All team building consultants and facilitators have a ‘Will Not Do’ list – whether they keep it inside their head or they share it…we all have some activities and simulations we will not do.
This happens for a variety of reasons.
Here are some team building activities that are on my Will Not DO list
Continuing with the goal of making teams and leaders better here are some resources that will help you in working with your team or team building & leadership provider. Plus ways you can assist the team in connecting what is done in the program to the workplace.
Working with a group on Leadership and team building. Part of the process is taking the group to a High Ropes Course to explore individual challenges.
Create-Learning leads team building & leadership programs with many High Ropes and Low Ropes courses.
Create-Learning led a 2-day corporate team development program for 70 team members. Below are photos from our time together. The program was held at a Corporate Conference Center that was accessible to the Buffalo NY and Rochester NY employees. The quotes and italics are comments that the participants made about the program. A piece of … Continued
Working with corporate clients.Many of them have given me the pleasure of consulting for many years now. At this point know and have a good idea of my bag of tricks have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers they need. How does this apply to Challenge courses and Ropes Courses … Continued
Ropes courses have their fit with team building, leadership development
When properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to student and work life.The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course (challenge course) experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done.
What team members should realize is that there are great team building activities out there that do not require a ropes course, that push your limits mentally and physically and allow the team to use all its power to replicate and solve work and organizational problems.