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Pipeline Activity (Team Building) : Gutter Ball Kit Pipeline Kit

This activity involves teams working together to transport a marble through a series of connected pipes from a starting point to a finish point. It requires high levels of communication and cooperation between team members. The facilitator can vary the difficulty of the obstacle course to suit the team's stage of development and challenge them appropriately. The goal is to strengthen teamwork and build skills like cooperation, communication, and coordination.

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Pipeline Activity (Team Building) : Gutter Ball Kit Pipeline Kit

This activity involves teams working together to transport a marble through a series of connected pipes from a starting point to a finish point. It requires high levels of communication and cooperation between team members. The facilitator can vary the difficulty of the obstacle course to suit the team's stage of development and challenge them appropriately. The goal is to strengthen teamwork and build skills like cooperation, communication, and coordination.

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Pipeline Activity (Team Building)

Equipment (Material Required)


 Gutter Ball Kit or
 Pipeline Kit or
 Lengths of half pipe or narrow guttering, marbles or balls or can also be
done using water

Time
 5 mins planning
 5 mins to 30 mins action

Brief Description of the Activity


 A teambuilding activity where each participant gets one short length of
half pipe, and the group must work together to deliver a marble down the
pipes from start point to finish. Requires a high level of communication
and teamwork. The activity can be carried out by making groups of 10
members or more depending upon the scope of the activity.

Directions
 As facilitator, you can control how hard or easy to make this task. You can
take them over obstacles, down stairs, around trees, etc. If, for example,
the group is in the forming stage, put only one minor obstacle in the path
and create opportunity for fairly instant experiential success of teamwork.
If the team is functioning cohesively, make the obstacle course longer and
harder and more physically challenging in order to deepen their experience
of what they can achieve together.

 Brief the participants on the start line and the finish point (a distinctive
container is helpful), and give them any extra rules you may wish to add to
the task, such as: every person must carry the marble at least once;
participants need to take turns in a certain order; or both feet must remain
on the floor at all times-get creative if you want to add challenge.

 Give the group the pipes and the marble and 5 minutes planning time.
 Allow the group several attempts if you have the time and they have the
motivation, or keep it to one attempt and draw out the key points in the
debrief

Activity
 Conduct the session in any stage of group formation whether it is
performing or norming.

 Make two teams of 10 members each. Each team will consist of


5 members each respectively. Ask them to carry 2 marbles with
themselves in their hands and allot both teams 2 baskets
respectively.

 The basket would be 2 kms away and each team member would Commented [NR1]: 2 kms looks long isn’t it ?
How many pipes you think we should use , for lets say 30 mtrs , 2
with 10 particiapnts.?
be evaluated on individual as well as team cohesiveness.
What should be the size of pipe pieces

 The Basic purpose of this activity is to promote team building


12 inch to 30 inch, 1 meter, 6 inch… ?
Any clue?

skills. Commented [NR2]: How it propmotes the team building skills?


what kind of skills.

 Modification:

 The basket would be 1 km away and the number of pipes to be used are 10
by both the groups respectively. Eg- 2 pipes with 10 participants to make
the task simpler and learnable. The size of the pipe pieces is 1 meter
respectively.

 It promotes team building skills because the team members are also
responsible to promote group cohesiveness as they will be evaluated on
both the aspects of group cohesiveness and individual performance. The
team which is successfully able to take care of both the aspects is able to
score more and would perform better.

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