Marooned

Participants embark on a daytime excursion while on a cruise in the South Pacific. The passengers set out to explore a coral island and walk off their lunch. It doesn't take long before they discover a long stretch of undisturbed, inviting sand. So, they decide to take a break and drift off to sleep.

Two hours later, they awake just in time to see their cruise ship sail into the horizon. They're stranded! The group must now draft a survival plan with only the possessions they were carrying and the clothes on their backs.

The HRDQ Team Adventure Series offers a dynamic approach to team training, fostering synergy and equipping members with critical group-process skills: consensus decision making, problem solving, communication, and conflict resolution – all within a nonthreatening learning environment.

Each adventure simulation in HRDQ's Team Adventure Series starts with a suspense-filled scenario that challenges teams to work together to escape danger with limited resources and each other!

While most people can rest assured knowing they'll never encounter these survival situations, they experience similar feelings of stress and conflict that accompany everyday organizational life.

Marooned is an excellent team training tool, particularly effective as an exercise for newly formed teams, groups assigned to a new project, or an icebreaker.

Following the introduction of the survival scenario, participants are challenged to rank four immediate response alternatives and 10 daypack items, first individually and then as a team. Participants compare their team scores with the best individual score and the expert rationale to determine whether they achieved team synergy.

The two-hour workshop explores the concept of synergy and helps teams develop vital group-process skills, such as decision-making and interpersonal communication. The exercise also includes:

• An introduction to three elements of synergy
• A five-step problem solving technique
• Four critical group maintenance skills
• The importance of consensus decision making

By the end of the team training simulation, participants will do the following:

• Develop group problem solving skills using a five-step process
• Understand the critical interpersonal skills
• Learn how groups make decisions
• Discover the advantages of consensus decision making
• Learn the three elements of synergy

Marooned can be used as a standalone team training tool or incorporated into a more comprehensive team-building program. It's also effective as a component for problem solving, decision making, and employee development training programs.

Use Marooned or other Team Adventure Series training simulations to:

• Illustrate the concept of team synergy.
• "Break the ice" among new or conflicted teams.
• Give teams a nonthreatening opportunity to work together
• Help teams practice consensus decision making
• Improve active listening, probing, and confronting behaviors in a realistic setting
• Train team leaders in team facilitation skills
• Open or close a learning session
• Introduce an organizational change
• Interject a fun activity into an otherwise serious agenda
• Supplement outdoor experiential learning

Facilitator Guide

Order one guide per trainer. The comprehensive Facilitator Guide includes everything trainers need to deliver Marooned. This includes background information, administrative guidelines, a step-by-step workshop outline, expert rationale, alternative training designs, a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, and sample participant materials. Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Participant Guide 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. The participant guide includes the adventure scenario, pressure-sensitive scoring, background information, team worksheet, and how to improve team discussions.

The HRDQ Development Team creates soft-skills learning solutions that help to improve the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations. At HRDQ, we believe an experiential approach is the best catalyst for adult learning. Our unique Experiential Learning Model has been the core of what we do for more than 40 years. We combine the best of organizational learning theory and proven facilitation methods with an appreciation for adult learning styles. Our philosophy initiates and inspires lasting change.