# Market of skills
In this exercise, team members get to know each other's skills and strengths. It is often used during a new team's start-up phase.
# Subject
Team Start-up/Team identity
# Motivation
Strengthens the team members regarding the power of their mixed skills. It reveals, where team members can support and develop each other. Teammates will understand one another's skills to effectivly share their work.
# Benefit
Empowering people to think outside the box and to reflect about themselves.
# Procedure
Each person draws a poster containing the following three categories: his/her own skills/strengths related to the team, previous/hidden skills and skills one would like to learn or improve. After all posters have been completed, they are all pinned to a wall to form the 'marketplace'. Team members then present their posters one by one while the audience takes notes about what skills might be useful in their work, where they can support, develop or teach a new skill. After the presentation, the audience puts sticky notes next to the person's poster and the audience is allowed to give a short feedback.
# Facilitator
Agile Coach / Agile Master
# Participants
The whole team
# Tools
Flipchart / whiteboard / sticky notes
# See also
Lyssa Adkins,'Coaching agile teams'