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This course can be purchased and self-led by any leader who will learn how to run the game with their team. Note the entire Winter Over Mystery Game takes place on a Miroboard. This course is just to set the leader up to run the session, (and to make payment). The fee is only to be paid by the team leader (not each team member)

ABOUT THIS GAMIFIED SIMULATION: 

Diagnostic Team Performance Simulations: Diagnose collaboration blocks faster / Aligned communication

These team performance simulations are deliberately themed with memorable research from Antarctica, and the insights gained are applied to real work contexts. The debriefing strategies focus on how to tighten team communication and collaboration processes for more effective collaborative problem-solving.

The Winter Over Mystery Game is a gamified exercise designed to test a diverse team's ability to communicate virtually - and in the process, to learn to share and sort through critical information in order to effectively problems-solve as a team.

Companies that select this program want to engage the team around the importance of planning, shared goals, cross stakeholder alignment, the ability for teams to recognize inefficiencies in processes and strategy and the ability to adapt and align leaders and teams.

The Winter Over Mystery Game is a Simulation & Gamified Activity and forms the core elements of this program. During the game, individuals in a team have to share information only they know to solve a mystery. The team will need to learn to communicate and sort critical from irrelevant information, in the process solving a problem that can only be solved as a complete team.  The simulation is deliberately themed with memorable research from Antarctica, and the insights gained are then applied to real work contexts.

OUTCOMES:

• To learn how to work as a team to develop hypotheses based on information available.
• To show how to develop better knowledge as a team goes through multiple cycles of hypothesis development and testing.
• To help teams understand leadership, communication, cooperation, and conflict issues in team problem-solving.
• To look at how to design efficient processes.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? 

1. Leaders and  their teams that want to explore their communication patterns in a virtual setting
2. Leaders who have participated in the full ON THIN ICE professionally facilitated sessions and would like to use the canvas for their teams.

SPECS: 

• Team size: 4-10  
• Participants Game Time : 90-150 mins  
• Leaders Learning Course Time: 60-90 mins

OUTLINE & FLOW (approx 2 hours)

1. Practice Sandpit  (learn how to: name, change color, use sticky notes, meet your team)
2. Read & understand the instructions
3. Play The WOM-Game
4. Scoring and discovering the mystery
5. Debriefing (case studies, videos, questions and discussion)

DEBRIEF:

The experience is debriefed after the simulation. The value of this debrief is that issues that arise in the simulation can be discussed in a safe environment to facilitate action planning and practical applications in the workplace.

CASE STUDY:

The session is based on an authentic case study related to the US Antarctic McMurdo base station design. The scientists who used the original station realized that while individual components of the station were effective, it was not effective as a whole.  The new master plan demonstrated the value of an overriding strategy – including how to minimize and reduce distances between touchpoints, and how to improve the general processes and flow. The principles learned from the case study example are transferred to the workplace, and participants consider how teams can run more effective projects and meetings through better strategic planning. By focusing on the core and critical activities and removing ‘waste’, teams learn how to lead for more efficient communication and collaboration.

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What is on this core elements canvas?

This core elements canvas version contains an intro short explanation to each step however please note that it does not contain extensive content, case studies or information. More extensive content is available through a professionally facilitated session. 

Delivery options:

The online Core Elements Collaborative Team Canvas & Gameboards are interactive tools that come complete with instructions & steps. They can be run by 

A. A professional accredited licensed facilitator as part of a full program, (extensive content, case studies, and debriefing)  -OR-

B. As an independently self-led session, by a leader with their team, &/or as a follow up after a full professionally run program. Comes complete with step-by-step instructions. (THIS COURSE PAGE) 

This online self-led course is designed for a leader to run the game with their single small team once. If you would like to learn about enterprise purchases (bulk) and  or full licensing please contact us at www.tirian.com