Free Team
Building Game
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Create-Your-Own
Triathlon
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Objective:
- A team-based relay race requiring
participants to invent their own physical activities
- Encourages participation from all team members.
Use it for team building or just for pure fun!
Development
Areas:
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Creativity
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Cooperation
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Organizational skills
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Problem Solving
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Collaboration
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Communications
Time & Space:
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Time allowance depends on the number of team members
in each small group.
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Both indoors and outdoors. Because groups
create their own activities, it doesn't matter how much space to you have available.
Participants:
Facilitation:
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Organize participants into their small
groups.
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Explain that they will be participating
in a relay race called Create-Your-Own Triathlon. Tell each group they have 2 minutes to choose an event to
include in their triathlon.
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Encourage creativity. (Examples might
include a specific number of jumping jacks; walking backward from one specific location to another; singing
your national anthem; turning around in circles 10 times; and so on.)
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After 2 minutes, ask each group in turn
to perform the event it selected. Then ask all participants to practice that move. Tell groups to line up
in the order in which they will perform the triathlon.
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Use a starting signal (whistle) to
begin the triathlon.
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Each person in a group must perform all
three of the events decided upon by all groups, and then the next person in the group begins.
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The group that finishes first
wins.
Debrief questions:
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What was the initial reaction of your
team?
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How well did the team cope with this
challenge?
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What skills did it take to be
successful as a team?
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What would an outside observer have
seen as the strengths and weaknesses of the team?
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What did each team member learn about
others?
to more team building programs for change
management:
The Amazing Race
The
Apprentice
Survivor
Millionaire
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Deal or No Deal
The Idol
Pyramid
Jeopardy
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