Create a perfect square from a rope while the entire group is blindfolded. The focus is on leadership skills and the degree of group participation and the exercise will always reveal interesting dynamics and insights that allow participants to learn from one another. This activity clearly demonstrates interdependence among team members while highlighting how difficult, but important, reaching consensus can be.
Lower a pole the the floor using gravity and maintaining contact with the pole. The power that each person has to influence success is made perfectly clear in this activity. Participants must overcome frustration and resist the temptation to blame each other in order to accomplish the task. They learn that in the face of challenge it is often easier to sacrifice integrity and end up behaving opposite of their intention. This exercise reveals this tendency in a profound manner and helps participants choose healthier ways of reacting.
As a group, decide if there IS or IS NOT a knot in a pile of rope. Most of our jobs involve a heavy amount of decision making. Many of us make decisions that affect one person to thousands of people everyday. As most of us make decisions we tend to decide based on our own personal perceptions.
Become a complete circle from a web of tangled participants. This exercise will bring group members closer together as it involves close physical proximity as well as interdependence among participants. Being physically close creates the setting for cohesiveness and teamwork and helps to break down the invisible walls people build around themselves.
Pass an increasing number of products among the group without drop any of them. This team building activity simulates a working environment where chaos rules, people are going many different directions, and lots of energy and resources are used to keep all the plates spinning. Participants identify what is needed to break through self-imposed limitations, think creatively, and focus on the most efficient way to complete tasks. Most of our jobs involve heavy amounts of juggling. We also come up against significant barriers, which must be broken through in order to increase performance. In this event participants will juggle as many items, as fast as possible, without dropping them.
Participants must coach partners into a course blindfolded to retrieve objects. The purpose of this exercise is to practice clear communication and develop keys to trust during challenging and confusing times. In organizations, workers are often considered students and administrators are often coaches. This event will remind people in each position what the other role feels like and lend insights to improving relations between the two.
Combine all of the portable activities into a single portable kit. This kit has everything and will help your group experience all facets of being a team - leadership, teamwork, communication, conflict, trust, collaboration, problem solving, decision making and more!
Participants must accomplish a task as quickly as possible. They have many opportunities to improve. Warning: this event can lead to major paradigm shift. Once a team discovers the self-imposed rules they will begin to see solutions. Don’t Touch Me will challenge the team to think outside the box and challenge the actual and implied rules. Don’t Touch Me also helps the participants see what is truly possible if you challenge your self.
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Participants pour water (or balls) from one bucket to another while remaining outside a perimeter and only using ropes. Creativity, group coordination, communication, leadership, perseverance and determination are just some of the qualities that are put to the test during this activity. This event is often considered impossible in the beginning and can be very stressful for some participants.