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

Mars Surface Rover

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

Help new teams understand what really separates groups from teams with Mars Surface Rover Team Edition, based on the award-winning Leadership Edition. It's a great way to introduce participants to the basic concepts of teamwork, which include interdependence, common goals, continuing interaction, valuing diversity, and creating a supportive work environment.
 
Learning Outcomes

• Clearly understand the distinction between a team and a group
• Understand how teammates’ responsibilities are interdependent
• Realize the importance of continual communication within the team

Theory
Various definitions of “team” in the current literature point to what separates a true team from a group of individuals: interdependence, common goals, continuing interaction, diversity of skills, and a supportive environment. The team version of Mars Surface Rover is designed to highlight these accepted differences between groups and teams.

How It Works
In Part I, participants are assigned individual tasks for building a prototype vehicle for ferrying astronauts across the surface of Mars. These tasks are kept private from other participants and are completed behind a 4-panel screen. In Part II, the participants are asked to complete the vehicle as a team, discussing ideas and sharing their individual expertise.

At the end of the game, participants evaluate and discuss three key elements of teamwork: Interdependence, Communication/Information Flow, and Common Goals.

Mars Surface Rover Team Edition is effective when used as a stand-alone activity as well as a component of a larger training program. Use Mars to:

• Develop new teams
• Rejuvenate established teams that have fallen back into group work
• Help teams in conflict understand the benefits of teamwork versus group work

Each Complete Game includes materials to simultaneously train 3 teams of 4-7 participants. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. Participant Guides Refill 5-Packs are also available for individual purchase.

Complete Team Game includes:

• 3 boxes of reusable parts for the Mars Surface Rover (batteries included)
• 3 stopwatches
• 21 Participant Guides
• 4 calculators
• 1 tablet of 30 price sheets
• 1 set of 18 reusable task sheets
• 3 screens
• Facilitator Guide
• Convenient tote

Leadership Edition
This is an additional activity to the Team version. It enables teams and their leadersto see three different leadership styles in action.

How It Works:
3 teams are assigned the task of building a prototype astronaut vehicle. Using private instructions, team leaders guide their teams passively, traditionally, or facilitatively. When teams race their vehicles at the end of the game, the rover built by the team with the facilitative leader usually wins!

Learning Outcomes:

• Experience the concept and benefits of facilitative leadership
• Learn how a facilitative leadership style generates a team atmosphere
• Discover the drawbacks of traditional (autocratic) or passive (uninvolved) styles of leadership
• Recognise the balance between too much and too little authority

Duration:     This business game runs for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Numbers:     Up to 3 teams with 4 to 7 delegates in a team (for each business game).

Cost to buy (including a trainer's manual) to facilitate it yourself: Team Version £350 + delivery and VAT (UK Only)
                                                                                               Leadership Version £499 + delivery and VAT (UK Only)

Note the Leadership version includes the same materials as the Team version Plus

• Leadership version Facilitator Guide
• 15 leadership version Participant Guides
• Set of 3 reusable leader roles
• 1 tablet of price sheet

We will also run this game for you: please Email: games@elitetraining.co.uk or call +44 (0) 1473 610320

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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