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 Activites, Games & SimulationsBusiness Training Media offers a wide selection of corporate games, activities and simulations for team building, improving communication skills, problem solving, leadership, management and development, conflict resolution and more.
 An insightful hands-on exercise, The Rainforest Game is designed to provide individuals and teams with the opportunity to experience collaboration across both internal and external boundaries. Working within groups and across groups, participants build awareness of the importance of cooperation, challenges inherent in inter-team communication, and the significance of creating and sustaining effective partnerships. Learning Outcomes
How It Works Small teams representing the member organizations of the consortium are challenged to complete a 5-foot long puzzle. Each organization, sponsoring a specific endangered species, has pieces of the overall picture as well as their sponsored animal. But because no one team has all the pieces, they must be able to work collaboratively in order to successfully complete the task at hand. Following the activity, participants consider their experience in the context of real-life, organizational experience and discuss the 4 critical skills needed to effectively work across boundaries. Uses for The Rainforest Game Perfect as a stand-alone learning experience or as part of a larger training initiative, The Rainforest Game is highly adaptable and flexible. The discussions relating to the game may be focused in several areas including:
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 Play out vital team skills such as leadership, creative problem-solving, planning, and communication, with our newest game, Maestro: The Team Performance Game. Hands-on and engaging, this interactive game leads to a rich and meaningful dialogue that prepares teams to perform more effectively in the workplace. Teams are challenged when they rehearse to audition for the honor of playing at Carnegie Hall. First, they must decide who will lead the team as maestro. Then they practice together as an ensemble. But the problem is that they don’t know the name of the song they must perform - and they must play it using only hand bells. Worse yet, teams don’t gain access to the instruments until it’s time to audition! The activity draws to a close when teams perform and a winner is chosen by a select panel of judges. Teams experience the real-life team dynamics in the process of forming team roles and responsibilities, planning, and execution. Infuse fun into your next training session. Maestro is the perfect kick-off for your team building initiative, team energizer, or standalone learning event. Learning Outcomes:
(includes materials to train up to 4 groups of 4-8 participants at one time.) Format: Game, 1 hour needed to complete game.
 Activity Manual Select from 75 quick exercises to break down barriers, increase motivation, and provide the best possible start to your training program. Compiled by a team of five trainers with a wide variety of experience, the games represent a rich mixture of styles and an extensive range of approaches. There is an index of activities by objective to help you choose the most appropriate activity for your application and fully reproducible participant materials are included to save you hours of preparation time. Training Objectives
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 Team Adventure The newest addition to the popular HRDQ Team Adventure Series™ is here! Introducing Whiteout, a thrilling new survival simulation that adds excitement and suspense to any team-building session. Whiteout is ideal for any group that works in a high-pressure environment, especially those who must make decisions amidst conflict.
The Scenario The morning of the trip is bright and beautiful, but the team quickly encounters an unexpected blizzard. Your team finds itself stranded in blinding snow. And then the worst happens. One of the dog sleds, including the driver and dogs, falls through ice into shoulder-deep water. The dog escapes unharmed, but the driver and guide are hypothermic and semiconscious. Can your team overcome personal conflicts to survive? Learning Outcomes
How It Works Participants work both individually and as a team to determine the best course of action in an emergency situation. First they are required to make a crucial strategy decision from a range of seemingly viable options. Then they rank the value of the few survival items available to them in terms of their usefulness to the group as it carries out its chosen strategy. This format is designed to stimulate typical organization behavior – make a strategic decision, then execute it with the resources available. White Starter Kit includes: 5 Participant Guides and Facilitator Guide. Note: Order one Facilitator Guide per trainer and one Participant Guide per team member Optional
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Participant Guide: $199.99 [Add to Cart]  Sorting out how communication impacts organizations can be difficult. Communication is so pervasive in organizational work that we often overlook it as a source of problems. Communication Derailed helps you tackle even the most challenging communication problems in today’s organizations. This popular simulation game challenges individuals to work in groups to design and/or construct a toy out of flexible toy pieces. Three modules – which can be run independently or in a series – demonstrate the profound impact of poor communication – and then teach the skills needed to communicate more effectively. The Scenario
You work for the product development team at a toy company. Your team is asked to create a prototype for a new and different toy. You receive instructions from the CEO. Lateral Module:
Organizational Stress Module: Learning Outcomes
How It Works Participants work in groups to design and/or construct a toy out of malleable toy pieces. Each module takes 2-3 hours to complete and follows the same general framework, which consists of 5 parts: poor communication, midpoint debrief, effective communication, final debrief, and action planning. Uses for Communication Derailed Communication Derailed can be used as a stand-alone learning event or integrated into a larger training initiative.
Designed to help new or existing teams to anticipate potential communication problems or surface current problems, this module teaches groups how to negotiate shared meanings, give and receive direct feedback, and share information freely. The module can also be used for general team communication skill building with participants who do not work together. Number of participants: Up to 3 groups of 4–7 people
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Organizational Stress Module What to Order/Product Contents Each Complete Game includes materials to simultaneously train 3 teams of 4-8 participants. All parts are reusable. For larger groups, order one Game Pack for each additional team of 4-8 participants. Our Customer Service Team is available to assist you with determining your training material needs. The Communication Derailed Complete Game includes:
Optional Extra Game Pack The Communication Derailed Extra Game Pack includes: Reusable game parts for one extra team of 4-8 participants
 Introduce basic teamwork concepts such as interdependence, common goals, continuing interaction, valuing diversity, and creating a supportive environment. First, participants work independently — each performing a confidential task for building a prototype astronaut vehicle. Then they complete the vehicle as a team, discussing ideas and sharing their individual expertise. Finally, participants evaluate and discuss 3 key elements of teamwork. The comprehensive Team Version Facilitator Guide includes: administrative guidelines, theoretical background, Teams vs. Groups comparison chart, answers to frequently asked questions, debriefing questions, reproducible participant handouts.
Learning Outcomes: What to Order/Product Contents Each Complete Game includes materials to simultaneously train 3 teams of 4-7 participants. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. Participant Guides Refill 5-Packs and Extra Game Packs are also available for individual purchase. For larger groups, order one Extra Game Pack for each additional team of 4–7 participants. Complete Team Game includes:
Optional: Extra Game Pack (for one team of 4-7 participants): 1 box of reusable parts (batteries included), 7 Participant Guides, Stopwatch, Calculator, Screen and 1 set of 6 task sheets.
 This book contains a variety of fully reproducible exercises to teach and reinforce the skills necessary to be a successful negotiator. Each Activity includes a detailed description of the exercise, the steps to follow, additional resources and lecture notes for the trainer. Training Objectives
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 Excellent customer service begins with excellent communication. You build strong customer relationships by understanding the subtle things that make your customers respond positively (i.e., plenty of detail or a glossy overview). This powerful program explores the essence of customer service effective communication. The DISC learning assessment is used to provide insights into communication styles and to offer new opportunities for strengthening customer relationships. Upon completion, participants will be able to identify their own primary communication style and gain insight into their customers styles recognizing potential areas of interpersonal conflict and successfully tailoring their approach to alleviate concerns and meet the needs of their customers. Facilitation Kit The easy-to-use Customer Service Excellence Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:
Participant Kit Participant materials required to support the training program are user-friendly with information and tools that can be put into practice immediately. Each Customer Service Excellence Participant Kit includes:
 What is
cooperative-competition? When teams act with a competitive spirit that motivates
them to put forth their best efforts while cooperating on the achievement of
similar goals, you’ve got cooperative-competition. And it can give your
organization an edge over the competition. Common Currency uses the concept of
cooperative-competition among teams to stress the importance of group
interdependence. To win this game, each group must rely on collaboration with
others to exchange information and resources. Thus, teams gain an understanding
of the beneficial nature of competitiveness as they strive to do their best,
while maintaining good working relationships with other groups.
Change Variation Game When to use Common Currency This game is a flexible, team-based activity that utilizes a wealth of interpersonal and group-process skills. We especially like using it as part of negotiating and strategic planning workshops. But it’s ideal for a wide array of training topics. The Facilitator Guide includes debriefs for training in team building, communication, negotiating, strategic planning, decision making, problem solving, resource sharing, and more. Also included is a separate change module, which demonstrates the value of cooperative-competition in times of change. Game Includes: - Order one Complete Game (#1301KT) for up to 8 teams of 2-6 players each. For additional groups or players, order an additional game kit. The Complete Game includes: color coins, information cards, identification flags and envelopes, scoring sheets, Facilitator Guide, and sturdy tote box.
 If you're looking for an innovative and fun way to teach managers about the difference structure and support make in employee performance, it's time to play The Strategic Leadership Game. A full toolbox of ideas to help managers experience how leaders manage task performance. The game consists of two rounds: Game A simulates a typical task assignment. Participants are delegated a task with clear output criteria, but without any useful support or structure. They'll experience first-hand the performance pressure, anxiety and failure employees feel when assignments are handed over to them without appropriate instruction or feedback. Game B also simulates a routine assignment. But participants are placed in pairs, one as manager and one as employee. The manager is responsible for supporting the employee's efforts. They'll discover how the appropriate type of leadership makes tasks easier to do and instills a sense of accomplishment. Key Benefits
Includes: Tangram puzzle pieces, Leader's Guide, Work Orders Pad, Coaching Cards Pad, Master Solution Sheets (set of 5) and CD-ROM with slide/handout masters.
 Send
supervisors on a memorable exploration of supervisory skills with
Flight from Savo, this exciting hands-on adventure game.
Participants experience first-hand the fundamental supervisory
skills presented in this Supervisory Skills Questionnaire:
Guiding the Work, Organizing the Work, Developing Your Staff,
Managing Performance, and Managing Relations.
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Optional The Flight from Savo Extra Game Pack includes: 7 Participant Guides, 1 set of game parts, 1 deck of Lucky Break cards, 1 deck of Set Back cards, 1 instruction card and rubberized table mat. ($150.00)
 The 50 activities in this resource book has been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces. INCLUDES: 300 Pages, 3-Ring Binder Activities Cover
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 A long-time favorite of customers — Jungle Escape is a fun and highly effective hands-on game that's perfect for introducing and reinforcing basic team skills. The adventure begins when teams learn that their airplane has crash-landed in a remote jungle. To survive, each group must build an escape helicopter using spare parts, a diagram, and limited access to a completed model. Learning Outcomes
How It Works This exciting simulation challenges participants to work together to complete a project under a deadline and with limited information. Presented with a predetermined set of toy parts, teams must create a plan for construction and then build a helicopter to exact specifications. After the models are completed (approximately 30 minutes later), team members take part in a discussion about team dynamics and offer insights gained from the activity. When scores are compared, participants learn that typically the team that took the most time to plan builds the helicopter in the least amount of time. Uses for Jungle Escape:
What to Order/Product Contents Each Complete Game includes materials to train up to 3 teams of 5-8 participants. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. For training sessions with more than 3 groups, order one extra game pack per team. Refill packs of Participant Guides are available for individual purchase. Our Product Consultant Team would be happy to assist you in determining your materials needs. The Jungle Escape 4th Edition Complete Kit (Team and Interteam Versions) includes:
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Jungle Escape 4th Edition Extra Game Pack - $95.00
 Are you maximizing every opportunity to connect with participants before, during and after training? This is the key to optimizing the learning experience of every individual – and the focus of these 125 tested and proven-effective activities for trainers. The activities are grouped under five critical points of contact trainers have with participants:
Based on the principles of accelerated and adult learning, the activities have sound objectives. But they are also fun. Some utilize all the senses. Many get participants on their feet and moving around. Others encourage participants to reveal what they already know and apply what they learn. The activities are formatted for easy use with clearly marked objectives, best occasion to use them, group size, estimated time equipment and supplies needed and materials. Many of the activities have ready-to-use handouts.
 Three new simulations! Now there are six realistic adventure simulations in all! Set in America's most popular scenic wonder! Take participants on an unforgettable learning adventure! Set in the Grand Canyon, these stimulating group activities provide an adventurous backdrop for enthusiastic participant involvement and memorable skill building. Use Grand Canyon Adventures for active learning in:
More than the usual consensus-building activities Six related activities provide new training flexibility Inspiring DVD gets participants involved Stranded in Grand Canyon Incident at Elves Chasm: Action Plan Incident at Elves Chasm: Priority Setting Hiking Out of Lava Falls Up Deer Creek without a Boatman Overboard in the Roaring River Grand Canyon Complete Package Includes:
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