LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
IMPROVE COLLABORATION AND DECISION-MAKING
Achieving effective collaboration across cultures, business units and geographical sites has never been more demanding. The Eagle Racing simulation is a fun and engaging team experience. During the session the participants will experiences many of the pitfalls of collaboration themselves – but they will also be provided with valuable tools to work around the challenges and how to improve. The experience include room for company specific reflections and assessments of cultural strengths/ weaknesses.
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APPLICATIONS OF EAGLE RACING (EXAMPLES) CORPORATE TRAINING PROGRAM Eagle Racing is used to upgrade collaborative decision skills across all leaders. Rolled out in regional sessions of 12-30 people led by internal facilitators TOP MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE Global corporation used Eagle Racing as a team-building exercise and to improve cross-company collaboration. 150 players in teams of five or six.
MBA PROGRAMME Eagle Racing is regularly played at Business Schools as part of MBA and other leadership programs. EPISODICAL GAME… A business school professor uses Eagle Racing as a “virtual training tool”. Each week, players receive a new episode and they can only use digital media to reach a consensus.
A QUICK OVERVIEW OF EAGLE RACING
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Eagle Racing is an interactive story that centers around a fictitious racing team. The first video ends with a dilemma, and the participants are asked to make a difficult choice.
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The experience of failure/imperfection is a trigger to induce some strong learning points and introduce valuable collaboration tools.
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After the collective decision has been made, the story proceeds with 3 dilemmas – meaning that Eagle Racing has 1 beginning but 8 very different endings ranging from disaster to success.
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The sessions include a number of assessments of company specific strengths and weaknesses related to collaboration
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The simulation is designed to “lure” participants into some very common pitfalls of collaboration.
DEVELOPMENT PARTNER
Professor Albert Angehrn, Director of CALT (Centre of Advanced Learning Technologies) & INSEAD Business School (Paris, France)
LEARNING OUTCOMES 6
An important part of the experience is to identify ways to improve collaboration – as individuals and as a leadership team.
FOR INDIVIDUALS: Improved understanding of own habitual tendencies, and inspiration and tools for improving collaboration skills. FOR GROUPS: A fun and engaging team experience that gives deeper understanding of the pitfalls of collaboration. FOR CORPORATION: Awareness of corporate behavioral patterns and suggestions on initiatives to improve and avoid pitfalls.
MAIN APPLICATIONS OF EAGLE RACING
Eagle Racing for 12-30 participants
Eagle Racing for 31-1,000 participants
TEAMS Table groups of 4-6 people
TIME Recommended: 2.5-3 hours
TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS Stand-alone laptop/PC connected to a projector screen
WIZERIZE SUPPORT A full facilitator kit is provided for this application, including detailed instructions, presentations, etc.
TEAMS Table groups of 4-6 people
TIME Recommended: 2-3 hours
TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS Each team needs access to a laptop to complete the simulation and receive feedback. Each participant needs an individual voting device (most suppliers supported).
WIZERIZE SUPPORT We can support large meetings with our SaaS (Software as a Service) solution or deliver a turnkey solution at any location in the world.
The facilitator needs a laptop with PowerPoint and a projector/screen. All participants (teams and facilitator) need to be connected to either the Internet (if run from a Cloud server) or a local network (for large groups if the Internet is not an option).
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If you prefer the SaaS solution, our engineers will assist in defining the technical specifications of the solution. We can either supply an expert facilitator or provide your own facilitator with the necessary materials and training.
BRAIN EFFICIENCY BRAIN PERSPECTIVE
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE
LEADERSHIP SIMULATIONS reach parts of the brain that other learning methods cannot reach
BUSINESS SIMULATIONS The ultimate tool for accelerating change
Leadership simulations provide an immersive environment that requires our attention and brings all of our resources into play. They are by nature motivating, as we all want to do well, and this engages our very powerful emotional systems. In addition, the realistic scenarios activate pathways in the brain that process meaningful material, providing a strong foundation for memory. The additional element of learning by doing brings the information into our entire brain and body, with representation in a great many brain regions. These pathways cement the learning in ways that conceptual knowledgedoes not. Simulations also spark creativity, as the rules for achieving the goals force
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us out of familiar ways of thinking and we must draw forth intuitive resources to navigate the unfamiliar waters. Novelty, uncertainty, anticipation, and a sense of urgency produce neurotransmitters, notably dopamine, which enhance both motivation and learning. In short, they are a wonderful way to provide an effective and engaging mode for gaining competencies and improving on-the-job performance. Brain expert, Andrea Sullivan, M.A. Brainstrength.net
To be effective in a challenging business world, we depend on tried and tested patterns. These patterns allow us to make a lot of decisions in a very short time span – with almost no real thinking involved. However, this extremely human way of acting also comes at a price: it makes it hard for us to change.Even when we agree with guiding principles, new strategies or new information that we want to implement, it can be very hard to change our behaviour.
people around us, the competitive elements and the learning environment allow us to experiment without any real risk. Simulation is only part of the experience. Each participant is given individual feedback and a chance to relate the experience to their own working life. The key to learning and changing behaviour comes during the reflection points and debriefing, which provide a chance to stop and analyse our own behaviour.
In a Leadership Simulation, we work with a realistic scenario where the situations we manage and the people we relate to are similar to our own experiences. Best of all, the entire situation, the
A simulation experience challenges us deeper than a normal meeting or interaction, and helps us to reach a more profound understanding of what we need to change and why.