What is Pumping the Colors®?

Pumping the Colors® is an active, hands-on team development simulation that challenges participants to execute a complicated task under conditions that require them to perform as a team.

This engaging and challenging business simulation is for all levels of intact or ad-hoc teams. It’s great for newly appointed teams as well as those who have been struggling for any length of time.

In this Team Development experience, participants will learn how to confront the pressures, limitations and challenges found in the work place. The same problems plaguing them in real life will be present in the simulation, but now they will be given tools to help them be successful. They will understand the need to address both task and process and how to measure progress on both. Participants will learn the seven characteristics of high performing teams and how to integrate them into their plans and outcomes.

Experiential learning – or ‘learning by doing’ – enables your people to absorb essential concepts and transfer them directly to their workplace in the form of changed behavior. Knowledge increased, but – vitally – also retained. They will practice, take risks and experiment with the new behaviors. During the simulation the facilitator uses a series of well planned interventions to ensure maximum understanding of the Seven Practices of High Performing Teams, how individual work preferences affect the team dynamic, and how to hold self-coaching team meetings. He or she then helps the team reset its standards and develop specific steps for meeting them.

Each team must plan, design and build a tri-colored fluid delivery system. In doing so, they perform all the complicated and high level tasks that challenge teams. They must negotiate for resources, develop and follow a schedule, ensure quality, bring the project in under budget, resolve conflicts, make difficult decisions under stress, and follow through by producing a finished product and training “the customer” to operate it.

Class size:
An unlimited number of people in groups of 6-10
Duration: 
Half day, full day, and one and a half day versions are available 

Certification is required to facilitate and Train-The-Trainer services are available.

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