Comments for Ice-breakers, Group Games & Team-Building Activities

Comment on Change Up by Mark Collard

Mark Collard — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:42:07 +0000

Amy, this is a such a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I’ll think to try this out next week. This is also a great variation of the classic Mute Line Up activity.

Comment on Change Up by Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:56 +0000

My class came up with the idea of taking two cards, without looking at them, hold them to your forehead. The cards must be added together, and then find your place in line from least to greatest. This really allowed one person to take the lead role of making sure everyone was in the right spot. Then the lead person had to initiate with someone else to figure out where they should stand.

Comment on Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Patrick McCaughan

Patrick McCaughan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:01:04 +0000

Hi Mark,
There are currently some changes in the education system in Scotland you may want to check out. It’s called the curriculum for Excellence and it is a model aimed at encouraging deeper and also broader learning. Learning about group skills team work and inter/intra personal learning are all encouraged within this model. Another model you may be interested in the Baccerlaurate model currently taught in International Schools. This may balance the argument somewhat, the school system and teachers tend to get a hard time of it which is at times unfair as there are some really positive things going on in some schools.

Comment on Madagascar Rescue by Mark Collard

Mark Collard — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:05:21 +0000

Hi Marietta, thnaks for your questions… the team size really does depend on the size of your sheet on which they are standing. However, by law of averages, I aim for 12-15 people. So, with 45 people, I’d have 3 teams at the most, but I like your idea of smaller teams. Naturally, the younger they are, the smaller the team I woudl make. As for the time it takes a group to complete the task – again, depends on a number of factors, (age of group, how far the items are spread, etc), but I’d suggest about 20mins for the execution when all is going well. Add to that the briefing and the processing time…. have FUNN

Comment on Madagascar Rescue by Marietta Stalcup

Marietta Stalcup — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:41:29 +0000

Mark

Sorry, one more question. How long do you plan for just completing the exercise itself, not including set up an debrief?

marietta

Comment on Madagascar Rescue by Marietta Stalcup

Marietta Stalcup — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:40:41 +0000

Mark

This sounds like the perfect exercise to achieve my objectives. A couple of questions: What size team have you found to be most impactful? I have 45 in total, but will obviously break them into smaller groups. I was thinking 5 groups of 9. Is that reasonable size?

Thanks
Marietta

Comment on Clothes Peg Tag by owenlove

owenlove — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:12:16 +0000

Nice one:) I surely try this…

Comment on Train Station Greetings by sridhar

sridhar — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:33:13 +0000

I coined it myself. I love coining acronyms

Comment on Train Station Greetings by Mark Collard

Mark Collard — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:44:43 +0000

I like the acronymn Sridhar. Good prompts to help guide the delivery of many activities – is it yours, or did you pick it up from somewhere/one else?

Comment on Train Station Greetings by sridhar

sridhar — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:36:48 +0000

brilliant article, Mark. I coined BREAD acronym and use it everytime a play training games, icebreakers and energizers. it stands for brief,rehearse,engage,answer and debrief. I feel all these elements are vital for every trianing game.