There's a hole in my bucket
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Caroline Love & Aileen Goodman
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Encouraging creativity in teams promotes innovative problem solving and team learning, and uses the full range of skills and energies of team members. Taking time for creativity pays dividends in the medium and long term, though it can be tempting, in the face of urgent and immediate problems, to take the \'obvious\' action, which may not produce optimum results. Developing teams\' skills for creativity and innovation means that innovative problem solving can take no longer than choosing the obvious, possibly unhelpful action.
The activity starts with a short game, to promote creative thinking. Next, participants identify the group creative-thinking/problem-solving techniques that they know, and move on to use one technique to gain a diverse range of perspectives on the issue of promoting team learning and development. Following presentations of plans for how to move forward on the issue, the whole group uses a further creative-thinking technique to generate issues that they need to take into account when choosing and using creative-thinking techniques. The activity ends with the completion of a learning log.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to help encourage creativity in teams.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:10:00 |
| No of Pages: | 23 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Card: 2 or 3 pieces cut into circles (1 for each group); 1 x 18cm diameter circle for each participant; 1 x 18cm square for each participant; 1 packet of dried penne pasta tubes for each group; 1 5m long brand new ball of string.
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with their participants to encourage creativity in their teams and to use the full range of skills and energies of all the team members for innovative problem solving and team learning. It can also be used as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, Leading a Team, Managing for the First Time, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Processes and Techniques for Planning, or Team Development.
Download the training activity, There's a hole in my bucket as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role