Air Lift

A Northgate Training Game

Air Lift training game, ideal games activity for planning, problem solving, and teamwork.

This one-hour Training activity is practical and fun.

If you are looking for a training activity which livens up a training course and draw out key lessons on team cooperation, planning and solving problems, this activity is ideal.

This activity is also used as a test assessments tool for assessment centres. Also used for graduate induction courses and all types of management programmes where teamwork is a focus.

The Process
Disaster in the form of an earthquake has struck eight remote villages leaving them desperate for emergency supplies.

Limited by fuel, teams must agree an effective flight over the region to drop much needed supplies. Plan an over-ambitious route and there is the danger of running out of fuel and crash landing!

This training activity is both practical and strategic. Using a variety of wooden blocks which represent tents, medicines, food and other supplies; teams must first sort out what each village needs. They then need to pack the Cargo crates for an accurate drop according to the flight path. This needs careful planning. Often groups will split into pairs to work on the different issues – but of course, the crates cannot be finally packed in the simulated Cargo hold until the best route on the map has been decided.

Fluid communication is vital throughout, and well organised teams will co-ordinate the workload and keep everyone involved in the planning process. All too often, however, the team members will ‘get on with their bit’ and assume it will all come together in the end!

Co-ordinating the activity effectively produces the Pilot's Log. The computer program analyses this to produce a feasibility report on their planned route and then the crates need to be judged to ensure accurate packing. The crates must come out of the hold in the right order as the plane overflies the region.

Once teams select a route that works they rarely look for a more efficient alternative – in fact there are a number of ranked routes. How close to No. 1 will your delegates get?

This activity challenges a team's ability to:

• solve problems
• make decisions under pressure
• allocate resources effectively
• integrate delegated work
• use a structured approach
• identify the constraints
• set objectives
• work as a team.

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