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    Trip to Theme Park

    We have managed to get a free day out at our local Theme Park (.....Towers) but can only go if we can prove that it is a team building experience and not just a do what you want when you get their day.

    Any ideas how we can introduce some sort of game or competition whilst we are there that will last for the whole day.

    All ideas would be great
    Thats the way the cookie crumbles

    #2
    For any maths boffins in your team, Queuing Theory games.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Cooperinliverp00l View Post
      We have managed to get a free day out at our local Theme Park (.....Towers) but can only go if we can prove that it is a team building experience and not just a do what you want when you get their day.

      Any ideas how we can introduce some sort of game or competition whilst we are there that will last for the whole day.

      All ideas would be great
      See who is the last person to get arrested for massacring screaming kids.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Cooperinliverp00l View Post
        We have managed to get a free day out at our local Theme Park (.....Towers) but can only go if we can prove that it is a team building experience and not just a do what you want when you get their day.

        Any ideas how we can introduce some sort of game or competition whilst we are there that will last for the whole day.

        All ideas would be great
        there

        How about eat your lunch on the rollercoasters competition, a la scouts on Jim'll fix it
        It's about time I changed this sig...

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          #5
          Time taken to go on all the rides?

          Calculate game plan etc and put into action ie

          Biggest queue’s vs time of day
          Making the most efficient route through the park
          Key attractions plus some smaller ones

          Bonus points for time, and repetition once completed?
          Last edited by Swiss Tony; 20 September 2007, 10:35.
          "Wait, I still function!"

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            #6
            Originally posted by Cooperinliverp00l View Post
            We have managed to get a free day out at our local Theme Park (.....Towers) but can only go if we can prove that it is a team building experience and not just a do what you want when you get their day.

            Any ideas how we can introduce some sort of game or competition whilst we are there that will last for the whole day.

            All ideas would be great
            First person or team to go on all rides. This will involve planning the order you visit the rides, analysing how quickly queues form and are processed at different times of the day, decision making under time pressure, and "travelling sales person" type analysis of shortest distance to visit all attractions.

            Must learn to type faster!
            Last edited by DimPrawn; 20 September 2007, 10:36. Reason: Beaten to it.

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              #7
              Or, do what everyone does on team-building exercises: form small sub-groups, and bitterly gripe about the members of the other sub-groups. And laugh heartily whenever the boss makes a joke, now that he's away from the office and being one of the lads. WARNING: Do not for a second forget that he's still the boss. Also, send him an email after you all get back to the office, congratulating him on a superb, inspired team-building day.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
                Or, do what everyone does on team-building exercises: form small sub-groups, and bitterly gripe about the members of the other sub-groups. And laugh heartily whenever the boss makes a joke, now that he's away from the office and being one of the lads. WARNING: Do not for a second forget that he's still the boss. Also, send him an email after you all get back to the office, congratulating him on a superb, inspired team-building day.
                always the realist

                They do offer their own corporate style team building challenge, if you can't be bothered with coming up with anything yourself.
                It's about time I changed this sig...

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                  #9
                  Last person to commit suicide in despair at their worthless life that has led them to this pitiful team-building event wins.

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                    #10
                    I went on a "Team-Building" event at Silverstone. It's painful to recall just how utterly crap it was. We all left hating even more people in the "Team" than before we went!

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