Swimming Ideas — Fun & Effective Swim Instruction

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Participants quickly separate into three groups based on personal characteristics without speaking.

All participants successfully find and join a group that shares a common characteristic, and each group can identify and share that characteristic.

Participants are unable to form groups within the time limit, or groups are formed incorrectly or incompletely.

This challenge tests the participants’non-verbal communicationandgroupingskills.

All participants in the training session.

The participants will quickly separate into three groups based on their personal characteristics without speaking.

Have everyone in the room stand up and spread out.
Tell them they have less than 30 seconds to separate into 3 groups without speaking based on these characteristics:
Have food allergies
Cat owners
Left handed
Do not define where they go or how they are identified. Let them figure it out by themselves.
Start the timer and watch them form the groups.
Stop the timer when everyone is in a group or when the time is up.
Have each group share their common characteristic and how they communicated it.

Participants not knowing or remembering their own or others’ characteristics.
Participants not being able to express or recognize the non-verbal cues for the characteristics.
Participants having more than one characteristic or none of the characteristics.
Groups being uneven or incomplete.