Team Coordination Game Builds Planning Skills - Pressure Cooker
Team Coordination Game Builds Planning Skills - Pressure Cooker 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, lay a long rope on the floor/ground to form a large circle.
- Collect and number as many spot markers as you have people in your group.
- Randomly distribute the numbered spot markers inside the circle.
- Ask each person to stand on top of one of the spot markers.
- When ready, instruct each individual to move to and touch every other spot in the ascending order of the numbers.
- For example, the person standing on spot 8 will move to 9, 10, 11 and 12 (presuming there are 12 people in the group) before moving to 1, 2, 3 through to 8.
- As soon as an individual has touched all of the spot-markers and returns to their own, they will exit the circle.
- Challenge your group to perform this task as accurately and as fast as possible.
- Pressure Cooker Team coordination game to build planning & communication.
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In advance, lay a long rope on the floor/ground to form a large circle.
Collect and number as many spot markers as you have people in your group.
Ask each person to stand on top of one of the spot markers.
When ready, instruct each individual to move to and touch every other spot in the ascending order of the numbers.
For example, the person standing on spot 8 will move to 9, 10, 11 and 12 (presuming there are 12 people in the group) before moving to 1, 2, 3 through to 8.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Team Coordination Game Builds Planning Skills - Pressure Cooker. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In advance, lay a long rope on the floor/ground to form a large circle.; Collect and number as many spot markers as you have people in your group.; Ask each person to stand on top of one of the spot markers.; When ready, instruct each individual to move to and touch every other spot in the ascending order of the numbers.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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