Stackman Game Team building

What

Stackman is an excellent tool to explore coordination of procedures and structural change. It is also useful for illustrating topics such as team co-operation, leadership and change management. This activity is about putting together a set of specially designed wooden logs with the help of instructions and a map. It is completely about strategic thinking, process optimization, patience, accepting each other's ideas and completing the task along with the team in a given time frame.

Why

Stackman is about team effort along with individual performance and sharing expectations for accomplishing the group tasks. This activity helps in:

• Team cooperation: reaching and modifying agreements, working towards a common goal, team communication
• Managing change processes: collecting and integrating ideas for optimization, CIP (continual improvement process), progressive development of new procedures
• Leadership: effective and target-focused facilitation, motivating, maintaining the overview, steering optimization processes

How

The aim is to construct a Stackman from the elements provided in the shortest time possible. Our facilitator will divide the employees into teams and with the help of visual guide they have to put the elements together. Once they have assembled it, however, the first version is taken apart and the team has to rebuild the construction as quickly as possible but this time without the guide. The group can only succeed by optimizing communication and by ensuring that all team members coordinate effectively with each other. In fact, the most well-coordinated teams manage to build the Stackman in less than 20 seconds!

What

We know that great teams make great things happen. But the constant challenge of meeting or even exceeding objectives is very demanding for everyone involved. Effective and synergetic teamwork is the possible solution for the same. A highly engaging team activity of building the tallest and the most stable tower of wooden blocks using strings and a manual crane motivating your employees to set their sides higher.

why

The key benefits derieved from this activity are:

• Project management: simulating strategic planning, innovative and creative mindset, working under time pressure
• Leadership training: identifying interdependencies in systems, leadership communication, dealing with risk, giving and tackling feedbacks
• Team building: communicating effectively, cooperating, being an active listener, maintaining the balance, working with values
• Communication training: communication, facilitating, dealing with different perspectives

How

Employees will be divided into teams. Our trainer places 8 wooden blocks upright on the floor. Each team member picks up one of the ropes that are connected to a crane. The task is to use the crane to build a tower by placing the blocks on top of each other. The participants are not allowed to touch the blocks with their hands or any other part of their bodies. The task appears simple but with each block cut at a different angle and the need for all participants to work together, building the tower starts to get tricky! This task can only be solved by precise planning, good communication and well-organized teamwork.