Team Building and Development
What do history games offer?
Testing the team in a fairly pressured, but safe, environment. The advantage of an informal environment like an historical crisis simulation is that 'mistakes' made here do not reflect directly on the real world - leaving the participants and the organisation to reflect more impartially on their performance
   
Experience of working with colleagues in a new environment. We find this often gives participants an insight into their performance and encourage fresh networks within the organisation through the common experience of the simulation.
   
The simulation can be used as the basis for further psychometric or developmental analysis of team working (particularly when teams in the simulation are mapped onto real-life work teams).
   
Because the whole experience is built around teams it is, virtually by definition, a team-building experience. This happens on two levels - first, within the teams as set out in the simulation working together intensively for a day - and secondly the shared experience of the crisis simulation itself by all the participants. We are told time and again that the depth of the Past Perspectives experience is memorable, and although challenging, is also very enjoyable.
   
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