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Group Building Activity
Make your Flag
Use this creativity exercise for team building. Groups should work together to create flags that represent their teams, philosophy and their view of how they work together presented symbolically.
Aims of the tool
Design a flag that best represents your team.
Description of the tool
1.Divide the participants to groups with members that are most familiar with each other, work together or are about to work together. Or you can get them all to work as one group.
2.Explain the objective to participants that they must design a flag for their teams. They must decide what defines their teams, their goals and what brings them together. They should then identify symbols that best capture these concepts and implement them in the final design of their flags.
3.Allocate 15 to 30 minutes for this activity.
4.At the end, get the groups to demo their flags. Other groups can guess what the symbols represent and the group who designed the flag can correct them by explaining the symbols or reveal other symbols that might have been missed.
5.Follow with a discussion:
Was it useful to define what your team stands for? If you see the flag, would you be instantly reminded of your team’s overall objective and philosophy? Can you think of your flag as your brand? Does the principle depicted symbolically in the flag make you feel proud that you are part of the team? Could you read the symbols designed by other teams? What did you learn about others in your team as you went through the process of flag design? Did other team members think differently to you about the priorities of the team, what the team stood for, or what was important in bringing a team together?
Disclaimer
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/1538
This tool is for
All ages
and addresses
Group Dynamics
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Training and Networking
Materials needed:
Papers, color pens, scissors, wood sticks or straw, scotch tape…
Duration:
60-90 minutes
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Rima Dinnawi
in the context of
Personal Development for youth-YWCA-Beirut
The tool has been experimented in
Workshop
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Rima Kabbarah (on 10 June 2014)
and last modified
29 May 2014
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