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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Exercises for Kids, Problem Solving, Planning
:::: 20 Ratings :::: Tuesday, June 25, 2019
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This is a classic exercise on team building. It is fun to participate in this exercise and yet it is quite powerful in bringing a team together while teaching communication, leadership and problem solving.
Delegates are asked to pour water into a pipe to raise a ping pong ball inside and therefore to get it out. The pipe is leaky though and there is a challenge on how fast they can get the water into the pipe without losing it through the holes. This requires cooperation, planning, delegation and resource management.
This exercise is ideal for team building and can be used for any age. Several variations are provided at the end to increase the difficulty of the task as you see fit.
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Games, Exercises, Icebreakers, Team Building
:::: 18 Ratings :::: Tuesday, May 21, 2019
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This light-hearted exercise is guaranteed to break the ice quickly and bring people together. In this exercise you set people a mission to find out about other delegates and to share what they have found with the group. It is designed to be entertaining and educational. As such it is ideal for a new team or at the beginning of a new course, workshop or seminar when you want to get people to become familiar with each other quickly.
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Games, Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Team Building, Large Group, Planning
:::: 46 Ratings :::: Tuesday, June 19, 2018
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Back in 2013 we released a software tool on our website called Clock Buddies. Clock Buddies refers to a traditional tool used to pair people up in a classroom setting. Each person was given a blank sheet resembling the face of a clock. Students then filled this in with their names. The clocks would then allow the teacher to group the students quickly by simply calling out a given hour; for example, the teacher would say, “pair up with your buddy at 3 o’clock”. Students would then look at their clock faces, find the name of the person written at 3 o’clock and pair up with him.
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Games, Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Communication Skills, Body Language, Art
:::: 46 Ratings :::: Wednesday, May 23, 2018
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The new age of virtual reality (VR) is upon us. We are still at early stages of VR development, but the field has shown a strong promise. Of all the new technologies that we are about to fully experience in everyday life, such as self-driving cars, drones or 3D printing, VR and AR (Augmented Reality) prove to be the strangest and the most magical technologies ever developed. Just imagine that in a few decades, when the technology has matured enough, as soon as you put on a VR headset, you will be transferred to an alternative universe the like of which you might have never seen before. It is the kind of environment that might feel more interesting than real life to the point that you may not want to leave it!
It could also be the opposite; you may go through a hellish environment and see how the world may look like if we don’t pay attention to important environmental issues or let greedy politicians bully us to annihilation. Either way, you will come out of the experience better informed and with a strong vivid memory.
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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Problem Solving
:::: 80 Ratings :::: Monday, February 19, 2018
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This is an entertaining team building activity where delegates get to practice working together towards a common objective while following certain rules. It is ideal for exploring leadership, planning, strategic thinking, communicating and creative thinking.
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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Persuasion Skills, Planning
:::: 80 Ratings :::: Monday, August 8, 2016
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In this team building exercise, delegates work together to complete a task. It requires concentration, planning and fast execution. Here, the decisions made by one team can affect the performance of another so planning has to be as dynamic as the changing environment. This exercise is ideal to train people on quick decision making, leadership, persuasion skills and team work.
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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Problem Solving, Large Group
:::: 127 Ratings :::: Monday, May 16, 2016
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This is a team building exercise where delegates need to solve a problem while deprived of a particular sense. The purpose is to see how the group self-organises, communicates, understands what needs to be done to achieve the goal and executes their plan efficiently. This exercise is ideal for large groups.
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Games, Exercises, Team Building, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Resource Management, Art, Design
:::: 302 Ratings :::: Monday, November 23, 2015
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This is a template for a creativity exercise centred on making monsters. It can be used for kids and adults depending on how you bias it and setup the exercise.
You can consider assigning the task to groups for an exercise on teamwork, teambuilding and management or run it individually for focus on creativity.
Ideally, you should run this exercise as a competition between participants to keep it fun and focused.
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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Exercises for Kids, Problem Solving
:::: 109 Ratings :::: Monday, October 13, 2014
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In this team building exercise teams work together on a common problem. The problem is intentionally designed to be simple to understand though when several people are involved it may not be as obvious as on how to go through it. The exercise will highlight weaknesses and strengths. To succeed a team must work cooperatively and with foresight.
This exercise is also ideal to examine how a group of people self-organise, assign a leader or approach a problem solving task under pressure.
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Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Exercises for Kids, Large Group
:::: 92 Ratings :::: Monday, August 25, 2014
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This is a great teambuilding exercise that helps to cover several areas on leadership, teamwork and problem solving. You can run it like a competitive game for a large group. Allow the delegates go through the exercise several times to see if they can become better at the task. In the process they can learn how to work as a team towards a common objective.
The task is also fun to perform so it can be used as an energiser or even as a fun exercise to run during seminars and conferences. It provides a shared experience and an opportunity for people to have a laugh while also being able to address subjects related to teams and task completion.
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