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NOTE: We are now selling Facilitator and Participant Guides SEPARATELY. (instead of the Starter kit of 1 Facilitator Guide plus 5 Participant Guides)
Demonstrate the concept of team synergy with Marooned, a challenging adventure simulation by experiential learning leaders HRDQ, that focuses on consensus decision making. Participants experience first-hand the advantage of working as a team when they realize the results achieved as a group out-measure those of any one individual.
The Scenario
A cruise in the South Pacific brings you to a beautiful, uninhabited island for a lavish beach picnic. Wanting to explore this breathtaking paradise and walk off your lunch, you and your group separate from the other passengers and a short while later fall asleep on the other side of the island. Hours later your group awakens, only to see a graceful white ship disappear on the horizon. You're officially Marooned! As night approaches, can your team make a plan for survival and hope to be rescued?
Learning Outcomes
Learn how to manage and resolve group conflict
Hone group problem-solving skills
Improve communication
Discover the advantages of consensus decision-making
How It Works
This powerful roundtable simulation challenges teams to rank 10 action alternatives - first as individuals, and then as a team. First, as the facilitator, you'll introduce the adventure scenario. Participants will then rank the action alternatives on their own, using pressure-sensitive scoring forms. Next, each team conducts the same ranking process as a unit. Finally, you'll lead the participants into a group action planning discussion, providing the team with the opportunity to apply the learning to the workplace.
Uses for Marooned
Illustrate the concept of team synergy
Break the ice among new or conflicted teams
Give teams a nonthreatening opportunity to work together
Help teams practice consensus decision-making
Improve active listening, probing, and confronting behaviors in a realistic setting
Train team leaders in team facilitation skills
Open or close a learning session
Introduce an organizational change, such as the transition to self-managing teams
Interject a fun activity into an otherwise serious agenda
Supplement outdoor experiential learning
Note: Marooned works best when participants are divided into teams of seven or fewer per table.
Order one Facilitator Guide per trainer and one Participant Guide per team member. Participant guides can be ordered separately (see #RBSHMP)
Facilitator Guide includes: Administrative guidelines, 2-hour workshop design, expert rationale, experiential learning/training methodology, training design options, CD-ROM containing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, reproducible masters, and color slides of scenario location, updated page layout, sample copy of Participant Guide, convenient binder format.
Participant Guide includes: Scenario description, Pressure-sensitive response form, Team synergy score chart, Team discussion guidelines
This game works well for teams at all levels of development. Time Required: 1½ hours
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