Salty Towers: Team Collaboration Exercises with a French Twist

This interactive MOBTS session will showcase two team exercises to highlight how emotions can have a strong effect on the outcome of a task. The first exercise will appear seemingly simple but will create strong competitive emotions that may lead to failure. The second exercise provides an excellent opportunity for teammates to work together in design and construction to outsmart other teams. Each activity could be used separately or combined to teach team concepts. The debrief will discuss the merits of both and how the different structural designs of the exercises allow them to be used for different learning outcomes.