Outdoor Exercise Outline NALDS 2004

Far & AwayParticipant Instructions for FAR

The purpose of this exercise is to experience the process of aligning people to achieve a common purpose. You will be working with another group of people, located at AWAY, a team you have not seen in a while.

You have 45 minutes to „reorganise“ the people at AWAY in a way, which complies with the regulations and rules specified below. Afterwards, you must demonstrate your result during a performance period. Senior management has held you accountable for the completion of the task. Failure could lead to serious financial consequences for the company.

1. At any given time, only one person in your group may serve as a liaison with the AWAY group.2. Everyone, except the current liaison, must stay in this room.3. The AWAY group members have been told they can do nothing without your explicit

instructions or approval.4. This sheet of paper may not leave this room.

You have at your disposal: your group and the AWAY group members, paper, pencils and a flipchart.

Your Task:Business is suffering because people seem to be too inwardly focused. You feel that moving people to different positions will enhance your ability to win in the increasingly competitive environment. Your task is to move the AWAY group members from their „assigned positions“ to their „reassigned positions“ by making only „legal“ moves. They have been physically placed in their assigned positions. In this reorganisation, the people who start on the right side facing left must finish on the left side facing left and in their original sequence. The people who start on the left side facing right must finish on the right side facing right and in their original sequence.

Rules:1. There are only two moves allowed:

An AWAY group member may move forward into an empty space immediately in front of him or her. (no backward moves).

An AWAY group member may move forward around one person if that person is facing him or her and if there is an empty space directly behind that person.

2. No one may turn around; everyone must remain facing in his or her „assigned direction“. AWAY group members who get „stuck“ may return to their assigned positions and begin the reorganisation again.

3. Only one person may move at a time.

4. Success is a flawless performance from start to finish, and senior management will expect to see the task done perfectly at the end of the performance period.

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