Fun Team-Building Challenge for Trust & Collaboration: Porthole
Fun Team-Building Challenge for Trust & Collaboration: Porthole is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
- Ask your group to stand together facing one side of the tyre.
- Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the centre of the tyre as quickly and as safely as possible.
- For safety purposes, team members can position themselves as spotters on either side of the tyre at any time.
- Anyone is permitted to touch the tyre at any time.
- Allow up to 15 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
- Porthole Fun team-building challenge to develop trust & collaboration.
- Porthole is a fun team-building challenge that builds communication skills as teams coordinate complex movements and weight distribution.
- The activity creates powerful bonding moments whilst demonstrating care and responsibility for others’ safety.
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Prompts to use +
Ask your group to stand together facing one side of the tyre.
Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the centre of the tyre as quickly and as safely as possible.
Anyone is permitted to touch the tyre at any time.
Allow up to 15 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Team-Building Challenge for Trust & Collaboration: Porthole. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to stand together facing one side of the tyre.; Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the centre of the tyre as quickly and as safely as possible.; Anyone is permitted to touch the tyre at any time.; Allow up to 15 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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