Survival Simulation Series
Build Better Teamwork, Decision Making and Problem Solving
Imagine this. Your team has crash landed. You are stranded. You have limited supplies, competing ideas, and a fast decision to make.
Now the real challenge begins.
The Survival Simulation Series throws teams into engaging survival scenarios where success depends not on technical expertise, but on how well people work together. It quickly reveals how teams communicate, solve problems, influence one another, and make decisions when the pressure is on.
Fun, immersive, and packed with insight, these simulations give teams a shared experience that brings people together while building stronger team dynamics, better judgement, and more effective ways of working back on the job.
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Improve Team Decision Making
Strengthen Problem Solving
Build Constructive Team Dynamics
Create a Shared Language for Teams
Why Use Survival Simulations
When teams are under pressure, their patterns become clear. Who jumps in first. Who influences the conversation. How disagreement is handled. How decisions get made. And whether the team creates real synergy or simply settles for compromise.
That is what makes the Survival Simulation Series so powerful and so enjoyable.
These engaging, high energy simulations give teams a fun, shared experience while revealing the dynamics that shape performance. As participants work through a structured survival challenge, they see first hand how team behaviour affects outcomes, from communication and participation to problem solving and decision making.
It is a practical, low risk way to bring people together, spark meaningful conversation, and build momentum. That makes it ideal not only for team development, but also as a great way to kick off a conference, offsite, or leadership event with energy and purpose.
Improve Team Decision Making
Help teams weigh information, test assumptions, and make better decisions together rather than relying on hierarchy, habit, or the loudest voice.
Strengthen Problem Solving
Give teams a practical challenge that sharpens thinking, encourages participation, and reveals what helps or hinders effective problem solving.
Reveal Real Team Dynamics
Understand how your thinking and behaviour influences leadership effectiveness, performance, and relationships. Awareness is the first step toward growth.
A Shared Language for Team Effectiveness
When paired with the Group Styles Inventory® and the Circumplex®, the simulation gives teams practical language for understanding what supports or limits performance.
A Survival Simulation is powerful on its own.
Paired with the Group Styles Inventory® (GSI), it becomes even more valuable.
The simulation gives teams a shared experience. The GSI helps them understand what happened and why.
Together, they help teams identify the thinking and behavioural patterns that strengthen or limit effectiveness, using the 12 styles of the Human Synergistics Circumplex® as a practical framework for reflection and action. That connection is clearly reinforced in your internal workshop material.
The Survival Simulation Series includes a range of engaging scenarios that can be used in team workshops, development programs, offsites, and facilitated sessions.
Subarctic Survival Situation™
A classic team challenge in which participants must agree on which salvaged items will be most important to survival after a crash landing in the sub-arctic. Your internal material already uses this scenario to develop team behaviour, group decision making, and problem solving.
Desert Survival Situation™
A well known problem solving simulation that highlights the value of participation, collaboration, and shared reasoning.
Bushfire, Reef, Tsunami and Cascades scenarios
Alternative survival settings that offer the same core developmental value while giving facilitators flexibility for different team contexts.
Who It's For:
Leadership Teams
For leaders who need to work as a genuine team, not just a group of capable individuals.
Cross-functional Teams
For teams that depend on collaboration, sound judgement, and shared ownership.
New Teams
To establish constructive norms early and introduce the value of synergy.
Established Teams
To reset patterns, improve decision making, and strengthen how the team works together.
Working with Us
Human Synergistics helps teams go beyond team building activities that are engaging in the moment but disconnected from real workplace performance.
Our approach connects practical experiences with proven diagnostic frameworks, giving teams the insight, language, and direction to improve how they work together.
That means stronger reflection, more meaningful conversations, and clearer actions that support better team performance.
Ready to build a more effective team?
If your team needs to improve decision-making, strengthen collaboration, and solve problems more effectively, the Survival Simulation Series is a powerful place to start.
