services :: teambuilding
TEAMBUILDING
Using both traditional and unconventional methods, we help organizations identify and overcome obstacles that may be impeding their teamwork, and ultimately help teams enhance their ability to work together effectively as one unit. Some of our teambuilding sessions focus on exploring and identifying behavioral styles and traits on a team and how to leverage individual strengths and talents. Other teambuilding programs include adventure-based initiatives that challenge teams to work together towards a common goal. In all, of our teambuilding sessions participants learn various ways to work together more effectively as a team; but — most of all — the programs are fun, highly energized experiences that spark a renewed sense of teamwork and partnership amongst the group.
[–] team exercises
Diversity
Participants in this session choose word descriptors from a deck of cards, which reveal their individual thinking-style preference. Through discussion, team members begin to appreciate there are no right or wrong thinking styles. Rather, they discover that what you need to create the most effective, diverse-thinking team is a diverse representation of all styles.
Go Fly A Kite
In this exercise, participants are grouped into teams and each team receives a set of tools and materials to assist them in building a kite that meets certain criteria. The team is awarded points for meeting each criterion successfully. This gives us an inside look at an individual team member's natural instincts for interaction on a team. The discussion for greater interaction in the future is not only insightful, but is a sure-fire way to get teams to be more cohesive.
Hostage Rescue
This exciting simulation places your team in another world and reveals the decision-making and problem-solving skills they use in the real world every day! Set in a mythical third world country, this exercise puts your team in a crisis situation that they must resolve with individual and team decisions. During the course of this fast-paced simulation, participants discover their own levels of leadership, communication skills, and empathy.
Space Tower
One of the best ways to learn about the complexities of planning, organizing, problem solving, and decision making under pressure of deadlines is to experience them under simulated conditions. This is the purpose of Space Tower. Participants work in small teams to plan and build a project with internal and external pressures. They can then relate these factors to their own job situation. The exercise shows how leadership emerges, how teams handle challenges, and what emotions unfold from participants from the project conception to completion.
Swamped
The ultimate in "survival exercises," this simulation helps groups understand and improve the fundamental dynamics of teamwork. Through an imaginary wilderness adventure, your team members demonstrate their individual, as well as group, decision-making and problem-solving skills. This exercise judges team effectiveness and whether your team achives the necessary synergy your business needs.
Team Standards & Operating Agreements
What skills and qualities are essential for a championship team? Does your team possess these skills and traits? In this session, participants determine the building blocks of an effective team and evaluate themselves according to these criteria. Teams assess their strengths and areas that need improvement; they then create an action plan and commit to make it happen.
Value Cards
This powerful session helps organizations create a culture for team effectiveness. In an interactive and unique way, we help a team identify its values. Once we have identified what the team values, and what it does not, we take a look at what is actually happening in the organization. Is the team behaving in a way that encompasses what it values? Or are some of the non-valued things getting in the way? Once evaluated, we help the team create a strategy for living what they value everyday.
Various Style Assessments
Assessments are written questionnaires, profiles, or inventories that help a group determine specific tendencies within their team dynamic. Assessments help teams discover their communication and behavioral styles, and how to adapt these styles to achieve optimum effectiveness on the team. An assessment is always given in conjunction with a training session, which breaks down the components of that assessment for the team.
Win As Much As You Can
This is a fast-paced and thought-provoking exercise. It's facilitated with teams of eight people; the best dynamic is to have at least 24 people participating with 3 teams. As a teambuilding exercise, this session gets at the heart of the communication, competition, trust and negotiation that is present on any team. At the conclusion of the exercise, your team is empowered to make a definite correlation between behaviors demonstrated during the activity and behaviors observed in the workplace.
Participants in this session choose word descriptors from a deck of cards, which reveal their individual thinking-style preference. Through discussion, team members begin to appreciate there are no right or wrong thinking styles. Rather, they discover that what you need to create the most effective, diverse-thinking team is a diverse representation of all styles.
Go Fly A Kite
In this exercise, participants are grouped into teams and each team receives a set of tools and materials to assist them in building a kite that meets certain criteria. The team is awarded points for meeting each criterion successfully. This gives us an inside look at an individual team member's natural instincts for interaction on a team. The discussion for greater interaction in the future is not only insightful, but is a sure-fire way to get teams to be more cohesive.
Hostage Rescue
This exciting simulation places your team in another world and reveals the decision-making and problem-solving skills they use in the real world every day! Set in a mythical third world country, this exercise puts your team in a crisis situation that they must resolve with individual and team decisions. During the course of this fast-paced simulation, participants discover their own levels of leadership, communication skills, and empathy.
Space Tower
One of the best ways to learn about the complexities of planning, organizing, problem solving, and decision making under pressure of deadlines is to experience them under simulated conditions. This is the purpose of Space Tower. Participants work in small teams to plan and build a project with internal and external pressures. They can then relate these factors to their own job situation. The exercise shows how leadership emerges, how teams handle challenges, and what emotions unfold from participants from the project conception to completion.
Swamped
The ultimate in "survival exercises," this simulation helps groups understand and improve the fundamental dynamics of teamwork. Through an imaginary wilderness adventure, your team members demonstrate their individual, as well as group, decision-making and problem-solving skills. This exercise judges team effectiveness and whether your team achives the necessary synergy your business needs.
Team Standards & Operating Agreements
What skills and qualities are essential for a championship team? Does your team possess these skills and traits? In this session, participants determine the building blocks of an effective team and evaluate themselves according to these criteria. Teams assess their strengths and areas that need improvement; they then create an action plan and commit to make it happen.
Value Cards
This powerful session helps organizations create a culture for team effectiveness. In an interactive and unique way, we help a team identify its values. Once we have identified what the team values, and what it does not, we take a look at what is actually happening in the organization. Is the team behaving in a way that encompasses what it values? Or are some of the non-valued things getting in the way? Once evaluated, we help the team create a strategy for living what they value everyday.
Various Style Assessments
Assessments are written questionnaires, profiles, or inventories that help a group determine specific tendencies within their team dynamic. Assessments help teams discover their communication and behavioral styles, and how to adapt these styles to achieve optimum effectiveness on the team. An assessment is always given in conjunction with a training session, which breaks down the components of that assessment for the team.
Win As Much As You Can
This is a fast-paced and thought-provoking exercise. It's facilitated with teams of eight people; the best dynamic is to have at least 24 people participating with 3 teams. As a teambuilding exercise, this session gets at the heart of the communication, competition, trust and negotiation that is present on any team. At the conclusion of the exercise, your team is empowered to make a definite correlation between behaviors demonstrated during the activity and behaviors observed in the workplace.
[+] adventure initiatives
Blind Puzzle
This activity is just like it sounds: large-size jigsaw puzzle pieces (approximately 10"x10") are spread around the floor and the team members are blindfolded, timed, and told to solve the puzzle. This is a great exercise that demonstrates how important communication is on a team and shows how leadership evolves under difficult conditions.
Calculator
This fast-paced, energetic activity examines a group's problem-solving process. The goal in this activity is to touch a series of numbered spots in sequence from 1 to 30 as quickly as possible. The overall objective is to have the team achieve its best time, using four opportunities. Not only does Calculator explore the problem-solving process, but it also examines the idea of continuous improvement and out-of-the-box thinking.
Executive Scrabble
This competition between two teams generates lots of energy and fun. Each team gathers in a separate corner of the room, and, in the middle is a basket filled with more than 300 tennis balls that have letters on them. One representative from each team is called to the middle to throw as many balls as possible within 30 seconds back to his or her team. Teammates gather the balls and begin to spell out as many words as possible. To incorporate this exercise into your seminar theme, teams can earn bonus points for words that directly relate to your meeting topic.
Frantic Toss
This high-energy initiative has teams working against the clock, and each other, as they attempt to sink as many balls as possible into the numerous buckets that are spread throughout the playing field. Baskets are placed at varying distances; the further the shot, the more points it is worth. This activity looks at risk taking on the team, as well as the team's ability to assemble team strengths into appropriate roles to be successful.
Pipeline Of Knowledge
Each participant is given a piece of plastic pipe tubing and the team is given several marbles of various sizes. The objective of this activity is to pass the "balls of knowledge" from tube to tube, utilizing every member of the team, until all marbles given to the team have been deposited into a pre-determined location. This team activity is great fun and it allows participants to see how they communicate under pressure. It also gives them insight into how they might manage others when having to work together on a task.
Record Time
Record Time challenges a team to assemble a number of boards into a prescribed configuration within a certain timeframe. This intense activity requires a team to plan, strategize, and work together to meet their objective. Effective leadership, coaching, and communication are musts for any team to achieve Record Time!
Sand Sculptures
Teams are challenged to plan and build a sculpture that meets certain established criteria, which includes the creation of their team name and logo. A great opening activity, Sand Sculptures examines how a group works together on a task, as well as how leadership evolves. This exercise is fun, creative and highly competitive.
Spider Webs
This is a large, six-feet high by eight-feet wide portable frame that is wired with ropes that resemble a spider's web. The web consists of approximately twelve holes that the team must pass each member through. At no time are they allowed to touch the web with any part of their body, otherwise, they must start over. This particular activity integrates strategic planning along with mutual trust and is very powerful in teambuilding. We can incorporate different rules and guidelines to cultivate a variety of dynamics that are specific to your organization.
Stepping Stones
At the onset, this exercise appears to be quite simple. Get your team from start to finish within a certain time frame, using the resources given (stepping stones) and adhering to the rules. It appears easy; however, it is more complex and requires thinking, planning, cooperation, and teamwork.
Make Your Move
This initiative involves the team in safe removal of toxic waste. IGNITE style, that is. The team is divided into leaders and workers and there are specific guidelines to meet the goal of the toxic container removal. This is a challenging exercise, which demonstrates the importance of leadership, communication, problem solving, and feedback to the team.
Trolleys
The objective of this initiative seems simple. You need to get your entire team from a safe start area to a designated finish line, using only the rules given and the props provided. This exercise requires maximum team momentum to achieve the desired result and strengthens the creativity and problem-solving skills of the team.
Combined Forces
This fast-paced and thought-provoking exercise tests a group's ability to share resources, collaborate and work together towards a common goal. Each work team is given various puzzle pieces. The group's goal is to assemble the puzzle and transport their work team from the start line to finish line. The group needs to overcome certain obstacles, including having one team member blind folded, as well as various challenges along the way. To achieve their goal, the group needs to communicate effectively, decide on a common strategy and execution plan, plus eliminate the natural tendency for work teams to compete against one another. Groups who exhibit these behaviors are successful and ultimately Combine Forces.
Close The Deal
Each team member is active and essential in this fast-paced, high-energy activity that tests a team's planning, implementation and problem-solving abilities. The group, which is really working as one unit, must figure out how to successfully transport a variety of objects from the "prospect" bucket to the "client/customer" bucket in the quickest time possible. This activity, which seems easy at the onset, contains a variety of rules the team must operate within to be successful and close the deal!
Cross The Cube
This curious-looking structure creates excitement and raises people's interest immediately. It is a large 3-D cube that sits suspended on an anchor so all sides are open and visible. The objective is to get each member of your team through the cube without touching any part of the frame. This activity integrates strategic planning and effective problem solving, along with trust and leadership and is a powerful tool to identify a team's group behaviors when having to work together to solve a problem.
Popcorn Bucket Goes Pop!
In this fast-paced activity, the team faces a major problem that they must quickly get under control. There are a myriad of issues that need their immediate attention and they must decide, as a group, how they are going to divide responsibilities to be most effective and efficient. The time is ticking in this initiative and only teams that plan effectively, use each other wisely, and don't panic succeed.
This activity is just like it sounds: large-size jigsaw puzzle pieces (approximately 10"x10") are spread around the floor and the team members are blindfolded, timed, and told to solve the puzzle. This is a great exercise that demonstrates how important communication is on a team and shows how leadership evolves under difficult conditions.
Calculator
This fast-paced, energetic activity examines a group's problem-solving process. The goal in this activity is to touch a series of numbered spots in sequence from 1 to 30 as quickly as possible. The overall objective is to have the team achieve its best time, using four opportunities. Not only does Calculator explore the problem-solving process, but it also examines the idea of continuous improvement and out-of-the-box thinking.
Executive Scrabble
This competition between two teams generates lots of energy and fun. Each team gathers in a separate corner of the room, and, in the middle is a basket filled with more than 300 tennis balls that have letters on them. One representative from each team is called to the middle to throw as many balls as possible within 30 seconds back to his or her team. Teammates gather the balls and begin to spell out as many words as possible. To incorporate this exercise into your seminar theme, teams can earn bonus points for words that directly relate to your meeting topic.
Frantic Toss
This high-energy initiative has teams working against the clock, and each other, as they attempt to sink as many balls as possible into the numerous buckets that are spread throughout the playing field. Baskets are placed at varying distances; the further the shot, the more points it is worth. This activity looks at risk taking on the team, as well as the team's ability to assemble team strengths into appropriate roles to be successful.
Pipeline Of Knowledge
Each participant is given a piece of plastic pipe tubing and the team is given several marbles of various sizes. The objective of this activity is to pass the "balls of knowledge" from tube to tube, utilizing every member of the team, until all marbles given to the team have been deposited into a pre-determined location. This team activity is great fun and it allows participants to see how they communicate under pressure. It also gives them insight into how they might manage others when having to work together on a task.
Record Time
Record Time challenges a team to assemble a number of boards into a prescribed configuration within a certain timeframe. This intense activity requires a team to plan, strategize, and work together to meet their objective. Effective leadership, coaching, and communication are musts for any team to achieve Record Time!
Sand Sculptures
Teams are challenged to plan and build a sculpture that meets certain established criteria, which includes the creation of their team name and logo. A great opening activity, Sand Sculptures examines how a group works together on a task, as well as how leadership evolves. This exercise is fun, creative and highly competitive.
Spider Webs
This is a large, six-feet high by eight-feet wide portable frame that is wired with ropes that resemble a spider's web. The web consists of approximately twelve holes that the team must pass each member through. At no time are they allowed to touch the web with any part of their body, otherwise, they must start over. This particular activity integrates strategic planning along with mutual trust and is very powerful in teambuilding. We can incorporate different rules and guidelines to cultivate a variety of dynamics that are specific to your organization.
Stepping Stones
At the onset, this exercise appears to be quite simple. Get your team from start to finish within a certain time frame, using the resources given (stepping stones) and adhering to the rules. It appears easy; however, it is more complex and requires thinking, planning, cooperation, and teamwork.
Make Your Move
This initiative involves the team in safe removal of toxic waste. IGNITE style, that is. The team is divided into leaders and workers and there are specific guidelines to meet the goal of the toxic container removal. This is a challenging exercise, which demonstrates the importance of leadership, communication, problem solving, and feedback to the team.
Trolleys
The objective of this initiative seems simple. You need to get your entire team from a safe start area to a designated finish line, using only the rules given and the props provided. This exercise requires maximum team momentum to achieve the desired result and strengthens the creativity and problem-solving skills of the team.
Combined Forces
This fast-paced and thought-provoking exercise tests a group's ability to share resources, collaborate and work together towards a common goal. Each work team is given various puzzle pieces. The group's goal is to assemble the puzzle and transport their work team from the start line to finish line. The group needs to overcome certain obstacles, including having one team member blind folded, as well as various challenges along the way. To achieve their goal, the group needs to communicate effectively, decide on a common strategy and execution plan, plus eliminate the natural tendency for work teams to compete against one another. Groups who exhibit these behaviors are successful and ultimately Combine Forces.
Close The Deal
Each team member is active and essential in this fast-paced, high-energy activity that tests a team's planning, implementation and problem-solving abilities. The group, which is really working as one unit, must figure out how to successfully transport a variety of objects from the "prospect" bucket to the "client/customer" bucket in the quickest time possible. This activity, which seems easy at the onset, contains a variety of rules the team must operate within to be successful and close the deal!
Cross The Cube
This curious-looking structure creates excitement and raises people's interest immediately. It is a large 3-D cube that sits suspended on an anchor so all sides are open and visible. The objective is to get each member of your team through the cube without touching any part of the frame. This activity integrates strategic planning and effective problem solving, along with trust and leadership and is a powerful tool to identify a team's group behaviors when having to work together to solve a problem.
Popcorn Bucket Goes Pop!
In this fast-paced activity, the team faces a major problem that they must quickly get under control. There are a myriad of issues that need their immediate attention and they must decide, as a group, how they are going to divide responsibilities to be most effective and efficient. The time is ticking in this initiative and only teams that plan effectively, use each other wisely, and don't panic succeed.
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