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Miniature Lab EscapeTeam Decision Exercise
Reduced to 15 mm on a laboratory workbench, your team must turn ordinary desk objects into a route to the restore control before decontamination begins.
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Use this high-stakes survival scenario to give the group one structured decision. Every team must explain priorities, work through disagreement, and reach one shared ranking before the reveal.
Inventive and technicalMedium-highworkplace teams
Sample items
Pencil
Rubber band
Teams debate the value of 9 items and lock in one shared ranking. The reveal compares their choices with the scenario's reference ranking, giving the facilitator concrete material for a debrief about priorities, persuasion, changing minds, and consensus.
Best for: workplace teams, innovation workshops, groups that enjoy reframing familiar tools
What teams debate: Object geometry, attachment, route choices, and the effort required to use familiar materials at a different scale.
Debrief prompts
- Which item created the strongest disagreement?
- What assumption did the team make too quickly?
- Who changed their mind during the discussion?
- Did the team optimize for safety, speed, rescue, or certainty?
- What would you do differently in a real group decision?
Which would you keep inMiniature Lab Escape
Reach the Restore Control
Rubber band
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Coin
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In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items
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These matchups are just a taste. In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items, compares its choices with the reference, and revisits the reasoning behind them.