Team Building Exercises
Jun. 15th, 2006 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzFirst off, I found out from one of my teammates that we won our softball game last Monday! WOO HOO!
Yesterday was a day of team building exercises. Now I've seen these before on television shows or whatever and they almost always look silly and stupid, with no real value whatsoever. The reality is that once I participated in them, they were actually a lot of fun and interesting.
The first exercise was passing a ball around a circle of people, then more things, then some forward and some backward in terms of who you passed it to. While academically, we're learning how to communicate and multi-task, the fun part was tossing stuff around.
The second was the one everyone hated. We were blindfolded and given a piece of rope to hold. Twenty-four people holding the same rope and one sighted person to guide us into forming it into a square and then we had to determine it's length. We did a good job, but some of the stronger personalities kept trying to vie for dominance whether or not they could see. One guy (who is also in my project group) was finally told to shut his pie hole by the lady next to me as he couldn't see, but kept talking over people who could. Though frustrating, it was a bit real world. As one very sweet grandmother in the group said in an souther accent, "Even I know that the blind can't lead the blind..." She could be the next gay icon.
The third was my favorite as I got the chance to shine a bit. It's the "crossing the acid river" game. We were given a series of multi-sized pieces that we had to step on and move to cross the river without falling in. We had nine people and seven pieces. I got the idea that we should piggy-back the smaller people, giving us less feet to stand on pieces. Two smaller ladies agreed and a teammate and I hauled them across the river while the single bodies helped move the pieces. While I was sweating like a demon at the end, we beat the other team and no casualties.
The last exercise was outdoors in the shade, a numbers game, enough said. While things got touchy feely at the end about what we wanted to take away from it, how it changed me, whatever, it was fun. That evening, my group (sans big mouth) worked on our Twilight Zone video we were filming. I got to act, direct, stage, and draw. The raw footage was hilarious. I may give![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cincy_dave a run for his money.
Tonight.. karaoke! Will I do it? What songs should I do? Let's see how many beers I drink first....
Yesterday was a day of team building exercises. Now I've seen these before on television shows or whatever and they almost always look silly and stupid, with no real value whatsoever. The reality is that once I participated in them, they were actually a lot of fun and interesting.
The first exercise was passing a ball around a circle of people, then more things, then some forward and some backward in terms of who you passed it to. While academically, we're learning how to communicate and multi-task, the fun part was tossing stuff around.
The second was the one everyone hated. We were blindfolded and given a piece of rope to hold. Twenty-four people holding the same rope and one sighted person to guide us into forming it into a square and then we had to determine it's length. We did a good job, but some of the stronger personalities kept trying to vie for dominance whether or not they could see. One guy (who is also in my project group) was finally told to shut his pie hole by the lady next to me as he couldn't see, but kept talking over people who could. Though frustrating, it was a bit real world. As one very sweet grandmother in the group said in an souther accent, "Even I know that the blind can't lead the blind..." She could be the next gay icon.
The third was my favorite as I got the chance to shine a bit. It's the "crossing the acid river" game. We were given a series of multi-sized pieces that we had to step on and move to cross the river without falling in. We had nine people and seven pieces. I got the idea that we should piggy-back the smaller people, giving us less feet to stand on pieces. Two smaller ladies agreed and a teammate and I hauled them across the river while the single bodies helped move the pieces. While I was sweating like a demon at the end, we beat the other team and no casualties.
The last exercise was outdoors in the shade, a numbers game, enough said. While things got touchy feely at the end about what we wanted to take away from it, how it changed me, whatever, it was fun. That evening, my group (sans big mouth) worked on our Twilight Zone video we were filming. I got to act, direct, stage, and draw. The raw footage was hilarious. I may give
cincy_dave a run for his money.Tonight.. karaoke! Will I do it? What songs should I do? Let's see how many beers I drink first....
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Date: 2006-06-15 01:58 pm (UTC)And there always seems to be a Big Mouth or two in every group. You feel a sense of satisfaction when someone puts them in their place. Those ladies sound like a hoot.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:05 pm (UTC)I've only Karaoke'd one tune in my life and it was "Whip It" by Devo.
Try it. It's fun and goofy.
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