Jungle Escape

Jungle Escape Team Building Simulation Scenario

Introducing Jungle Escape Deluxe Game

It’s bigger, it’s better, and it’s jam-packed with all the team building activities and tools you need to deliver an interactive, 90-minute exercise that educates as it engages. It includes a comprehensive facilitator guide, colorful toy parts, a useful participant guide, support materials, an action video, and a travel suitcase. Jungle Escape provides the team-building games and materials that will help develop your team into an effective unit capable of overcoming any obstacle. We even added a water bottle for trainers with a thirst for learning!

How it Works

Teams stranded in a jungle are challenged to build a helicopter to exact specifications using toy parts. They begin with planning how to execute the project, and when ready, they begin construction. Once the team believes they have properly assembled the aircraft, the facilitator checks the helicopter for accuracy and records their times. Typically, the team that took the most time to plan completes the helicopter in the least amount of time. Following the activity, team members take part in a discussion about team dynamics, offer insights, and create an action plan for improvement.

Use the game as a powerful way to introduce basic team-building, improve productivity between multiple work teams, or energise mature teams.

What to order: The game includes enough materials to train up to 3 teams of 5-6 participants at one time. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. For training sessions with more than 3 groups, order one extra helicopter per team and a Participant Guide for each additional individual.

Jungle Escape 5th Edition - Deluxe Kit Includes

• Jungle Escape Facilitator Guide
• 
Facilitator support materials on CD-ROM
• 
18 participant guides

• Prop Pack
• 3 sets of reusable helicopter parts
• 1 helicopter to use as the facilitator's model
• 
1 helicopter screen

• 1 bag of assorted spare helicopter parts

• Travel suitcase

• 1 reusable water bottle

Facilitator Guide Table of Contents

• Section 1: Getting Started
• Section 2: Theoretical Background
• Section 3: Workshop Guidelines
• Section 4: Facilitator Support
• Section 5: Sample Participant Guides
• Section 6: Inter-team Version Guidelines.

Learning Outcomes

• Discover the difference between Fragmented, Divergent, or Cohesive teams
• Learn nine key indicators of team effectiveness
• Experience vital group-process skills such as problem-solving and decision-making
• Understand the importance of balancing planning and implementation
• Recognise the effect of individual behaviour on group productivity
• Immediate action planning steps for better team performance.

So why do trainers – and audiences – love Jungle Escape?

First of all, the audience soon forgets they’re in a classroom as they are quickly immersed in a survival scenario. They're having fun while the learning happens through the discovery and practice of critical group process skills such as planning, problem-solving, and decision-making. Trainers use it as a powerful way to introduce basic team-building, improve productivity between multiple work groups, or energise mature teams. We guarantee it will be an experience that participants – and the organisation – won’t soon forget.

Uses for Jungle Escape

Jungle Escape is effective as a stand-alone activity or as part of a more comprehensive training programme. Here are some suggested applications for the game:

• Kick off a team-building workshop or seminar
• Introduce or reinforce basic team-building skills
• Improve productivity between multiple work teams
• Surface group issues or concerns that block team progress
• Energise mature work teams

Theory and Development

How Teams Function

Research suggests that the amount of time that a group allots to the planning and implementation phases of a project determines, in part, how effectively it operates as a team. Jungle Escape identifies three types of teams: Fragmented, Divergent, or Cohesive.

Fragmented Teams

Fragmented Teams are characterised by autocratic leadership and/or cliques that often press the group into making decisions. Typically, one person or a minority of the team members make the vital decisions during the game. Conflict is likely to be suppressed or ignored.

Divergent Teams

Members of Divergent Teams often consider many alternatives and tend to be overly cautious in their planning. They are often unable to reach consensus and resolve issues through voting procedures, and although group members go along with the majority, there is little commitment to the plan or final product.

Cohesive Teams

With Cohesive Teams, democratic processes are used, a cooperative atmosphere develops rapidly and everyone on the team is involved in structuring the work. During game play, you’ll see cohesive teams work through conflict when it arises; generate excitement as the team work together on the construction; and experience a high degree of satisfaction with their group effort.

How Multiple Teams Function Together

Similarly, planning and assembly time are two important factors in inter-team performance. Depending on how two or more groups work together teams can be described as acting in one of three ways: Competitive, Non-interactive, and Cooperative.

Competitive Team

A Competitive Team is more concerned with the success of its own unit than with the success of the organisation as a whole. They spend little time planning and focus instead on how they can win. As a result, they spend very little time assessing the other team’s needs and expectations for completing the work and working together.

Non-interactive Team

A Non-interactive Team limits its focus to its own team. They may spend a little or a lot of time planning; however, it is completed without consideration for the larger picture and the needs of the other group or team. As a result, their planning efforts are minimally effective to accomplishing the overall goal.

Cooperative Teams

A Cooperative Team shares a common goal of getting projects completed together with other groups. When planning a project or task, a great deal of time is devoted to how the groups will work together to accomplish goals effectively and efficiently.