Building the Future - Hard Hats on!
A number of fun and engaging activities to be used throughout a conference to tie into messages around working together, building the future and fantastic teamwork! With the emphasis on BUILDING... So if you're your planning a conference and want to break up the presentations and bring the messages to life give us a call...
The Experiences
If it can be build we'll bring it! Teams throughout the conference are set a multitude of activities each with great application and learning that we'll weave in throughout your event.
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope forces teams to deliver results and make decisions in a fast paced challenging environment. In teams, participants compete to earn as many points as possible in the time allotted. The task involves building ever more complicated and difficult towers. Throughout the experience teams are presented with opportunities to change towers, earn more points, and achieve higher goals. A challenge that requires effective teamwork for great results.
Planks
The task is simple - construct a puzzle using the coloured planks provided according to the plans given to your group. Split into two groups teams figure out how to construct a wooden structure from 18 planks of wood. Once built each team has to create a process for repeating the task in under 60 seconds from start to finish. This exercise challenges groups to work through difficult problem solving together, creates a great opportunity to explore process and process improvement, shows how team members can celebrate each others different learning styles, works well for communicating under pressure of time and is loads of fun - if you're in the winning team!
Discs
The Challenge here is to move a stack of discs from a pole that they start on to either of the other two poles. A task that begins with people thinking this is easy soon descends into anarchy. People start off running between pole with discs only to find out that their actions now look rather hap hazard and un co-ordinated. What happens here really challenges teams to plan, communicate effectively and execute well.
Trust Bricks
Teams go head to head in the race to build the tallest Jenga. The twist is that teams may contain up to 2 saboteurs. Here the experience focuses on how sometime we can lose sight of an objective through simple distractions. A good exercise to look at trust.
The Finale - The Bridge
A collaborative exercise in which smaller teams must work together to construct a giant bridge. What appears to be an enormous task initially gradually gets much easier as people start to share ideas and tips with each other and their is a huge sense of achievement at the end of the experience when the team sees what they've constructed. This will lay the foundations for team co-operation and support as it's almost impossible for 1 team to complete the task without the help of others. It's huge fun too.
Key Learning Points
- Achieve great things by working together
- Optimise team talent
- The power of excellent leadership
- The importance of effective communication
- The impact of appropriate resource utilisation
- Learn how unanimous focus on a single task leads to success
Results
- Improve team effectiveness
- Decrease frustration and rework
- Create greater alignment between individual goals and the end result
- Increase productivity
- Achieve success to increase motivation and job satisfaction
Practical Details
Perfect for conferences and team meetings
30 minutes to 4+ hours
Mixed sized groups 10 to over 1000+
Suitable for cross functional and intact teams at all levels
For conferences here in the UK and abroad
