Is your team focused? Check the fun activity!

Hi

I would like to share one of the most interesting and simple team building activities. It is fun and a solid activity to prove how important  team work and focus are.

Requirements:

1)      Your team, more than 10 people would be good. More the participants more the fun.

2)      A long plastic/PVC pipe, or any similar material (a long stick light weight)

What do you do:

1)      Separate your team into two, give them team names.

2)      Each team member to stand in a row facing an opponent of the other team (like in the beginning  American football game)

3)      Ask them to go to kneel down (or bend to chair position)

4)      Ask all of the team members to point at his opponent with their index fingers

5)      Now using all their index fingers as the base keep the long pipe/stick horizontally

6)      There is only one simple rule: Any given time all fingers to be in touch with pipe/stick

7)      Now announce their targets: To lift the pipe/stick to a height above the tallest persons head

Observations:

1)      Most of the teams struggle to bring the stick up as it always fall lower and lower

2)      With a strategy and team focus the stick can be taken upwards

Inferences:

1)      Even the simplest task becomes very difficult when done by a team without unity.

2)      Once the team wants to achieve something and gets focused, any strategy can be implemented with much lesser effort. 

Do this activity and make your team enjoy and at the same time make them realize the power of a focus and teamship. 

Share the results if you have tried and share your ideas like these which worked well for you.

Thol. The SaintLeader.