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Leadership Development and Team Building
In this section you will learn more about building up your leadership team, how to make the most out of your chapter meetings, plan for your upcoming year and get some ideas for team building activities!
Check out the video below to dive into the foundations of building your leadership team, positions to include, the campus chairperson role and transitioning leadership.
Hosting Effective Meetings and Facilitation
This video reviews some best practices for hosting effective chapter meetings and facilitation of those meetings. This will help you plan and prepare for any meetings (virtual or in person) that you have!
You can use this facilitator’s guide for addition discussion questions, activities and instructions for this video.
Conflict Resolution
This video reviews a variety of skills and tips for conflict resolution and how that relates to your Global Brigades Chapter. It also provides some example scenarios that you can work through with your team!
You can use this facilitator’s guide for addition discussion questions, activities and instructions for this video.
Leadership Development Activities
Dive in deeper to growing your leadership skills with these quizzes and activities. You can do these activities on your own or as a group!
Complete a Leadership Style or Personality Quiz with your team!
Compare and discuss Leadership styles and the best ways that you can work together and support each other.
Use this facilitators guide to work through these activities with discussion questions and clear instructions.
SMART Goal Setting
The purpose of this activity is to work on team building by creating SMART goals for recruitment, fundraising, community engagement, and brigade participation. All volunteers should contribute to this conversation!
Team Building Activities
These activities give you a starting point for building out your team meetings with fun group activities. Use these to engage with and excite volunteers and if you have any additional activities you think we should add let us know!
Building Group Dynamics: Ice Breakers
Use this list of Ice Breakers to get to know members of your chapter, build teamwork and set expectations for the coming year.
Pre-Brigade Reflection Activity
Reflect and discuss individual and group expectations for everyone’s role and experience on brigade. This reflection will act as a precursor to the on-brigade nightly reflections that the group will have in order to think critically about their experience and actions in-country.
Lost at Sea Activity
This activity will help to engage in team building and growing leadership and communication skills, necessary for an effective leadership team and GB Chapter.
Drawing Twins Activity
This activity should illustrate how hard it is to give clear instructions as well as how hard it is to listen, and can also show how things are easily misunderstood and misinterpreted. This activity is focused on communication and listening and would be great to do with a Leadership team.
Meeting Meddlers Activity
Use this activity in a Chapter meeting, it helps highlight the power of positivity and enthusiasm in Chapter meetings and helps engagement and the feeling of community within your chapter.
Four Corners Activity
This activity will help you better understand your team members, learn to listen and share opinions that may differ from your own or connect with each other on shared ideas or beliefs. This is an effective activity to discuss possibly controversial topics, and provide visual cue to each other to see the distribution of varying opinions within the group.
Cross the Line Activity
Similarly to the Four Corners activity, Cross the line will help to better understand your team members and connect with each other on shared ideas or beliefs. This is an effective activity to discuss possibly controversial topics, and provide visual cue to each other to see the distribution of varying opinions within the group.