Outdoor team training offers a wonderful opportunity to foster a sense of solidarity in a group through team-building exercises. These exercises can be performed through small teams, single large teams, or partner drills. These exercises offer several positive benefits to the participants as they get to work on developing relationships, honoring other people’s distinct viewpoints and qualities, and enhancing their problem solving skills while striving to complete a task or achieve a common goal.
Here are three awesome outdoor team activities you may adopt.
1. Handicapped Pairs
This strategy is ideal for partner exercises or activities where two individuals work together to accomplish a goal. Pair the fittest individual in the boot camp with the least fit person. Then pair the second fittest with the second least fit person and so on. The goal here is to ensure that the less fit individual will handicap the fit individual causing the fit person to go an extra mile to wait for or make up for the less fit individual.
2. Team Training
Team training is one of the fun and beneficial ideas you can organize for your group training in Australia. Organize the participants into several teams of 3 to 5 individuals and match them against each other in various competitions. This is a great way to facilitate team work and trust among the participants. The only challenge is that if one team comprises fitter members, they will certainly always dominate the other teams, which tends to limit the fun factor. However, you can use handicapping when forming the teams as a tactic for balancing the playing field.
3. Circle Jumping
The goal here is to build listening and comprehension skills among the participants. The set up simply involves forming one large circle with all the participants holding hands. Execution involves issuing one of four orders and instructing the participants to comply either by repeating the instructions and doing exactly what the orders demand, or by repeating the order and/or doing the opposite of what the order instructs. The commands could be anything like “kick your right leg in the air;” “kick your left leg;” “jump out;” or “jump in”among others.
Bottom-line
Whether your group can only fit in a quick 30-minutes workout session or just enjoy a little exercise or competition among them, outdoor team activities are great for team building. They can benefit the participants in many ways and they can have some fun while at it. You can use the suggested ideas to foster team work and trust among your employees.
