The cynic in me wonders if that’s why they were giving a couple of kits away. Perhaps their sales have increased recently?
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Imagine what else a Sqn could buy for £900
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A load of number ones and sashes to keep the WWO busy?
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Is there a decent armed forces recruitment test practice book which may hold a few?
Enough wood and a lathe to make your own wooden version?
Or a 3d printing machine for ditto.
Actually…3d printer, not a bad shout.
Might actually get some shooting that way…
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Surprisingly cheap and relatively simple to learn how to use for anyone who isn’t massively thick! Not quite great for covid-age command tasks, but a good STEM project for the squadron if you have someone who is interested to learn a bit about it.
I actually did quite a good “leadership” challenge at work. I’ll see if I can dig it out. It was information based so no contact needed, I’m just trying to find the details of it.
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I’ve ordered a book of planning exercises for inspiration, to be honest, it will probably make more sense in the long term to shift to exercises which don’t require loads of kit, because they’re just easier to run on squadron. The ones on the Cadet Training Portal are ok, but they all expect that I just have a pile of barrels and planks lying around.
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I hadn’t even thought that would exist. Would you mind sharing a link?
If you were feeling cheap, the ‘look inside’ bit seems to give a complete example scenario…
Have a watch of the current Taskmaster on channel 4. Mostly all recorded during the pandemic, Ive had loads of great ideas from that show.
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We’ve previously put someone in charge of planning a parade night (2 activities). Kills 2 birds with one stone
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This is actually a genius idea! Not thought about trying that.
Well thats my one and only genius idea in 2020, ive peaked.
You do have to adapt a lot of the things they do to make it cadet friendly. But i normally find the last task of the show the best ones to use.
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They have a book which i have and we have used too
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I think I mentioned it in another topic as well but they did an entertaining YouTube series of ‘Home Tasks’
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I can see they want to minimise contact with bits of kit or proximity. But the MTA kits need both! Can we lobby for other control measures such as non contact tasks?
MTA is plastic though, so easily sterilised in the main
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So it was a private contractor that did this and I can’t get access to it.
Essentially the objective was to work out when a Danish King invaded England, but the “story” was split into several sentences and each participant got one or two sentences each and could not show other people their sentences, only read them out.
Some of them were useless, some looked useless but with context were important and some were obviously useful. It was more of a “leaderless” exercise as no one was officially appointed, but you easily could do.
The idea is to get people sharing information and working together, and realising that however irrelevant something is in isolation it might feed into the bigger picture and be useful.
For example, one of the sentences was “seven longships arrived on the 10th March, but the 3 carrying weapons took another 4 days to get there” or “King Harald’s father, Lot, was born in 987 AD and lived for 42 years”.
Other sentences say “King Harald attacked 7 years after the death of his father” or “the attack was delayed until the weapons ships arrived”.
It is down to the team to work out what is important and not, within the time limit, and ensure everyone gets their voice heard.
Sorry I can’t give you it to run with, but it shouldn’t be difficult to run it with that.