All Winners
Learning Points - supporting, coaching, influencing and encouraging positive behaviours are all part of good team work.
How to run it
- Learning Points - supporting, coaching, influencing and encouraging positive behaviours are all part of good team work.
- Tools: two lengths of rope (for a start and finish line) and a whistle (or you can clap your hands)
- Place a length of rope at the ‘starting point’ and then another piece of rope about 50 - 100 metres away from the first piece to make a ‘start’ and ‘finish’ line
- Advise the participants that you would like them all to take part in a ‘race’. However, the object of the race is not to win, but for everyone to finish at exactly the same time. This means every person should cross the line in unison.
- Start the race by blowing the whistle and then see how the participants go about trying to ensure they all cross the line at exactly the same time (be very strict about this).
- If participants do not cross the line at the same time, ask them to restart the race until they get it right.
- You can place some added pressure on the team by timing the session and explaining that they must complete the race in the best time they can.
- Review - review the team building game by discussing what participants did to achieve the task. What considerations they had to make. What worked well, what could have been better and what they would do next time.
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Tools: two lengths of rope (for a start and finish line) and a whistle (or you can clap your hands)
Place a length of rope at the ‘starting point’ and then another piece of rope about 50 - 100 metres away from the first piece to make a ‘start’ and ‘finish’ line
Advise the participants that you would like them all to take part in a ‘race’. However, the object of the race is not to win, but for everyone to finish at exactly the same time. This means every person should cross the line in unison.
Start the race by blowing the whistle and then see how the participants go about trying to ensure they all cross the line at exactly the same time (be very strict about this).
If participants do not cross the line at the same time, ask them to restart the race until they get it right.
You can place some added pressure on the team by timing the session and explaining that they must complete the race in the best time they can.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: All Winners. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Tools: two lengths of rope (for a start and finish line) and a whistle (or you can clap your hands); Place a length of rope at the ‘starting point’ and then another piece of rope about 50 - 100 metres away from the first piece to make a ‘start’ and ‘finish’ line; Advise the participants that you would like them all to take part in a ‘race’. However, the object of the race is not to win, but for everyone to finish at exactly the same time. This means every person should cross the line in unison.; Start the race by blowing the whistle and then see how the participants go about trying to ensure they all cross the line at exactly the same time (be very strict about this).. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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