Adventure Amazon Activity Guide, Activity Guide [Paperback]

In this exciting activity, participants face a simulated junglesurvival. They must reach agreement in this imaginary setting inorder to succeed, and they learn why consensus produces the bestdecisions.

When their plane makes an emergency landing in the jungle,participants need to decide which of 15 items on theplane--including tallow candles, a pistol, safari hats, and otherobjects--would be most essential to their survival. First, asindividuals, participants rate the 15 items. Then participantscollaborate as a group and attempt to decide on the best course ofaction. When they cooperate, they experience the spark of synergyas never before!

Use this gripping simulation to:
* Improve decision-making skills
* Enhance problem-solving abilities
* Strengthen group cooperation
* Show groups the power of synergy . . . and much more!

Human resource professionals, team leaders, and managers piloting ateam development effort, will want to conduct this refreshingactivity with their groups and teams in any work setting.Adventure in the Amazon.

The Situation.

Your Task.

Guidelines for Reaching Consensus.

Group's Task.

Answers and Rationale.LORRAINE L. UKENS is the owner of Team-ing with Success, a consulting and training enterprise specializing in team building and leadership development. Her wide range of business experience, spanning more than twenty years, is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas. Ukens, an adjunct faculty member in the HRD graduate program at Towson University in Maryland, is the author of several training books and games, including Getting Together: Group Icebreakers and Energizers (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1997) and Working Together: 55 Team Games (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1997). She reclĂ!