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Climate Change! - Decision Making
New
Duration: 1 hour + debrief
Participants: 3-24 (up to four teams of 3-6 per team)
Who: Staff at any level
PC required: Only one pc (or laptop) and printer required
Price:
£395.00
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this exciting decision making activity with a topical setting - climate change. How well will you satisfy all the interested parties? How well will you score?
As a team of government advisers you decide on a number of ideas designed to raise public awareness of the evidence for climate change. Government initiatives are called for but governments also need votes. What is good for the planet may be a million miles away from what is good for the electorate!
Each idea has a series of pros and cons - and, of course, a cost. It’s your task, as a team, to consider each option: its ability to do the job, the possible downsides, and the overall cost. Does it go far enough? How will the electorate react? If morale in the country drops too much the government will go at the next election!
For each initiative you have six options for the way forward. Your decision is entered into the one computer which generates a short report, a score, a budget balance and the next initiative. Beware of unexpected outcomes! As with decisions at work, some have unforeseen consequences for you to address. At the end each team receives an overall score for their decision making skills. Great fun. Allow up to 40 minutes for the debrief!
As a team of government advisers you decide on a number of ideas designed to raise public awareness of the evidence for climate change. Government initiatives are called for but governments also need votes. What is good for the planet may be a million miles away from what is good for the electorate!
Each idea has a series of pros and cons - and, of course, a cost. It’s your task, as a team, to consider each option: its ability to do the job, the possible downsides, and the overall cost. Does it go far enough? How will the electorate react? If morale in the country drops too much the government will go at the next election!
For each initiative you have six options for the way forward. Your decision is entered into the one computer which generates a short report, a score, a budget balance and the next initiative. Beware of unexpected outcomes! As with decisions at work, some have unforeseen consequences for you to address. At the end each team receives an overall score for their decision making skills. Great fun. Allow up to 40 minutes for the debrief!
- to adopt a decision making process
- to keep all team members on board
- to have clear objectives to guide decisions
- to make informed, evidence-based decisions
- to keep emotions out of the group decisions process
- ways to reach consensus
- Introduce the activity.
- Issue Team Briefs.
- Monitor teams as they make their choices and receive their feedback.
- After 60 minutes lead a discussion on what happened. What decision making process did teams adopt? How did they react to bad publicity? How did they work as a team?
- Key lessons revolve around how business decisions are made, the political aspect of most decisions and how teams can improve their decision making processes.
- Relate the lessons to the workplace.
Full Trainer’s Notes explain all and give discussion notes.
Richard Lloyd, Group Trainer, Iceland Foods Ltd
Delegate feedback was all positive. They liked the subject as it really is the topic of the moment. Interactive and a different subject that focused on the moral issues and the difficulty of pleasing everyone.
Steve Laing, QC Training Intl Ltd
Very user-friendly exercise and great vehicle for encountering the real dilemmas associated with decision-making. Opens up great discussion and interaction.
L&D Consultant, University Dept
Very useful group exercise to encourage effective communication, collaboration and consensus decision-making.
Delegate feedback was all positive. They liked the subject as it really is the topic of the moment. Interactive and a different subject that focused on the moral issues and the difficulty of pleasing everyone.
Steve Laing, QC Training Intl Ltd
Very user-friendly exercise and great vehicle for encountering the real dilemmas associated with decision-making. Opens up great discussion and interaction.
L&D Consultant, University Dept
Very useful group exercise to encourage effective communication, collaboration and consensus decision-making.
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- Trainer's Notes
- Team Briefs
- Handout 1 (Individual and Team Decisions)
- Team Review Sheet
- CD-Rom
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