Eldorado!™ (6 team)

Description

Learning Objectives: ■ reminds groups to look at the bigger picture - their organization ■ highlights the importance of working together in one big team ■ highlights issues around trust, integrity, and ethics ■ demonstrates the importance of sharing knowledge and information ■ unifies all participants and creates high-energy More about the activity: This six-team version of our bestselling conference activity is designed for smaller groups of up to 36 people. It is very easy to run, it's interactive, fun for participants AND it spells out a fundamental message for ALL organizations: that we are all part of ONE BIG TEAM! With clues, tasks, treasure maps - and resources to make a team hat and flag - the six teams work through various twists and turns to try to claim the treasure of Eldorado. Sooner or later it dawns that no team can go it alone. Even so, motivated by the thrill of treasure for themselves, teams are often unable to bind into one big team. Some try to work independently, others form splinter groups - some even lie! Very occasionally, all teams do work together brilliantly and rightly claim the treasure - but it's not that common! Eldorado! very much mirrors what happens in many workplaces, where rivalry and competition between teams and departments get in the way of an organization's overall success. Eldorado! reminds participants - in a highly memorable way - to always keep a focus on the bigger picture, to put aside inter-departmental rivalry, and instead work for each other. Eldorado! is a wonderful illustration of this core value that gets overlooked in people’s day-to-day work. Rivalry, competition, and lack of cooperation all too easily get in the way! What works very well is to ask for a coin from every delegate and if this ‘treasure’ is not claimed it goes to a charity of their choice (either way teams invariably ask, in the end, that the money goes to charity).