The Jigsaw Junction team-building activity offers a fun and engaging way for teams to learn and practice essential skills like collaboration and problem-solving. patience, trust, and adaptability. These lessons can be transferred to the workplace, improving teamwork, productivity, and overall team performance.
Participants understand that achieving a complex goal takes time and effort. They learn to remain focused, motivated, and dedicated, even when faced with setbacks or difficulties.
Teams must work together to complete a puzzle as quickly as possible. Initially, the teams are divided and given separate bags of puzzle pieces. They think it's a competition against each other and then come to realize that they have no way of completing the puzzle unless they work with the other sub-teams, as they hold the missing pieces of the puzzle.
Larger teams will be challenged in how they organize the task, leadership, and teamwork (ensuring everyone has a role within the team).
The teams come together to assemble all their respective pieces with other teams to create a giant jigsaw puzzle picture. The magic of experiential learning comes through beautifully in this activity, which can be related to many workplace metaphors.
