This document provides tips for creating teambuilding exercises. It suggests first understanding the skills or competencies needed and assessing any issues. Examples are given like confidence-building rope activities or a chess coordination game. Care should be taken that exercises maintain their purpose and safety precautions are followed for outdoor activities. More teambuilding resources and advice can be found online.

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How to create your own
Teambuilding Exercise

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Haven’t you found yourself in a situation
when you needed a certain type of exercise
to cover a certain need or expectation in
order to reach your teambuilding objectives
but you couldn’t find one in your
sourcebooks? The only solution is to
develop your own activity.

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There isn’t a special recipe or assured way to
create a teambuilding exercise as this process
demands a high level of creative thinking
through brainstorming or other methods.
Nevertheless, some tips may be provided to
ease the process of creating your own
exercise.

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Before creating your own activity make sure
you have assessed correctly and understand
the skill, attitude or competency that is
needed to be developed during the course of
the exercises. For example, you have
assessed there is a lack in self esteem and
confidence in your group.

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It doesn’t matter if your group consists of
managers or students, because confidence is
needed even in climbing a rock. Therefore,
you may organize a series of rope activities
with different levels of difficulty, which run
from the easiest to the most risky that will
raise the level of self esteem and confidence
in your participants.

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The most common activity relates to team
coordination and understanding, the same
as a military strategy, when different teams
have to work together for the same goal,
without knowing what the other is doing.
Paint ball may prove too hard for some
groups.

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If you analyze the situation deeper, you may
observe a similar process in playing chess,
but instead of having 2 people play, have 2
teams play against each other. Each team
could represent the chess figures; you only
have to create the board. 16 people will start
fighting over a strategy on how to win, but
unless they play as one, failure is inevitable.

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This situation forces them to listen and
coordinate their steps. As each team
advances with their strategy, each group will
have to change and adapt their moves to the
context in a matter of seconds.
Create a debriefing plan suited for the rate of
difficulty of this exercise as many conclusions
are to be drawn from it.

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Try to find inspiration in everything, even on
the streets or nature. If for example you
must prepare a communication exercise, you
may ask two groups of 10 people to form
parallel lines. Thinks is too easy? Why don’t
you blindfold them and see how it goes.

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Usually trainers arrange outdoor activities
with a high risk of difficulty or military style
and don’t take advantage of the indoor
experience. As a result, the main point of
learning is forgotten in the process because
the participants will focus on the fun parts.
Don’t allow an exercise to lose its main
purpose and for participants’ attention to
wander off for more than 10% of the
teambuilding.

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Take extra precautions if you are
designing an activity for outdoor
that includes physical effort. Only
experienced, certified trainers
should engage in these types of
activities and even they cannot
ensure sufficient safety for all.

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For more training and team-building
advice
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