Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Large Group Team Building



Video of 60 in 60 that Create-Learning led with University at Rochester, NY - Simon School of Business MBA Class. Large Group Team Building in Rochester NY with 100+ people.

60 in 60 overview

- The Group is split into teams of 20 to 25 people.

The intention of 60 in 60 is problem solving, collaboration, and sharing ideas.
Each large group is supplied with a beach ball and asked to split in half, with half on one side of a line and the other half on the other side. Teams gain points by catching the beach ball that is thrown from one side to the other. The teams must have all people throw and receive the beach ball.

Smaller groups work to produce a process that will allow them the most possible points in a limited time.

Multiple groups working at the same time - will it be competitive or collaborative?

Within this activity there is a hope that the groups share best practices.

this activity is from Sam Sikes excellent book "The More the Merrier"

-Michael Cardus is the founder of Create-Learning-Team Building, an experiential based training and development consulting organization, as well as a blogger for TeamBuilding NY. Mike specializes in team development and leadership development consulting and training, creating team-building programs that retain talented staff members, increase production and effectiveness of your team. He lives in Buffalo, NY, and travels to you to serve your team-building and leadership training needs, wherever and whenever fits your schedule.