The team is responsible for choosing a leader. Clear team procedures are established to encourage preparation, participation, listening and openness. The action assignments in the Corporate Teambuilding program are organized by degree of difficulty. Each team is given the task of finding, gathering and driving back to pens, twenty head of cattle. Teams are given the same information about their target herd.
Teams interact to develop the best approach to accomplish the assignment.
An observer accompanies each team. Unlike classroom programs, if the team process breaks down, the cattle are scattered and the task is repeated. The team quickly learns the rewards of teamwork and the results of team breakdown. As the program progresses, action assignments for the teams become more challenging. Cattle Sorting, for example, takes place in an arena where the task is to go into a herd of cattle, retrieve three designated cattle and drive them across a line within a time limit.