- Games give teams an opportuinity to get creative.
We’ve all heard the adage that practice makes perfect. But how to we get to practice our teamwork skills?
The answer to this question lies at the heart of game play. Without being put to the test, we can’t truly know how our teams will react. We can guess, we can wager, we can discuss and hope. But when practice becomes performance, we discover our team’s true strength.
Games are constructed with a few transferrable elements. There must be a goal, or a way to “win.” There must be rules by which all players operate. There must be challenges that make the goal difficult to achieve. And there must be interaction — competition so that “winning” means something. If you’re playing a team game, this interaction within the team is part of the challenge. Working together makes winning possible as well as sweeter. Nothing like sharing First Place with your allies!
This is why games, like our scavenger hunts, are an important tool for businesses to utilize. You can’t expect your team to function perfectly the first time it operates together. Imagine recruiting a team of football players and plunking them down in an NFL game without a chance to practice first. Do you think they’ll function up to their full potential? Nope! Each player might specialize in his own position, but the team won’t know each others’ strengths and weaknesses, won’t know how to troubleshoot before problems arise, won’t know how to maximize each others’ potential. This is why they have pre-season; this is why there are scrimmages. Teams learn how to be better teams. Practice makes perfect.
So play a game together and learn how it feels to be a winning team!
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