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Up to 5 teams competing to
build a bridge of high standards and within critical time constraints. Working in a very
competitive setting, while dealing with many unanticipated outside
influences.
Ideally, the class is divided
into (max.) 5 teams placed at remote workstations, mixing participants
in order to break up clusters of ‘buddies from work’. Remember, we’re
trying to build some new partnerships, and let’s see how quickly they
can do that.
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Learning
Opportunities
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There are three consecutive phases, each of them
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| Managing:
Risk,
Time,
Plans |
| Developing:
Leadership,
Communication,
Partnering,
CRM. |
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All
teams receive identical materials, instructions and diagrams on which
to base their bids. Within each team, members introduce themselves and
then elect a Project Leader from within. After developing their
strategy, a time estimate is calculated and submitted as a secret bid.
As
the bid times will be all over the map and unreliable, all teams are
given a chance to build their bridge. The first one ready and
passing inspection will be accepted. Just watch them scramble
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| Managing:
Process,
Material Requirements,
Time,
Change,
Quality,
Stress |
| Developing: Leadership, Team Work, Delegation, Self Empowerment, CRM. |
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The building phase is loaded
with true-to-life interruptions, including a major surprise engineering
change, and you couldn’t come much closer to a real-life business
scenario. The building phase is filled with high energy activity,
allowing team players to be themselves, and everybody always has some
good productive fun with it.
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This phase offers excellent opportunities for self
evaluation as team members recognize their failures while celebrating
their positive achievements and partnerships made.
A
complete set of instructional guidelines is provided to assist you in
conducting a thorough debriefing.
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| Total
running |
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workshop |
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2.0
Hours… and beyond,
if you have the time. The Bridge Game is loaded
with features, and we suggest that you use what you can while you have
your teams together.
Running time depends largely on how much you want to get out of this
exercise, your specific objectives as well as the number of
participants involved. |
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While each team has only one
leader, every team player is encouraged to demonstrate their own leadership
traits. The exercise gives them every opportunity to do so.
CRM (Customer
relationship Management) is another crucial component that
is continually challenged in this project.
Participants will soon learn that if the client is
not an active part of their plan, they are missing their best partner.
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