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Fun, Quick Energiser Game Gets Groups Moving - Bobsled Teams

Fun, Quick Energiser Game Gets Groups Moving - Bobsled Teams is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Divide your group into teams of four people.
  2. Each team stands in one straight line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them.
  3. The person at the front of the line is team member 1, the person behind them is team member 2, and so on.
  4. Explain that you want each team to respond immediately to a series of three commands:
  5. - “CHANGE” - team member 1 moves to the back of the bobsled (and becomes 4;)
  6. - “SWITCH” - team members 2 and 4 (or last person) switch places; and
  7. - “ROTATE” - every team member rotates their orientation 180 degrees ( 4 becomes the new 1.)
  8. All moves must be completed as accurately and as fast as possible.
  9. Bobsled Teams Quick energiser game builds team skills & group energy.
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Prompts to use +

Explain that you want each team to respond immediately to a series of three commands:

- “SWITCH” - team members 2 and 4 (or last person) switch places; and

- “ROTATE” - every team member rotates their orientation 180 degrees ( 4 becomes the new 1.)

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun, Quick Energiser Game Gets Groups Moving - Bobsled Teams. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain that you want each team to respond immediately to a series of three commands:; - “SWITCH” - team members 2 and 4 (or last person) switch places; and; - “ROTATE” - every team member rotates their orientation 180 degrees ( 4 becomes the new 1.); . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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