GAME #59: Shoe Box
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To convince participants they can solve problems with teamwork more quickly and easily than they can by trudging along solo.
❖ Time Required: 10 to 20 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: 12 or more participants working in small groups of four.
❖ Materials Required: An object brought by each participant; a shoe box.
❖ The Exercise in Action: Angie Rohlman, a project manager at Kimball International, Jasper, IN, sends class registrants a note a few days in advance of courses asking them to bring a small object to be placed in a shoe box with items brought in by others. At the start of the session, participants get 60 seconds to look in the box and then have a minute to list on paper as many items as they can remember. Rohlman then divides the students into groups of four and gives them another minute to generate a list of the contents of the box as a group. They invariably do better, she says, which makes for an effective opener in team- building courses.
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