Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers: Arrange

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This is a beautiful, simple and very participative group exercise or group game. It can be used as a starter for any program or can be conducted any time during the program. It is a good energizer and motivator. It can be used by you- the faculty member or the seminar leader for the programs on intra-group communication, team work, team building and leadership quite gainfully.

You, as the program leader, will divide the entire participants of the program into two equal groups. Do it randomly. For doing it randomly, ask first participant to shout out serial number 1 and let him remember his number. The next (second) person will shout out 2. The third person will again shout out 1 and fourth one will shout out 2 again. Thus every participant will shout out either 1 or 2 as his serial number. Ask them to remember their numbers. Now, form the two groups by grouping persons with serial number 1 as the first group and with serial numbers 2 as the second group.

Tell them that now the two groups will enter into a tough competition. They will have to carry out four exercises. And for each exercise you will brief them at the beginning of each exercise. The winner team in each exercise will earn 10 points and loser team will get 5 point. If there is any error in carrying out the exercise, 1 point per error will be deducted from the scores of the erring team(s). The teams may end up even with negative scores if they commit too many errors. At the end of all the four exercises, the points earned by each team will be added. The team earning more total points will be declared as winner.

First exercise: the members in each team will physically arrange themselves in the order of alphabets of their first names (persons whose first name starts with A will be followed by B and then C and so on till Z).

Second exercise: the members in each team will physically arrange themselves in the descending order of their heights.

Third exercise: the members in each team will arrange themselves physically as per their zodiac signs (starting with Aries and ending with Pisces).

Fourth exercise: the members in each team will arrange themselves physically as per the states of the country (countries) from which they have arrived.

You, the program leader will check the correctness of the the way in which each exercise was carried and allot the points scored by each team for each exercise and then, total them up.

Before declaring the result of the game, get the feedback of the participants about the experiences felt by them while paying the game and what were their learning points.

Sum up your observations on how well they played the game and on their enthusiasm, competitiveness, creativity, intra-group communication, team work, team building and leadership.

Declare the scores of both the teams and declare the winner team.

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