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I haven’t shared a Team Building Agenda post in a while.

Below is a team building orientation program created for ~100 incoming MBA students.

 

 

For you Team Building nerds – What do you think of the agenda? What would you have done the same / different?

 

Incoming MBA Students – Orientation

• Number of Participants: ~100
• Program Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
• Facilitators: Will remain at their activity station. Students will rotate to the facilitator.
• Recommended reading: David A. Kolb on experiential learning. Focus on the Kolb and Jarvis experiential models – http://infed.org/mobi/david-a-kolb-on-experiential-learning/

Objectives:

• Students to meet new people and form connections
• Develop early lessons in group learning and experiential learning
• Supply the students with a strong / fun introduction to the University and MBA Program
• Processing and focus of experiential activities to the challenges and work they will be expected to complete in the MBA program
• Develop skills in communication and problem solving with international students
• HAVE FUN! Create a shared memory and experience anchored in University and MBA Program

Create-Learning Team Building Facilitators

Mike	Chris
Emma	Jon
Jim	Steve
Dave	Meaghan

Program Agenda

• Note– as students enter they will be handed a playing card with a colored sticker on it. This card and sticker will indicate the small teams and facilitator that the students will go with.

7:00-7:30am	Create-Learning facilitators arrive, set-up and plan
7:30-8:30am	Create-Learning facilitators finalize plans and team breakdowns
8:30-9:00am	MBA Students arrive and mix + mingle
9:00-9:10am	Dean of MBA program Welcomes Students and shares ‘why are we here today?’ plus why this is important to the University and MBA program
9:10-9:30am	Mike Cardus with introductions, agenda, challenge-of-choice and risks throughout the day
9:30-9:40am	Mike Cardus Announces card numbers and the facilitator that people will begin with.

• Students will go with team building facilitators and be led though team building and experiential learning simulations.

9:50-10:20am

Team Building Station 1 – Each facilitator will have ~12 people in their activity station.The activity station will follow similar formats Opening and Name activity ~5-8 minutes Team Building activity ~10-15 minutes Processing and lessons learned ~8-10 minutes

Team Building Activities – Following name / introductions

Mike – Coriolis Affect	Emma – Warp Speed
Chris – Keypunch	Meaghan – Traffic Jam
Steve – Overhand Knot	Dave – Flip Tarp / Hole Tarp
Jim – Infinite Loops. Level 1 & 2	Jon – Putting it All Together / Network

 

10:20-10:30am	Students rotate to new activity station
10:30-11:00am	Team Building Station 2 – Each facilitator will have ~12 people in their activity station.The activity station will follow similar formats Opening and Name activity ~5-8 minutes Team Building activity ~10-15 minutes Processing and lessons learned ~8-10 minutes

11:00-11:15am

ALL STUDENTS AND FACILITATORS MEET New teams will be formed based upon the color sticker on their playing card.

Final Team Building Activity – Facilitator Teams

Mike – Blue	Emma – Black
Chris – Red	Meaghan –  Blue + Red Stickers
Steve – Yellow	Dave – Support of teams – Playing the Nice Guy
Jim – Stars	Jon – Assisting and re-setting teams as necessary

11:15-11:45ish  CORONA OF CONVERGENCE

• Mike Cardus will have it all set up – with the following directions at each Activity Station.

Briefing: This is the final team challenge of the day. Your entire MBA class must coordinate its efforts and align resources to succeed. This will put all that you have learned about communication, collaboration and team work to the test.

Objective: The objective is the same for each team. Using only the resources you have. Transport your tennis ball from the PVC stand it is on to the corresponding PVC stand in the center of all the teams. You must accomplish this while keeping the ball suspended only on the metal ring and the PVC pipe must remain standing at all times.

Once the first tennis ball is placed on its final location (PVC pipe) all the other tennis balls must be placed on their respective pipes with 120 seconds on the 1^st one…

Resources:

• Corona transport system
• Tennis Ball
• Each Other
• Prior learned experience from earlier activities

Guidelines:

• The tennis ball must start on the PVC pipe
• The Corona transport system must start on the ground with the metal ring around the PVC pipe
• ALL team members must be holding 1 or more strings at all times
• Strings must be at full extension no choking up on the strings.
• If the tennis ball falls AND / OR the PVC pipe falls at any time the team must return to the starting position and begin again.
• Once the 1^st tennis ball is placed on its final destination all other tennis balls have 3 minutes to reach their final destination.

Helpful Hints:

• Work together
• Keep breathing
• Use names to communicate
• Be nice to each other
• Coordinate all your movements
• Keep your eye(s) on the ball
• There are teams outside of your team … what can you learn from them?

 

 

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