Group Assessments and Team Exercises

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Group Styles Inventory™

Like individuals, work groups have their own personalities or interaction styles. These styles are reflected in the way group members approach a particular task and work together.Groups can be effective and constructive, or they can be ineffective and defensive.

Used after a real or a simulated exercise the Group Styles Inventory (GSI) assesses how thegroup worked together. Startling correlations have been discovered between the GSI resultsand the quality of the group’s solutions. Use the Participant Guide to pinpoint dominantstyles and develop improvement strategies.

Group Styles Inventory™

Group Styles Inventory kit includes …

v Group Styles Inventory – This self-scoring inventory consists of 72 items witha five point response option.

v Participant Guide – Includes style interpretations, improvement suggestions and an action plan for committing to changes.

22505 Group Styles Inventory Kit ....................................$20.00

GSI Scoring Supplement ........................................................$4.00

GSI Facilitator Materials

General Certification Program

This recommended three-day program will teach you how to de-brief the LSI, STYLUS,GSI and OCI. You will receive leader’s guides and other facilitation aids as part of your fee.Please refer to page 25 for more information.

44102 ..........................................................................................$1495.00

GSI Leader’s Guide

This guide assists facilitators in understanding the twelve group styles, interpreting groupresults and how to combine the GSI with a simulation to create a dynamic teambuilding workshop.

22507 ........................................................................................$95.00

GSI PowerPoint® Presentations

A “must” A-V aid for every Group Styles debriefing.22513 ........................................................................................$150.00

Combine LSI, GSI and OCI PowerPoint® presentations:99911 ........................................................................................$300.00

Generic Circumplex Flipchart (bilingual - 25 per pad) Allow groups to draw their profiles to stimulate conversation.

23613 ................................................................................$50.00

What GSI measures:

Constructive Teams

v work towards a consensus

v generate superiordecisions

v enjoy high degreesof satisfaction

v improve group andindividual effectiveness.

Passive DefensiveTeams

v less than optimalsolutions

v lack of individualinitiative

v low levels of satisfaction

v feelings of frustration

Aggresive DefensiveTeams

v individual agendasvs. group goals

v marginal qualitydecisions

v limited commitmentto the group

v impersonal, tension-ridden process

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Acumen Team WorkStyles™

Acumen Team WorkStyles (TWS) is a multi-rater feedbacktool for assessing and developing individual teambuilding skillsfor members of intact teams. The computer-generated reportwill provide individual team members with valuable feedbackon the way they approach tasks and interact with others. Byusing TWS, you can effectively improve the collaboration andsynergy of your teams.

Derived from the Life Styles Inventory, TWS uses 94 survey items and provides team members with feedback along the 12 circumplex styles.

Acumen Team WorkStyles: Self Report

The TWS Self Kit includes …

v Paper or online, 94-item inventoryv Processing and printing of 15-page Self Reportv Team WorkStyles workbook

32111 TWS Self Report ..............................................................$160.00

Acumen Team WorkStyles: 360° Feedback

The TWS Others Kit includes …

v Paper or online, 94-item inventories (8 paper inventories or up to30 online inventories.)

v Processing and printing of 24-page report, including a 3-page self profile.v Team WorkStyles workbook

32113 TWS 360° Report. ..................................................$260.00

TWS Related Products

TWS Group Report

Pinpoint each team’s strengths and weaknesses with a group report. Thiswill encourage group members to concentrate on improving common areas.

32115 TWS Group Report..........................................................$60.00

32117 TWS Workbook ..............................................................$17.00

32119 TWS Leader’s Guide ........................................................$215.00

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Will Your Teams Survive?

The importance of teamwork and group decision making cannot be understated. This begs the question– how do your teams stack up? And, will they survive? Or will they flounder or survive?

Don’t wait for fate to take its course. Start now to train your teams how to work together to achievecommon goals. Human Synergistics survival simulations never fail to entertain and develop good

teambuilding skills.

After their plane crashes in the desert, participants must rank 15 items in order to securethe survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

12401 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.5012403 Leader’s Guide ..............................................................$35.0012405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD)..........................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.5012495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00

Desert Survival II Situation™

This more complex Desert II requires participants to identify problems to overcome, survival strategies, item priorities and item uses. Time required: 2.5 to 3.5 hours.



Desert Survival Situation™

Improve Group Decision

making effectiveness

with GSI (pg. 11)

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Can Your Teams Achieve Synergy?

Synergy occurs when the group’s results are superior to every individual’s results. Approximately 25% of allteams reach this goal. Those teams that do, experience healthy working relationships and experience long-term success.

DON’T BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD! Teach your teams how to achieve synergy.

Subarctic Survival Situation™

After their plane crashes in the Canadian north, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

12421 Participant Booklet ................................................................$7.5012423 Leader’s Guide ........................................................................$35.0012425/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD)....................................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................................$7.5012495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................................$25.00

Cascades Survival Situation™

After their helicopter crashes in the Rocky Mountains during a snow storm, participants mustrank 12 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours.



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Can Your Team Stand the Heat?

Time pressures. Crises. Rush orders. Unforeseeable problems. These are all real-world problems that teamsface almost every day. Teams that are well-trained on how to work together stand a much better chance ofdealing with these challenges – even thriving on them.

Practice makes perfect!

Bushfire Survival Situation™

While on vacation in Australia, your team realizes it’s in the path of an on-coming bushfire. Rank 12 items to determine your chances of survival. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours.

32421 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.5032423 Leader’s Guide..................................................................$35.0032405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ............................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.5012495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

Jungle Survival Situation™

Your small plane crashes in the Panamanian jungle. You salvage 15 items that mightaid your survival. Rank them to see if you survive. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

92401 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.5092403 Leader’s Guide..................................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.5012495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

Improve Individual teambuilding skills

with TWS (pg. 12)

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Will Your Teams Sink or Swim?

Whether your groups are ad hoc or intact teams, don’t “throw them to the sharks” and see if they will sink or swim. Take control of their destiny by providing sound training and development.

Remember: Experience is the best teacher – but the tuition is very high. (So use a simulation!)

Reef Survival Situation™

A yacht excursion is threatened as the vessel strikes a coral reef in the South Pacific. Prioritize the 12 items you have salvaged. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours.

32411 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.5032413 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.5012495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

Sea Survival Situation™

Your sailing vessel sinks in the Caribbean Sea. You and your shipmates must prioritizestrategy options and then rank the 15 salvaged items. Time required 2 – 3 hours.



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Do Your Teams Need a Shake-up?

Has the performance of your teams become stale and lackluster? Are their solutions to problems conventional and lack creativity? It might be time for a shake up. Use Human Synergistics simulations to create a training program guaranteed to revitalize your teams.

Help your teams to thrive – not just survive.

Tsunami Survival Situation™

Your group is enjoying a beach party on the coast in Chile, when you receive warning that atsunami is approaching. You have 8 items to rank. Time required: 1 to 2 hours.



Earthquake Survival Situation™

You are working late in the basement of a 10-story office building when a major earthquake hits. Sequence 12 action steps to survive. Time required: 1 to 2 hours.



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Leadership Simulations

Improve teambuilding and group decision making in your management teams and improve their leadershipskills at the same time. Use these simulations to “kick-off” your workshops or as culminating, “show-us-what-you’ve-learned” exercise. Either way, these simulations will become the highlight of your meeting.

Creatively improve the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes in your leadership workshops.

Coach™

You have just accepted an invitation to coach a team that has lost five of their first six games in the current season. Identify the most appropriate approach, goals, selection strategies, training methods, and team talk objectives from 54 possibilities. Time required: 2.5 - 4 hours.


Turnaround™

You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant. Develop a four-part plan for improving the plant, based on your review of theplant’s culture, production and financial reports. Time required: 4 – 10 hours.

12481 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$34.0012483 Leader’s Guide..................................................................$60.00

Cultural Change Situation™

Your team must present improvement plans for a hypothetical organization. Your analysis is based on profiles produced by the Organizational Culture Inventory™ and the Organizational EffectivenessInventory™.

22411 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$15.0022413 Leader’s Guide..................................................................$37.5022415 PowerPoint® Show of the 7 sets of profiles ....................$75.00

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Your team has been assigned responsibility for designing a plan for managing a secret project.

Increasing turnover rates in most ofyour stores requires that you call ameeting to discuss the problem.

A customer approaches you with acomplaint.

A recent survey indicates that yourstore rates “average” in service qualityand suggests your problem may be yourstore’s corporate culture.

Sequence 20 activities in the order they should be followed in managing theproject.

Sequence 20 action steps inthe order they should be fol-lowed to maximize the effec-tiveness of the meeting.

Sequence 18 action steps inthe order they should be car-ried out to maximize serviceeffectiveness.

Envision a culture for qualityfor your store by ranking theimpact of 24 behaviouralnorms on service quality.

1.5 - 2.5hours

2 - 3 hours

1.5 - 2.5hours

2.5 - 3.5hours

Simulation The Situation The Challenge Time Req.

Project PlanningSituation™

MeetingEffectivenessSituation™

CustomerComplaintSituation™

Envisioning aCulture forQuality™

The Business Simulation Series

The simulations in our Business series provide the “how-to” knowledge your teams need to tackle common,yet demanding business problems and situations with expertise and confidence. At the same time, theystrengthen the skills and behaviours your teams need to effectively and efficiently solve problems and make decisions.

Participant Booklet ....................................................................$7.50Leader’s Guide ............................................................................$35.00

Simulation Flipchart ..................................................................$25.00Business Simulation Observer’s Guide ........................................$7.50

Training TipBuild a dynamic, highly effective one-dayTeambuilding workshop with:

1. Survival Simulation2. Group Styles Inventory3. Team strategy session4. Business Simulation (with Observers)5. Observers Feedback

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The Challenge Series of Simulations

The Challenge Series is a collection of dynamic team exercises that focus on improving knowledge and skillsin a variety of complex areas. Although the topics addressed by the simulations are appropriate for a widevariety of audiences, they are particularly relevant to those who are – or who aspire to move into – higher-level positions.

Participant Booklet ………………………………………………….. $7.50Leader’s Guide ……………………………………………………….$40.00

Concerns about the stagnating growth of a home health care suppliesmanufacturer require that you outline a change process for revitalizing the company.

You work for a growing manufacturerof high-quality plastic parts and are amember of one of its continuousimprovement teams.

You are a member of your hospital’sInstitutional Review Board, which isresponsible for evaluating research proposals involving human subjects.

You serve on your organization’s committee responsible for negotiatingagreements and contracts with prospective partners.

You are the manager of a business unit and must develop a strategic planthat is consistent with the mission andphilosophy of the organization.

You are responsible for developing new performance management guidelines and procedures that will be implemented throughout the organization.

You are a project manager and must outline a standard process for managing projects within yourorganization.

Sequence 17 activities inorder of implementationto accomplish organizationalchange.

Develop creative and workable solutions to fiveproblems – all of which are difficult to solve using traditional approaches.

Rank 10 research practices in order of their relative permissibility or acceptability.

Sequence 17 negotiationactivities in order of implementation.

Sequence 18 critical strategicplanning activities to achievea set of integrated plans.

Sequence 20 performancemanagement activities toimprove performance.

Sequence 24 typical projectmanagement activities to maximize the effectiveness of the project managementprocess.

1.5 - 3hours

1.5 - 3hours

1.5 - 3hours

1.5 - 3hours

1.5 - 3hours

1.5 - 3hours

2 – 4hours

Simulation The Situation The Challenge Time Req.

OrganizationalChangeChallenge™

Critical ThinkingChallenge™

Ethical DecisionChallenge™

ConstructiveNegotiationsChallenge™

Strategic PlanningChallenge™

PerformanceManagementChallenge™

ProjectManagementChallenge™

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