Search & Rescue Team Activity

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About Search & Rescue Team Activity

The art of cooperation is something we are taught as children. For some reason, many of us forget that lesson when we enter the front door of work. This exercise is designed to let participants experience how fun cooperation and teamwork can be. A glimpse into Search & Rescue: The goal of the exercise is to have the entire team involved in achieving the goal to demonstrate the power of teamwork and show the interdependence teams have. The group must land the plane several times inside the course using ropes they hold while the participants remain outside the course. Every tug or movement of the rope from one person directly affects everyone else and can crash the plane. You may use many variations of this activity to achieve different outcomes, depending upon your desired outcomes. Dramatic time challenges, difficult goal setting and limiting participant are all great and easy ways to change the activity to suit what you want in the debrief. This is best outside, but can be run very well indoors with some room. Who should go for this team building game? If you want your group to experience true teamwork through interdependence, then Search & Rescue is worthy of serious consideration. As with many of our exercises, the exercise simply cannot be accomplished without the effort of every person on the team or group. The same is true at work, although we all want to think we can do everything ourselves. We must depend upon other people to take care of certain tasks, sometimes incredibly important tasks. However, we often don't' work as a team unless we have to. This exercise lets participants experience what can be done as a team and how much fun it can be when you achieve goals together.