Defining the team principles

15-20 ''
3-12
Warming up
Storming

Goal:

• To define the principles of the team in a democratic way.

• These principles should establish and specify the aspects to be fostered and avoided by team members.

How to play:

  • 1- Decide, together with all the team members which categories of the team principles will be interesting to be discussed and defined. For example, “Meetings”, “Roles of each member”, “Communication channels”, etc.

  • 2- Distribute on the table as many signs with the image of “Box” as agreed categories. Indicate the name of each category on each “Box”.

  • 3- Encourage participants to write, for the different categories, on sticky notes:

    • • the principles to be fostered (in one colour) and

    • • the principles to be avoided (in another colour).

  • 4- Define common grounds and agree with all the participants on the principles obtained for each category.

  • 5- Save a photo of the result and share it with all participants.

Material:

1. Signs with the image of a “Box” or marker to draw the boxes on the board.

2. Minimum of 5 sticky notes of 2 different colours per participant.

3. 1 pen per participant.