Ball
Mania
| Participants: |
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8
- 36 |
| Location: |
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Inside
and Outside |
| Activity
Level: |
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Medium |
| Objectives: |
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Coaching,
Pure Fun, Communication |
 This
event is incredibly fun and gets every person involved as
links in a chain. If you need to get your group up and moving
around, laughing and having a good time, this is a GREAT exercise.
The bonus
is that it is also incredibly useful to uncover the process
of how the group accomplishes tasks and makes decisions.
A
glimpse into Ball Mania
After
breaking the group into three separate teams, you place a
small rope between the each of the teams. You then tell the
group they must get several balls through all groups while
not dropping them. Each person must touch them, but only one
person can touch it at a time.
The fun
begins when you tell the group they must all come to a consensus
about how many balls they can move through the system in a
certain amount of time. Amazingly enough, NO ONE will cross
that small rope barrier you put up. They assume they cannot
cross it.
9.5 times
out of 10 the group chooses a goal that is unattainable in
the amount of time available. This can lead to some very interesting
discussion about quality vs. quantity during the debrief.
Who should buy this game?
If you need a fun game for lots of people
- the more the merrier - that also has potential discovery
for the group regarding assumptions, hidden barriers, goal
setting and and/or a discussion of processes, this is a your
game.
More Information? Read On...
The purpose
of this exercise is for a team to look at it's current system
of operating procedures and examine questions like
quality vs. quantity, the rewards or pitfalls of goal-setting
and the perceived and actual barriers existing between subparts
of one team.
Inevitably,
as in many of the exercises, participants begin to make up
their own rules that were never stated. This important discovery
has lead many teams to reorganize their thinking about the
unwritten 'rules' of their communication and overall
organization. It is incredible how many 'rules' the group
creates to increase the barriers between them. As in all of
our exercises, the true value will be seen when the group
begins discussing their own barriers.
This can
be a very powerful “nuts and bolts” self-examination
for any team wishing to improve. Due to this, be prepared
to allow for some extra time for the group to examine itself
and then prepare some new groundrules to use in future exercises
and at work.
Although
the photo shows them outside, this event can just as easily
be run inside.
Important
Note! about the team building exercises.
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Questions? or if you would like help in selecting
an event, please do contact us at 800-513-8759.
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