The sun temple
Featured in the The Team Working Activity Pack training manual
By Rod Storey
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Teams are often in competition with each other for resources and the team that can organise itself most effectively gets the resources, whether they are money (or budget), materials (including information) or additional people. This exercise, between two or three teams, simulates trying to negotiate for and obtain these resources of which there is a limited supply.
You explain the need to obtain resources by giving relevant examples from your organisation or function within it. This exercise will give the participants experience of trying to gain these resources and being successful. Participants learn that a team can achieve its own objectives while allowing other teams to also secure theirs; that is a ‘win-win’ situation where all teams obtains the resources they want and win. Each team is given some of the materials it needs to build a sun temple, and then plans how to barter with the other team(s) in order to acquire all the materials it needs. The teams are given time to do the bartering and buying. They then build their temples as cheaply as possible. The winning team is the one that builds its temple to the specified design at the lowest price. This exercise can be run very well outdoors.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with small teams in competition with each other, giving participants an understanding of the need to plan and also to convince people, with an element of negotiating or bartering for resources.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 8 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:45:00 |
| No of Pages: | 14 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Sets of materials (see activity for full details)
Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with two or three teams of four or five members each, who ideally have frequent contact (perhaps within the same organisation) and may be asking for the same or similar resources. It is best used well into a course when the participants already have some experience of planning and carrying out tasks and are now ready for a more complex challenge with additional factors, such as bartering, to be taken into consideration. Each team sets out to gain what it wants to achieve, a ‘win-win’ solution.
Download the training activity, The sun temple as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Team Working Activity Pack