Arctic Expedition, Leader's Guide (Pfeiffer) [Paperback]

Lorraine L. Ukens (Author)

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Publication Date: April 24, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0787939765 | ISBN-13: 978-0787939762 | Edition: 1

Spark synergy in an icy wasteland!

With this activity, work groups wander into the unknown . . . and they emerge as high-performing teams. Activity participants embark on a simulated journey through a frozen, forbidding landscape, and experience team synergy as they never dreamed possible. The leader and participants will have a perfect opportunity to examine the impact of their interpersonal behaviors on one another, on the group's effectiveness, and on the outcome of their adventure.

Any work setting is suitable for conducting this activity. The facilitator, who does not need to be a training professional, will need a copy of The Leader's Manual, which contains detailed instructions about conducting the simulation. Each participant needs a copy of The Activity, the guidebook to this exhilarating experience.

Teams rarely realize that their combined force vastly exceeds the power of any single team member. In this icy wasteland, leaders will spark a synergy that sets teams afire!

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About the Author

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 received her M.S. degree from Towson University and is an active member of the American Society for Training and Development at both the national and local levels.

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SAMPLE ACTIVITY
Guidelines for Reaching Consensus

These guidelines are located in both the Leader's Guide and the Arctic Expedition Activity:

1. Think through your own ideas as well as you can prior to meeting with the group (but realize that others may know information that you do not).

2. Express your own opinions and explain yourself fully, so that the rest of the group has the benefit of all members' thinking.

3. Listen to the opinions and feelings of all other group members and be ready to modify your own position on the basis of logic and understanding.

4. Avoid arguing for your own position in order to "win" as an individual; what is "right" is that best collective judgment of the group as a whole.

5. View disagreements or conflict as helping to clarify the issue, rather than as hindering the process. Do not "give in" if you still have serious reservations about an issue; instead, work toward resolution.

6. Recognize that tension-reducing behaviors, such as laughing or kidding, can be useful, as long as meaningful conflict is not smoothed over prematurely.

7. Refrain from conflict-reducing techniques, such as voting, averaging, trading, compromising, or giving in to keep the peace.

8. Monitor interactions among people as the group attempts to complete its work, and initiate discussions of what really is going on.

9. Do not assume that an answer is correct just because there is agreement initially. Discuss the reasons for the answer and explore all possibilities.

Product Details

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (April 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787939765
• ISBN-13: 978-0787939762
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,102,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorraine Ukens is the owner of Team-ing With Success, which specializes in team building and experiential learning. Her wide range of business experience is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas. She is the author of activity-oriented books and games, as well as the editor and contributor to the highly acclaimed "What Smart Trainers Know" book. Lorraine received her M.S. degree in Human Resource Development from Towson University in Maryland, where she taught as a graduate-level adjunct faculty member from 1997 until 2005. She currently lives in central Florida and enjoys traveling with her husband, Leon.