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Online Workstations

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£15.00  
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Learning Focus

  • Collaboration
  • Effective Communication
  • Knowledge Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Teambuilding

Group Size

6 - 14
4 - 20

Duration

20-40 Minutes

Online Workstations is a popular and challenging virtual team problem solving game with powerful messages about managing team communication - teams need to create a process to manage and categorise individual contributions and shared understanding.
This purchase also includes free access during the licence term for an additional online activity: Celtic Cross.

All communication is verbal; strategic thinking skills are essential. Each participant is provided with a link to view their individual task information contained on images of playing cards.

This is a perfect early team exercise or ice-breaker to establish how a team works together and is ideal for groups not previously experienced in working together. 

Online Workstations is delivered via the secure and easy to whitelist portal at experientiallearningtools.com and can work alongside any online meeting provider such as Zoom, MS Teams, Meet etc.

This exercise demands both task and group leadership. It also requires critical thinking - simply sharing the information will not uncover the answers. Instead the information contained on each information card must be combined, and then used to deduce the answers to the two questions posed. This allows the group to be involved in a significant team-problem solving activity, and quickly mirror problems that real-life teams face in the workplace.

The annual product licence provides for unlimited use for groups of up to 20 people.

Click on the right to view a demonstration of Online Workstations.

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  • Virtual Team Icebreaker Activity
  • Improve Virtual Teamworking Skills
  • Practice Managing Information & Communication in a Virtual Environment
  • Provide Opportunities to Use Distributed Information to Solve Problems 
  • Build Strategic Thinking Skills
  • Improve Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills
  • Build Online Team Communication Skills

Online Workstations is easy to set-up and adapt at the last minute to accommodate any changes in participant numbers. A draft session is initially created, which can be adjusted when the participant group is finally confirmed - either by automatic email distribution or via individual participant links.

Online Workstations offers a good, practical illustration of team roles in action and can be successfully linked to work on effective team performance eg. using the Belbin Team Role model, or individual personality, thinking preference or other individual profiling tools.

The team members are required to share information verbally in order to solve a 'matrix puzzle' - a process of information sharing, elimination and logic. The difficulty comes in not being able to see the other participant's cards - the group must identify other ways of remembering and sorting key information. The matrix involves the names of five people, the jobs they do, the places they work, the vehicles they drive and their lunch preferences. Even when all the information is shared there still needs to be some critical thinking employed to determine the task solutions!

This is a challenging activity and most groups will take at least 20 minutes to complete it - all the information on all 30 x image links distributed is relevant so each team member must play a part. However even after sharing all the information, the group must use all of this along with some critical thinking to complete the matrix and reveal answers to the two key questions: 'Who goes to a cafe for lunch?', and 'Who drives a Ford?'

Workstations is also available as a physical playing card-based product for those who want to work in person or in a hybrid situation (some in person and some working remotely) , or for an entirely virtual session.

If you wish to have us to provide extra support or individualised training for a group of facilitators on using this product, then please  Purchase the one hour Product Coaching Support package.

A single annual product licence for delivery via the online platform at experientiallearningtools.com with access to all product-based video and written Articles relating to setting up, administering and reviewing the online activity, for both Online Workstations and Celtic Cross activities.  

Unlimited use of these activities within the 12 month licence term from the date of purchase, and use of all materials included for any individual single learner group of up to 20 learners (included with each user licence). The ability to add a second user (producer/trainer) to manage the activity set-up and/or delivery.

Free access and use of all the facilitator support Articles within the platform during the licence term.

Multiple learner groups using the activity at the same time will require multiple user licences. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Login/Access details for the online experientiallearningtools.com platform will be sent by a separate email to the purchaser's email address.

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