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Anjana - My exercises comes from the getting to know each other side. I have used either in the past for team building - depends how many you have but you can always split them. One is to give the team a camera or use their phones and have them photograph a number of things - for example a famous person, a famous building, asking for directions, a photo that represents the team(link to values) plus any others you want to make up. Rules are that all of the team has to be in at least 2 photos and one photo must include all of the team with their legs off the floor. On return they have to explain their photos to you. With a tweak you could easily ask them to take photos that represent the team values and explain why that is the case and why those values are important.
Second one is to make up a small treasure hunt around the area including some cryptic clues. I did this by splitting teams for the competition element and had some clues a bike ride away from the venue and had 2 bikes available. The clues further away were worth more points but would the team get back in time? Good for planning, working together, risk taking and prioritising - they may match the values which could open a discussion when all are back. Again clues could relate to values. Hope this is of use. Malc.
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| 22/09/2014 | Malc |
With regard to the Values activity, I have used one which works very well but can be uncomfortable so would need really good facilitation skills: Get each person to write down eg 5 - 6 values which are really important to them on separate post-it notes. Stand the delegates in a circle and go round each person asking them to get rid of one of their values but screwing it up and throwing in a bin. It is important that each person discards one and explains why. Keep going round till each person has one value remaining - it gets harder to 'discard' values when they are choosing between two or three. |
| 22/09/2014 | Emma |