Team Building Exercise Ideas - Electric Maze

Watch your team navigate through the electric maze without being detected.   A secret path exists and teams need to discover this route as they race each other to get across to the other side. 

Team Building Exercise Ideas keep growing at Tebu and this one is a great activity with suspense and strategy as teams must find their way through a maze where there are secret roadblocks and may have to start again!  Not overly physical and teams need to strategize and organise themselves in roles.

Key Points
The team must travel through the obstacle course not knowing which square is alarmed. They get a number of goes to solve the puzzle but must do this in least number of moves.
The team will be confronted with many challenges during this exercise mainly from the dynamics of their team. However, we have included a few extra, including:

• Some routes are dummy roadblocks
• Competing team coming from the opposite direction
• Must navigate and find the quickest route

Debrief Points

1. Teams are more effective when everyone understands the plan.

Almost without fail, teams step on the maze without having a shared plan. They tell me they did this because "time is money," but employees who don't understand the organization's strategies and have no ideas and lack confidence in decision-making are much more costly. How well informed is your group? Ask them!

2. People need support and trust to take reasonable risks.

When someone triggers an alarm on the maze, most team members look disappointed, and some even walk away in frustration.

How eager will someone be to try again after experiencing that reaction? If you desire employees to be creative and take reasonable risks, reward their positive behavior, NO MATTER WHAT THE RESULTS, and reassure the person that he or she is still a valued member of the team. If you don't reassure the person, their willingness to take risks and continue trying will certainly diminish.

3. View “failures” as valuable lessons for everyone.

Stepping on unsafe squares on the maze and triggering the alarm is a necessity in order to discover the safe path to success. When failure is feared, it is avoided at all costs and kept secret when it occurs – only serving to harm the organization. A reporter once questioned Thomas Edison, “Mr. Edison, I heard you failed nearly a thousand times before inventing a light bulb that worked.” Edison replied, “I did not fail 1000 times. I learned 999 ways a light bulb will not work!” How does your organization view "failure"? Ask them!

4. Celebrate all success.

When someone finally crosses my maze, the team typically gives a thunderous applause. But where was the applause for the person who made it only to the first row, the person who made it only to second row, and so on? We must reward all successes, for they make it possible for someone to make it all the way across. Who gets the recognition in your organization and how could it be improved? Again, ask! Oh, and listen closely, too.

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