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Facilitated Team Building is Better than Free Range Team Building
Brandon Wetzstein Brandon Wetzstein

Facilitated Team Building is Better than Free Range Team Building

Think of the variety of team building events you’ve done- Most of them are free range. Happy hour, games, and even volunteering can be energizing and enjoyable, yet the interactions between people aren’t designed to connect. You are hoping for randomized collisions to help people connect. Facilitated events creates collisions and harnesses them to create connection with intent.

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Have You Heard of the Cortical Homunculus?
Brandon Wetzstein Brandon Wetzstein

Have You Heard of the Cortical Homunculus?

Think of when we have an active dialogue in groups. Due to the context we are generally using the prefrontal cortex, or the logic center of our brain.

Yet when we get our hands involved, such as when we build our thoughts and ideas out of LEGO bricks, we are using more parts of our brain.

Our hands, as pictured in the cortical homunculus image above, are activating more neuron networks in our brain, which in turn can give us access to more information or knowledge that might have not been accessible when just working verbally.

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How Much Time Do You Spend Observing Your Team?
Brandon Wetzstein Brandon Wetzstein

How Much Time Do You Spend Observing Your Team?

Try this out 🤔 ▶ Delegate an activity for someone else to run, something where everyone needs to share their input, possibly a brainstorm or something similar. 👀 Participate yourself, but spend your time also paying attention to how people are interacting. Not just the speaker but the team as a whole. The idea here isn't to spy or call people out (Don't do that!) Instead, look and listen. 👀Are people attentive? Supportive? Do they build off of one another or do they take their turn and shut down?

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Unlocking the Secrets of Exceptional Team Building
Brandon Wetzstein Brandon Wetzstein

Unlocking the Secrets of Exceptional Team Building

Effective team building is about much more than just bringing people together; it's about carefully crafting experiences that encourage communication, collaboration, and connection. IN8 Create specializes in team building events that are enjoyable, impactful, and memorable.

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Building Connection: The Secret Sauce in How to Improve Team Performance
Brandon Wetzstein Brandon Wetzstein

Building Connection: The Secret Sauce in How to Improve Team Performance

Improving team performance isn't solely about refining processes or integrating new tools. Sometimes, the answer lies in revisiting our human roots—by building and nurturing connections. In the grand scheme of how to improve team performance, fostering genuine relationships and understanding within the team could be the most potent strategy of all.

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