Iceberg Team Building Activity
Group Type: AllTime: From just 2½ Hours to a Day or MoreAll is Not What it SeemsNow here's a tip for a great team building activity that has more to it than the eye can see. To be more specific, the tip of an iceberg. Your team has booked a two-day conference at a remote coastal hotel, so far from civilisation that it doesn't even have a telephone and no mobile phone has ever been known to find a signal. Ideal for ensuring a concentrated meeting without any distractions. Or so you thought... Your first day went very well. Back in your rooms and getting ready for what was to be a superb evening, most of you caught the news on TV. The article about unusual solar activity and its possible effects on communications the next day barely registered as you thought about the evening that was to come.
Put into PerspectiveAs you awoke this morning, some of you were feeling the effects of the previous evening's excesses, you might even have been grateful that the TV only showed static. You might not all have made breakfast, but you were all there at the start of business. What seemed an important business session is suddenly put into perspective as the hotel owner comes bursting into the room asking for your help. The hotel's radio has picked up a distress call from a small cruise ship. Nobody else is answering the call and he has been unable to raise anyone else using the radio. It seems that the solar flares and their effects on communications have suddenly become far more important than you realised. The ship's captain, along with all the crew, has been incapacitated by severe food poisoning. None of the 20 passengers has any experience at sea. The ship is adrift and it seems that it is heading into iceberg territory. Your team is their only hope. A computer gives you communication to the distressed passengers and access to various useful pieces of information, including about the ship and maps of the region the ship is in.
You may never have ice in your drink again. |
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