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Desert SurvivalTeam Decision Exercise
Your truck dies in open desert, leaving the team to manage heat, water, shade, signals, and a shifting route.
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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.
Hot, sparse, and tacticalMediumcritical thinking
Sample items
GPS device and backup compass
SPF 50+ sunscreen lotion
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: critical thinking, assumption checking, teams that like practical tradeoffs
What teams debate: Water, shade, signaling, and the danger of acting too quickly.
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 inDesert Survival
Beat the Heat
SPF 50+ sunscreen lotion
VS
Magnetic compass
VS
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.