Leadership and Teambuilding Day

First year Business Studies students recently took part in a series of workshop activities aimed at developing teamworking and leadership skills. The activities included a communication exercise to guide blindfolded colleagues across a 'minefield'; building safe routes across 'treacherous terrains' and leading people to safety through a series of obstacles.

The day culminated in teams bidding for resources to build the best egg catcher. Students had to use all their ingenuity and skills to come up with the best device to catch an egg dropped from ever increasing heights using resources such as paper, elastic bands, straws, string and pencils.

The workshops required students to think about how to work most effectively in groups, consider factors that affected their motivation in relation to different tasks and examine what might determine the effectiveness of different leadership styles. An awareness of such issues is assessed as part of the Business A level but is also useful for their future careers.