Leadership

1. Roulette Wheel and/or Taller Stack (90 minutes)

• Roulette Wheel: In this task, leaders have very different roles from other team members. The whole team has to plan how they are to complete the task, solve problems together along the way. Everyone has to work carefully and accurately to help each other: mistakes are costly and difficult to rectify.
  

• Taller Stack is a competitive two part activity. Initial groups work to complete a task that requires some thought and planning, then fast teamwork. However, before they finish, group membership is changed, ‘formal friendship’ introduced and the activity restarted with additional constraints.

2. Leading from Afar and/or Led Statues and/or Leading the Team (120 minutes)

• Leading from Afar: The activity is in two parts. The first five minutes is spent with leader and team members working in separate rooms. They then come together under the direction of their leader to complete a predefined model.
  

• Led Statues: The leader(s) have to work through their teams to complete their task which needs careful work. There are different constraints on leaders and team members which demand excellent verbal communication the leader and the whole team as well as individual team members.
  

• Leading The Team: The leaders of one or two teams are given a series of tasks that have to be completed by their teams, as well as a confidential task that must be done by them alone. The pay that team members and leader receive is affected by the decisions the leader makes and the successful completion of the task.

3. The Hoist (2 - 3.5 hours)

• Two teams work in parallel on a task which is in three parts.
  
  ‍AIM: To refresh and develop skills that are fundamental to team leaders.
  
  Identifying, clarifying and working to objectives and priorities, developing and delivering instructions to others, motivating others to achieve a goal that may be at odds with their personal objectives and to and utilising the team member’s abilities.