Trainers Warehouse Helium Stick - Build Teams and Communication Skills Including Pipeline Challenge

Helium Stick: A simple, powerful and QUICK team experience! This deceptively simple game is easy to facilitate and gives your group a common experience through which to discuss issues of teamwork and leadership. The "stick" is actually a series of corded tent poles that fold up easily, so you can easily transport it. When extended fully, it's 10 feet long. How it's Played Form two lines facing each other. Lay the "stick" on the group's index fingers. Goal: Lower to ground. Reality: It magically rises up! Facilitation Line up in two rows which face each other. Introduce the Helium Stick. Ask participants to point their index fingers and hold their arms out. Lay the Helium Stick down on their fingers. Get the group to adjust their finger heights until the Helium Stick is horizontal and everyone's index fingers are touching the stick. Explain that the challenge is to lower the Helium Stick to the ground. The catch: Each person's fingers must be in contact with the Helium Stick at all times. Pinching or grabbing the pole in not allowed - it must rest on top of fingers. Pipeline Challenge: Transform groups into well-functioning teams! For this energizing experience, give each participant one short length of half pipe and challenge the group to deliver a marble down the pipes from the starting point to the finish line. Success requires communication, creativity and teamwork. It works well to: Energize a group Build communication skills Practice group problem solving Practice goal setting It’s effective with kids, teenagers and adults, and can be played indoors or out. Choose this activity when you need to energize the group into a team, or to emphasize the importance of each member's actions in a team.

• BUILD TEAMS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS: A quick, simple, powerful and UPLIFTING team experience! The secret to lowering the super-long lightweight pole is to first understand that collective upwards pressure created by everyone's fingers tends to be greater than the weight of the stick causing it to 'float' upwards.
• EASY TO FACILITATE: The set-up is simple. Let groups know that they must lower the stick to the ground, while every player helps support the pole with their index fingers. Facilitation notes are including, making the introduction and debrief a breeze.
• SUCCESS REQUIRES LEADERSHIP & LISTENING: Once teams understand the challenge, the group must agree on and execute a strategy to lower the pole
• PROFESSIONAL TEAMBUILDING EXPERIENCE: The Trainers Warehouse Pipeline Challenge is a group teambuilding game built with adult, corporate team challenges in mind. Facilitators and team leaders won’t mind bringing this to their most sophisticated groups, for a fun and effective experience. The experience promises to motivate teams, solve group problems, and practice goal setting.
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