Participant Background…………………………………………………………………………………… 2
Pre-Exercise Lecture Description………………………………………………………… 3
Survival Exercise Outcomes………………………………………………………………………… 5
Description of Process During Survival Exercise………………… 5
Post Survival Exercise Evaluation……………………………………………………… 7
Connections Between Theory & Practice…………………………………………… 8
Consultant Recommendations to Management…………………………………… 11
References ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14
This group effectiveness intervention includes the background of the 13 participants from a major insurance firm who were given a pre-exercise lecture before participating in the Sub-arctic survival exercise. This analysis lists the outcomes of those exercises, including a description of the process and a post-survival evaluation and discussion. The results of this participation are reviewed using a bridge between theory and actual practice. A final section is an explanation of consultant recommendations based on the performance outcomes of the different teams and the behavior of their members.
The intervention participants consisted of 13 members from one company, a large insurance company called Hamilton, Ltd. While sharing their organization in common, all 13 members are from different geographic regions of the United States. On January 31, 2000, all 13 Hamilton employees were brought together to participate in an intervention on group effectiveness and teambuilding. The population is diverse because even though they are all on the same management level (supervisors of their respectiv...