Team Building in a Treehouse September 24, 2011
Posted by James Coakes in team building.Tags: conference, team building, team building activities, treehouse
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Up in the trees - a treehouse
There are treehouses at several conference venues around the UK and they are great meeting places for smaller groups. Most comfortably take up to a dozen people although some are larger. They have all the facilities of a typical conference room with meeting tables, flipcharts and electrics – but there the similarity ends.
Treehouses are built in quiet wooded areas in most venues and you feel completely away from the hustle and bustle and your usual work environment. Surrounded by a wood construction and looking out on green trees unleashes creativity and helps you to see things in a new light. They’re great as bases for team building activities as well.
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Conference icebreakers December 16, 2009
Posted by James Coakes in team building.Tags: conference, heath robinson, ice breaker, rollercoaster
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Conference Ice Breaker
Conference icebreakers are fun activities used, literally, to break the ice at the beginning of conferences and events. The activities are usually quick paced, lively and designed to maximise interaction between delegates. They are also used to energise groups.
Tangles is one example of an effective conference icebreaker. The group is divided into small teams of half a dozen or so people. These people are all linked together by way of a pair of rope handcuffs. The objective is to untangle your team without taking your hand out of the loops. The result ranges from acrobatics to the proverbial tangle, but always a lot of laughter.
The image on the right shows The Rollercoaster Challenge. In this exercise teams use tubes of recycled newspaper to build a rollercoaster, which always becomes an incredible Heath Robinson sort of invention.
