| Game |  Opener |
Team-building |
| Categories: |  Energizer |
Review |
| Communication |
Topical |
Purpose: To energize participants and summarize key points at the end of a training session.
Time Required: 5 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of four or five.
Materials Required: Flipchart paper for each group; enough markers for everyone.
The Exercise in Action: Mariana Luce, a trainer with Arbitron Co., in Beltsville, MD, uses a fast-moving game she calls “Bump.” Here’s how it works:
• Break people into teams of four or five.
• Give each team a one-minute timer (or a facilitator can keep time with a watch), flipchart paper, and five markers.
• The object is to list single words that summarize key training points (Example: A point about giving good feedback might be “timely”).
• To win, a team needs to list the most words in one minute.
• Everyone gets a marker so that they can write words on their team’s sheet as quickly as possible.
• After one minute, all writing stops.
• Teams then “bump” or cross out from their lists any words that appear on any other team’s sheet.
• The team with the longest list of unduplicated key words wins.
Says Luce: “Everyone usually leaves the session laughing and energized, even if winning is the only prize.”