Hostage Rescue Exercise

Improves team building and decision making skills

An exciting team building and decision making simulation that is suitable for employees at all organizational levels. The scenario centers on a hostage taking situation by terrorists in a small third world country. Exercise participants take the role of a U.S. Department of State, Office of Security task team that has been assigned to help obtain the release of the hostages. A series of realistic situations confront the task team as it develops strategies aimed at freeing the hostages. In order for the participants to arrive at the correct“life and death” answers, they must not only sharpen their decision making skills but also work together as an effective team!

Detailed administration manual contains background information, administration and scoring instructions, theory and validated rationale for the correct answers. 

Requires only about 1 to 1.5 hours.

Fully reproducible masters of all participant and facilitator materials plus PowerPoint® slides.