| Game |  Opener |
Team-building |
| Categories: | Energizer |
 Review |
| Communication |
Topical |
Purpose: To help participants review the elements of a multi-step process.
Time Required: 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in an even number of small groups.
Materials Required: Construction paper.
The Exercise in Action: David Plantier says illustrations are an effective review tool in classes where participants must learn multi-step sequences, and there’s a simple, cost-effective way to get those illustrations: Have participants create them.
Here’s how the exercise works: Plantier, president of Boiler & Combustion Seminars in Bloomington, MN, breaks the class into an even number of small groups and asks each group to draw the steps of the process on separate pieces of construction paper. If there are more steps than group members, some participants must do more than one drawing. He gives each group four minutes to complete their drawings. Only pictures are allowed, no words can be used.
Plantier then pairs each small group with an “opponent” group and has the groups stand and face each other in a line. One group shows its drawings out of order while the other group shuffles those holding the pictures until all of the steps are in the correct sequence. If a group didn’t complete all of the drawings (only five of a six-step process, for example) the opposite group must still put the five steps in order and then identify the missing step. He then has the groups switch opponents and repeat the exercise.