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Teamwork Challenge™ | Teamwork Training Activity
Teamwork Challenge™ | Teamwork Training Activity
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6 reviews
5.0
6 reviews
Lots of teamwork lessons in Northgate's classic 'planks & oil drums' activity. Competitive activity, perfect for looking at the four stages of team development. Builds in excitement as the session progresses!
To organise a team and plan ahead
To share data
To solve problems together
To work under pressure
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$578.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1.5 hours + debrief
- Use Face-to-Face
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard Copy
Northgate says...
"Teamwork Challenge is a fun, high-energy exercise - one of the most popular - with great learning outcomes. When teams are in competition with each other, the pressure is on from the start and there's a tendency to rush in. Allowing time for the team to develop and to fully understand the task gets forgotten, errors creep in and valuable time is wasted. Winning teams have a calm, steady approach, constant attention to detail and a strong focus on the task - not on the other teams!"
- To organise a team and plan ahead
- To share data
- To solve problems together
- To work under pressure
- The four stages of team development
Ideally suited to:
Any training course where you want to illustrate the way teams develop, from the start of a newly formed group to an energetic, high-performing team.
Teams must get across the aircraft hangar using oil drums and planks (scaled down to table-top!) but there are challenges along the way. The longer the route, the more the challenges, but the shorter the route, the more difficult the challenges.
Teams have a set of wood planks (5cm!) and a floor-plan of the hangar, showing the position of the oil drums. At various points on the plan are red and green lines. Plan your route, knowing that if you cross a green line you must solve an 'easy' challenge, cross a red line and you face a 'difficult' one. Choice of route is crucial as you are not the only team in the race. Completing the challenges involves managing information on 48 different data cards that are dispersed among team members.
A great opportunity for a well-organised team to get ahead - but then again, some very chaotic beginnings can, as the team learns to pull together, end in highly successful performances. Highly motivating and clearly demonstrates the forming, storming, norming and performing stages of team development. We strongly recommend it!
- Divide participants into teams.
- Introduce the activity.
- Issue materials (floor plan, 'planks', Team Briefs, set of 48 data cards) and allow groups 20-30 minutes to plan their strategy.
- Start the activity and stand by to issue relevant Task Cards. When teams finish, give them a Team Analysis sheet.
- Lead a Debrief, focusing on the key issues.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
- Trainer's Notes
- Trainer's Log
- Team Briefing Sheets
- Route Planner Forms
- Sets of Wood Pieces ('Planks')
- Sets of Datacards
- Sets of Task Cards
- A1 Floor Plans
- Team Analysis Sheet
This activity is for face-to-face classroom use. It is supplied as a hard copy pack and the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Carolyn Sanders, Office Manager, Northamptonshire County Council We used 'Teamwork Challenge' for a team building/development day. It is thought-provoking, and leads to satisfaction when planned actions equalled results. Northgate Activities are well researched and good reference materials, when used in team challenging situations, after team building days.
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Jane Caven, Managing Director, Sagegreen Human Resources Ltd 'Teamwork Challenge' is a highly engaging teamwork activity that promotes learning in a fun and interactive manner. Excellent value for money! I used it with a cross-section of managers within a logistics organisation at a conference on teamwork. The best learning points included: to read the brief; to plan and stick to the plan in all phases of the exercise; having clearly defined roles, including that of leader, helps to achieve success.
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Sheila Hancox, Education Business Partnership I used 'Teamwork Challenge' with 150 people at a work-readiness conference. The learning points included team motivation, time-keeping and problem-solving. An excellent exercise to show the effectiveness of a well-coordinated team. It worked extremely well!
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Jon Davies, Managing Director, Get the Edge UK Training & Consultancy We recently ran 'Teamwork Challenge' during a problem solving / strategy day for one of our clients. A great session with lots of useful learnings!
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Giles Smith, Head of People Development, PGL Group We regularly use 'Teamwork Challenge' in our training sessions - it always delivers!
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