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“We might all be successful if we followed the advice we give other people!”

~ Unknown

Search for the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine

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We Guarantee you'll approve!

"Dutchman" is a fast-paced simulation engaging teams in a journey to mine gold in the American Southwest. It's a great way for teams to experience issues of communication, resource management and team dynamics common to the workplace. During debriefing, team behaviours are linked to opportunities to improve collaboration, leadership, teamwork and communications critical to optimising results. Participative, visual and interactive it produces an excellent learning environment in a high-impact and memorable way.

Benefits include:

Plays in 2 hours, allowing debriefing in a morning or afternoon session.

Works with groups from about 12 to 500.

Clearly demonstrates the value of cross-functional/interdepartmental team development and process improvement.

Provides simple metaphors about how things really work.

Allows for powerful debriefings and interactive sessions.

Applications include:

Team building, innovation and creativity.

Leadership training and supervisory skills development.

Communications skills training (with optional links to personality styles, BelBin Team Roles, NLP, etc).

Continuous quality and service quality improvement.

Energising of existing quality programs and training.

It's a high-powered, fast-paced exercise with visual and kinaesthetic aspects making it an ideal tool for learning and organisational development.

We first acquired the game in early 2001. We wanted to use it with real groups for a while before we plugged it too solidly. We have now had plenty of experience with it and we can say that

VIRTUALLY EVERY TIME WE HAVE PLAYED IT WITH A GROUP IT HAS BEEN THE HIGHEST-RATED ASPECT OF THE PROGRAM!

It is still quite new in the Australian business environment. Why not consider it as part of your next Executive Retreat or team-building activity?

Our Guarantee

We like Lost Dutchman so much - and we're so sure that you will too - that we are prepared to offer an unequivocal money-back guarantee on the costs of running the game in your organisation (that's when we bring the game to you and run it in your organisation - there are some conditions, but you won't find these hard to swallow). Why not call us now and explore the possibilities?

Alternatively, you might prefer to purchase the game and run it yourself, using internal or other external trainers.

For more information about the game, check out the Square Wheels™ Website at http://www.squarewheels.com. While you're at it check out some of the other great simulations which Square Wheels guru Dr Scott Simmerman has developed and which we plan to progressively bring to Australia.

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