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Principles and Practices of Management

Notes
Team Building Exercises
Notes
Group Favorites Game
Objective: To increase interaction among group members and to learn commonalties
among group members
Group Size: 8 to 40 is ideal
Materials:
(a) Question Sheets
(b) Pens or pencils

(c) Large Chalkboard or white board with writing instruments and eraser
Description:
Note: This game is played like the television game "Family Feud". Prior to the activity, pass out a
survey (see suggestion) to the members of the group. (If you have a small group, you may want to
survey people outside of the group as well). Collect the surveys and tally up the answers. Make a
list of the top three to five answers for each question and rank them in order of popularity.
Break the group into an even number of teams with four to ten people on each team. Place
chairs facing each other in two rows and ask two of the teams to sit in the chairs for the first
round. The first person in the row of each team comes to the front. These two people face
each other across the table that has a tennis ball or other small soft object on it. The
chalkboard should be where everyone can see it, with the numbers one through three or
six on it (this is the number of top answers you have on your list).
Now ask the first question (for example, "Name the top four favorite restaurants"). The
first person to grab the ball gets a chance to answer the question. (If someone grabs the
ball early, stop reading the question and make him/her give you an answer before reading
anymore.) If the person with the ball gives an answer that is on your list, write it besides
the corresponding number. If this person has not guessed the number-one answer, the
other player gets a turn to guess. The person who guesses the highest answer on the list
gets to choose whether his/her team will play or pass.
After this, each team gets three strikes (wrong answers). The team that is playing gets the
chance to guess the remaining answers on the board. Give each person a turn. Once the
playing team gets three strikes, the other team decides as a group what one answer they
want to give to try to fill in one of the remaining blanks. If the first team fills in all the
blanks they win the round, but if the opposing team guesses one of the remaining answers,
they win the round.
Continue in this manner, playing many different rounds with different teams playing
against each other.

Group Survey:
1. Favorite restaurant
2. Favorite type of music
3. Favorite Christmas song

4. Favorite Shampoo
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