Team Building

Good Team Chemistry can help to propel team towards success.

I scheduled our "Team Charge Session" for the second weekend of November in Pismo Beach. We would arrive of Friday evening, get our food, luggage and sleeping items unloaded and head to the beach for dinner (usually the Splash Cafe).
A schedule of our team building activities is listed below
Friday- 8:00pm to 10:00pm- Team Round Table- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (History of the girls basketball program; past, present and future), Coat of Arms (these are displayed in our locker room for the entire year and given back to the players at our team banquet), Player information and goal sheet (these are due on Sunday morning before breakfast), Movie-Love & Basketball.
Saturday- 9:30- Breakfast (a group of four players are responsible to cook breakfast).
11:00am to 1:30pm- Thank you cards (players write a card of thanks to an adult that has had a positive impact on their life), Puzzle (players choose an already cut up piece of tag board. They decorate it with their name, number, one individual goal & one team goal, at the conclusion we share them). Team Scavenger Hunt (in groups of four they are given a list of items to collect. The first group back with all the required items receives a prize).
2:00pm to 3:30- Lunch (see breakfast), other groups prepare for the team talent show.
3:30pm to 5:00pm- Free time (the players usually goes to the beach)
5:30pm to 7:00pm- Acrostic Poem's, Compliment Cards (a 5x7 card is passed around by each player and they are to write one positive comment about that player, players are asked to keep this card in place where they can see it each day).
7:30pm- Dinner (see breakfast)
9:00pm- Team talent show
10:00pm- Movie- Hoosiers
Sunday- 8:00am- Breakfast (see above)
9:30am to 11:00am- Closing activities- Round Table (what we learned, how we stay together, how to handle disagreements, etc.), 11:00am- Clean-up the house we stayed, load-up and depart.
I believe that this outing was one reason we were successful.