Colour Blind

Eight newly recruited European Graduates, working for a multinational communications technology business, are sitting around a boardroom table. Each team member is blind folded and is holding a collection of small irregular, coloured plastic shapes. They have to work together abiding by the rules to establish the answer to a complex puzzle: “which are the two components that are missing from the set of shapes we have in our possession?"

 

Learning Objectives

As the exercise proceeds, it rapidly becomes clear how different the individual styles of communication are and how different the needs of individuals are. This understanding can be usefully applied in any situation of instructing, teaching or coaching and can be a valuable management skill in ensuring that staff are confident and well motivated. The exercise highlights the need for a process for managing the communication and that everyone in the group understands that process and adheres to it. The exercise highlights the different patterns of communication e.g. who tends to speak first? Who is always listened to? Who will always argue with each other or challenge each other’s position? It helps to highlight that it is important that everyone’s contribution is heard and valued.

A Day In The Country has provided award winning Corporate Hospitality, Activity Days, Conferences , staff days and Team Building Days for over a decade in the UK.

 

Team building Exercises

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• Canyon Crossing
• Boxing Blind
• Gold Rush a Finale Exercise
• Sherpa Walk
• Tower of Hanoi
• The Shepherd
• Toxic Waste
• The Contract
• Mountain Rescue
• Spider’s Web
• Bucket Bonanza
• The Trolley
• Balance Beam
• Colour Blind
• Blind Polygon
• Giant Marble Run
• Catapult Challenge – a finale exercise.

 

A Day in the Country like to work closely with you to design challenges that address your specific business goals in a lively context that is more tactical than physical. To this end, we have developed a ropes course that encourages teambuilding, personal development and networking that’s not only different and challenging, but great fun too.

 

If one of our programmes does not meet with your needs, then we will be delighted to quote you a special day combining ropes courses and team building activities for a multi activity day. We would also be pleased to quote for any other activity not mentioned here.