Serious Games
The Abandoned Mine
The abandoned mine is a captivating challenge, focusing on gold mining. While it is a fun experience, it has a very serious goal: to generate ideas that will lead to a better performance in the workplace.
The Abandoned Mine seminar is dedicated to managers in organizations, entrepreneurs or teams in certain departments of a company.
Between 20 and 50 people
The Abandoned Mine is an excellent team exercise that can be used to develop the following skills, competencies and behaviors:
– teamwork;
– communication;
– intrinsic motivation;
– developing leadership skills;
– collaboration and cooperation between teams;
– commitment and innovation;
– alignment and synergy between groups;
– strategic planning; – project management;
– optimizing organizational profitability.
Participants learn, through practical and personalized exercises, more about the following concepts:
– responsibility, through direct participation and taking decisions;
– motivation, through energy and self-generated commitment;
– orientation towards innovation and organizational development, by identifying the common goal of all teams;
– competition versus collaboration, advantages and disadvantages;
– development of high-performance teams, by pooling all organizational resources;
– strategic planning;
– risk management, by making decisions in the absence of certain information;
– project management, by identifying and managing all phases of a project, taking into account the three constraints: quality, time and cost;
– information management, as part of the resource management system;
– overcoming barriers in communication, between colleagues and to management;
– participatory leadership, by involving the game leader in the team performance.
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Our goal is to replicate a business environment as accurately as possible through a simulation so that participants can develop key business management skills. The main goal is to enable participants to generate ideas that will lead to a better performance in the workplace.
There will be 3 teams of 6 members each. Teams are given a challenging mission, they receive resources and information, and then they are asked to make a wide variety of decisions in order to be able to develop and implement their work plans. Working with their own assumptions, decisions and choices, participants will be emotionally involved in these processes.
The teams will find out that they will have 20 days of 2 minutes each to plan their trip to the Mine and back home. They will be able to choose between three different routes, with different risks, they will have to take into account the weather changes and focus on making the best use of resources and information.
The essence of the exercise is to work together and have fun, planning and collaborating with each other during the game, without being in competition. It is a game of abundance, not poverty. All teams will be successful; but those who plan better and work together will be more successful than others.
The facilitator, who is also the leader of the expedition, has a wide range of options related to the topics of discussion based on what happened during the exercise. The behaviors observed during the exercise can easily be related to the situations in the work environment that could be improved.
With the help of debriefing, this exercise becomes a powerful and special tool for change and development. Among other topics, we can discuss how the game mirrors the need for planning, leadership, clear missions and visions, or issues related to teamwork and collaboration.
With the energy and the powerful metaphors used, the exercise can also be the basis for one or more training sessions.
