Team Building - Jungle Adventure

Jungle Adventure

Quick Facts:
Purpose: To engage teams in a high-energy activity that requires team communication, problem solving, and strategic planning.
Audience: Personnel at any level of the organization
Group size: 20 to 300+
Session Length: 3 - 4 hours (can be extended with add-on training such as Taking Flight with DISC)
Location: Anywhere your team is meeting

You’ve sat in conference rooms, played team games, and maybe even dangled from ropes, and now you’re looking for something different…
something impactful…something memorable.

Your group is greeted by late 19th Century music playing in the background. A visually stunning untamed jungle slideshow is displayed on the screen. Each person puts on a Khaki Jungle Adventure cap and they discover that the year is 1912. They are all a part of an expedition off the coast of Africa. Their mission is to race to save an endangered species of gorilla from poachers.

In order to do so, your team must establish a base camp on the island and set up a series of communication and observatory towers. Throughout this three-hour activity, teams acquire new information that rewards flexibility and inter-team communication. Unexpected events cause teams to improvise, adapt and collaborate with other teams to accomplish the objectives.

Jungle Adventure is a fast-paced team building simulation that requires effective collaboration, leadership, planning, and communication. An unlimited number of teams of five to six individuals must make their way through the uncharted African jungle. Only teamwork will save them now. Teams have just twenty days to accomplish a series of missions on their way to achieving their ultimate objective. Each day lasts between five to ten minutes.

Participants will learn that every person contributes to overall group effectiveness, as they see the parallels between their actions during the exercise and their behaviors on-the-job. Your team will build trust, improve communication, and enhance collaboration as they engage in their Jungle Adventure.

Key success factors include:

Planning is paramount. Teams must coordinate their efforts with fellow team members to achieve their goals.
Teamwork is critical. Teams benefit by collaborating between groups.
Effective communication makes the difference between organization and confusion.
Participants are rewarded for moderate risk-taking, while excessive aggressiveness, competitiveness, and secrecy with other teams negatively impact results.
Flexibility is essential. New information throughout the exercise must be integrated into the existing plan.

Extend your half-day of training to a full day by helping your team members understand each other (and themselves) better by learning about their personalities and styles. The personality work uses the DISC instrument to enlighten team members with new insights about themselves and how they operate with others. A wonderful addition to the Jungle Adventure session: Taking Flight with DISC

What Others Think of Our Jungle Adventure Team Building Program:

The Jungle Adventure simulation was a fun and dynamic exercise and our group was extremely competitive and a few tempers were elevated until we realized we had to work together to achieve the objective.
Rod Hargraves, Howard Hughes Medical Institute



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