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plan for if anything went wrong… take the zip wire back to the car park
sharpish and leg it before the Paramedics arrive?
There is an alternative to
the adrenaline-filled team
My new friend then offered to email me a few examples of team building building days, says
games that would ‘develop cohesiveness, tear down the walls in
Stephenson
communication, provide avenues for discussion and increase productivity’. I
made a quick trip back to the dream convent to make sure they’d got the
consignment of breezy bras out on time, and then sure enough a large parcel
of game ideas dropped into my mailbox:
The Shoe Game – everyone takes their shoes off and puts them in a big
pile on the floor – split into two groups and see which team can find their
shoes and put them on first – sounds like a sure fire way to develop athlete’s
foot and a verruca, but what else have we got….
Trust Fall – one member stands in the middle of a tight circle of their work
mates – falling randomly in any direction, they are caught and gently pushed
back to the centre. Fifty quid says someone thinks it’s funny to let Cheryl
from accounts land on her teeth.
Sculpting – give your team a selection of art supplies and ask them to trying to undo your belt with her good arm…actually, that’s not fair, better
create a sculpture that best represents your management style – not quite leave our last year’s office party out of it.
sure what I’d want with fifteen phallic objects and some papier mache There must be something in team building, clearly, or there wouldn’t be
buttocks, but if you say so… successful companies making wads of crinkle out of all this stuff, but I’m
Minefield – create a series of obstacles in the room, blindfold a struggling to get the phrase ‘total pile of pony’ out of my head. Maybe if
participant, and then it’s up to the rest of the group to give directions and you’re a massive company where people only meet every Christmas to
talk them through the minefield – sounds OK, if you don’t mind spending scrotal-copy their undercarriage and fax it to head office, maybe then it’s
time alone blindfolded, while the rest of the group sneak off to the pub. needed to bring people together. But for most of us, isn’t that what pubs
There were plenty more but I gave up at ‘Human Letters’ – divide into were invented for?
teams of four people. The organiser shouts out four letter words (seems open
to corruption), and each group has to spell them out using their bodies! The Cheers,
most accurate and fastest wins – sounds disturbingly like throwing a few
YMCA shapes in a bad 80’s theme bar, and ending up with a female trucker Paul
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