Air Lift Business Game.
                 An ideal training activity
            for problem solving, teamwork,
      assessment centres and recruiting staff.

Operation Air Lift

This training activity brings out all the lessons of
good teamwork and the need for the whole team
to be in constant communication.

Practical and fun, this one-hour training activity will liven all training courses and draw out key lessons on teamwork, problem solving and communicating.

This exercise is ideal for an assessment centre before recruiting staff. It is used on 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's 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 to 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

Duration:     This business game runs for 1.5 hours.

Numbers:     Up to 4 teams with 4 to 6 delegates in a team (for each business game).

Cost to buy (including a trainer's manual) to facilitate it yourself: £350 + VAT and delivery.
                    
We will also run this game for you: please Email: games@elitetraining.co.uk or call +44 (0)1 473 610320

© This is an original Northgate Training Ltd activity.

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Elite Training European Limited is a leading UK corporate team building and business games training company. We will be pleased to arrange business simulation games, training exercises or team building activities anywhere in the UK or Europe.

  “On behalf of the team a big thank you to both yourself and Liz for
   making our conference such a success as it was.”                                                     S. Moore - Lovell Partnerships Ltd

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