team building game

Team Building Games that work.

The training is intense. Managers and their teams gain results not just another team training book on their shelf.

Empirical Evidence in support of the fact that team building exercises in Ranger Teamwork, Leadership and Communication really work.

A University study, including 96 students over 13 Leading Concepts courses the Results chart for Total programs studied showed significant improvement in every behavior. People’s behaviors were changed! What matters is that the course graduates had greater:

Trust in Peers
Group Awareness
Group Effectiveness (cohesion)
Group Bonding
Interpersonal Communications

1. Attitude Towards Program. Measure of a person’s reaction to the training program.

2. Trust in Peers. In an organization is defined as the extent to which one is willing to ascribe good intentions to and to have confidence in the words and actions of others. (Cook & Wall, 1980). Zand (1972) found that groups with higher levels of trust were better able to solve problems and could deal with conflict in a more open and constructive manner.

3. Group Awareness. Is the feeling among group members that each member of the group is aware of the common goal of the group (clarity), and is committed to achieving that goal (cohesive).

4. Group Effectiveness. Is a measure of the overall functioning of the work group, and includes such critical areas as the level of co-operation within the group, group competence and the task motivation of the group. As with any training program, Management’s major goal was for the skills learned in the program to effectively transfer to the work setting. Group effectiveness is seen as the key behavioral link in producing this transfer of training skills to the work setting.

5. Group Bonding. Measures the cohesiveness of the work group.

6. Interpersonal Communications. This included issues such as feeling free to speak about any topic, being friendly with group members, and feeling free to propose new ideas to the group. The results of earlier studies indicated that more positive outcomes had resulted from these programs than had been identified by the empirical research.

In addition to the above evidence, a doctoral thesis is being produced based on the Ranger TLC Experience. The author is a graduate of the program as are the following endorsers: