Team-Building & Group Challenge Game - Ally Oop
Team-Building & Group Challenge Game - Ally Oop 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, tie one end of the rope to the top of the milk crate (or bucket.)
- When ready, distribute one tennis ball to each person.
- Challenge your group to toss all of the tennis balls inside the crate in the quickest time possible.
- Announce that your group will be permitted to make up to five official attempts to record their best time.
- Allow several minutes between rounds for your group to plan and discuss strategies as required.
- For each round, start the timer when the first ball is tossed towards the crate, and stop when the last ball lands inside it.
- Lower the crate between each round to retrieve all of the balls.
- Ally Oop Group challenge game tests teamwork with target throwing task.
- Ally Oop combines elements of team-building with a strategic problem-solving activity as groups aim for precision and speed.
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Prompts to use +
Announce that your group will be permitted to make up to five official attempts to record their best time.
Allow several minutes between rounds for your group to plan and discuss strategies as required.
For each round, start the timer when the first ball is tossed towards the crate, and stop when the last ball lands inside it.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Team-Building & Group Challenge Game - Ally Oop. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Announce that your group will be permitted to make up to five official attempts to record their best time.; Allow several minutes between rounds for your group to plan and discuss strategies as required.; For each round, start the timer when the first ball is tossed towards the crate, and stop when the last ball lands inside it.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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