Executive Marbles and Other Team Building Activities

Executive Marbles and Other Team Building Activities by Sam Sikes

"Executive Marbles" was written as a continuation of Zircon Gorilla. This book contains complete instructions for a variety of mostly new problem-solving activities to make your training meaningful and fun. The activities come with pictures, diagrams and a list of materials needed for each event. An added feature of the book is that it presents two matrix charts, which help to identify learning objectives and group sizes for each activity. So if you were looking for activities that focus on leadership for example, it is easy to narrow down your choices using the chart.

What's an Executive Marble?
One of the activities in the book is called Executive Marbles. The activity is an adaptation of a Native American game called Cherokee Marbles. The Cherokees would take the time to grind a stone into a round ball about the same size as a pool ball to use in the game. As with almost all Native American games, this one teaches a lesson: when to be patient and when to be assertive. In the book I suggest simply buying your balls instead of spending 12+ hours grinding each one.

List of Activities

• 6-Count
• Alignment Lift
• Balloon Foosball
• Big Event
• Bolt In A Bottle
• Captain is Coming
• Capture the Rope
• Champs or Chumps
• Command Performance
• Communalities
• Creative Mind Benders
• Cubicles
• Executive Marbles
• Flying Squirrel
• Hot Air Balloons
• Identity Crisis
• Insanity
• Juggling
• Knowledge Is Power
• Masking Tape Ideas
• Mouse Trap
• OD = E squared
• Omninod
• Paper Chute
• Partner Stretches
• Portable Islands
• Quadrapus
• Rock Paper Scissors
• String'em Along
• Steel Carabiner Song
• Thinking Outside the Box
• Tick
• Urban Zip
• Water Towers
• Water Fall
• Work, Rest & Play Mate

About the Author

Sam Sikes is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and cofounder of Learning Unlimited Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Related Books

• Feeding the Zircon Gorilla and Other Team Building Activities
• Raptor and Other Team Building Activities

More information

• 1998
• 224 pages
• ISBN 0964654121
• Learning Unlimited