Assignment: Leadership and Team Simulation: Mount Everest
With the dramatic setting of a Mount Everest summit expedition, this award-winning team simulation teaches group dynamics and leadership. Students play one of 5 roles on a team of climbers. Teammates must share information to maximize group achievement and avoid the perils that threaten the group's ability to reach the summit and meet its goals.
Student Preparation
Students will be assigned to play one of 5 roles on a team of climbers. Students prepare for the climb by reviewing the How to Play tutorial and a short video from an actual Everest mountaineer. Next, they must carefully review their personal profiles and goals.
Learning Objective
To provide students a hands-on, interactive experience designed to demonstrate that ehre is no simple, straightforward formula for leading change. Learning objectives include:
1. Practicing diagnostic and action-planning skills with regard to leading organization-wide strategic change.
2. Gaining insight into why individuals and groups might resist change and how to overcome that resistance, including using social network information to develop a change implementation strategy.
3. Developing an appreciation for key contextual contingencies when implementing change.
4. Forming a better understanding of not only how to choose appropriate change strategies and tactics but also how to sequence them, given key contextual contingencies,
5. Identifying common missteps of change agents and how to avoid them.
Self-Assessment/Reflection Discussion
In these discussions, students will be expected to provide a thoughtful reflection about their experience and progress in the simulation. This may include (but not limited to) an assessment of their competence, or lack thereof, in handling a particular incident. Students may want to describe a specific learning outcome and/or a particular skill they need to work on and how they intend to tackle it - use examples to make your point.
Paper requirements: You will submit papers to the discussion board. Late papers will lose a letter grade (10%) for each day late. Papers should include:
• Post 2-3 paragraphs: Proofread papers before posting to the discussion board
• Use class Terminology: Demonstrate familiarity with class/text terms. Provide enough definition or context to show you are aware of its meaning.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.