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Teamwork Exercises

Martian Tom

Anyone else struggle with these?  I'm guessing so.

I've just finished a 3-day training course at work in dealing with challenging behaviour.  A lot of it involved activities that started with those words I've always dreaded.  'Find yourselves a partner.'

I don't mind if it's more than one other person.  But when it's just two of you, it's inevitable that one person will tend to be the more dominant.  I've never liked being dominant like that, so I find it difficult to take charge, and invariably will go along with what the other person says.  If it's three or more, on the other hand, then I don't feel so much pressure and am happy to let someone else take charge.

Maybe it's related to feeling a sense of solidarity if there's at least one other subordinate involved in the activity.  If it's just two of you, it's just one against the other in the quest to be dominant.  That's what always makes me feel uncomfortable.

Everyone else enjoyed the course.  I was the only one who didn't.  I just hate those kinds of activities.  I'd sooner work alone.  It's also why I'd never, ever want to be a manager or supervisor of anyone else - just myself.

  • In order to successfully reach a common goal, the team must be cohesive. I found more about teamwork and how it affects performance in general on this [removed by mod] and it helped me better understand the essence of teamwork. In my opinion, only by working together can you successfully achieve the desired goal.

  • Yep, hate that sort of thing too. Doesn't matter if it's two people or more, there's always that one dominating and it makes me more angry or upset when I find that someone else has a good idea or valid opinion and gets ignored than when that person is me.

    Think this one would have been particularly difficult because I would feel like I'm the only one displaying challenging behaviour, so I'm there to be changed whereas everybody else is there to get help dealing with all the trouble I'm causing them... If this really is what people would have thought is a different matter, but since they would never tell me I wouldn't be able to stop worrying about it even if they didn't think it. I would probably be quite convinced the course is only run because everybody is suffering so much from me.