If you are looking for a game that will stress the completion of documentation and be a good program for discussions of teamwork and collaboration, this is an learning experiential exercise that may work for you.
It is focused on strategy, tactics, teamwork and collaboration. Your Special Operations team has to plan and execute a mission in enemy territory. You’ve got plenty of support, but your choices are critical to our overall success.
The main learning’s:
- collaboration,
- teamwork,
- communications,
- planning,
- resource management, and
- forming strategic objectives.
Some level of aggressiveness is rewarded. Planning is Paramount. Training is optimizing. Collaboration is encouraged. Teamwork is critical to personal and mission success
And teams and teamwork also makes this exercise more fun. The exercise is also educational. It is anchored in some common themes of collaboration and cooperation that enable leadership to debrief in a number of different ways.
Scenario: Teams of Special Ops forces were transported to a foreign location to deal with a Guerilla troops which is planning a major offensive. The mission is for squads to make their way to the enemy base, in 18 days, find and retrieve medical supplies that are critical to United Nations.
Teams have many decisions to make in their planning, including route they wish to travel and additional training options, intelligence and/or vehicle modifications. Along the way, random events occur causing teams to improvise, adapt and collaborate with other teams in order to accomplish pre-planned objectives and other goals.
The activity is educational and engaging; it is an experiential exercise designed to generate a variety of typical team behaviors that can be readily debriefed in a number of ways. The overall goal is to accomplish the mission; teams need to communicate amongst themselves to develop an overall plan of action, to achieve maximum results.
