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Cave System Rescue™ | Crisis Management Training Activity
Cave System Rescue™ | Crisis Management Training Activity
A Northgate original activity that's all about managing a crisis, communicating, working as a team, prioritising and planning.
to highlight and practise the main elements of crisis management
the importance of having good communication skills
the need to establish the facts, set clear objectives, and prioritise
making decisions under pressure and putting together a plan of action
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£395
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 30-40 minutes + debrief
- Use F2F & Virtual
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 4
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard & Digital Copy
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Northgate says...
"Although we have made this activity into a learning activity, it is based on very real situations. It's all too easy up mountains or in caves to get caught out by the weather and Mountain Rescue and Cave Rescue teams - as well as the three emergency services - do a great job when these events do happen."
- Highlight and practise the main elements of crisis management
- The importance of having good communication skills
- The need to establish the facts, set clear objectives, and prioritise
- Making decisions under pressure and putting together a plan of action
- The need for a leader with vision and a dynamic, cohesive team
Ideally suited to:
Any management course where you want to look at teamwork or leadership as well as times when you want to put a group under pressure and see how they react. Ideal for examining a crisis management situation.
Each team has 4-6 participants (and you can have up to four teams per licence). Each member of the team has a Brief which is unique to them. They can communicate what is in the Brief verbally but cannot show their Brief to their fellow team members. The Briefs explain that participants are in a remote village that has been cut off from the outside world by a landslide. Torrential rain has made the nearby cave system (famous worldwide) in danger of flooding and there are several parties underground at this moment.
One team is well overdue; the other is trapped by a rockfall and one member of that team has got through to give the alarm. She explains that one of those trapped has a broken ankle. Participants are not playing roles - they are themselves, so it is unlikely they will have any special skills they can bring to the table. In this situation, what is the best approach to take? With limited equipment and little expertise, it also seems wrong to just wait for things to get better and help to arrive. Together, the participants must get to grips with the situation, decide on priorities and implement a feasible Action Plan.
A great test of teamwork as well as an opportunity to see if anyone reveals hidden leadership skills. Will someone take charge and push things through - and bring the team with them?
- Divide your group into teams, with 4-6 in each team.
- Introduce the activity briefly as a team activity and give a time frame. Do not go into
details about what is on the Briefs but indicate that the Briefs are different and can
only be shared verbally. - Put teams at separate tables or in breakout rooms if using virtually.
- Announce the time and tell teams they have 40 minutes for the task. You may want
to expand timing later if teams get very involved and you have time. - Visit teams to observe what is going on and what progress they are making. Are they in harmony? Are they sharing data well? Is a leader emerging or has one been elected?
- Stop the activity at the allotted time or when you judge it right.
- Start the debrief in a plenary session. Ask teams in turn to briefly report on how they approached the task and what their final decisions were on how to proceed. If time, allow each team to give a brief presentation running through their planning. Allow teams to quiz each other on their approaches.
- Finally, ask teams what key learning points – about themselves and their teamwork – they can take back to the workplace. A whiteboard, or flipchart, might be useful to summarise these points and, if appropriate, teams might draw up an Action Plan.
Hard & Digital Copy
- ☑️ Hard copy pack supplied
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
Digital Copy
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
- ❌ You will need to source: Post-it Notes
Full Contents
- Trainer’s Notes
- Trainer's PowerPoint
- Team Briefs 1-6 (four sets)
- Cave System Map
- Resources: Post-It Notes
This activity is for face-to-face or virtual classroom use. The digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
This Northgate Training activity comes with a five-year licence for repeat use with up to 24 participants at a time, for use by Trainers based at one licence-holding site.
All Trainers physically based at the same office location can access the Northgate resources during the five-year term, including the digital resources supplied on the Trainerhub via your own site-specific Trainer Dashboard. If you have Trainers based at other locations, and/or remote workers, who would like to access and use the Northgate resources, we can advise further depending on your requirements.
For further information on our licence terms please view the Northgate Licence Agreement.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Susy Roberts, Director, Hunter Roberts Consulting Ltd 'Cave System Rescue' went down very well with senior leaders and got really positive feedback. The group had so much fun one group had people in tears of laughter! The teams fed back that they had to think outside of the box and creatively - and it was excellent for debriefing on a number of areas we were working on including leadership v management, focus, cross-team communication, quick decision-making and prioritisation. In summary it was a very successful activity which the delegates really enjoyed.
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Nathalie Schneider, EMEA Retail Director, Dr Martens 'Cave System Rescue' was a really good teambuilding activity for my leadership team. Some of of the learning outcomes included defining the goal, the need to think before acting, listening and planning skills - and it was fun! I would recommend this training activity.
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Susy Roberts, Director, Hunter Roberts Consulting Ltd 'Cave System Rescue' went down very well with senior leaders and got really positive feedback. The group had so much fun one group had people in tears of laughter! The teams fed back that they had to think outside of the box and creatively - and it was excellent for debriefing on a number of areas we were working on including leadership v management, focus, cross-team communication, quick decision-making and prioritisation. In summary it was a very successful activity which the delegates really enjoyed.
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Nathalie Schneider, EMEA Retail Director, Dr Martens 'Cave System Rescue' was a really good teambuilding activity for my leadership team. Some of of the learning outcomes included defining the goal, the need to think before acting, listening and planning skills - and it was fun! I would recommend this training activity.