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Discovering Styles Thumball™ 2140E1DS

Enhance your team-building activities with the Discovering Styles Thumball. This innovative tool serves as an excellent complement to any personality-type assessment. By engaging with the Thumball, team members can explore various work and management styles, familiarize themselves with new terminology, and refine their ability to categorize traits into distinct personality types. Additionally, it provides valuable insights into leveraging the strengths of each style, fostering a more collaborative and effective workplace environment.

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⚽ Overview

Diverse teams tend to have better problem-solving skills, increased creativity, stronger decision-making, and higher employee engagement because everyone has something unique and valuable to contribute to the team. The key, however, is creating an accepting environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and comfortable enough to share their perspectives.

Used as a complementary resource to any personality-type tool, the Discovering Styles Thumball is one of the best collaboration activities for teams. The Thumball explores players' work and management styles and helps players recognize the various personality styles in the workplace, become familiar with new terminology, refine their ability to categorize traits into personality types, and explore ways to leverage the strengths of each style.

⚽ How It Works

Begin your training session by emphasizing that teams are more effective when they include diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and personality traits. Highlight how these differences can lead to greater creativity, stronger problem-solving, and improved decision-making.

Then, introduce the Discovering Styles Thumball as an engaging tool that helps participants explore their unique styles and better understand those of their teammates. Explain how this activity promotes self-awareness, encourages open dialogue, and fosters collaboration – ultimately strengthening team performance.

⚽ Learning Outcomes

By playing in teams, participants will achieve the following outcomes:

  • Identify their own personality traits and work styles
  • Appreciate the various personality characteristics within their team
  • Consider how different personality traits can contribute to team performance
  • Learn the value of diverse perspectives and characteristics within teams

⚽ Uses and Applications

Looking for a fun and effortless way to break the ice and spark meaningful conversations? Thumballs are one of the best collaboration activities for teams. Just toss, catch, and respond to the prompt under your thumb – it's that simple. With engaging and intuitive topics, Thumballs create a relaxed, stress-free environment that energizes any training session, encourages participation, and makes learning more interactive. Get ready to turn every toss into a chance for connection, insight, and fun.

⚽ About Thumballs™

Mary Miller Pembleton, a speech pathologist, created Thumball™ to engage her students with learning challenges by combining speech activities with ball games. After a dream inspired her to market the product, she and her husband Gregg developed and patented Thumball™, which is now used to improve communication and social skills in various settings. Their business, Answers In Motion, has grown with increased publicity and sales, fulfilling their vision of making Thumball™ a household name.

Focus:   Personality Style

Type:   Game / Icebreaker

Delivery:   In-Person

LENGTH:   Varies

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Why do Thumballs work?

What began as a conversation starter has grown into a deeply insightful training tool. Discover why they work from Dr. Sue Landy of Trainer's Warehouse.

Enhance Learning and Engagement

Thumballs actively engage participants in the learning process and spark insightful and introspective questions. When participants are engaged in their learning, they are more likely to remember and apply what they learned to their work.

Improve Communication and Collaboration

Thumballs promote active listening and participation in group discussions as participants respond to and build off of what the speaker said. By thoughtfully listening to others and responding to the prompts on the Thumballs, participants develop stronger interpersonal connections, leading to stronger communication and increased collaboration among team members.

Encourage a Positive Work Culture

When using Thumballs thoughtfully, you promote a culture of inclusivity, where employees feel comfortable sharing their thoughts with one another. Thumballs also help foster a sense of community by encouraging employees to learn more about one another in a meaningful way. When employees feel respected, valued, and safe, each employee contributes to creating a positive work environment.

Support Professional Development

Thumballs help develop key professional skills by prompting discussions on topics like leadership, personality style, diversity, teamwork, and more. Each prompt encourages participants to self-reflect on their strengths and weaknesses, and meaningful group conversations spark ideas to grow and improve.

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