Simulation
(Project Satellite)

Course Type: Training Course

This 90-minute experiential exercise will require participants to choose roles and responsibilities as a team. They decide how to decide on their approach to the solution. Groups work together to build an object with a complex set of deliverables and circumstances. They will have to communicate with each other while faced with limitations and constraints. After teams have completed the task, the larger group will debrief the exercise to gain awareness of key behaviors and understand what assumptions were appropriate.

Objectives

  • To engage in an experiential exercise that requires teams to build a model ‘satellite’ as soon as possible within the guidelines, roles, and constraints given

  • To develop a sense of teaming behaviors and group analytical skills under pressure

  • To become aware of personal behaviors in a group decision context

Content

  • Delineating roles and responsibilities; how to decide how to decide

  • Executing the plan – building the satellite while managing unknown variables

  • Group debrief gain awareness of teaming and leadership behaviors

  • Insights and actions to start, stop, continue key individual and group behaviors