Team Building Activities for Responsibility

Teaching responsibility and accountability to teams of people can seem like a challenging task. By engaging the team in social activities, you can facilitate team bonding and enforce principles of responsibility. Team building activities can be valuable regardless of how cohesive your team may or may not already be. In today's dynamic business environment, regularly enforcing responsibility ensures team members won't fall behind or lose sight of their primary job functions.

  1. Responsibility of Choices

    • Holding the appropriate parties responsible for making choices, both good and bad, is an important part of maintaining accountability. People in all roles of the workplace are faced with making a number of decisions every day. Deciding how to choose the best options, and trusting your coworkers know how to do the same is important in maintaining good working relationships. Present a problem to the team and give them time to come up with idea for a solution as a group. Instruct them to continually narrow down the available choices until they only have two or three left. Present different perspectives that they should use to view the potential solutions, such as cost, time and feasibility.

    Expectations

    • Creating awareness of the expectations that team members hold for you and you hold for them is another way to foster responsibility principles among your team. Outlining key team expectations and then asking the team to elaborate on each one forces them to view the expectation in the context of their working environment. Once the team has expanded on each expectation, have them come up with ways they can strengthen each one. In doing so, all the team members gain clarification about what is expected of them.

    Trust Building

    • For teams to work together responsibly, they need to be able to trust one another. Assign a facilitator to lead a discussion that extracts some personal thoughts and feelings from each team member. Ask participants to evaluate how much risk they feel in various situations such as asking for help from coworkers, speaking out, expressing different opinions or admitting a mistake. Pair the participants up so they can discuss why they answered certain questions the way that they did. After speaking in pairs, reconvene as a group and work together to establish written norms to which the group should adhere.

    Stop Bad Habits

    • Creating what's called a "stop doing list" to help identify bad habits within the group that may be contributing to irresponsible behavior and decisions. Consider that many workers create to-do lists to help them complete their work and achieve professional goals. In this same sense, have the team work together to create a list of habits and processes that shouldn't continue and they should stop doing. Collect all of their answers on a whiteboard or easel and have the group create a more refined list of the habits, who should stop doing them and when they will stop doing them.

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