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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ExerciseBriefing 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.”

DebriefingFocus 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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Golden Rule /Key Learning Point

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