Celtic Cross

• Virtual Team Icebreaker Activity
• Improve Online Teamworking Skills
• Practice Managing Information & Communication in a Virtual Environment
• Provide Opportunities to Use Distributed Information to Solve Problems 
• Build Strategic Thinking Skills
• Improve Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills
• Build Online Team Communication Skills

Celtic Cross is free and easy to set-up and adapt at the last minute to accommodate any changes in participant numbers. A draft session is initially created, and then that can be adjusted when the participant group is confirmed - either by auto email distribution or via individual participant links. If access/use of Celtic Cross is required after the free initial licence term expires then it can be purchased alongside Online Workstations.

Celtic Cross offers a good, practical illustration of team roles in action and can be successfully linked to work on effective team performance eg. using the Belbin Team Role model, or individual personality, thinking preference or other individual profiling tools.

The team members are required to share information verbally in order to solve an ‘information puzzle' - a process of information sharing, elimination and logic. The difficulty comes in not being able to see the other participant's cards - the group must identify other ways of remembering and sorting key information. The puzzle involves learning a new structure of how work is completed in the Celtic culture. Even when all the information is shared there still needs to be some critical thinking employed to determine the task solutions!

This is a challenging activity and most groups will take at least 15 minutes to complete it - a maximum of 25 minutes is suggested. Not all the information on the 33 x image links distributed is relevant, but each team member must play a part and look to colleagues to help decide which information is relevant. However even after sharing all the information, the group must use all of this along with some critical thinking to complete the puzzle and reveal answers to the question: 'On what day of the week did they complete the Celtic Cross?'

Following the ‘purchase’ of this free activity you will be sent an email with further details on how to access the activity via experientiallearningtools.com, along with a set-up and delivery instructions.

Online Workstations can be purchased for a minimum 1 year licence term but also includes free use of Celtic Cross during that licence term.