Teamwork Challenge™ | Teamwork Training Activity

• To organise a team and plan ahead
• To share data
• To solve problems together
• To work under pressure
• The four stages of team development

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!

1. Divide participants into teams.
2. Introduce the activity.
3. Issue materials (floor plan, 'planks', Team Briefs, set of 48 data cards) and allow groups 20-30 minutes to plan their strategy.
4. Start the activity and stand by to issue relevant Task Cards. When teams finish, give them a Team Analysis sheet.
5. 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.

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