Articles about teams and leadership: team building, facilitation and cooperative games from Experiencia RPG.
A development team doesn't need the same thing a sales team does. Here are the specific problems tech teams tend to have, and which activity format actually helps.
A team can have the best tools and the clearest processes, but if nobody dares to say 'I don't get it' or 'I think we got this wrong,' none of that is enough.
Budget spent, people back at their desks with nothing changed. These are the mistakes we see repeated most often when organizing a team activity, and how to avoid them.
Listening isn't waiting for your turn to talk. Active listening is a concrete skill you can practice, and games with asymmetric information are excellent training for it.
A relay race and a cooperative game look similar on the surface, but they train opposite things. Before you pick a team activity, it's worth understanding the difference.
Badges, points and leaderboards aren't gamification — they're decoration. Real corporate gamification changes how a team works, not just how the dashboard looks.
With distributed teams, remote team building needs different rules than the year-end barbecue. What works, what doesn't, and how to build an activity that connects people who barely see each other.