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?
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Jeopardy
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