Teambuilding activities for South African organisations

_GoBack -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Introduction -- About the book -- 50 -- Teambuilding -- Training -- Activities -- South African context -- Practitioners and managers -- Who should use the book? -- Structure of the book -- Introduction -- In a nutshell -- Objectives -- Materials required -- Procedure -- Tip -- PART ONE: NOTES ON TEAMBUILDING -- Teambuilding -- Types of interventions -- The interpersonal intervention -- Role clarification as an intervention -- The task-based intervention -- Assessment as an intervention -- The activity-based intervention -- Characteristics of effective teambuilding interventions -- Assessment of team needs -- The intervention is related to the components of the team -- Process of effective implementation -- Assessment -- A design -- An intervention -- Follow-up -- Evaluation -- Ensuring that the organisation is prepared for the intervention -- Contextualisation of interventions -- The nature of the workforce -- Ubuntu -- The African renaissance -- Activity-based interventions -- It engages the whole person -- It is unpredictable -- It uses metaphoric transfer -- It involves all components of team dynamics -- It provides an experimental environment -- It utilises multiple knowledge and skill types -- It can enhance self-confidence and facilitate peak performance -- Teambuilding programme -- Who are our members? -- Who are we? -- Where are we going? -- What binds us together? -- What do we do? -- How are we doing it? -- How do we know we are achieving it? -- How do we maintain our momentum? -- How did we measure up? -- What did it mean to the team? -- The activities -- Introduction -- Teams -- A core -- A structure -- A pattern -- Performance -- A culture -- A context -- PART TWO: TEAMBUILDING ACTIVITIES -- 1. Balance -- 2. Make a map -- 3. Marabaraba -- 4. Star gazing.