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I am looking for an excercise to conduct with a group of new employees (10-15) that would incorporate the values of innovation and teambuilding. I have looked in a few books, such as The big book of t
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/10/2002 4:45 AM EDT
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First: 2/17/2001 Last: 10/10/2002 |
I am looking for an excercise to conduct with a group of new employees (10-15) that would incorporate the values of innovation and teambuilding. I have looked in a few books, such as The big book of teambuilding games, but haven't found anything great.
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 1:17 AM EDT
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First: 5/7/2002 Last: 10/15/2002 |
You may want to take a look at the Haley Productions Adventure Hunt. You can find more information on their website. www.haleyproductions.com
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 1:18 AM EDT
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I've done a lot of this over the last 20 years. One that is a lot of fun and gets the team juices flowing: Place everyone in a circle facing each other and have each person hold a 6 foot length of rope in each hand. take the other end of each rope and hand it to someone else in the circle in such a way that the ropes criss-cross in a tangled web between all members. Tell the members they have to uncross the ropes without letting go of the ends of the rope. It looks impossible to do at first - but when everyone works together it's an awful lot of fun and people are amazed what they can accomplish with a little teamwork. It takes about 5 minutes but they'll end up with everyone untangled such that the person immediately to their left and right will be holding the other end of the rope - try it. |
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 4:21 AM EDT
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First: 10/1/2002 Last: 7/16/2003 |
I enjoy a book called Teamwork and Team Play by Jim Cain and Barry Jolliff. IN there you will find an exercise called The Black Hole. Here you take a rope and make a lager circle, at least 15 feet across. You supply the team with a box of tools. The tools can truly be anything, but you must have a rope that will span the hole. In the center of the hole you place a small pail.
The game is outlined as a black hole is sucking up all that surrounds it. However, in the vary center a group of planets have formed that could be recovered by using the tools you provide. The task of the team is to recover the worlds. (I fill the pail with small balls that look like globes.) Anything that touches the floor inside the circle is pulled into the black hole and is lost, however the team may trade and single tool for whatever was lost into the hole. Every team I have used this with does the same thing. The thinkers are slowly left out and become observers by the doers who just know they have the solution. The thinkers have come to the solution long before the doers, but again they were ignored. Someone always steps over the rope and is pulled into the hole, unfortunately never has a team retrieved them by trading in a tool. The exercise outbrief covers communication within the team, problem solving, treating teams with respect, and valuing each other. It takes about 1 ½ hour with a good outbrief. |
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 4:35 AM EDT
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check out www.drclue.com for teambuilding and motivation |
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 5:17 AM EDT
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Have you considered doing a volunteer project as a teambuilding exercise? Nonprofit organizations can use assistance with everything from planning holiday parties for children to developing marketing plans. It promotes a sense of teamwork, fosters creative thinking, and can even lead to good publicity for your company. (Be sure to get photos for your website or press releases!) To connect to Volunteer Centers in your area that can help you plan projects, call 1-800-VOLUNTEER. Or contact the corporate volunteering division of the Points of Light Foundation through www.pointsoflight.org Good luck! |
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 6:36 AM EDT
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one good one i have used is "ideal city". cover a wall with blank paper and have markers for drawing (but not enough for everyone to have their own). make it a non-verbal exercise -- so no talking at all!! then ask people to plan their ideal city on the paper. give them a 10 minute or so time limit. watch for team behaviors such as who is sharing or who is NOT sharing the resources, how are people communicating their ideas and who is "talking" to who, who draws their ideas big (leaving less room for others), who has to stay within the "rules" (ex: only using a green marker for grass or trees), who comes up with untypical ideas, who pays attention to infrastructure (ex: garbage removal or water service or transporation), how did they differentiate between planning and creating, how did they (or didn't they) get buy-in to their concepts etc. etc. in debriefing after the exercise ask direct questions about behaviors you saw and link back to your concepts of team and innovation vis a vis different roles people play in a team, the sum of the whole vs. the parts, planning vs. creating, etc. good luck. |
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/15/2002 6:47 AM EDT
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Might also look at the C.A.R.E. profile from Inscape Publishing. Go to www.inscapepublishing.com
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Group Excercise - Teambuilding and Innovation
posted at 10/16/2002 2:14 AM EDT
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First: 3/4/2002 Last: 10/16/2002 |
I have another one using a long piece of rope but it is great for team building and innovation. I have used it at my company and with not-for profit groups as well. Anyway, make a big circle on the floor with the long rope. Randomly throw individually numbered tiles from 1-30 (laminated pieces of paper work well) about in the middle of the circle. Break the participants into several "teams". Each team has three tries to accomplish the following: Touch each numbered tile in sequence in the fastest time. However, there are some rules like: 1)each tile must be touched one at a time in order from 1-30 and can not be moved, 2) only two feet may be inside the circle at one time 3) each member of the team must start and end at a designated start and finish line which is away from the circle and time will begin and end once every team member has crossed that line. There are penalities of time with each violation of these rules (add 10 seconds)
This is great because you give each team a couple of minutes to strategize before their first timed run. Then the other teams take their timed runs. Give them all a few minutes to strategize again before their second run and third etc... That is where the innovation comes in. YOu can also talk about all of the team work, communication, focus on the goal, etc.... in the debrief. Just be careful, we have had some people get hurt because they are so excited and running around trying to beat the other team;s score. They get really competitive and are ususally shocked to find out that the best timed score usually comes when people combine teams and divy up the work that way. It is great fun and pretty active and quick. |
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