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The Marshmallow Challenge – icebreaker & team-building

April 30, 2013

An Effective Low Budget Team-Building Event

Should you want to try something a bit different from your next team building event, here is a great idea: The Marshmallow Challenge.  Unexpectedly simple and challenging, this exercise helps demonstrate teamwork, innovation, working under pressure, planning and lateral thinking.

We recently ran The Marshmallow Challenge with a client.  A room of equity analysts were getting very competitive trying to create the tallest structure.   Exactly as predicted in the TED video, the winners were a mixed group who were experimenting from the start.

This six minute video explains all…….


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