Activities For Team Building - Blindfold Maze

A TRUST and COMMUNICATION exercise where teams navigate and assist others through a minefield. 

Activities for Team Building are designed for your group to work together, trust each other and develop tactics in this fun to do blindfold race challenge.  Team members need to safely navigate their fellow team members through a minefield ensuring that they do not accidentally set one off. Oh! Just one thing, team members are blind folded and will rely on their team members for expert communication to guide them through.

• Communication and trust
• Co operation
• Strategy development and implementation
  

Key Points
Teams can have multiple players passing through the minefield but for this to work they need to sort out their roles, communication process and be prepared to take risks in order to succeed. Most important part of this exercise is how well they provide communication to their blind folded players as once they are in the minefield the difference between moving one inch the wrong way is all that it takes to getting this team building activity wrong. What level of support can they create for each other as they must make sure that they suffer as few casualties as possible in this high energy challenge.

The team will be confronted with many challenges during this activity mainly from the dynamics of their team. However, we have included a few extra, including:

• Multiple teams transverse through the minefield
• Player calling out instructions is restricted to an area
• When teams succeed they can remove their blindfold and their bonus play is pick up a golf ball and with a golf club see if they can then score for their team into their teams scoring range. There are many activities that can be incorporated into this team building challenge.

For more information on variations to this minefield team building activity.

Some Debriefing Questions
Did you allocate roles?
Did you use your planning time well?
Did everyone feel that they were involved?
Did communication work for the group? Could it have been improved?
Did anyone have the clearer picture?
How was time managed?
How did you solve it as a team?
Were you flexible and adapt your plan?
Did you take enough risk?

If you are looking for activities for team building then this one gets every one going and builds a nice balance between co operation and competition.

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