An experiential sand table course integrating change leadership, team collaboration, and deep exploration. Participants voyage from a deserted island to a rescue ship over 30 simulated days — earning five medals to achieve the True North Star.
Playing roles including Captain, Craftsman, Explorer, Sailor, Astrologer, and Physician, crews must overcome storms, resource shortages, and internal conflicts through high-frequency communication, resource sharing, and complementary strengths.
Sharpen the Captain's leadership wisdom and decisiveness. Facing sudden storms and resource shortages, make precise decisions quickly to lead the team through uncertainty toward the goal.
Break individual limitations and strengthen crew cohesion. Clarify each role's unique duties, communicate efficiently, share resources, and complement strengths to overcome obstacles together.
Move beyond the conventional definition of success. True success is not just reaching the rescue ship — it is collecting medals, shaping excellent team culture, and finding the inner "True North."
Guide participants to discover how to earn all five medals — Consensus, Trust, Collaboration, Execution, and Renewal — and build a change-ready, momentum-gathering team that achieves the True North Star.
Simulate extreme survival scenarios requiring information transfer and coordination. Experience effective communication and conflict resolution through negotiation and listening.
Open-ended sand table tasks encourage breakthrough thinking. Simulate new business exploration to spark creative solutions and organizational innovation.
Transform real project challenges into sand table scenarios. Teams divide labor, leverage strengths, and develop strategies under resource constraints.
High-potential members practice leadership through role assignment. Crisis scenarios test adaptability and decision quality under pressure.
Knowledge: Stranded on a deserted island surrounded by endless sea, with a rescue ship on the horizon — this is not just survival, but a team expedition of challenge and discovery.
Simulation: Navigate from confusion on the island to clarity on how to reach the rescue ship. Debrief: Obtain sail or compass; earn the Consensus Medal. Knowledge: The foundation of teamwork is early goal consensus — vision alignment, values synergy, and execution path analysis.
Simulation & Debrief: Execute the plan with compass or sail acquired; improve team success rates during execution. Knowledge: Effective resource orchestration in teamwork — analyze each role's strengths and weaknesses and team development value; make trade-offs to maximize combined force.
Simulation: Adjust strategy based on the first 10 days; actively pursue the True North Star. Debrief: Deep dive into each medal earned or missed — the key to building change-ready momentum. Knowledge: The five elements of excellent teams — consensus, trust, collaboration, execution, renewal. Explore how communication can improve when earning the Consensus Medal; how trust is built through understanding and protecting each other's weaknesses; how high-frequency information sync and complementary strengths drive collaboration; and how steadfast execution and continuous renewal keep teams resilient.
Simulation: Collect all five medals and earn the True North Star. Final competition results announced.
Review the five elements of excellent teams: consensus, trust, collaboration, execution, renewal. True North is not the rescue ship — it lives within the team. When all five elements are present, any storm can be weathered. Encourage every participant to become a contributor and architect of team growth.
Success depends not on individual performance, but on collective decision making under pressure.
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