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Good range in this post, Caroline. Charity team-building effectively directs focus on purposeful ends - not just "play" or boring business agendas.
The Spaghetti Tower is a lot fun. Ted Wujec' TED Talk interestingly points out that Business School students and lawyers do it worst. They spend too much time in the analytical sphere. Right behind architects and engineers at the top are kindergarten students! These kids just grab the spaghetti and marshmallow and quickly grasp the need to reinforce the spaghetti structure.
I'll have a blog post about another team-building activity in a month or so. Hope it doesn't cause your heart to sink, but no one dangles at the end of a rope off a bridge.
Hi Bruce - that's a really interesting point about the business school and lawyers doing worst on the spaghetti exercise (having worked in the legal field for a few years, I can imagine - they're a cautious bunch!).
I look forward to reading your blog (but no rope dangling? Shame!)
These are some great ideas thank you for sharing. My work always does team building activities, but they don't have to be lame. Sometimes we just play cards together or some other fun game for about 15 minutes. It really does help our team to get closer. I really like the simple idea of the bag of pretzels. Simple is best.