Card Team-Building Game Builds Collaboration Skills - Blackjack
Card Team-Building Game Builds Collaboration Skills - Blackjack is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Randomly distribute one card from a deck of playing cards to every person, instructing them not to look at it.
- Announce that the entire exercise will be conducted in silence, ie no verbal forms of communication.
- Ask each person to place their card on their forehead so that it is visible to the rest of the group.
- Challenge your group to form as many ‘blackjacks’ as possible so that every person is involved.
- Explain that for the purposes of this exercise, blackjacks are a hand of cards that add up to 19, 20 or 21.
- Regular blackjack rules apply - Aces may be valued as 1 or 11, and all picture cards are worth 10 points.
- Allow ample time for planning and discussion.
- Blackjack Card team building game enhances non-verbal communication.
- This innovative team-building activity immediately puts group communication and decision-making skills to the test.
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Ask each person to place their card on their forehead so that it is visible to the rest of the group.
Challenge your group to form as many ‘blackjacks’ as possible so that every person is involved.
Explain that for the purposes of this exercise, blackjacks are a hand of cards that add up to 19, 20 or 21.
This innovative team-building activity immediately puts group communication and decision-making skills to the test.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Card Team-Building Game Builds Collaboration Skills - Blackjack. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask each person to place their card on their forehead so that it is visible to the rest of the group.; Challenge your group to form as many ‘blackjacks’ as possible so that every person is involved.; Explain that for the purposes of this exercise, blackjacks are a hand of cards that add up to 19, 20 or 21.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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