accomplished.
Accomplishment is the result of everyone on the team participating and fitting their piece
of the puzzle. The unity of the pieces allows the team members to all see the real big picture. It is
important for teams to know that they may be differently. It is ok to be different as long as they
can be cohesive like the puzzle. Teams need to know that after completing the activity they can
see the big picture which is exceeding their team goal. Team building activities can provide
feelings of accomplishment. Accomplishment is reached when team goals are met.
It is critical for teams to understand that team building is a continuing process. As
employees, we tend to get comfortable after we have established relationships within our
organizations. When employees get comfortable, we can create biases such as categorizing and
stereotyping. To avoid getting comfortable organizations implement team building activities. We
have researched and concluded that team building activities such as snap hunt strengthens and
motivates team members. This activity also encourages team building while improving
communication, collaboration, and acceptance of diverse skills and talents within a team.

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Bibliography
Schumacher, S. (2013). Making Teambuilding More Than Just Fun. Rock Products, 116(6), 42-
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Taplin, S. H., Foster, M. K., & Shortell, S. M. (2013). Organizational Leadership For Building
Effective Health Care Teams. Annals Of Family Medicine, 11(3), 279-281.
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