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Time: 2 hours (includes debrief)
Delivery format: in-person
Group Size: 6-50 people
Top 5 Lessons: Strategic Choices, Trust, Collaboration vs Competition, Systems Thinking, Teamwork, Leadership, Working Across Silos
You are buying: physical materials to run the simulation, a ppt file, and a spreadsheet to track results
Several fishing boats are all challenged to “catch as many fish as possible.” To do this, the teams request their desired amount from the marine authority (you) over several rounds. Participants often begin by stockpiling resources without considering long-term consequences. Although they know the resource is limited, they typically fail to manage it carefully. Instead, they request too much over too many rounds, inadvertently causing the system to stop regenerating the resource, and everyone loses access to it. If teams act with foresight and take a holistic view of their situation, however, they can coordinate their actions to keep the resources in circulation for far longer. They may even be able to move from scarcity to abundance. Can they meet the demands of today without jeopardizing the supply of tomorrow? Will they maximize their own results and overfish the area, or play nice together? The Cost of the Catch is an exercise in trust, sustainability, decision making and systems thinking. It illustrates how decisions about finite resources can have long-lasting implications for everyone.
Time: 2 hours (includes debrief)
Delivery format: in-person
Group Size: 6-50 people
Top 5 Lessons: Strategic Choices, Trust, Collaboration vs Competition, Systems Thinking, Teamwork, Leadership, Working Across Silos
You are buying: physical materials to run the simulation, a ppt file, and a spreadsheet to track results
Several fishing boats are all challenged to “catch as many fish as possible.” To do this, the teams request their desired amount from the marine authority (you) over several rounds. Participants often begin by stockpiling resources without considering long-term consequences. Although they know the resource is limited, they typically fail to manage it carefully. Instead, they request too much over too many rounds, inadvertently causing the system to stop regenerating the resource, and everyone loses access to it. If teams act with foresight and take a holistic view of their situation, however, they can coordinate their actions to keep the resources in circulation for far longer. They may even be able to move from scarcity to abundance. Can they meet the demands of today without jeopardizing the supply of tomorrow? Will they maximize their own results and overfish the area, or play nice together? The Cost of the Catch is an exercise in trust, sustainability, decision making and systems thinking. It illustrates how decisions about finite resources can have long-lasting implications for everyone.