Team Coordination Challenge Develops Timing & Focus - Pizza Toss
Team Coordination Challenge Develops Timing & Focus - Pizza Toss 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 several loops of 5-metre webbing with a knot.
- Distribute one loop of webbing to every small team of approx 5 to 8 people.
- Standing in a circle, ask each person to hold the webbing with both hands in front of them.
- Explain that their task is to toss the webbing loop into the air and then achieve two goals:
- - All hands must catch the webbing at the same time; and
- - The webbing should retain the shape of a circle as much as possible at all times.
- Allow ample time for each team to make as many attempts as possible to complete the task.
- Encourage patience and focus to help each team achieve success.
- Pizza Toss Team coordination challenge to develop timing & focus.
- Pizza Toss functions as both a fun problem-solving game and a team coordination challenge, developing patience, focus, and mutual support as teams learn that success depends entirely on everyone working in harmony to achieve the desired result.
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Standing in a circle, ask each person to hold the webbing with both hands in front of them.
Explain that their task is to toss the webbing loop into the air and then achieve two goals:
Pizza Toss functions as both a fun problem-solving game and a team coordination challenge, developing patience, focus, and mutual support as teams learn that success depends entirely on everyone working in harmony to achieve the desired result.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Team Coordination Challenge Develops Timing & Focus - Pizza Toss. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Standing in a circle, ask each person to hold the webbing with both hands in front of them.; Explain that their task is to toss the webbing loop into the air and then achieve two goals:; ; Pizza Toss functions as both a fun problem-solving game and a team coordination challenge, developing patience, focus, and mutual support as teams learn that success depends entirely on everyone working in harmony to achieve the desired result.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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