'Decisions, Decisions, Decisions’  Team-building programme is the ultimate test of a group’s strategic decision making abilities, group awareness, communication skills and time management skills. The programmes’ objective is to select and complete the particular challenges most suited to your team’s combined strengths, to accrue the maximum points possible for your team in the time provided.

Every team member will be required to contribute their individual talents towards their team’s final score in this head to head team competition.

The programme usually takes approximately 3 hours to complete the three parts of the programme; we can either shorten or lengthen the programme if required.

The programme is split into three sections:

1: A briefing to explain what the ‘Decisions, Decisions, Decisions’ Team Building Challenge involves. The group will be divided in to teams and given a Challenge Summary sheet of all the challenges and time for strategic team planning and challenge selection before being starting the next part of the programme packed full of challenges.  Each challenge will require a unique combination of skill, planning, strength and brain power, and of course a little bit of luck never goes astray. The teams will have to decide what their area of strength is and whether it is better to complete more of the smaller, lesser value challenges, or tackle the bigger, longer, high value challenges. 

2: The ‘Decisions, Decisions, Decisions’ team challenge session. Group dynamics will be tested and improved through the different challenges with the aim of teaching the group how to communicate more effectively.  As the challenges will require the collective strengths of all its team members to successfully negotiate our challenges, the teams must exercise interdependency, problem-solving skills, decision-making, leadership, cooperation and tap the collective energies and ideas of every team member. Each challenge requires a unique skill sets and the successful completion will result in gaining a unique amount of points. 

3: The aim is to amass as many points as possible in the time given. It’s designed to provide both physical and mental challenges which will require the different strengths & skills of the individual team members. Each group will have a Waimarino facilitator assigned to them throughout the programme. During this session they further utilize their time by solving puzzles & answering questions that will all help them accumulate additional bonuses points for the grand tally at the end of the programme.

The challenges are divided in to three types:
Physical – Challenges that require a little more brawn than brain.

Mental – ‘Outside the box’ thinking required to solve a puzzles, riddles or seemingly impossible problems.

Skill – Encouraging dexterity, a steady hand and quick decision making.

The facilitation/debrief session which takes this action packed, fun-filled day to a higher level of learning before the participants finish either to enjoy the post challenge catering or depart from Waimarino. We can either just announce to team’s overall placings if you want to keep the competition light hearted, or enquire further about different team’s planning strategies, the skills required to complete individual tasks and how those skills or lack of them effected the teams overall performance.

This fun programme of challenges will not only leave participants with an overwhelming sense of accomplishment, they will have learnt crucial team skills required in a successful workplace team environment and identified their own personal strengths and opportunities for further growth.  The benefits and learning outcomes of the day will be highlighted in the Debrief/ facilitation session at the end of the programme.

The beneficial learning outcomes include:

• Enhanced team interdependency
• Critical Analysis skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Leadership
• Cooperation
• Strategic decision making
• Group awareness
• Risk Management
• Communication skills
• Time management assessment

Benefits to the workplace:

• Improving communication
• Making the workplace more enjoyable
• Motivating a team
• Getting to know each other
• Getting everyone "onto the same page", including goal setting
• Teaching the team self-regulation strategies
• Helping participants to learn more about themselves (strengths and opportunities for growth)
• Identifying and utilizing the strengths of team members
• Improving team productivity
• Practicing effective collaboration with team members

There is a strong photographic opportunity with the ‘Decisions, Decisions, Decisions’ to provide the teams with lasting memories and also a reminder when they are back to the office of what they learnt on the day they went to Waimarino. We encourage you to bring cameras.

We can run this programme for groups as small as 8, and up to maximum of 100 people.

For more information, or to discuss possible programme dates, please contact Drew Copestake:

Operations Manager

Ph: (07) 576 4233
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