Speaker 1: Team exercise 48. Decision making. During the exercise the team will sit in a circle. You tell the team that their airplane just crashed on an uninhabited island and that the airplane will explode within 10 minutes. In the airplane there are 15 objects of which 3 objects can be taken out of the airplane. Before the exercise you've written down the names of the objects on pieces of paper and places them in the middle of the circle. A box of matches. A crate of beer. 12 bottles of water. 5 warm sweaters. First aid kit. Transistor radio. An axe. A gun with 20 bullets. A bag with 25 magazines. Inflatable lifeboat for 4 persons. Compass. Anti-insect spray. Sewing kit. Flashlight. And a bag with 5 big blankets. Within 10 minutes the team has to unanimously decide which 3 objects will be taken out of the airplane. Tell them that if they don't make a unanimous decision the airplane will crash and they have nothing at all. In this case someone pleads to get the gun and the crate of beer. With the gun we can hunt so we can eat and keep ourselves alive. We break the bottles of beer and use them to defend ourselves in case wild animals are attacking us. Someone else says I agree with the bottles of beer but certainly I want to take the bottles of water. We can drink them and then use the empty bottles to make a net float on the ocean. We can make a net of braid grass. Prick it into the bottom of the sea with the beer bottles and on the upper side of the net we hang the empty water bottles. This way we can catch fish. I want to take the transistor radio another participant says. Maybe someone catches the signals we can send with it. Our mutual goal is to get home not to stay here and make our lives here comfortable. After 10 minutes the team has to make a unanimous decision of which 3 objects they take. In this case the beer bottles, the transistor radio and the matches. Now you tell the team that they made a good choice and that they are living safe for a few weeks on the island. And luckily they are spotted by an airplane which lands and takes all the participants. But when the participants are in the airplane on their way home it turns out the airplane is almost out of kerosene and that next to the pilot only one participant can stay in the airplane otherwise no one will survive. In this case 4 people have to sacrifice themselves by jumping out of the airplane. The participants has to decide unanimously which of them can stay in the airplane. They have to make a decision within 10 minutes otherwise the airplane will crash and no participant will survive. Tell the team you can plea for yourself but you can also plea that someone else should be the survivor. One participant thinks he should stay. I am the father of 5 children so I have the most right to survive. Nonsense someone says. I think Rachel has to survive because she is a great piano player and makes thousands of people happy with her talent so she will be the biggest loss. I am the youngest another participant says so if I can stay in the airplane and survive statistically we win the most years. You as a trainer increases the pressure by telling the team each minute how much minutes they have left until a unanimous decision has to be made. 3 minutes left. Annabelle has to survive someone says. She hasn't said a word yet and has definitely the smallest ego so therefore she is a person who will be there for others in the future in contrast to the rest of us. 1 minute left. Annabelle just has one child says Christy. I have 3 children and 2 grandchildren. You are 64 says Paul. Annabelle is 24. 10 seconds left. Ok I agree says Christy. Annabelle can stay and the rest also agrees that Annabelle can stay in the airplane. Now the team has made a unanimous decision you tell them the pilot has discovered another can of kerosene so everyone can stay and will be home safe. Now the team will evaluate. Was it easy to come to a unanimous decision together? What worked and what didn't? Who took the lead and who preferred to be leaded? How can you make a decision even faster without losing the quality of the decision? The trainer guides the team and applies variations to the exercise. What kind of variations you can read below this video on Youtube. And haven't you subscribed yet? Click on the subscribe button to stay tuned for a new team exercise each Sunday on Youtube.com slash team exercises to improve cooperation and communication.