GAME #75: New Employee Egg Hunt
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical: Orientation
❖ Purpose: To put a colorful spin on orientation training.
❖ Time Required: 20 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: A multitude of colored, plastic Easter eggs; slips of paper with questions on them to slip inside the eggs, prepared in advance by the trainer. ❖ The Exercise in Action: Before orientation sessions, Donna Loughridge, a systems trainer with MCI Telecommunications in Colorado Springs, CO, writes questions on small pieces of paper, then slips them inside eggs. Loughridge then hides the eggs in a common area, such as the cafeteria, and asks participants to hunt for them. When a participant finds an egg, the mission is to answer the question inside. This often requires the finder to locate a particular person or department within the company. For example, if the question is, “How many employees work in the packaging area?” the seeker will have to speak to someone working in that area, possibly the supervisor. This, Loughridge says, creates a familiarity with where various people and functions are located in the company, while helping the new associate learn some names and faces from various areas. After finding an answer, the participant returns to the egg-hunt area to find another egg. After all the eggs have been found and the corresponding questions answered, Loughridge asks participants to share their new-found knowledge with the group. The participant with the most questions cor- rectly answered wins a small prize.
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