The station garden
Featured in the The Team Working Activity Pack training manual
By Rod Storey
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)
In many situations team members have their own ideas on how to do a task or solve a problem. Such differences need not be negative. Indeed, if they can be brought together and the best parts extracted from each, then the final solution can often be very effective – and it has the ‘ownership’ of all the team members.
In a team, participants plan how to design a garden for a station within limits of finance and the space available. The participants need to demonstrate lateral thinking and communication skills, as well as planning and consensus, to involve all the members of their team when carrying out the exercise. At the end of the task, a representative of the team makes a presentation of the team’s recommendations. The training activity ends with a debrief involving all the participants.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to draw on the different ideas of team members about how to do a task and how these ideas can be brought together to arrive at a final solution.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 8 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:10:00 |
| No of Pages: | 8 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers at an early stage in a training course to help participants start to develop the skills of planning, communication and creativity, especially planning, before going on to more complex tasks.
Download the training activity, The station garden as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Team Working Activity Pack