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!