Six great games at one low price. Games include
All Aboard (10 mins) Task: Teams of participants try to fit into rope boats that are too small for them long enough to sing a full chorus of "Row, row, row your boat ...". Final team game that illustrates the benefits and synergy of teams in action and working collaboratively
Animal Teams (5 mins) Task: Participants are each given a slip of paper with an animal on it. They must find their teams making only their animal noises. Short, fun and energetic team formation exercise - illustrates the power of communicating without words
Apollo 13 Game (20 mins) Task: Teams are challenged to save the Astronauts aboard Apollo 13 by making an air filter that will fit two different sockets from the jumble of available items on board the spacecraft. Strategic planning, problem solving and resource utilisation all rolled into one fun activity
Basket Ball Bonus (30 mins) Task: Teams help their best thrower to get balls into a bucket whilst overcoming a series of barriers. High energy problem solving game challenging participants to adopt a creative orientation when confronted by barriers to team performance and in so doing improve results despite the apparent handicap
Brave New World (50 mins) Task: Find your most effective team from a group of world holocaust survivors with a strange mix of possessions and ensure your own survival in a changing environment. A game that challenges values, demands lateral thinking and best use of scarce resources to survive in a hostile environment
Harry's Letters (20 mins) Task: Teams of participants watch a video clip from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and then must get their team message to their Harry in the cupboard under the stairs. To be successful they must elude the wicked Uncle and his devices. A very useful communication tool that is a great metaphor for sending and receiving messages in a siloed workplace.
WorldGAMES is the collector, creator and designer of over 800 fun and engaging training games, exercises, simulations, tools and experiential programs. Everything you need for effective action learning. Discover for yourself the magic of the most natural learning process in the world: the power of games as metaphors that relate directly to the workplace.
These games are fun, mostly competitive, have rules and winners. They have the power to:
- change behaviour in a safe context
- make data heavy programs come alive and interesting
- maximise the retention of what your people learn
- make learning fun
- simply get results that will amaze you
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