Webmaster ® complex team challenge: DIY problem solving exercise

Do you want to improve the performance, collaboration and effectiveness of your team?

29x Metal & Rope Components, Full Facilitator Manual, All Activity Briefing Documents including Assembly Diagram Outlines. Package Weight: 3.15kg

Use the Webmaster ® activity to build teams that can solve the initial complex challenge, then rapidly improve their performance by demonstrating strong collaboration amongst team members, effective communication, planning processes and time management skills. Webmaster ® is a versatile activity which also focuses on problem solving skills and techniques, high performance teamwork, and planning & monitoring skills.

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Webmaster ® can be used with three small sub-teams or one large team and can be used either in or outdoors.

This apparently simple activity makes great demands on teamwork! Team members are required to work out how to assemble a set of coloured metal and rope components to make a structure which is identical to a black and white design pattern that they have received.

There is only one answer to the problem and this has to be established through a process of logic and some trial and error. Detailed planning at this stage is ineffective as the theories must be tested in practice at an early stage.

The structure is built from three separate sections which interconnect. This means that a single team can work on all of the sections together from the beginning, or it allows for three sub-teams to work remotely in the early planning stage, only coming together at the final point of assembly.

Once the assembly is complete, the team must develop and rehearse a strategy for taking the structure to pieces and re-building it accurately against the clock in a tightly controlled 2-minute time-trial. As the pieces cannot be marked or pre-sorted they need to have a well-developed plan for identifying components and using manpower efficiently if they are to succeed.

The activity represents any workplace task in which a lengthy process of planning, decision-making and rehearsal must be undertaken before the project is delivered or ‘goes live’.

Learning Focus

Group Size Ideal 6 - 16. Max 2 - 30

Duration 30-60 Minutes