I included 'An Alien Challenge' in a Customer Service workshop that was aimed at a broad range of people, all of whom have customer contact. The group included senior and middle managers, customer service team members and some relatively new joiners; so my challenge was to hit the right level, without being either patronising or aiming too high and losing engagement. I am delighted at how well the exercise was received. It is a bit daft, but the message is clear and delegates enjoy it.
Paula Cook
rated this item with 5 stars.
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Great activity to enable teams to collaborate and work together in building a shared vision/strategy for the team.
Donna Rodgers
rated this item with 4 stars.
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I have used this activity a couple of times to embed change management/continuous improvement and management principles. it has always been well received and staff have thoroughly enjoyed it. it allows staff to learn principles whilst having fun.
Donna Rodgers
rated this item with 5 stars.
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I chose to use the Jack Fruggle's Treasure activity as part of a focus day for a high-functioning team. What I hoped was that the activity would be first and foremost fun and energetic and secondly allow them all to reflect on their own contribution to the functioning of the team and how that helped and hindered success. I felt it would be particularly good for this group as it involved a degree of brainpower rather than being a more physical activity which was very suited to the group. I was nervous about whether they would work out the numbering system for the clues and while it did take them a good 15 or so minutes to work it out, they got there. Only one of the two teams solved the puzzle in the allocated 45mins which gave rise to some great discussions about how the team organises itself, uses people skills and shares information.
I would highly recommend this activity and would also recommend buying the printed cards as it adds a degree of professionalism. Feedback from the delegates was that this was “the best team building game that they had ever done” and I think part of that was because it challenged them mentally more than physically. Can’t wait to have an excuse to use it again!
Lindsay Hawkins
rated this item with 5 stars.
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I used this ice-breaker with a newly formed project group that was going to work on organisational culture, values, and behaviours.
It was the perfect activity, with the team making lots of assumptions about who an alien was due to their behaviour, body language, etc.
I helped the team open up the topic of assumptions and trust and linked nicely into the day ahead.
I liked it as it was easy to set up - no resources needed and gave me so much information that we could refer to throughout the day.
At the end of the day, the delegates all stated that they loved the activity - so it's one that I will definitely be using again.
Thanks Trainers Library for a great Ice Breaker.
Pauline Weddell
rated this item with 5 stars.
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