1. Outdoor Exercise Outline NALDS 2004
Move It
Location
Material needed Object; rubber band (plus substitutive ones); 5 ropes of 3 m; 10
pieces of cords, 30 cm each; tape; piece of wire; two big boxes (site
prepared?)
Time schedule 5 min briefing + 20 min action + 25 min debriefing
Preparation
Objective • Let delegates experience intensely both leading and being lead
• Let instructors feel responsibility and the risk of failing at leading
• Let workers feel the challenge of complete dependence/being
helpless
•
This exercise
contributes to the
overall goal of
NALDS by …
• To demonstrate the leadership elements of “participation” in a
activity instead of simply following an instruction.
• The power of a vision – being able to describe your vision to
others, so that they collectively act towards its fulfillment.
Remarks for
facilitator
• Wait out of sight of the exercise!
• Ask for two volunteers or let the group choose two instructors.
• Let the instructors blindfold the rest of the group.
• Take the workers to the exercise-site. Instruct them and then let
them get the workers when they think they need them.
• If they drop the object put it back to the starting point.
Security
Instructions
• Watch the blindfolded workers, especially when the rubber band is
used.
• Advise instructors to take care of the security of the blindfolded.
• Warning! Delegates, who are blindfolded, often become tired very
quickly, knees & legs hurt, and frustration can grow rapidly. People
with injuries shouldn’t participate.
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2. Outdoor Exercise Outline NALDS 2004
Exercise
Briefing Depending on the motor and other skills of the group, the task might
be rather fast fulfilled – if so, think about time pressure.
Instructions to
read out – repeat
as often as
required!
Read out only to instructors:
“Your objective here is to make the workers move the object from the
area it is in right now to the area over there. You, the instructors, are
not allowed to help manually (not even touching the workers) - only
by talking, screaming etc.
Do not drop the object. Dropping means you have to start over from
where the exercise begun. No one is allowed to step into the marked
area. Neither the instructors nor the “workers”, no one is allowed to
touch the object directly. You have 20 minutes. time starts now.”
Debriefing
Focus 1: delegation
and followers
• To the instructors: how did you make the workers work?
• To the instructors: how was the strategy developed? In what way
were the workers a part of this strategy?
• To the instructors: how did you get the workers into the process?
• To the workers: how did you feel being lead? How was your role in
the process? How did you feel waiting for new tasks?
• To the workers: How clear was the strategy to you? Did you agree
with it? How did you influence the process?
• To the workers: how clear was the information given to you? How
have you managed to be part of decisions?
• To all: how could you improve in reality? Imagine a situation
similar to this – what would the workers need for better doing the
job? How could the instructors perform in a more effective way?
How could the workers facilitate the delegation process.
Focus 2: managing
limits
• To the instructors: how did the strategy meet the limitation of
workers being blindfolded? How would you change the strategy?
• To the instructors: have you clarified with workers with which tasks
they would feel comfortable? How interfered the limitation of not
seeing what they were doing the strategy? With which limitations
in reality would you compare this? How would you deal with it
then?
• To the workers: how was the limit of not seeing the site addressed
by the instructors?
• Has the being blindfolded been dealt with like a fact or like a
challenge to overcome? E.g. you try to imagine the site? Did you
ask the instructors for picturing it?
• How clear was the picture you had? How clear could it have been?
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