Fun Competitive Team Energiser Builds Strategy - Robbing The Nest
Fun Competitive Team Energiser Builds Strategy - Robbing The Nest is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form four teams of an equal number of people.
- Allocate each team one particular corner of your playing space.
- Give each team a bucket filled with an equal number of soft tossable items.
- The bucket may be placed anywhere within the team’s area.
- Explain that over the course of several rounds, each team will be challenged to collect as many items in their buckets as possible.
- Announce that people are permitted to ‘steal’ one item at a time from the buckets of other teams, and place them into their own bucket.
- There is no limit to the number of people from each team who can be involved in stealing at the same time.
- No one is permitted to guard their team’s bucket.
- Robbing The Nest Competitive team energiser to build strategy & excitement.
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Form four teams of an equal number of people.
Give each team a bucket filled with an equal number of soft tossable items.
Explain that over the course of several rounds, each team will be challenged to collect as many items in their buckets as possible.
Announce that people are permitted to ‘steal’ one item at a time from the buckets of other teams, and place them into their own bucket.
Robbing The Nest Competitive team energiser to build strategy & excitement.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Competitive Team Energiser Builds Strategy - Robbing The Nest. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form four teams of an equal number of people.; Give each team a bucket filled with an equal number of soft tossable items.; Explain that over the course of several rounds, each team will be challenged to collect as many items in their buckets as possible.; Announce that people are permitted to ‘steal’ one item at a time from the buckets of other teams, and place them into their own bucket.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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