Problem Solving & Decision Making
Time for Decision
Use to give your teams practice in clear thinking and decision making under pressure. When you have an airliner full of passengers and something goes wrong, those are the skills you want your pilot to have!
How it works
In this best-selling exercise, based on a real situation, teams - the airline crew - are briefed as they take off from Khartoum. An audiotape simulates the captain’s radio transmission - and his alarm as he realises the flaps are stuck. It’s time for decisive action. The tape now acts as a real time log as teams analyse the information and get to grips with the problem. Should they go back? But Khartoum has no fuel. Should they go on to Cairo - Nairobi - or Jeddah? In places sandstorms are raging - and Jeddah doesn’t serve alcohol! The longer teams take to decide, the fewer the options. The winning team is the first to get back safely to Heathrow.
What it does
This exciting, high-pressure exercise tests problem solving and decision making in a demanding situation. It is vital to manage time, co-ordinate the team and consider the options in a methodical and organised way.
Customer feedback
A great activity, always hugely successful with delegates. I highly recommended it.
– J. Taylor, Positive Skills
Tremendous fun! For getting people to work under time-pressure it is undoubtedly the best exercise on the market. I find it extremely useful in getting people to focus on using a decision-making model.
– G. Lack, Media Training
Excellent - especially for learning to avoid the 'action-anxiety trap'!
– Training consultant, Name withheld