What will they learn? 

StarPower helps participants:

• Understand that power must have a legitimate basis to be effective
• See and feel the effect of disempowerment
• Realize that sharing power can increase it while hoarding or abusing power can
  diminish it
• Understand the effect that systems can have on power
  
• Be aware of how tempting it is for well-intentioned people to abuse power
• Understand that there are different kinds of power
  
• Personally experience and discuss the excitement of power and the despair of
  powerlessness

As part of management training, StarPower illustrates how power affects performance,
motivation and behavior. In diversity training, StarPower provokes discussion surrounding bias and gender, and helps examine how power manifests itself within a diverse organization.

StarPower participants are challenged to progress from one level of society to another by acquiring wealth through trading with others. The first two rounds are very sociable. People are laughing, talking, and having a good time exchanging chips. Then the wealthiest group gains power.

Barriers spring up between the various levels of the society. Communication gets strained. The group that has the power often tries to protect their power through illegitimate means. The others respond by giving up, organizing, or overthrowing the power group. After the simulation winds down, participants discuss power in safe, yet revealing, ways.

Who should attend: 
Many companies use StarPower as an introduction for multiple day workshops on management skills, team building or leadership training. StarPower is also used in cultural diversity programs, management training for junior managers on the "fast track," and in training on the proper use of power for factory workers, managers, and executives.  
Class size:
A minimum of 18 participants and as many as 35.
Duration: 
StarPower is a strong half-day format. We recommend two to three hours for this simulation — a minimum of one and a half hours for the simulation and at least a half hour for discussion.   

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