Project Impossible
Ever been in this situation where your team’s goal completion is heavily dependable on another team’s effectiveness in their own function? It's not just about you and your team, it's a cross functional thing!
What you'll do
Project Impossible is played with 3 or 4 teams (according to needs & participants number) of 8-12 persons each. Teams represent a company with 3-4 business functions: Management, Marketing, Sales and/ or Operations. Each team/ function works on a different activity but the goal is common: implement all three (or four) activities in 3 minutes time- activities are timed one after the other and total time counts in.
The game is played in two sessions:
- Preparation session: 60-90 min are allowed for the teams to work on their respective activities and try to bring time down to less than a minute each. Sounds easy at first, but each team soon realizes that their respective activity, requires at least 20-30 minutes to implement. Changing the way they work, again & again till they attain their team’s goal is essential here, though nerves wrecking! Still, they soon realize that the common goal depends on every team's time, so they all have to share experiences and work again to press their time limit even lower.
- Implementation session (20-30 min): each team is timed in turns on their respective activities in front of everybody else. Intensity, anxiety & festive climate crown this final effort of the teams, proving them all that WORKING AS ONE is the cornerstone of every effective company!
The game is ideal for large or super large crowds, showing off that cross functional is king in everyday business!
