Scavenger Trail
For participants to experience working in a team and to analyse the performance of their team and/or To help re energise participants during a training event and/or by varying the scavenger trail list To help participants learn about your organisation during an induction session
How to run it
- For participants to experience working in a team and to analyse the performance of their team and/or
- To help re energise participants during a training event and/or by varying the scavenger trail list
- To help participants learn about your organisation during an induction session
- Enough copies of the scavenger trail sheet for each team to have one.
- Small prizes, such as sweets to be shared by the winning team.
- Split participants into at least two teams - maximum of 4 per team.
- Give each group one copy of the Scavenger Trail list available for free from the download link at the bottom of this page. Feel free to edit the list to reflect items appropriate to your business.
- Explain that they have 15 minutes to collect as many of the items listed on the sheet as possible, and bring them back to the room.
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Prompts to use +
To help re energise participants during a training event and/or by varying the scavenger trail list
Enough copies of the scavenger trail sheet for each team to have one.
Split participants into at least two teams - maximum of 4 per team.
Give each group one copy of the Scavenger Trail list available for free from the download link at the bottom of this page. Feel free to edit the list to reflect items appropriate to your business.
Explain that they have 15 minutes to collect as many of the items listed on the sheet as possible, and bring them back to the room.
Run this with your AI assistant +
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Scavenger Trail. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: To help re energise participants during a training event and/or by varying the scavenger trail list; Enough copies of the scavenger trail sheet for each team to have one.; Split participants into at least two teams - maximum of 4 per team.; Give each group one copy of the Scavenger Trail list available for free from the download link at the bottom of this page. Feel free to edit the list to reflect items appropriate to your business.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: TrainerBubble. (1 source observed, including TrainerBubble.)
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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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