my team building experience at Krabi Island
(this topic was created to answer one of my viewers question on team building activities, I hope this would be enough ^_^ , and the story below happened a few years back)
INTRODUCTION ->
Team building is always aimed to develop or even create good qualities like teamwork,critical thinking, and a lots more. Different companies might have different objectives. What I would like to focus is on what kind of activities are they that promote or even develop all these good qualities? Here’s my story based on my own experience. Basically the teambuilding activities was done at Krabi Island, Thailand. Venues were the Pakasai resort which we stayed and also on the beaches as you can see my photos in my previous post on Krabi trip.
INITIALLY ->
everyone was devided into 4groups, Team leader were picked randomly managers and leads were not allowed to be team leades) Surprisingly pilotHans was chosen as team leader of the Red Team. I didn’t saw that coming! Haha. Okay. So basically everyone was divided into 4 teams which consists team Red, team Blue, team Green and team Yellow. so it was like a school merit/sports system where all the activities will be accumulated at the end of the challenges .
FIRST TASK ->
every team has to come with a
i) team name = red = Pink Panter
ii) warCry – that would be used throughout the teambuilding period. warCry was like a line that teams need to sing/shout when we were competing to others..if you guys watch rugby , it’s something like the Samoan dance thing with some words. Back during school days this was common!
iii) create their own Flags. As we were given rather pink color cloth rather then the red. I guess that’s why we called ourselves Pink Panter.
INDOOR GAMES AT PAKASAI RESORT ->
i) guess the movie game. One person needs represent a team. then he goes to pick up a movie name from a box. Then he makes the movement/gesture according to the movie. The objective of the game is for other team members to guess the movie that is been picked from the box.
ii) dance according to your choreographer. when the music stops everyone stops and the one with the wrong position like the choreographer is eliminated. > the choreographer selects the next choreographer to head the dance > and so on. > last man standing wins
iii) Make 4 perfect square with cut paper pieces . each team was given an envelope, in the envelope they was these cut papers. we need to combine it to make 4 perfect squares. Only the team leader could scout to other teams to get missing pieces or ideas on how to do it. sounds easy but believe me it was really tricky.
OUTDOOR GAMES ->
i) Caterpillar – each team had to q like a caterpillar > holding the front person’s waist …..the last person behind holds several balloons tight to each other..lets say 6balloons..
the objective – each team need to defend their balloon. The teams with the last not popped wins. So you either attack are defend. Teamwork really was tested during this activity. It’s really hard to move when you depend on the whole line of 12 people or more.
ii) treasure hunt. After island hopping, we were on this small island.
objective : Every team had to collect 20 items within 25minutes.
example of items that were assigned to find were :
-10 different types of leaves,
-a hot local gal/chick
-coconut husk,
-lifejacket/snokle items ,
-cracker paper,
-toilet tissue,
-business card of a local residence,
and some weird stuff thats really hard to get on an island.
To win – the team that collects the most items within the time frame wins. bonus marks for teams which finish early
iii) crawl under a team member that lays on the beach
objective – 1 member lays on the beach, others need to create a hole under the person laying without sinking the person. > all members have to crawl under the tunnel/hole created. The 1st team with all members crawled under the laying person wins.
iv) dress up a team member as red indian – team with most creative model/dress wins
CONCLUSION ->
(the winning team ^_^)
at the end of the 4days they was the scoring board, just like the ones at school during our “Hari Sukan” @ “sports day” I was the leader of team red. So the ranking we showed in the gardens of the resort.
I guess the team spirit was gained, new friends were made. They were a lot more interesting activities that I can’t remember(maybe those who can, can add..hehe) overall it was a success.
OTHER photos ->
the island hopping..you can see the sea at both sides..basically we can walk between to separated island during low tide. Click here to read my Krabi Island trip story.(warning – as page is full of photo’s it may take a while for those with slow connections)
TO THINK ABOUT ->
i) what other interesting teambuilding activities that you have experienced?
ii) does team buildings really help/motivate an individual?
iii) do you guys like teambuildings or you just enjoy the free travel trips?
iv) any disagreement or stuff that I said, you are free to quote with your explanations
p/s i’ll update this post with more photo’s tonight As for now I hope you enjoyed my entry^_^
cheers
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