Teambuilding Exercises

It was interesting to note that in my search of the Internet using the terms "teambuilding exercises" as an exact term that there seemed to be more commercial entries offering teambuiding services, than there were public listing of resources. Could this be because teambuilding is a new corporate fad, and there is a fair amount of lucrative business out there for so called "Corporate Team Building Exercises"? Hmmmmmm

Free Sources:

Back to the chase, one of the first non-commercial listings was the University of Arizona, which has posted some PDF files of teambuilding exercises at the following link:

http://clte.asu.edu/active/predev.htm

Five Issues to Teambuilding:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~ledlow/sledlow/teambuilding.htm

Cadet Teambuilding Exercises:

http://home.clara.net/damanning/index.html?exercises/teambuilding.htm

For Fee Sources:

Teambuilding Inc.

Looks like the motherload of teambuilding info for a fee is appropriately Teambuilding Inc:

http://teambuildinginc.com/

What is teambuilding article:

http://teambuildinginc.com/article_teambuilding.htm

Team Adventure Series:

from the above site it appears that eco oriented teambuilding exercises are popular, here are some examples for the above site:

• The Eco-Quest program is based on the emerging sport of Adventure Racing and dramatically demonstrates the power of teamwork focusing on…

  • Dynamic Role Transferring
  • Emerging Leader Shifting
  • Collaboration Under Pressure
  • Peer Support
  • Diverse Challenges

  Mountain Challenge

  Format: 1 Day workshop, 10-30 participants
  Fee: $3000 - $5000 plus travel and expenses for one facilitator
  What's Included: Foundations for Success Workbook, Activity Instruments, Student Workbook

• Peak Challenge

• Format: ½ Day or 1 Day workshop, up to 50 participants
  Fee: $7500 - $9000 plus travel and expenses for 1-2 facilitators
  Summit Challenge

  Format: 1 - 2 Day workshop, 10 - 400 participants
  Fee: $11,000 - Up plus travel and expenses for facilitation team
  

• Marooned
  An energizing 1 ½ hour ice breaker that emphasizes consensus decision making.
• Black Bear
  Training tool for making quality decisions in a crisis situation
• Swamped!
  Training tool for managing group conflict and for consensus decision making.

The Team Approach

http://teamapproach.com/Default.asp

Catalyst America

http://www.team-building-professionals.com/america/events_detail/rhythm.htm

Seems to have a broader context of teambuilding exercises that range for outdoor adventure, to group music making, arts, film, active, business games.

Teambuidling New Zealand

this is another commercial site that feature outdoor adventure teambuilding exercises:

http://www.teambuilding.co.nz/

HeliCanada

yet another outdoor adventure type teambuilding company

http://www.helicanada.com/teambuilding.html

CANADIAN OUTBACK

http://www.canadianoutback.com/corporateretreats.htm

WILD EVENTS

from the Unitied Kingdom

http://www.wildevents.co.uk/games.htm

Afterburner

from the US, Europe & Australia

http://www.sabrehq.com/team-building-examples/afterburner-seminars.htm

Yikes, jet pilot simulations as teambuilding exercises!

From jets to sailboats!

The Poseidon Course: Teambuilding at sea http://www.criterionpartnership.co.uk/

The Poseidon teambuilding course is yacht-based and combines the best of outdoor and classroom training with psychological interventions.

Rescue Teambuilding

from sailboats to various simulated disasters?

http://www.techrescue.org/general/teambuilding.html

More sailing teambuilding, in Australia:

http://www.clubsail.com.au/team_building_yacht_charter.html

and of course the most macho of all teambuilding outdoors type scenarios OUTWARD BOUND:

http://www.outwardboundpro.org/

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