Whether you are building a new team or optimizing an existing team, it is crucial to properly prepare the team and it's members to solve the tasks at hand. Only there can you expect the team to perform and develop itself and you can start to create synergy and high performance.
When developing skills and performance of a team, activities and exercises are the main purpose of team development. They merely serve as catalysts for creating interest and personal insight for the team members or the team as a whole.
Rather, it is the reflections, relations, discussions and agreements that happens during the activities that results in changed behaviour, better communication, better problem solving skills of the team and it's members.
Therefore, the design of team activities and the variation and combination between theory and activities are crucial to succeed with team development.