Game Analysis: Teamwork And Family Feud

There are many games that come to mind when thinking about how to increase productivity and how to bring a group closer together. While many games could be fitting, the game that stuck out is, Family Feud. Family Feud is an American game show that emphasizes teamwork. Family Feud has been rated by TV Guide as the third rated game show of all time. This game is played by two families battling against each other. The battles are families fighting to name the most popular answers to the surveys Family Feud has researched. On the show, there are five people in a family and each person in the family has to contribute to their “team.” Each round begins with one member of the family battling a member from the other team to see which person buzzes

in with an answer first, both get a chance to answer. The highest rated answer the subject then goes to that family if chosen to accept the question, they have the chance to pass. When answering the questions to the surveys the family gets three wrong guesses, if the family answer’s the whole survey right they advance and get the full points from the question; if the family uses all three strikes, the opposing family has an opportunity to “steal” the question. When stealing a question, the family gets one answer for the subject, if answered correctly the same format continues when a family wins the original battle and have 3 guesses to finish the subject. The first family to three hundred points wins in this game. When the family wins the battle, they advance to the Fast Money bonus round, this bonus round is a “lightning round,” very fast paced. In the Fast Money bonus round two participants from the family are selected, they have ten questions that they have to answer questions with whatever comes to their minds in the short amount of time that they have to answer the Fast Money questions. Those questions are survey related and therefore, one of the most important and tense moments of the game.
Family Feud would be perfect to have a break in the office while staying somewhat productive.

While Family Feud is a fun game, a manager could incorporate things employees in the company should know while building teamwork. Top clients in the company could be one question that employees should know the top five, if employees do not know that playing this game would give the vital information in a fun way where employees would definitely remember. Playing Family Feud would be very effective if played as soon as a manager knows which employees are going to be working together for projects. Family Feud is influenced heavily on teamwork on the idea that each person has to help out one another in order to complete the survey. Playing this game would give the team for the future project a bond that would not occur if these people were thrown straight into a project. This would also be friendly competition between co-workers so the employees can relax and have a little bit of fun every once in a while. By playing Family Feud a manager will find many new things about each co-worker like; how quick the employees are able to respond, how well the employees handle pressure, how knowledgeable and up to date the employees are, as well as many other things to

list.
Family Feud would be vital to product development in many ways.

One way this would heavily influence product development is the employees have a personal trust their peers. When the workers of the project have a sense of trust with each other, more ideas will be put on the table because a person would not be feeling like their idea is superior or inferior to all the others that have already been discussed. Another reason this would influence product development is the employees should be willing to spend more time with their team after playing this game as an icebreaker. Most projects, trying to cram everything in a normal workday will be extremely tough, and to really excel in having the best idea possible employees should be willing to go above and beyond the basic minimum give everything their all. With the bond the employees should benefit from this game, they should be willing to spend some of their own time with their team since they have a personal bond now with their team and know that they can have a fun time while also working. Playing Family Feud will give the manager’s employees a much needed break from work before they learn about a project they are assigned to, by playing this game a manager should see major improvements in effectiveness and efficiency of their

employees.
Family Feud is a TV show that is not settled for coaching and teaching teams at first, but it is inevitable to see how much it actually develops team work and the pursue for the common goal. One of the most important factors is the idea of winning money after the contest, even by answering really easy or dumb questions that sometimes could be more driven through common sense than actually knowledge. In the office, such activities like Family Feud would be completely successful to get all the employees into some kind of family orientation. Through history, family is the closest and most important unit, and such connotation helps to give a better feeling into the idea of working as a team.