Team Balance is a particularly versatile, experiential team activity that can be used in support of a wide variety of learning objectives.
The activity builds through a series of increasingly challenging tasks that make demands on the co-ordination and co-operation of all the team members. There are opportunities to review and apply learning at all stages and involvement in the whole series of exercises gives practical experience of engaging in a process of on-going improvement.
Learning outcomes
Team Balance has been designed for use with project teams of between 4-16 people. The larger the group, the more difficult the managerial activity becomes!
Key skills highlighted by the use of Team Balance include:

• The development of shared understanding which leads to coordinated and aligned effort
• The extent to which individual action can impact both positively and negatively on team performance
• Team planning, testing and task implementation and the willingness to change or abandon unsatisfactory plans
• Team leadership, direction, team briefing and the delegation of individual and group responsibilities
• Setting appropriate, challenging but achievable team goals
•  Managing different levels of risk-taking
• Managing the effects of competition