Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine is a business simulation delivering real-time bottom-line learning in an internationally successful half-day format --

without getting stuck in the 'touchy-feely'.

"... an excellent front-end experience for any strategic planning, goalsetting, or teambuilding event or process, especially for teams that cut across functional areas -- such as marketing, accounting, human resources, production, engineering, and research and development."

To schedule Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine,
contact Megan,  (919) 542-1332.

Description

Organizations talk a lot about collaboration and information-sharing.

Yet how often do teams struggle more with each other than with their real competitors? It can be very frustrating -- and unproductive.

For business, scientific, and technical professionals who pride themselves on intellectual horsepower and aggressiveness, Lost Dutchman addresses tendencies to hoard information and act competitively when collaboration is clearly more effective - and profitable.

The simulation provides participants measurable strategic opportunities to analyze the dynamics of competition and to increase collaboration for greater profit and productivity.

Clients Include:

Nortel Networks * Cisco Systems * RH Donnelley * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * GlaxoSmithKline * NC Department of Aviation * Durham Chamber of Commerce * Flad and Associates * American Airlines * Ralston Purina * Advantage Plus Group * US Motors * CFO Publishing * Applebee's * Burlington Industries * First Union Banking Corporation *AT&T * Nokia * National Productivity Institute * Hong Kong Bank * Compaq * IBM * Sacramento School District *  Kiawah Island Resort * Lucent * Pepsi * University of Wisconsin *Singapore Education Ministry * Old Kent Bank* Royal Bank of Canada * AFGA/Bayer * UPS * University of South Carolina * BI Technologies* Success Sciences* Asian Institute of Management

"Business simulation tools can help people learn new skills and map out decisions. Managers and hourly employees alike can learn what it's like to run a project team or a company--or just how to cope successfully with the next problem that's likely to present itself--in a risk-free environment where participants don't need to worry about losing capital or their livelihood." -- Harvard Business Review

The Situation

Target Audience

Any business or technical staff, managers or teams that work in a project-oriented environment requiring collaboration across department, company, or industry boundaries. Lost Dutchman is effective for:

	Meetings, Retreats, and Conferences, Especially for Corporations and Professional Associations
	Project Management or Teambuilding
	Project or Employee Orientation
	Team and Project Startups
	Strategic Planning
	Leadership and Executive Development
	Coaching-Training-Instruction
	Performance Measures
	Customer Satisfaction

Objectives: Participants Will:

	Learn how delegating tasks and assigning role expectations improves results.
	Discover how planning and goal setting optimize performance.
	Experience how inter-team competition is more likely to occur than collaboration, even when a non-competitive situation supports teamwork.
	Understand when to use collaboration and cooperation instead of competition.
	Learn ways that feedback is critical to improve performance and quality.
	Experience how teams involve top leadership in decision-making, and vice-versa.
	See for themselves how they affect and are affected by competitive dynamics across functional teams.

Agenda

	Welcome and Overview
	Briefing: How to Be Successful
	Simulation
	Break
	Large Group Debrief
	Small Group Debrief on Key Learning Questions, then Report-Out from each group
	Summary and Evaluation

Length and Group Size

Lost Dutchman is usually led as a standalone half-day simulation and debrief. It is also effective embedded within a larger multi-day training, meeting, retreat, or conference. Using teams of 5 to 6 people, it is successful with groups of 20 to 600 all over the world.

Testimonials

	"Best of all, the learnings are easily transferred to the workplace.  In short, the simulation is value-added to the bottom line."
	"The Lost Dutchman game is dynamite.  The game is eloquently designed--simple and quick to play yet packed with explosive power.  The Lost Dutchman is unquestionably the best training game I have ever seen for teaching teamwork."
	"When you need to discover what needs to be done for improvement, I suggest people start with The Dutchman.  An outstanding exercise."
	"Its message of collaboration is a timeless reminder of the opportunities that are available to us each day as we interact with the people in our lives."

Room Setup & AV Requirements

Triangle Training Center • 1654 Hamlet Chapel Rd • Pittsboro, NC 27312
919-542-1332  • Fax 919-542-2148