In response to a question on a trainers’ forum asking for an hour-long activity to celebrate a team’s accomplishments, this is what I came up with off the top of my head. I hope you find it useful. First off, get the team into pairs. If you can pair up people who don’t usually work
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” – Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments In other words, however individually
“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants” ~ Isaac Newton, natural philosopher What are we to take from Newton’s observation nowadays? What advice does it hold for us? I take it to mean that we should look at what has already been discovered. Marvellous new insights about how
Or, ‘how to set up the training room’. If you wanted people to shut up and just listen to you, then a ‘theatre style’ arrangement with the chairs in flat rows would be the setup of choice. Everyone is looking forward, so their attention is naturally on you. As the focal point of the room,
