Writing a Book Together

Writing a Book is a game that encourages creativity, collaboration, and memory. It also gives you something concrete to look at in the future to see where your team has been and how far it has come.

This team-building exercise is not done all at once, but over time. Make a large, blank journal or scrapbook available in the break room or other common areas.

Leave pens, markers, tape, and other items that your team can use to write and draw on the book. Encourage them to write quotes from what they are reading or from team members, to write about a fun event that happened at work, temporary tape or glue, or anything that helps record the culture of the team.

The book can have instructions on each page, ask questions, or suggest things to write or draw. Or you can have the guidelines printed and displayed alongside the book (i.e. no swearing, nothing offensive, no complaints, no scribbling in others’ work, etc.).

When the book is full, put it on the shelf and get a new one. The purpose of this team exercise is to create a living story about your group.

The topics of this publication: collaboration, non-verbal communication, teamwork, integration