Coordinated Team Challenge For Balance And Trust - Trolleys
Coordinated Team Challenge For Balance And Trust - Trolleys is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- In advance, assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
- Clearly identify a uniformly flat area with a starting line and finishing line (approx 10 to 15 metres apart.)
- Lay the trolleys behind the starting line.
- Objective : Challenge your group to use the wooden trolleys to travel from the starting line and past the finishing line without anyone touching the ground.
- If one or more participants touch the ground, apply a suitable penalty (go to Leadership Tips tab for ideas.)
- When ready, allow up to 20 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
- Trolleys Coordinated team challenge requiring balance & collaboration.
- Trolleys is a coordinated team challenge that invites participants to navigate the tension between personal safety and group objectives.
- The physical constraints create authentic learning moments about trust, leadership emergence, and collaborative problem-solving.
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Prompts to use +
Clearly identify a uniformly flat area with a starting line and finishing line (approx 10 to 15 metres apart.)
Objective : Challenge your group to use the wooden trolleys to travel from the starting line and past the finishing line without anyone touching the ground.
If one or more participants touch the ground, apply a suitable penalty (go to Leadership Tips tab for ideas.)
When ready, allow up to 20 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
The physical constraints create authentic learning moments about trust, leadership emergence, and collaborative problem-solving.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Coordinated Team Challenge For Balance And Trust - Trolleys. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Clearly identify a uniformly flat area with a starting line and finishing line (approx 10 to 15 metres apart.); Objective : Challenge your group to use the wooden trolleys to travel from the starting line and past the finishing line without anyone touching the ground.; If one or more participants touch the ground, apply a suitable penalty (go to Leadership Tips tab for ideas.); When ready, allow up to 20 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.). Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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