The document provides instructions for a networking exercise involving passing balls between people in a sequence. The rules are that each person can only touch the ball once, balls cannot be passed to an adjacent person, and the ball must return to the original passer. Participants first try with one ball, then two balls, and finally six balls. The document then asks questions about observations during the exercise and critical success factors, and concludes by asking if participants thought they could cut their time so much and how the task could apply to other team exercises.

1. First, Practice:
Your Goal is to set up a Network Sequence
that you will repeat, repeat, repeat (for efficiency)
Rules:
 Each person must touch the ball only once
 You may not throw the ball to someone next to you
 The ball must return to the person who originated tossing
Now try the same thing with two balls
Now with six balls
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2. Process Observations
• Lots of Ideas
• The Person Who Started with the Balls always kept them
• Cut your time in half” generated angry emotions and little
love for your time-keeper
Critical factors in your success
• A Common Goal
• Creative Ideas
• Observations of Competitors
• A Task-Oriented
Final Questions
Did you ever think, early in the process, that you could cut your
time so much??
How can this simple task be applied to other team tasks
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