Mission to Enernova

You are situated on Homebase, a station in space in a galaxy far from Earth, where you work for a space exploration agency. News has come in of the discovery of a new planet, Enernova, where there is a valuable source of powerful new energy that will enable your community to thrive for the next millennium. This is a commercial opportunity for your organization. However, you have heard that your competitors are also aware of this discovery and are expected to reach Enernova within the next 50 light years.

This is the opening of the Participant Brief for the simulation Mission to Enernova. The exercise requires that participants, working on their own or in teams, budget, plan and present their strategy for reaching Enernova safely. The quality of their decisions on which route to follow, which crew members and equipment to take, as well as the levels of food and stores they will need, will be put to the test when the simulation itself unfolds.

Mission to Enernova can be used as a teambuilding simulation to explore group dynamics, information handling, planning, decision making, communication and influencing skills, teamworking, presentation skills, flexibility, contingency planning, risk management, time management and working under pressure.

The simulation includes full instructions for the team facilitator wishing to use it as a team development exercise.

The content of the simulation - a mission to a far-flung planet - is something that will be alien to managers. Yet the processes and skills involved in handling the simulation, for example interpersonal skills, leadership, creativity, decision making and so on, represent some of the fundamental competencies for team leaders and managers at all levels.

This makes Mission to Enernova an ideal tool for assessment and development centre use. There are programme notes for an assessment or development centre, should you wish to use the simulation in its more formal application.

Introduction; Notes on running the simulation. Part l Simulation Materials: Programme management notes; Facilitator brief - activity overview; Facilitator brief - notes on possible journeys and data for calculations; Facilitator brief - example plan; Facilitator brief - summary of journey times and hazards; Facilitator brief - alphabetical list of realization cards; Participant brief - why a simulation?; Participant brief - Mission to Enernova; Participant brief - personnel; Participant brief - equipment; Participant brief - dangers in the galaxy; Participant brief - flying times; Participant brief - journey log; Participant review - dealing with information; Participant review - planning the trip; Participant review - presentation; Participant review - changing the plan; Participant review - making the trip. Part ll The Cards. Part lll Map of the Galaxy.

Julie Hay is chief Executive of A D International and has over 40 years' experience in the public and private sectors as a manager, trainer and consultant, including periods of employment with the Civil Service, Local Government, Amoco, Kodak, British Airways and Associated Engineering. Julie has international accreditation as a TSTA (Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst) in both the organizational and educational fields of TA and is also a Licensed NLP trainer. Julie is author of The Gower Assessment and Development Centre, a three-volume collection of materials for assessment centres, another 4 volume set due out on CD-ROM during 2002, Transactional Analysis for Trainers, Transformational Mentoring, as well as a number of other books, audiotapes and other resources.

Peter Emery is an independent consultant who has over 30 years' managerial and human resources experience with several blue chip organizations, including periods as a training specialist and personnel manager with British Airways, BBC and British Waterways. He is a Licensed NLP trainer and is currently focusing on executive and life coaching.

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