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Zoom! by Istvan Banyai is a wordless picture book which presents a series of images of a scene, each one from progressively farther away, showing, for example, a boat which becomes the image on a magazine, which is held in a hand, which belongs to a boy, and so on. The aim of this team activity is to get the team to piece together the images in the correct order by deducing the theme of a series of frames zooming continuously out.
Equipment required:
A copy of the book Zoom by Istvan Banyai. Available for less than $10.
Preparation:
Detach the images from the book page by page to allow them to be use as single sheets or run colour photocopies.
The facilitator can choose to divide the group into two teams to engender an element of competition.
The Brief:
- A set of images will be handed out with you will be able to piece together a story. Your objective is to piece together the story in the fastest time possible.
- Each participant will be given one or more images but is not permitted to show them to anyone else.
- Without looking at each other’s images, the group must put the images in sequence.
- When the group believes they have the images in the right order, they should be put face down on the floor in sequence.
- Your aim is to achieve the correct sequence in the fastest time possible, but your team must decide on how much time to give itself.
- Nominate a timekeeper to keep you to the time limit you decide.
Facilitator:
- Nominate a team leader. Don’t specify their role or responsibilities
- Nominate a briefing number. They are to brief the team on the instructions for the activity.
- Nominate a scribe to write down the team’s SOPs
Before you begin you have 5 minutes led by a team leader to discuss and develop some rules or SOPs as a group to help you achieve the aim. e.g. who can talk, when, in what order, how to lay out cards, responsibilities, etc.
These must be written up on the white board, and once you have decided on your SOPs, you can’t change them. The team leader has the last word.
The debrief:
The activity will allow the facilitator to engage the group in a number of themes for the debrief according to the aims of the session as suggested below.
SOPs
- Did you get it right? If not, why not? If so, could you have done it faster? How?
- Did your SOPs help? If not why not? If so why?
- Would you change any or add any other SOPs afterwards?
Workload Management, time management, and prioritisation
- What effect did the time limit have on you?
- Was there a pressure to get it finished?
- Who set that pressure?
- Did anyone feel that they were sidelined or under used?
- Could you have better managed the workload between you?
Communication
- What were the communication problems?
- What communication methods did your team use?
- What were the challenges to communicating effectively?
- How could you have addressed them better before starting?
Situation Awareness
- What was the effect of only having one part of the story?
- Did anyone think they had the whole picture?
- At what point do you think you developed the full picture?
- What made the penny drop?
Teamwork and Leadership
- What difficulties did your team experience?
- What did your team do well when you discussed the sequence of images?
- Is there anything that frustrated you?
- Did everyone agree with the sequence? If not, did you have to compromise?
- How well did you work as a team? Is there anything you could have done better?
- Did others in the team listen to your opinion? Did everyone have their input?
- Did anyone emerge as a leader? Did having a leader help?
How can we bring any of that back into our workplace?
Were there any themes brought to mind that are familiar with your experiences while line flying?