Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces

Objectives

- Help teams think about collaboration and communication or strategy

• Review Activities
• Reflection Activities
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Team Strategy

Group Size

• Small
• Medium
• Large

Materials

A jigsaw puzzle

• blank ones are nice e.g. This Get 3 - 63 piece puzzles for $4.25
• but ones with pictures are also ok
• cups or bags (to hold a subset of the pieces)

Set Up

• Divide up the puzzle into chunks - 1 for each functional group or team.
• Pass out the pieces for each group (it helps to divide them into bags or

Directions

• Identify the goal you want the team to work towards - e.g. highlighting current challenges fitting teams face in working together, or
• Introduce the activity - goal is to put pieces together
• give people time to work on it (varies depending on complexity)
• facilitate discussion about how this relates to what the group is doing in real life (i.e. how group is working together)

Debrief

• how is this similar to what we are trying to do as a team?
• how is this different?
• so what? what do we want to take away from this?

Alternatives

• pass out the puzzles in advance and have teams draw their vision of success on them

Variations

• Kelbaugh Communications Puzzle Activity
• BusinessBalls Jigsaw Puzzle

Fun

• Chocolate Teamwork Puzzle Pieces