Team members will learn how to conduct an effective team meeting. Team members will learn what they must do to continuously improve team performance. Pumping The Colors is a day and a half program for intact teams and a one day program for ad hoc teams. Each team consists of 5 to 10 persons. One facilitator can manage two or three teams.
Teams build a tri-color delivery system out of pipes and tubes on a eight foot protective mat.
If they are succesful they will be able to use their system to deliver any one of three colored solutions to any one of 12 targets. The task challenges the team to think creatively, to work interdependently, to manage scarce resources, to deal with pressure and stress. The team holds two team meetings to evaluate their team performance. They also receive instruction on how to organize teams, reduce conflict, work with different work styles and many other essential skills required for team development. By the second day the team generally realizes that they all have been performing far below their capability.