Building a marshmallow tower

In group facilitation time we did an activity which was organized by another team. The activity which they prepared was building a  marshmallow tower. This activity was familiar to me because it was one of the most representative activity to see how creative team is and how well  the team communicate with one another.

During the facilitation, the team gave us some marshmallows and noodles. By using these, we had to build the tower as high as possible. Before we started building our tower, we had to discuss how to build the tower effectively by using ingredients . since noodles and marshmallows were so soft and breakable, it was hard to decide and figure out the way of building our tower.

When i looked around while i was discussing with my team members, i got to know that every team was building their marshmallow tower in different way. A team tried to strengthen foundation of the tower and another team tried hard just to make their tower higher. My team focused on building our tower in creative way. Since we didn’t even try to build the high tower, we couldn’t make the highest tower. Although we couldn’t take the first place, we were able to have time to communicate with my team members.  

Thanks to this activity i got to know no matter how perfect the plan is it doesn’t mean success. I could see many other groups had their own plan to build their towers but most of them failed to implement their plan perfectly. Also i could realize that it is crucial to listen to everyone’s opinion not having barriers during this activity. It seemed that the team which had better teamwork and cooperated well succeeded in building a high tower. Through this activity i could learn that building a tower with marshmallows and noodles is related to communication skills not knowledge about construction. Therefore when i need to solve or challenge something with team, it is important to listen to others’ opinion so that we can have the most suitable idea for the problem.  

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ROBERT BOLTON, PH.D.  PEOPLE SKILLS

https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=daddyslab&logNo=220778961520&proxyReferer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F 2016/08/03 < Creative resolution through marshmallow>

https://blog.lgcns.com/441?category=602443 2014/03/05 < lesson from marshmallow challenge>