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Old 03-31-2003, 05:27 PM
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The Grid

Goal: Proper planning, listening

Task: Your task is to get your whole team to the other end of the grid by discovering the set path through the grid.

Materials Needed: a 12' x 12' plastic tarp, one roll of duct tape.

Optimal number of participants: 5-30

Preparation:
Choose your map and get a pen to mark the incorrect steps. It is best to put a line through each square each time a person steps on an incorrect square and then another when the square is stepped on again.

Facilitator Notes:
Choose your map and get a pen to mark the incorrect steps. I have found that it is best to put a line through the square each time a person steps on an incorrect square and then another when a square is stepped on again. Put the grid on the floor. Blindfold at least one of the participants.

Read instruction sto the team:
The team may only send one person at a time to discover the path from one end of the grid to the other. As you discover the correct path, any adjacent square may be tried. If you tried jumping rows, you might never successfully discover the path.

The facilitator will be able to give your team verbal information limited to whether the squares you have chosen are on the path or not. If you choose a square off the path, you must follow the correct path back to the start and someone else on your team must be sent out to try again.

A correct square is always correct and an incorrect square is always incorrect.

Each time you take a step in an incorrect square a second time or more, the team loses one of its resources (team members). That person becomes an observer and cannot talk or assist during the rest of the exercise. If you take risks and choose incorrectly, a start over is required for the entire team.

The team may coach the person moving through the grid from any position outside the grid. You cannot mark the trail in any way, and no physical maps may be constructed. Once the team has started, any square touched by anyone counts as a try even by accident.

Process Questions:
1. Did you achieve your task? Did you achieve your goal(s)?
2. What was the most difficult part of this activity? What wen twell? What could have been done better?
3. How do you feel your group worked together? What went well? What could ahve been done better?
4. How important were listening skills? How did you listen during the activity compared to what you normally do when working on a project?
5. Themes that could be used in processing the activity include: utilizing the resources of the group, organizational memory.
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