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Save
the Titanic
Quick Facts:
Purpose: The purpose of the Save the Titanic is to
illustrate how teams work together across distance. Working
collaboratively on building the Titanic, teams must effectively
communicate to strategize, execute, and perform while working in a
simulated virtual environment.
Audience: Cross functional Teams; management teams;
executive teams; virtual teams; global teams; intact teams
Group size: 15-42
Session Length: 1/2 day to 1 day
Location: Anywhere your team is meeting
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 Save
the Titanic
Save the
Titanic Challenge provides teams with the opportunity to alter history
and keep the Titanic afloat! This challenge tests the best of teams to
innovate, execute, meet aggressive performance measures and integrate
diverse work processes and/or functions all while simulating a virtual
team environment. What’s the result? A Titanic Ship that stays afloat
and keeps her passengers safe.
How does the Save
the Titanic Challenge work?
Using only the materials supplied, each team must create a ‘piece of the
Titanic ship’ that is capable of carrying a minimum of 4 passengers.
Each ship consists of three separate pieces (bow, middle, stern). After
the independent pieces have been created and tested, the final challenge
is to bring the Titanic together into a working craft that is capable of
carrying 9 passengers around a distant iceberg and back to shore.
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Efficiency:
Effective use of resources and materials – least amount of materials
while performing effectively
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Time to Market:
Length of time for the Titanic to return to shore
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Risk-Taking:
Ability to maneuver
and take over the competition
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Customer Appeal:
Overall design and packaging of the Titanic and how well it appeals
to customer needs
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Team Collaboration:
H ow
well the team executes together during the race
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Quality: Ability
to return to shore with a fully intact ship with all passengers
securely onboard
The process gets
increasingly complex when the diverse pieces of the Titanic must be
‘Integrated’ seamlessly under the pressure of time. Add a few budget
cuts that alter the availability of resources and you have an
environment that requires adaptability to change. Which team(s) will
earn the most revenue points while managing the complexity of these
measures and changing dynamics? It’s not the fastest team that wins –
rather the smartest team or the team that can think ‘outside of the
ship’.
From mid-level teams to executive teams, the Save the Titanic Challenge
requires team members to think strategically while working across a
virtual team environment. Strong collaboration is a must to bring the
multiple processes or functions together successfully.
Save the Titanic
Challenge Learning Outcomes:
Each program is tailored to the goals and objectives of the client.
Examples of possible learning outcomes are:
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Product and Service
Quality – executing a strategy that meets customer expectations
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Team collaboration
– multiple teams coming together to ‘integrate’ a diversity of
processes for final execution
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Team roles –
evaluating each team member’s ability and effectively managing team
resources that will drive the team to a successful solution
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Virtual communication
– a collaborative project without ‘seeing’ the other teams progress
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Effective management
of time – managing strategy, innovation, evaluation of
alternatives, execution, measurements and process improvements
within a designated period of time
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Focused communication
– aligning diverse team priorities into an overall integrated system
 Save
the Titanic Challenge Sample Agenda
The program requires a minimum of 3 hours and can extend up to 6 hours
depending on number of teams, level of integration, and complexity of
the resulting Titanic ships. Each of the phases below will be timed
according to the final program timeline.
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Phase One: Team
Foundation & Titanic Briefing
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Phase Two:
Strategy, Design & Planning of the Titanic - Team Leader Meeting at
end of Phase Two
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Phase Three:
Building the Titanic - A Series of Three Team Leader Meetings
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Phase Four:
Titanic Independent Process Execution & Evaluation
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Phase Five:
Titanic Process Integration
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Phase Six:
Titanic Process Integration Execution & Evaluation
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Add-On
Extend
your half-day of training to a full day by helping your team members
understand each other (and themselves) better by learning about their
personalities and styles. The personality work uses the DISC instrument
to enlighten team members with new insights about themselves and how
they operate with others. A wonderful addition to the Save the
Titanic session:
Taking Flight
with DISC
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