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The Big Book of Team Coaching Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Energize, Motivate, and Guide Your Team to Success
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The Big Book of Team Coaching Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Energize, Motivate, and Guide Your Team to Success

by Mary Scannell, Mike Mulvihill, Joanne Schlosser
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
3h 44m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from The Big Book of Team Coaching Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Energize, Motivate, and Guide Your Team to Success

6Shaping the Plan

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marshmallow Challenge

WHEN TO USE THIS GAME

To explore creativity, free thinking, and teamwork

Group Size

Any, split into teams of 5 or 6

Materials

A brown paper lunch bag for each team containing 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti (not thin angel hair or thick fettuccine), one yard of string, one pair of scissors, and one regular-size marshmallow; one yard of masking tape per team; a slide or flip-chart page listing the rules; a timer or timing function on a big screen; a tape ...

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ISBN: 9780071813006