Team exercise for free: Find unity and common ground

Find common ground in 15 minutes: 

If you want your team to be a community, ie. be connected by something you have in common, something you agree on, something you have the same point of view on or something that interests you, then start this exercise.

Being connected by something you have in common means that it has to be a little unusual. It is not enough to have two eyes. But if several people have one green eye and one brown eye, then you have something in common. The common thing must therefore be somewhat rare.

Somewhere in Copenhagen there is an apartment complex where only former employees of The Royal House. They have in common that they have all served various Danish royals throughout their lives.

Elsewhere in Copenhagen, there is an apartment complex where only former actors live. They have in common that they have all appeared in theaters and in films throughout their long lives.

Community can also be togetherness. This is usually the case in a workplace. When the community is found, there are all the rarities, the unique. We are also all different and capable of different things. Community in a group consists of both what we have in common and what we are individual about.

You can ask everyone to clarify this with this exercise. It is called '3 about us and 1 about me':
Ask everyone to get into groups of 4 to 5 people. Ask them to (show it on a flipchart if necessary) draw a circle on an A4 sheet. In the big circle, they must note 3 things they have in common in the group. And like I said, these things have to be a little rare. You have to look and investigate and ask. Usually it works out in the end.

When the 3 common things have been found, the group can start the second half of the exercise: Each presents a rarity about himself, writes his name in a new circle that covers the first circle and formulates his rarity briefly.

If you have more than 1 group, the slightly more difficult part of the task now comes to collect the common things and preserve the rarities. It is all worth recording on one combined sheet.

For example, the whole thing can be illustrated with puzzle pieces. Individual puzzle pieces that fit together perfectly and form a big picture.

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Michael Meinhardt
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