• Time: 20 - 60 minutes
• Level: Introductory
• Participants: 3 - 15

 

• Planning and working together under pressure
• Awareness of others needs
• Helping each other to complete their tasks
• Achieving success through teamwork
• Inter-team working
• Careful and detailed planning.

Handcuffed is a flexible 2-part activity which energizes whilst introducing and developing the core elements of team working. In Part 1 teams compete against each other, whereas in Part 2 the teams have to cooperate and communicate effectively to achieve their goals.

Part 1 can be used in isolation to 'break the ice' whilst introducing the importance of basic team skills (planning, co-operation etc.).

 

• Time: 60 minutes
• Level: Introductory
• Participants: 3 - 15

 

 

• Customer focus: identifying, understanding and meeting customer priorities
• Planning
• Working together
• Reviewing progress against objectives
• Changing plans (with agreement) as necessary.

A competitive activity to help participants understand the importance of customer orientation, establishing and working to priorities, planning (and revising plans), estimating costs and working within a set time frame.

• Time: 45 - 60 minutes
• Level: Intermediate
• Participants: 6 - 15

 

 

• Reviewing progress
• Planning in a competitive environment
• Setting and achieving realistic (stretching?) targets
• Valuing new information and revising targets and plans appropriately
• Understanding and focusing on priorities
• Group decision making.

This activity is for people who need to set targets and plan in a competitive environment. The task is simple, but as new information is received groups need to reconsider earlier decisions: progress needs to be monitored, targets revised and plans changed with everyone's agreement as the task unfolds.

• Time: 60 minutes
• Level: Intermediate
• Participants: 6 - 12

• Understanding and achieving business success
• Planning within and between teams
• Making the most of market opportunities
• Introduction to negotiating
• Developing team skills
• Taking personal responsibility and trusting others to do their job.

Helipads involve 2 or 3 competing teams. It is designed to demonstrate how effective team working within and between teams influences business success and highlight the key qualities that influence the process.

Team success is dependent of the value of the final product, but it addition to organising themselves, competing teams need to work together to ensure that they do not reduce the value of their products: the value of any helipad is reduced if two or more are produced to the same specification, but some specifications are more profitable than others.