Re: Team Building and Maintaining the Team
CRMDEEN_at_aol.com
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:49:13 EDT
The recent request for team-building ideas by Sted Sponton triggered a memory
of the past. I once remember hearing of a team-building exercise that might
accomplish his objectives. The team is taken into one room and shown a
picture of a completed assembly. This is something built from the building-
block toys children use, such as "Lincoln Logs, Lego, Erector set, etc." The
team is given a short amount of time to study the picture, and then moved into
another room which contains a table and the building-block toy set. They must
then construct the item in the picture. They do not have the picture to refer
to, so it's done by memory. As an additional stressor, the facilitator turns
on a music player, with loud and uncommon music. They also, of course, have a
time limit to complete the task.
What I can't remember though, is how to motivate the students to take
the task seriously. Many of the aviators today would just throw up their
hands and say "BS", this doesn't mean anything.
Has anyone ever done such an exercise? I'd like to try it someday.
Greg Deen
Raytheon