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How to Rob a Bank!™ | Team & Project Planning Training Activity
How to Rob a Bank!™ | Team & Project Planning Training Activity
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Teams must utilise all their project planning and teamwork skills to successfully plan to rob a bank!
to allow teams to plan a project
to take account of staffing issues (human resources)
to order other necessary resources (equipment)
to plan a schedule
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$578.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1.25 hours + debrief
- Use F2F & Virtual
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard & Digital Copy
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Northgate says...
"A great way to get teams involved and working together. The topic is fun, but the lessons about being organised when planning any project are timeless."
- Allows teams to plan a project
- Taking account of staffing issues (human resources)
- Ordering other necessary resources (equipment)
- Planning a schedule
- Costing the whole project and calculate ROI
- Carrying out risk assessment
Ideally suited to:
Any course where teamwork and planning is touched on. The activity also allows for presentations - testing ability to collate data, make a convincing case and deliver information succinctly.
All aspects of project planning are covered in this fun and stimulating activity. Teams must mastermind a bank robbery, recruiting the appropriate staff, purchasing the right equipment and ensuring it arrives on time.
At the start of the activity teams have already commissioned research on three likely banks. Armed with a diary, teams decide on which bank to go for and then plan their heist. They have already recruited a getaway driver, but they need a base from which to work from and to practice with the equipment before the robbery. A certain Mr Big will bankroll the project but he'll want his money back plus a cut of the loot. So teams have to calculate all the costs and come up with a profitable, viable plan. Obviously there are risks and these need to be identified and assessed.
Faced with a rather unscrupulous looking set of mugshots, teams must pick the three robbers who will carry out the robbery itself. They also need to employ a 'fence' to get rid of the loot and launder the proceeds. And finally, they need to work out how the money will be distributed once all costs have been taken into account, remembering that there is no honour among thieves.
Teams have a Planning Sheet enabling them to identify the main parts of the plan: general outline; start dates; working capital; payouts; profit; risk analysis; single major concern.
Teams work on presentations to a local anonymous specialist (the Trainer!) who will decide if their plan is viable or not.
- Introduce the activity with the PowerPoint or verbally.
- Divide the group into teams. Issue each team with a How to Rob a Bank folder. The folder gives all the necessary details that teams need in order to begin their planning.
- Observe teams at work and make notes for the Debrief. Have they understood the instructions; have they begun work on a schedule? Is someone doing the costings? Are they working well as an integrated team? Are they on schedule?
- If appropriate, allow teams time to prepare a presentation of their planning.
- Hear the presentations and check their Planning Sheets.
- Conduct the Debrief. Ask teams to review how they worked together and what the key lessons they learned were.
- Summarise the learning and relate to the key stages of project planning.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
Hard & Digital Copy
- ☑️ Hard copy pack supplied
- ☑️ PDFs & PowerPoint supplied
Digital Copy
- ☑️ PDFs & PowerPoint supplied
Contents
- Trainer's Notes
- Trainer's PowerPoint
- Team Folders with information on: Target Banks, Vital Information, Finance, Staffing, Diary Planner, Summary of Plan
- Set of Research Results
- Handout: 10 Key Points for Planning a Project
- Handout: What Makes Effective Workplace Teams?
- Optional Handout: Gantt Chart
This activity is for face-to-face and virtual classroom use. The digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
For further information on our licence terms, please contact us. We are here to assist you in enhancing your training initiatives and ensuring a seamless and hassle-free licensing experience.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Rob Chilcott, Learning & Development Manager, Claims Consortium Group 'How to Rob a Bank!' is a great activity! It gave valuable insights into the workings of a team and is especially relevant for dealing with complex tasks against a tight deadline. We will be using it again!
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Neil Porter, Training Specialist, Supervisory Development, BAPCO, Bahrain Northgate's 'How to Rob a Bank!' activity exceeded all of my expectations! We had a fabulous time and it did far more than I expected. I needed a learning exercise to test teams' leadership, motivational skills, analytical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and their ability to work as a team and this activity ticked all the boxes!
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Liz Purdy, HR Manager, Learning & Development, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council We used 'How to Rob a Bank!' for the first time and it worked really well! It’s a great exercise that helps to explain project planning in a fun way!
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Jon Davies, Managing Director, Get the Edge UK Training & Consultancy I used Northgate’s 'How to Rob a Bank!' in a project management course and it worked really well!
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Toby Smith, L&D Specialist, Epson Europe BV We used 'How to Rob a Bank!' on a teambuilding day for our recruitment team and they greatly enjoyed it! The teams performed well with varying degrees of success, with one team in particular getting excellent results, and there were great learnings in each case.
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