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Wiff Waff™ | Teamwork Training Activity
Wiff Waff™ | Teamwork Training Activity
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This interactive teamwork activity gets delegates analysing their behaviour, skills and attributes and helps them to achieve their full potential as a team player!
to test and practise team skills in a short team activity
self-awareness about behaviours and attitudes in groups
teamwork and leadership skills
the importance of team roles
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$379.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 45 minutes + debrief
- Use F2F & Virtual
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Digital Copy
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Northgate says...
"The team that functions effectively and efficiently brings together a diverse range of characters, skills, and talents. Having role definitions and responsibilities helps the team to capitalise on the very best of what each person can bring to the team."
- To test and practise team skills in a short team activity
- Self-awareness about behaviours and attitudes in groups
- Teamwork and leadership skills
- The importance of team roles
- How to identify preferred team roles via a questionnaire
Ideally suited to:
Finding out more, in a non-threatening way, about each individual's skills, attributes and comfort zones.
Wiff Waff is the original name for Ping Pong, or table tennis. In this short sharp teamwork activity participants are asked to plan for a table-tennis tournament. They have ten minutes' individual planning time and they then come together, in virtual teams, to work out details of play, costs and entrance fee, design a poster and prepare advertising copy.
The activity is based on a set of seven team roles that are considered essential components for high-performing teams. The task is designed to bring the key team roles into relief and gives participants the opportunity to reflect on their own best skills and attributes - and how they fit into a team.
During the debrief you can discuss what happened during the team task, and consider the seven key roles or types. Optional handouts included. An exciting, team task that is designed to get your delegates interacting followed by an opportunity for self-reflection.
Wiff Waff has been developed from Northgate's activity, Building an Effective Team (no longer available).
- Briefly introduce the activity to all participants.
- Allocate participants into teams and put them into breakout rooms.
- Send a copy of the Team Brief to each individual and allow ten minutes for participants to study it on their own. After ten minutes participants can then discuss it within their teams.
- Allow 20-30 minutes for the team task. Observe teams in action and make notes for the debrief in terms of how they worked as a team.
- After the allotted time stop the teams. Ask for results from each team in terms of the answers to the task.
- Lead a general debrief on how the teams operated and a discussion on team roles.
- Use the (optional) PowerPoint to describe and review the seven key roles. Use the optional handouts which are designed to make participants think about their own traits and how they best fit into the key roles required in a team.
- Consolidate the learning by linking the idea of team roles to the workplace and how improvements might be made in terms of self-awareness, behaviours and attitudes.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
- Trainer’s Notes
- Trainer's Debrief PowerPoint
- Team Brief
- Handout: Team Roles - Questionnaire
- Handout: Team Roles - Summary of Team Roles
This activity is supplied digitally via the Northgate Trainerhub. No delivery charges apply.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Jon Middleton, Graduate and Apprenticeship Lead, Alstom Transport UK Ltd 'Wiff Waff' is absolutely brilliant! We have used it a lot and it is a really good team activity.
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Ian Moreton-Thickett, Freelance L&D Consultant, The Development Catalyst I have used 'Wiff Waff' virtually a couple of times (with two groups from the same organisation) and it worked really rather well. I adapted the delivery a little as I wanted something across a couple of shorter breakouts rather than one large activity but it served my purpose well. What I did was got them to create the answers to the questions (without doing the advert) in the first session. We debriefed that and then later in the day we did another breakout where they had to create the ad. This meant that in both sessions some people might have been less effective as their skill sets might have been under utilised. Discussion around how that felt and how to keep people engaged was useful. Northgate products are just as useful in a virtual world!
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Anon, L&D Manager, Public Sector Organisation I used 'Wiff Waff' virtually. The poster design element allowed those with more of a creative flare to shine and and also provided a really good mechanism to learn how to use the online whiteboard tool through some fun trial and error.
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Pauline Wells, HR Business Partner, SSL Insurance Brokers Ltd I have used Northgate products over the years, starting when I was Training & Development Manager for Virgin Atlantic Airways, and found them easy to facilitate, fit for purpose and both instructive and enjoyable for participants.
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