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[quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary school principal with a staff of 50 people. We opened last year with a 2 hour session on StrengthsFinder.  I bought the book for everyone and they completed the assessment.  Then we did a variety of exercises including finding out the strengths of others, plotting out our strengths on a large graph. breaking into teams to see what our collective strengths were and where support would be needed.

We did do the Marshmallow Challenge later in the year, and everyone enjoyed it.  It was framed in the context of collaboration, which was something we'd been focusing on all year.

This year we are going to do some short activities I learned at a workshop with Dan Horgan. (You can google him). He took us through several team building games like tossing a ball around a circle, but one teammate is blindfolded. Another was putting together a puzzle.  Two of us were blindfolded and had to put the puzzle together. Others gave us directions, but couldn't touch the puzzle pieces or our hands. 
 
I agree with the PP that these activities can feel contrived.  Folks need to see what the connection is to the work they do.  You have to be very explicit about that or else it's just a waste of time.  I don't plan to spend more than an hour on these games because I know teachers want to get to their rooms. We need to connect and have fun as a group and then get to our business. [/quote]

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