Dots and sticks
Featured in the Indoor and Outdoor Team Development training manual
By Michèle Barca & Kate Cobb
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
The ability to think creatively enhances the flexibility and responsiveness of any team. In this training activity, participants undertake two exercises that stimulate their creativity and provoke discussion on the creative process.
After explaining that the purpose of this training activity is to examine the creative process and its application to team working, you give the participants two short, creative thinking exercises. These are physical, involving connecting poles with a rope and making crosses with sticks. They will need to use the creative part of their brains to ‘solve’ the problems posed. There will, of course, be restrictions for each exercise. After feedback and debriefing, you encourage the participants to explore the idea of creative thinking and the creative process and expose them to (possibly new) creative techniques. They then use one of these techniques to re-think a work situation and see if they obtain a new result. Finally, they consider how to be more creative with their teams.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to experience creative exercises and learn creative techniques.
- Themes:
- Creativity,
- Lateral thinking,
- Problem solving,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 10 |
| Max Group Size: | 16 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 26 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Bamboo canes, A dictionary, 20 random picture cards.
Purpose: This training activity can be used as part of training in team building, management or creativity. This training activity needs slightly more space, so it is suggested that you take your team to an outdoor area, for example, the car park. It may also need some slightly unusual equipment, such as bamboo poles, plastic crates, bin liners, or string.
Download the training activity, Dots and sticks as featured in the Fenman training manual; Indoor and Outdoor Team Development