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Adventure Challenge
Quick Facts:
Overview: A fast-paced competition where teams engage in a
series of team activities requiring quick strategy development,
efficient implementation, and process improvement to earn team revenues.
Audience: Personnel at any level of the organization
Group size: 5-500
Session Length: 3 hours to 1 day
Location: Anywhere your team is meeting
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Adventure Challenge
As participants begin to gather,
there is excitement and a bit of anxiety as to what this Adventure
Challenge is all about. Each has just arrived from various locations
across the company to create a new team identity during their time
together. Adorned in brightly colored t-shirts, each team proudly
announces their new team name. Then, they anxiously wait to hear the
rules of the race.
Epic video footage of actual wilderness team scenarios demonstrates the
parallels to the day-to-day workplace. But how can this be - so remote
from the jungles of Borneo or the peaks of the Himalayas? They will soon
find out!
The rules are distributed and the teams are briefed. They have three
hours to complete the race. The team that earns the most revenue during
the race is the winning team. Seems easy enough, but this isn’t about
speed. Rather it is the ability to communicate as a team under time and
competitive pressure while determining the best strategy to maximize
revenues. As teams review their rules, the time clock ticks down to
official start time.
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they are off! Teams engage in 5 different problem-solving activities
each lasting 40 minutes. The objective is to quickly strategize and
solve the exercise in the most efficient way possible. How many teams
will jump right into the task? How many teams will look at the bigger
picture and then proceed? Do teams recognize the ability to collaborate
or are they just concerned about their own team? Who is the real team
anyways?
The race clock keeps ticking as teams follow their map to navigate from
one activity to another. They don’t want to jeopardize being late for
the next activity or they will lose their hard earned revenue from the
prior activity. The tension builds as teams collect their revenues and
passports are stamped before moving to the next challenge. With one
final activity left before the finish line, teams frantically work
through the exercise hoping for bonus revenues. Each team is confident
that they are the likely winners. But, which will it be?
The clock stops as teams’ race back to the finish line. Passports are
collected to tally the final revenue totals. Teams recount their
activities with laughter and disbelief at what they have accomplished
while they wait anxiously for the winners to be revealed. And the
winners are?
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