Team Building Leadership Activities Games 48-Card Deck for Student Council

Need a team-building activity or teamwork exercise quickly?

Use this flip deck of the best ice breakers, team builders, and debriefs to set you up and carry you through those days and moments you feel totally lost advising your students.

This is a must-have for any student council or club advisor or Leadership teacher wanting to do some real leadership skill-building.

Greatness is understanding that great leaders really are just great team builders.

It seems that some people are born as natural leaders, natural extroverts with a talent for the social graces to build others up and to bring everyone together. But that simply isn’t true.

Just like any other discipline, leadership skills can be taught and a quick reference guide is worth its weight in gold. This flip deck answers your questions:

• What do we do on the very first day of school? Especially when the group doesn't know each other well?
• How can I encourage fair decision-making? Especially when there are strong opinions in the room?
• How can I get my kids to reflect seriously? Especially when

Learning the delicate role of StuCo advisor or leadership teacher really is possible! All you need are curated tools you can actually utilize on the fly.

Finally, this is a deck of activities created especially for middle or high school students, and even makes a great set of activities for staff PD and meetings!

Included in this handy flip deck

Seven detailed how-to activity idea cards (plus an additional blank card for ideas you find!) for each of these six stages of effective team building and teamwork:

• Introducing each other and creating some backstory
• Trust building to form stronger relationships
• Brainstorming to get those great ideas going
• Decision-making so that every opinion is valued
• Communicating to work stronger together
• Debriefing in order to be better next time

This convenient, stash-anywhere flip deck is universal enough to help any middle or high school teacher, advisor, or instructional coach looking to create lasting meaning out of the time your group has and walk away with life-long leadership skills.

What Other Teachers are Saying

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super easy to assemble, these are going to be my emergency sub plans for my leadership students. The sub can just pick a card and keep them entertained! - fellow TPT seller

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This has a nice variety of activities that fit many different uses. I've used it for a leadership retreat, in the classroom, and as a club activity. I like how it was organized. It is not a one-and-done resource, I will continue to use it throughout my career. - Robin

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I LOVE these activities. I laminated them and put them on a ring. When we have 10 minutes here or there I just pull it out and do one of the activities. The kids love the games too. - Whitney

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