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Two teams that work in different locations have the opportunity to meet in a third location. The teams have to work together to build an articulated truck and two skips that can be transported by the truck. One team has to build the tractor unit and a skip that can hold all of the unused materials, the other the trailer and a skip for any scrap that is produced.
To be successful teams need to be aware that their actions will have an immediate effect on each other, so they must communicate and work accordingly.
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Two longer activities that introduce and develop essential elements of leadership. Both tasks are based around the creation of working models that groups can usually complete within the allotted time. This enables participants to focus of developing their learning during the reviews rather than trying to work out ho w to complete the task.
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Two long activities that build on messages introduced in Leadership 1 and 2.
'Maxi Market' uses a project management scenario where groups have to clarify project aims and priorities before working out how to use and bring together each other's personal strengths to meet a customer's needs, whereas Waste Away involves leaders using a team to create a team: subsequently members of these teams manage others who work under pressure to turn the designs into end products.
Helipads involve 2 or 3 competing teams. It is designed to demonstrate how effective team working within and between teams influences business success and highlight the key qualities that influence the process.
Team success is dependent of the value of the final product, but it addition to organising themselves, competing teams need to work together to ensure that they do not reduce the value of their products: the value of any helipad is reduced if two or more are produced to the same specification, but some specifications are more profitable than others.
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The aim is to make money by producing a model oil rig. The value of the oil rig depends on set criteria and everything has a cost. The group has freedom to organise itself in anyway it wishes, but there are 3 set locations (tabletops) where sub-assemblies must be made before they are moved to the final assembly area.
It is all too easy for the task to take over and for the overall aim (making money) to be forgotten.
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The leader has promised that two teams will each deliver a price and a product within a set time. Each team has different constraints, but the tasks seem achievable. Very quickly the stores become a major bottle neck and the promises become daunting. As pressure mounts the need for the manager to focus on the key issues (meeting customer needs and managing human resources) is critical.
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