Report Copyright Infringement View in OSM UK

Description

It’s easy to make decisions as an individual, but it can be much harder when in a team. This could be because others have different viewpoints from you and it is hard to come to an agreement. This section will help you to understand the need for clear decisions, and also explores why a compromise decision is sometimes necessary for the good of the whole team.

It will encourage decision making as a team and explore why we have to make decisions.

It is important that all team members express themselves, even if this leads to frustration when the group overrules their views

Resources

Paper and Pen

Printouts

Instructions

- Car Problems (20 mins)

You have just passed your driving test and you want to buy a new car.
You have been given £500 to get you started.

The car that you want costs £1200. It has a 1.2 litre engine and comes with a year’s MOT at £60, a full tank of petrol worth £80 and a three month old service worth £130. It has had one owner and has been involved in an accident, which deems it a category D vehicle (a car
that has suffered accident damage that would cost more to repair than to replace the car). Its current mileage is 38,000.

You have seen a similar car for £1000. It is a 1.2 litre, it is older by two years, comes with a £20 tank of fuel, its MOT is due in six weeks at approx. £60, and two tyres need replacing at £40 per tyre. It has had two owners with a mileage of 44,000. It has not been involved in an accident.

As a team, agree which car should you choose?

- Try to full a Zoo (30 mins)

In groups of 4 or 5, try filling a zoo using the template within the appendix

You have 30 minutes to house the animals, using the information given under the ‘considerations’ heading below.

There are three types of accommodation in the zoo:
■ A bird and snake house
■ 12 pens for individual animals
■ 2 sociable compounds, each holding 3 species of animal

Considerations
Some pens have trees (T), some have water (W) and some have both.

* Parrots can see out of the entrance gates.
* Snakes live between vultures and eagles.
* Elephants live with antelope.
* Eagles cannot see elephants.
* Sea lions, polar bears, brown bears, penguins, tigers, wild boar, rhinoceroses and elephants need water.
* Zebra, monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, brown bears, lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, wild boar and giraffes need trees.
* No two cats can live next to each other.
* Camels live with zebra.
* No two members of the monkey family can live next to each other.
* Tigers live between sea lions and monkeys.
* Sea lions live next to polar bears.
* Wild boar live between brown bears and chimpanzees.
* Baboons live between leopards and penguins.
* Lions live nearer to monkeys than to chimpanzees.

Tags

• leadership games
• leadership team building
• Taking the lead
• team building and leadership
• Team challenge

Badge Links

• Leadership - Instruct
• Leadership - Listen