Team Beam

Like walking on a wire

Item No.: 0260.408

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The Project. Sometimes, when looking for possible solutions to an issue, team members get the impression of standing in each others' way. This often leads to a lack of communication and coordination. Team Beam gives your participants the hands-on experience that "working together" means much more than just working on the same project, at the same time etc. By the way, Team Beam is an excellent tool to break the ice in a seminar and make the participants comfortable with each other.

How It's Done. Ask the group to get on the beam in an alphabetical order, according to the first letters of their last names. All should be facing in the same direction, with shoulders touching. Then, give them their task: to rearrange themselves on the beam according to their first names. To reach this goal, noone must touch the ground with any part of their body. Any breaches of this rule are sanctioned in a way you and the group see fit. Usually, what you'll see first is a number of tries where participants seek to move around their neighbors with as little physical contact as possible. As this quickly proves highly ineffective, the participants realize that touching and stabilizing each other is essential in order to accomplish their task.

On the Team Beam, creative ideas and strategies abound, and the group is literally drawn much closer together. If you wish to up the difficulty level a notch, have the group perform the activity using only nonverbal communication. Team Beam consists of four individual parts which can be linked together for adapting it to seminar groups of varying sizes.

Persons (min./opt./max.): 5/12/12.
Time (w/o debriefing): 5-15 minutes.
Space needed: 5 x 3 meters at full length.

Safety Advice: All participants should ideally be wearing shoes with flat soles to prevent slipping. Alternatively, Team Beam can be done without shoes. Topics & Goals. Getting to know each other: Feeling comfortable, learning each others' names.
(Re-)Activating: In the morning, after lunch.
Team building: Interacting, coordinating, trusting, sticking together, "we"-feeling.
Project management: Dealing with shortages creatively.

Team Beam. In the box: 1 Team Beam (beech wood), consisting of 4 parts, with non-slip cork base, 1 detailed instruction manual.

Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 80 cm. Weight: 13.7 kg. Ships in a cardboard box.