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Every person is different in ways that go well beyond an accent or eye color. For most people, their thought process is as distinctive as their fingerprints are for distinguishing them from anybody else. And since every possible personality type can make your team a stronger, more effective whole, every type of personality should be understood and respected by everybody else on the team. This can be pretty challenging most of the time.
One of the best ways to go into a situation where your team has to work together is to go into a casino and play some poker. While this might seem like bad behavior for a working environment, the underlying concept is a very solid one. When you have a group of people who will be working together, they need to know how the other people in the group think. There are few ways other than combat to better tell how a person responds to stress than a poker game, and poker is a whole lot less violent and dangerous than combat.
When your group goes in there, they can tell how the other people in the group work. They can play amongst tables of other players and observe each others’ modus operandi, or they can all play as a group and learn about each other that way. While playing as a group has the advantage of easier observation, it can tend to lead to one or two people dominating the rest of the group. While it is fun for the winners, this can give skewed results. So mixing and mingling a bit is best for learning about one another.
