TEAM BUILDING FORMAT
Team Factory
A factory where the product is the team itself.
The team is given a metaphorical production process and has to make it work. Within half an hour you can see who leads, who executes, who is stuck and where time is lost — exactly as in the company, only visible.
Outdoor
works indoors too
Metaphorical
the process mirrors real work
Complexity
medium to high
How it runs
- 1The team receives the order, the materials and the factory rules.
- 2The first round is worked however it happens. The result is measured.
- 3The team gets time to redesign its process. The second round is different.
- 4The two rounds are compared and what made the difference is discussed.
What it trains
- +Clarity of roles — who does what, and why that way
- +Process improvement by the people who work inside it
- +Communication between stages, not only within them
- +The habit of measuring before and after instead of assuming
The part others skip
Every challenge ends with a structured conversation: what happened, who did what, what it resembles in your Monday work. Without that conversation, team building is entertainment and is forgotten in two weeks. With it, the team leaves with three written commitments about how it works from now on — and thirty days later we check whether they held.
Which team it makes sense for
Teams where everyone does everything and therefore no one is accountable for anything. Very good between departments that hand work to each other and blame each other for delays.
What to know upfront
- ·Of all the team building formats this is the closest to a training. People laugh, but they also work.
- ·The debrief connects directly to your real processes — which is why I need a conversation beforehand.
- ·We bring the materials.
Let's talk about your numbers.
30 minutes, free, no strings attached. Pick your slot straight from the calendar.
— Mihail