Early Bird / Second Mouse Team Building Activity

Description:

This "Early Bird/Second Mouse" team building exercise can be used as an ice-breaker, to develop creative thinking, improve presentation skills, to create debate, enhance team working and group decision dynamics.

This is an exercise for groups between 8 and 30 people, and involves many different learning elements: understanding strategies, teamwork, presentations, argument, debate, analysis and group decision-making.

The activity is based on the funny one-liner (often attributed to comedian Stephen Wright) which is deeper than first seems:

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

The group will be split into two teams, one team is the "early bird" and the other team is "second mouse."

The teams will have 10-15 minutes each to develop a 60 second presentation (or longer for bigger groups and more learning depths) as to why their strategy ("early bird" or "second mouse") is best for business, work or life depending on your situation.

After the two presentations the two teams will debate the question: "Early bird or second mouse: Which is the most effective strategy for business (or work or life)?"

After the debate a 'free vote' will be held to see what the combined group now believes about the question.

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