An Experiential Exercise You Can Tinker With

Abstract

Today, there is more and more emphasis being placed on teams and teamwork. As instructors of future business leaders, we are asked to foster team-oriented skills in our students. The following series of three related experiential exercises were designed to develop team-based skills. Like many existing team based exercises, these exercises provide for the student an experientially based appreciation of teams and teamwork, but they go farther than many existing team-based exercises by emphasizing the relationship between a professional team and a customer or client who requires the team’s services.