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Team-building

  • Ankle Walk

    A simple group challenge: get across the room as one line together -- with a twist -- keep your ankles together. This adventure-based learning activity can surface group issues around leadership, decision-making, and group conflict.

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  • I am the center...

    Whenever a new group forms people are always curious: Who else is in the room? This kinesthetic exercise allows peoples curiousity to show up and to learn about who is in the room. And, does it in a way that gets people working together.

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  • Task and Maintenance: What makes groups work?

    This tool is a quick, easy tool that is effective at helping groups understand the different roles in making groups work: different leadership skills. Its based on a piece of feminist theory that understands different leadership skills: Task and Maintenance.

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  • Team Types

    Team types is a straightforward tool for participants to learn about themselves through identifying within four different categories, each representing different aspects of how people may operate in group settings.

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  • Stepping Stones

    This tool out of the field of "adventure-based learning" is an effective team-building exercise. We've had success with it in Thailand, Burma, Russia, Canada and more -- that's why it's one of our favorites.

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  • Puzzle Squares

    A tool from the field of adventure-based learning (ABL), puzzle squares is a group challenge that helps to look at leadership issues and communication within a team. The goal is simple enough -- create a square -- but the process elicits key conversation about how decisions get made in groups, and how to communicate effectively.

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Glossary of terms

positive reinforcement: the facilitator (or the group) expressing appreciation for the behavior of a participant, for the insight s/he gained or the risk taken. Positive reinforcement has been found scientifically to be more powerful than criticism in changing behavior and accelerating learning.

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