TEAM BUILDING FORMAT
Climbing Everest
The summit is in sight. The resources are not enough.
A simulated ascent, played at a table. Every stage demands a decision about resources, pace and risk — and the consequences appear two stages later, when you can no longer turn back.
Indoor
can be run in a meeting room
For managers
focused on decisions and priorities
Complexity
high
How it runs
- 1Teams receive the objective, the equipment and the time budget.
- 2At every camp they decide: climb, wait or turn back.
- 3Information arrives partial and late, exactly as in reality.
- 4At the end the teams compare routes and the decisions that made the difference.
What it trains
- +Decisions under pressure, with incomplete information
- +The courage to abandon an objective when the cost gets too high
- +Prioritising resources between urgent and important
- +Awareness of roles inside a leadership team
The part others skip
Every challenge ends with a structured conversation: what happened, who did what, what it resembles in your Monday work. Without that conversation, team building is entertainment and is forgotten in two weeks. With it, the team leaves with three written commitments about how it works from now on — and thirty days later we check whether they held.
Which team it makes sense for
Management teams and groups of leaders. It is the only format in the catalogue built specifically for people who make decisions rather than execute them.
What to know upfront
- ·Runs indoors, so it does not depend on the weather and can be organised quickly.
- ·Minimum duration is three hours — below that, the debrief has no room.
- ·Works very well combined with a day of leadership training.
Let's talk about your numbers.
30 minutes, free, no strings attached. Pick your slot straight from the calendar.
— Mihail