Like individuals, work groups have their own personalities or interaction styles.

These styles are reflected in the way group members approach a particular task and work together. Groups can be effective and constructive, or they can be ineffective and defensive. Used after a real or a simulated exercise the Group Styles Inventory (GSI) assesses how the group worked together. Startling correlations have been discovered between the GSI results and the quality of the groups solutions. Use the Participant Guide to pinpoint dominant styles and develop improvement strategies. Group Styles Inventory Group Styles Inventory kit includes O Group Styles Inventory This self-scoring inventory consists of 72 items with a five point response option. O Participant Guide Includes style interpretations, improvement suggestions and an action plan for committing to changes. What GSI measures: Constructive Teams O work towards a consensus O generate superior decisions O enjoy high degrees of satisfaction O improve group and individual effectiveness. Passive Defensive Teams less than optimal solutions lack of individual initiative low levels of satisfaction feelings of frustration 22505 Group Styles Inventory Kit ....................................$20.00 GSI Scoring Supplement ........................................................$4.00 GSI Facilitator Materials General Certification Program This recommended three-day program will teach you how to de-brief the LSI, STYLUS, GSI and OCI. You will receive leaders guides and other facilitation aids as part of your fee. Please refer to page 25 for more information.
44102 ..........................................................................................$1495.00

O O O O

GSI Leaders Guide This guide assists facilitators in understanding the twelve group styles, interpreting group results and how to combine the GSI with a simulation to create a dynamic teambuilding workshop.
22507 ........................................................................................$95.00

GSI PowerPoint Presentations A must A-V aid for every Group Styles debriefing.
22513 ........................................................................................$150.00

Aggresive Defensive Teams O individual agendas vs. group goals O marginal quality decisions O limited commitment to the group O impersonal, tensionridden process

Combine LSI, GSI and OCI PowerPoint presentations:

99911 ........................................................................................$300.00

Generic Circumplex Flipchart (bilingual - 25 per pad) Allow groups to draw their profiles to stimulate conversation. 23613 ................................................................................$50.00

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Team Development

Group Styles Inventory

Team Development

Acumen Team WorkStyles

Acumen Team WorkStyles (TWS) is a multi-rater feedback tool for assessing and developing individual teambuilding skills for members of intact teams. The computer-generated report will provide individual team members with valuable feedback on the way they approach tasks and interact with others. By using TWS, you can effectively improve the collaboration and synergy of your teams. Derived from the Life Styles Inventory, TWS uses 94 survey items and provides team members with feedback along the 12 circumplex styles. Acumen Team WorkStyles: Self Report The TWS Self Kit includes O Paper or online, 94-item inventory O Processing and printing of 15-page Self Report O Team WorkStyles workbook
32111 TWS Self Report ..............................................................$160.00

Acumen Team WorkStyles: 360 Feedback The TWS Others Kit includes O Paper or online, 94-item inventories (8 paper inventories or up to 30 online inventories.) O Processing and printing of 24-page report, including a 3-page self profile. O Team WorkStyles workbook 32113 TWS 360 Report. ..................................................$260.00 TWS Related Products TWS Group Report Pinpoint each teams strengths and weaknesses with a group report. This will encourage group members to concentrate on improving common areas.
32115 TWS Group Report..........................................................$60.00 32117 TWS Workbook ..............................................................$17.00 32119 TWS Leaders Guide ........................................................$215.00

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Will Your Teams Survive?

The importance of teamwork and group decision making cannot be understated. This begs the question how do your teams stack up? And, will they survive? Or will they flounder or survive? Dont wait for fate to take its course. Start now to train your teams how to work together to achieve common goals. Human Synergistics survival simulations never fail to entertain and develop good teambuilding skills.

Desert Survival Situation

After their plane crashes in the desert, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours. 12401 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50 12403 Leaders Guide ..............................................................$35.00 12405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00

Desert Survival II Situation

This more complex Desert II requires participants to identify problems to overcome, survival strategies, item priorities and item uses. Time required: 2.5 to 3.5 hours. 12411 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50 12413 Leaders Guide ..............................................................$35.00 12415/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00 Improve Group Decision making effectiveness with GSI (pg. 11)

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Can Your Teams Achieve Synergy?

Synergy occurs when the groups results are superior to every individuals results. Approximately 25% of all teams reach this goal. Those teams that do, experience healthy working relationships and experience longterm success. DONT BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD! Teach your teams how to achieve synergy.

Subarctic Survival Situation

After their plane crashes in the Canadian north, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
12421 Participant Booklet ................................................................$7.50 12423 Leaders Guide ........................................................................$35.00 12425/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD)....................................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................................$25.00

Cascades Survival Situation

After their helicopter crashes in the Rocky Mountains during a snow storm, participants must rank 12 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours. 12431 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50 12433 Leaders Guide ..............................................................$35.00 12435/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00 14

Can Your Team Stand the Heat?

Time pressures. Crises. Rush orders. Unforeseeable problems. These are all real-world problems that teams face almost every day. Teams that are well-trained on how to work together stand a much better chance of dealing with these challenges even thriving on them.

Practice makes perfect!

Bushfire Survival Situation

While on vacation in Australia, your team realizes its in the path of an on-coming bushfire. Rank 12 items to determine your chances of survival. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours.
32421 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.50 32423 Leaders Guide ..................................................................$35.00 32405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ............................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

Improve Individual team building skills with TWS (pg. 12)

Jungle Survival Situation

Your small plane crashes in the Panamanian jungle. You salvage 15 items that might aid your survival. Rank them to see if you survive. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
92401 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.50 92403 Leaders Guide ..................................................................$35.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

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Will Your Teams Sink or Swim?

Whether your groups are ad hoc or intact teams, dont throw them to the sharks and see if they will sink or swim. Take control of their destiny by providing sound training and development.

Remember: Experience is the best teacher but the tuition is very high. (So use a simulation!)

Reef Survival Situation

A yacht excursion is threatened as the vessel strikes a coral reef in the South Pacific. Prioritize the 12 items you have salvaged. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours. 32411 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50 32413 Leaders Guide ........................................................$35.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

Sea Survival Situation

Your sailing vessel sinks in the Caribbean Sea. You and your shipmates must prioritize strategy options and then rank the 15 salvaged items. Time required 2 3 hours. 92411 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50 92413 Leaders Guide ........................................................$35.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

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Do Your Teams Need a Shake-up?

Has the performance of your teams become stale and lackluster? Are their solutions to problems conventional and lack creativity? It might be time for a shake up. Use Human Synergistics simulations to create a training program guaranteed to revitalize your teams.

Help your teams to thrive not just survive.

Tsunami Survival Situation

Your group is enjoying a beach party on the coast in Chile, when you receive warning that a tsunami is approaching. You have 8 items to rank. Time required: 1 to 2 hours. 32431 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50 32433 Leaders Guide ........................................................$35.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

Earthquake Survival Situation

You are working late in the basement of a 10-story office building when a major earthquake hits. Sequence 12 action steps to survive. Time required: 1 to 2 hours. 92431 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50 92433 Leaders Guide ........................................................$35.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00 17

Leadership Simulations
Improve teambuilding and group decision making in your management teams and improve their leadership skills at the same time. Use these simulations to kick-off your workshops or as culminating, show-us-what -youve-learned exercise. Either way, these simulations will become the highlight of your meeting.

Creatively improve the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes in your leadership workshops.

Coach
You have just accepted an invitation to coach a team that has lost five of their first six games in the current season. Identify the most appropriate approach, goals, selection strategies, training methods, and team talk objectives from 54 possibilities. Time required: 2.5 - 4 hours. 32421 Participant Booklet ................................................$34.00 32423 Leaders Guide ........................................................$49.00

Turnaround
You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant. Develop a four-part plan for improving the plant, based on your review of the plants culture, production and financial reports. Time required: 4 10 hours.
12481 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$34.00 12483 Leaders Guide ..................................................................$60.00

Cultural Change Situation

Your team must present improvement plans for a hypothetical organization. Your analysis is based on profiles produced by the Organizational Culture Inventory and the Organizational Effectiveness Inventory.
22411 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$15.00 22413 Leaders Guide ..................................................................$37.50 22415 PowerPoint Show of the 7 sets of profiles ....................$75.00

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The simulations in our Business series provide the how-to knowledge your teams need to tackle common, yet demanding business problems and situations with expertise and confidence. At the same time, they strengthen the skills and behaviours your teams need to effectively and efficiently solve problems and make decisions.

Participant Booklet ....................................................................$7.50 Leaders Guide ............................................................................$35.00 Simulation Flipchart ..................................................................$25.00 Business Simulation Observers Guide ........................................$7.50

Simulation Project Planning Situation

The Situation Your team has been assigned responsibility for designing a plan for managing a secret project.

The Challenge Sequence 20 activities in the order they should be followed in managing the project. Sequence 20 action steps in the order they should be followed to maximize the effectiveness of the meeting.

Time Req. 1.5 - 2.5 hours

Meeting Effectiveness Situation

Increasing turnover rates in most of your stores requires that you call a meeting to discuss the problem.

2 - 3 hours

Customer Complaint Situation

A customer approaches you with a complaint.

Sequence 18 action steps in the order they should be carried out to maximize service effectiveness. Envision a culture for quality for your store by ranking the impact of 24 behavioural norms on service quality.

1.5 - 2.5 hours

Envisioning a Culture for Quality

A recent survey indicates that your store rates average in service quality and suggests your problem may be your stores corporate culture.

2.5 - 3.5 hours

Training Tip
Build a dynamic, highly effective one-day Teambuilding workshop with: 1. Survival Simulation 2. Group Styles Inventory 3. Team strategy session 4. Business Simulation (with Observers) 5. Observers Feedback

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Team Development

The Business Simulation Series

Team Development

The Challenge Series of Simulations

The Challenge Series is a collection of dynamic team exercises that focus on improving knowledge and skills in a variety of complex areas. Although the topics addressed by the simulations are appropriate for a wide variety of audiences, they are particularly relevant to those who are or who aspire to move into higherlevel positions.
Participant Booklet .. $7.50 Leaders Guide .$40.00

Simulation Organizational Change Challenge

The Situation Concerns about the stagnating growth of a home health care supplies manufacturer require that you outline a change process for revitalizing the company. You work for a growing manufacturer of high-quality plastic parts and are a member of one of its continuous improvement teams. You are a member of your hospitals Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for evaluating research proposals involving human subjects. You serve on your organizations committee responsible for negotiating agreements and contracts with prospective partners. You are the manager of a business unit and must develop a strategic plan that is consistent with the mission and philosophy of the organization. You are responsible for developing new performance management guidelines and procedures that will be implemented throughout the organization. You are a project manager and must outline a standard process for managing projects within your organization.

The Challenge Sequence 17 activities in order of implementation to accomplish organizational change. Develop creative and workable solutions to five problems all of which are difficult to solve using traditional approaches. Rank 10 research practices in order of their relative permissibility or acceptability. Sequence 17 negotiation activities in order of implementation. Sequence 18 critical strategic planning activities to achieve a set of integrated plans. Sequence 20 performance management activities to improve performance.

Time Req. 1.5 - 3 hours

Critical Thinking Challenge

1.5 - 3 hours

Ethical Decision Challenge

1.5 - 3 hours 1.5 - 3 hours

Constructive Negotiations Challenge Strategic Planning Challenge

1.5 - 3 hours

Performance Management Challenge

1.5 - 3 hours

Project Management Challenge

Sequence 24 typical project management activities to maximize the effectiveness of the project management process.

24 hours

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