Synopses & Reviews
Decide What It Takes to Help Your Team Survive
Discover Your Participants Ability to Set Priorities and Reach Consensus
Get Trouble on the Inca Trail and lead your participants in a lively simulated activity where the individuals and team members must make the right decisions to survive an adventure on Perus isolated Inca Trail through the desolate dry Coastal Desert, icy Andes Mountains, and dense Amazon Jungle.
Trouble on the Inca Trail presents your participants with numerous challenging situations that require them to choose from a set of possible actions that offer the best chance for survival.
To begin, they embark on the simulated adventure alone, determining choices by themselves, and then they take the journey as a team member making the decisions by group consensus. Afterward they compare their individual choices with what the group selects and determine whether the group performs better than any one individual alone.
Trouble on the Inca Trail comes with a Leaders Guide and Participants Workbook. The Leaders Guide contains complete instructions for running the simulation and offers suggestions for debriefing discussions that will help participants identify team synergy, consensus, problem solving, and action-planning skills.
Synopsis
The 60-minute survival scenario in "Trouble on the Inca is set along the Inca Trail in Northern Peru, which traverses three different and isolated environments. It presents twelve to fifteen defined situations that require the participant to choose from a set of possible actions that offer the best chance of survival. Participant's first undertake the simulation alone, and then as a member of a (recommended) four- to seven-member group where consensus is the goal. Comparisons are then made between the individual and group choices to determine whether the group performs better than any one individual. The "Leaders Guide contains complete instructions for running this simulation and additional information on debriefing discussions in terms of team synergy, consensus decision making, and action planning.
Synopsis
Trouble on the Inca Trail presents your participants with numerous challenging situations that require them to choose from a set of possible actions that offer the best chance for survival. To begin, they embark on the simulated adventure alone, determining choices by themselves, and then they take the journey as a team member making the decisions by group consensus. Afterward they compare their individual choices with what the group selects and determine whether the group performs better than any one individual alone. Trouble on the Inca Trail comes with a Leader’s Guide and Participant’s Workbook. The Leader’s Guide contains complete instructions for running the simulation and offers suggestions for debriefing discussions that will help participants identify team synergy, consensus, problem solving, and action-planning skills.
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-five years, is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas. Ukens is the author of more than ten books including the bestselling simulation, Lost in the Amazon, and her most recent collection of activities, The New Encyclopedia of Group Activities from Pfeiffer. She received her M.S. degree from Towson University where she currently is an adjunct faculty member.
Table of Contents
When to Use
Trouble on the Inca Trail.
Administration of Trouble on the Inca Trail.
Answers and Rationale.
Guidelines for Reaching Consensus.
Synergy.