Online Workstations

• Virtual Team Icebreaker Activity
• Improve Virtual Teamworking Skills
• Practice Managing Information & Communication in a Virtual Environment
• Provide Opportunities to Use Distributed Information to Solve Problems 
• Build Strategic Thinking Skills
• Improve Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills
• Build Online Team Communication Skills

Online Workstations is easy to set-up and adapt at the last minute to accommodate any changes in participant numbers. A draft session is initially created, which can be adjusted when the participant group is finally confirmed - either by automatic email distribution or via individual participant links.

Online Workstations offers a good, practical illustration of team roles in action and can be successfully linked to work on effective team performance eg. using the Belbin Team Role model, or individual personality, thinking preference or other individual profiling tools.

The team members are required to share information verbally in order to solve a 'matrix puzzle' - a process of information sharing, elimination and logic. The difficulty comes in not being able to see the other participant's cards - the group must identify other ways of remembering and sorting key information. The matrix involves the names of five people, the jobs they do, the places they work, the vehicles they drive and their lunch preferences. Even when all the information is shared there still needs to be some critical thinking employed to determine the task solutions!

This is a challenging activity and most groups will take at least 20 minutes to complete it - all the information on all 30 x image links distributed is relevant so each team member must play a part. However even after sharing all the information, the group must use all of this along with some critical thinking to complete the matrix and reveal answers to the two key questions: 'Who goes to a cafe for lunch?', and 'Who drives a Ford?'

Workstations is also available as a physical playing card-based product for those who want to work in person or in a hybrid situation (some in person and some working remotely) , or for an entirely virtual session.

If you wish to have us to provide extra support or individualised training for a group of facilitators on using this product, then please  Purchase the one hour Product Coaching Support package.