It is a powerful and proven team building event that plays with organizations of all kinds. The setting is modern-day Southwestern United States in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. Outfitted in Cowboy hats and colorful bandannas, teams go on a search for gold from the famous Lost Dutchman's Mine.
The exercise focuses on collaboration as its main outcome. It also links to issues of quality, leadership, systems, communications and a variety of other organizational issues. Team size is 5 or 6 people and there is no limit to the number of participants. We've successfully delivered sessions for groups of 8 and groups of 600, from 11-year olds at a YMCA to top managers at multinational corporations to shopfloor personnel in manufacturing plants to executive secretaries at international conferences.
It's outstanding for a highly interactive morning or afternoon event. In 3.5 to 4 hours, the group gets to play and then fully debrief the event and discuss real opportunities for improvement. It functions very well as a full-day conference within a conference or as a specific training event on team building, leadership and collaboration.
Please note that a more detailed and descriptive information is located on the main site. This exercise is highly interactive and takes advantage of color and graphics. If you find the materials on this page of interest, we strongly suggest you view those materials on that site.
go to MAIN Lost Dutchman Home Page
(If you continue to find this engaging and interesting, we strongly suggest you move to the MAIN pages of the site since they contain more extensive and updated information. There are intentially brief and tend to get a bit out of date <oops!> )
A partial list of our diverse clients includes:
Allstate Andersen Consulting American Airlines Georgia Hospital Association Robin Restall (Venezuela) Ralston Purina Rennaisance Strategies Rowan Cabarrus Community College OUM Associates R. C. Taylor Associates Nokia DBS Land (Singapore) Advantage Plus Group AGFA Division
of BayerAlan Welch & Associates Applebee's Asian Institute of Management
(The Philippines)BI Technologies Burlington Industries First Union Banking Corporation AT&T Hongkong Bank Duty Free Shoppers Hilton Head Hospital Isothermal Community College EDS Inchcape Pacific Emerson Electric Sacramento School District Burson Marsteller (Singapore) Compaq Old Kent Bank Hong Kong Education Department Fluor Daniel Hughes IBM J. Walter Thompson Jardine Pacific Walsh College Maxim Hughes National Productivity Institute (Pretoria) Kiawah Island Resort Pepsi Lucent SC DHEC Self Hospital (SC) Univ. of Wisconsin Tetra/Second Nature Singapore Education Ministry UPS Thomson Consumer Electronics Thermo Industries Success Sciences University of South Carolina Triad Consulting University of Michigan Xircom (Malaysia) Michaels McVinney Intellectual Capital Group Quest Learning (Malaysia) Quest Consulting (Hong Kong) Retirement Management Corp. Northland Baptist Bible College National Productivity Institute of South Africa Pitt County Hospital Harris Memorial Hospital MADRAS and Company Consultants Hong Kong Education Ministry Arkansas School Principal Leadership Academy
and hundreds of others. A more detailed list is available on the main pages (click here)
Page Links:
"Learning Applications and A Great Teaching Tool"
"About the Game" - contains a picture map of the game board and an explanation of play
Making Money with Lost Dutchman
Frequently Asked Questions (takes you to the MAIN Pages and links)
Main Graphics Home Page - contains other resources and articles
Contact Scott Simmerman for a question or more information at Scott@squarewheels.com