CORPORATE PROGRAMS

 

The “Right Stuff” For Your Organization

Is your organization as successful as it could be? Does your group have the “right stuff”? Responsive, cooperative work teams are vital to the success of all organizations, from small to large.

Space mission simulations at the Challenger Learning Center of Colorado (CLCC) help build stronger, more effective teams with a richer understanding of key skills necessary to succeed in today’s workforce, such as:

• * Collaboration and Communication
• * Consensus-building and Decision processes
• * Goal-setting and Group Dynamics
• * Information flow and Problem-solving
• * Shared Values and Team effectiveness
• * Team interactions and Wise risk-taking

Transform your group into a successful team with the “right stuff.”

Invest in Your Workforce: Custom-Tailored Adventures

Each group, each organization has special goals and development needs. CLCC programs can be designed to fit your situation, your particular objectives and your critical needs:

• * From 8 to 28 people
• * From 3 to 6 hours in length, or longer, as required to meet your goals
• * From a basic “experience” to focused, fully-facilitated consultant-led learning sessions dealing directly with your critical needs.

Experienced professional consultants—experts in management, leadership and teamwork—can vastly enhance the payoff for your group through a facilitated, interactive, custom-tailored, paradigm-shifting adventure. Launch your special mission plan and discover greater business success.

“Best Corporate Retreat” – Colorado Springs Gazette

Space, the compelling “final frontier,” is the setting for focused training and coaching, helping groups learn to apply personalized professional performance insights. New skill sets and paradigms are tested and used in a professionally safe environment. And we make it fun!

If failure is not an option for your group or organization, chart your course to success. Launch the cohesiveness, responsiveness, teamwork and communication skills to strengthen your staff, energize morale and boost your bottom line. Help your group become a true team. Call us to start planning your mission.

Become Astronauts. Launch Your Success!

In an exciting simulated space mission, group members become crews of astronauts and mission controllers on a daring exploration of comets. The adventure begins with a briefing on mission objectives plus team and individual job assignments. Crews enter the space simulators and suit up for the countdown and “launch” to Rendezvous with a Comet. They join forces to fulfill their individual job tasks and team goals on the International Space Station and in Mission Control:

• * Safety and survival (first priority!)
• * Plotting a comet rendezvous course
• * Building and launching a probe
• * Collecting important data
• * Returning all crews safely to Earth

What seems to be a routine mission of exploration is sprinkled with surprises and emergencies, giving crew members a first-hand insight into individual duties and tasks, teamwork and problem-solving skills.

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Pre-program:

1. Team designs mission patch to represent the work they do, mission objectives and behaviors (values, trust, teamwork, leadership) they wish to work on.
2. Team members select mission positions based on their individual styles and what would provide the best learning experience for the team. Teams should choose to work together – e.g., Probe team (these descriptions need to be written and provided)
3. Team selects specific mission objectives, such as:

• * Information Flow
• * Control Systems (Decision Process)
• * Motivations/Interest
• * Values
• * Interpersonal Behaviors
• * Group Dynamics

Pre-Flight Briefing

1. Review of Mission Patch exercise
2. Review and commitment to Mission Objectives
3. Assignments of Positions

Mission

Participants run simulation to “crisis point”

Mission "Crisis" Debrief:

Method:

Use Fishbowl: Done in Teams

* Flight team members can sit in the center and listen to ground team evaluation of performance. Reverse process. Use SBI (Situation Behavior Impact) feedback model.
* Facilitators can record specific Effective and Do-Better behaviors. (Use of specific after-action review methods)

Modify mission roles and continue with simulation.

Mission Success Debrief:

Whole group Debrief:
Celebration (previously agreed upon)
Review of Mission Objectives:

Method: Capture individual perspectives of Team Dynamics
Use Open Space Graphic Technique
One word descriptors
Measure Scales

Post Mission- Goals to Action

Group prioritizes top 3 post mission goals.
Individuals present specific action steps to meet goals
Group decides on top 3 actions per goal
Election of mission specialist