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	Acres of Diamonds Within the Acres of Diamonds workshop, the participants mine their individual experiences to unearth the values and motivations that they then translate to commitment to team and organizational purpose and mission. This three or six-hour facilitated program leaves them with seven Diamonds that will be used at the workshop (and/or can be taken back to their workplace) to spontaneously reward others as they put their values into action. Acres of Diamonds is a profound, fun and lasting experience that puts your organization's values into action through the participants at the workshop and bonds them as individuals and colleagues.

	Alien Contact In the world of Alien Contact, the strength of your relationships may hold the key to survival! Racing against time, participants explore this strange and peril-filled world. They race to an expandable set (depending on participant numbers) of different destinations in hope of having 'the right stuff' to crack the code. Why do some people and groups know how to consistently move past hurdles and leverage opportunities, while others are consistently hitting their heads against a wall? How have the relationships they have formed and deepened add to or detract from their eventual level of success?

	Aquanauts This powerful simulation experience leaves participants more than ready to plunge into significant discussions on how systems work and affect their performance; and how they can move themselves and their organizations forward. Participants immersed inside The Aquanauts have said that many days, weeks, and even months later, they were still uncovering insights that make a significant difference to them back on the job.

	BridgeTown - Building the Bridges of Process Improvement - Participants in BridgeTown are assigned to key roles within their own bridge-building teams. The four project teams will each build one of the four required bridges. The bridges are evaluated according to prescribed measurements related to: Safety, Time of Completion, Financial Costs and Benefits, and Appearance. Each project team is given the opportunity to build their bridge three times. Each building project brings with it higher expectations from Mayor Span, as well as from higher industry benchmarks and competitive standards.

	Confederacy of Stars The Confederacy of Stars is designed to provide participants with an engaging learning environment based on many elements of today's challenging business and organizational life. Through a series of one to five half-day interconnected, simulated, and strangely different worlds, participants are challenged to develop and hone key managerial, leadership and teaming skills. The value of each of the five experiences is maximized through facilitated group debriefs. Participants draw key insights from their experience which translate back to real-life application.

	First Light First Light is a dramatic, team-based experience that plunges participants into a world of risks, potential rewards, challenges and time-driven tension. The mission is to explore the First Light universe and collect rare and valuable resources. At the same time, teams must conserve their limited resources and escape the universe before it collapses. One of the biggest challenges is that they don't know when this might happen. Participants are challenged to plan and execute strategy in an extremely ambiguous environment.

	Imagination The Imagination Lab is a three-hour, interactive, creative and productive team creativity lab. Suitable for either individual or intact teams, this lab is designed to set the stage for innovation breakthrough! The Imagination Lab involves participants learning and immediately applying ‘Imagination Thinking’ to their own issues. They use ‘Imagination Tools’ to create opportunities for themselves, their teams and their company. The lab can be used off the shelf, or it can be customized to fit the specific needs of each client. The exercises are enjoyable and engaging and are built from significant longitudinal, organizational research with a focus on practically applied creativity, innovation and differentiation.

	Gemstones™ Gemstones is a profound learning intervention that offers rich insights for participants in a remarkably brief time. It creates an engaging, hands-on environment where paying attention to relationships and strategy are the keys to overall success. This activity culminates in a deep, interactive debrief that touches on communication, problem solving and decision-making, trust, strategy and breakthrough thinking.

	Impact Experience™ The Impact Experience™ is an exper!ence it inc. proprietary product and process that transforms learning from one or all of your training courses into measurable aligned, organizational impact!

	Infinity Inc. We invite you to witness the birth of Infinity Inc., a virtual company that is a global leader in manufacturing and marketing of major home appliances. Participants enter the simulated world under the guidance and counsel of a butler, skilled facilitator and servant leader, who initiates the first assignment of role selection for each of the teams that will compete with each other within the Infinity Inc. organization. Who will step forward and take the helm as Chief Transformation Officer? Who will challenge themselves by accepting a role that is the polar opposite of their real life role?

	Journey Home The Journey Home is a half-day interactive, team-based simulation that provides participants with a powerful and relevant learning experience. It is Star Date 3000 AD and a squadron of Starships is engaged in a race against time to save Earth. Following the Journey Home ‘mission’ the debrief sets the stage for exploring and applying teamwork and leadership lessons.

	Maxx Performance Entertainment Inc. The Maxx Entertainment business simulation is an extended learning experience where participants join a fictional company, Maxx Entertainment Inc. in a designated role that will immerse the learner in a competitive world where customers, shareholders and employees have and make choices that affect the results of the company.

	Oak Island This swashbuckling adventure simulation puts you back into the early 1700's in the role of a pirate searching for the hidden treasure on a mysterious island known as Oak. The Lost Treasure of Oak Island simulation (props & costuming included) will put people inside the real-life pirate mystery of Oak Island. They will not have enough information, time, money or resources (just like the work place.) Participants will have to make decisions and face 'dangerous' outcomes! The experiential process will reveal many ingrained decision making habits. The debriefing will focus on using this self-knowledge to improve the use of limited resources and information to make better decisions around resource allocation, measuring risk and reward, and choosing among competing alternatives. The ghost of Captain Kidd challenges you at every turn.

	Planet X …the most challenging and real sales and marketing experience in the universe Planet X is a powerful, dramatic, challenging, competitive and real sales and marketing experience. The business teams and the customers become very clear about which sales approaches work in the short and long term, what makes the customer stay with a relationship and what can be applied to their own sales and marketing teams back on Planet Earth.

	Project Delta The EHS Leadership Simulation that is changing the way that Leadership and EHS are taught around the world. The ultimate aim of this three-day program is to reduce workplace environmental mishaps, accidents and incidents by engaging leaders in prevention. This experience immerses participants in a real-life, competitive business simulation.

	The Assignment David Allen’s New York Times bestselling book "Getting Things Done" is brought to life in a powerful, personal productivity simulation. Discover and master the methods to vastly increase your individual organization, productivity, effectiveness and creative results – at work and in life. This simulated world moves teams, who are pitted against each other, through the chaos and confusion of incomplete tasks, to a state of productive order where people are ‘getting things done’!

	The Idea Factory Creating a culture sustainable of innovation; any team, any time, anywhere. Developed with the aid of several expert partners in the field of innovation, The Idea Factory delivers on every sensory level. In this innovation program, a group of anthropology students stumbles upon the remains of the once great Idea Factory. Once they open the dusty trunk, something magical happens.

	The Sales Championship™ The world’s greatest competitive learning experience for sales leaders and professionals. The Sales Championship is a unique, reality-based learning simulation that provides a highly competitive and inspiring sales performance development experience. experience it and Optime International have partnered together to deliver this event for your company on a regional, national or global basis.

	The Sales Championship II™ What do you do when 93% of participants rate your program as the most engaging, inspiring and impact-laden sales training experience ever? You challenge yourself to blow it out of the water by designing the most comprehensive, deep-drill sales simulation ever. Welcome to the Sales Championship II™.

	Transition to Impact Transition to Impact! is a dynamic, two day program which provides a ‘launching pad’ for intact leadership teams to develop aligned strategic plans, and to lay the cultural tracks for engaging employee commitment. Transition to Impact! creates context, shared understanding and commitment across the team, provides guidance and direction to enable individual team members to make a significant contribution, and generates aligned action plans for achieving the strategic plan.

	Tyranny of Numbers With the right people doing the right work at the right time and place, you can quickly adjust to ever changing conditions and provide impeccable customer service while operating at your most efficient. That’s what The Tyranny of Numbers: The Workplace Revolution Simulation is all about. It’s a unique and stimulating business simulation that dramatically demonstrates the benefits you can achieve through work process redesign. You will learn to do more with less and do it better.

	Virtual Co. Are you a manager who focuses on individuals or are you a leader who focuses on universals? Imagine that you’ve just received 40 e-mails, some of which are marked urgent and some of which actually are urgent. Furthermore, imagine you have half an hour to sort the e-mails and provide appropriate responses. That is the task facing managers and aspiring leaders when they participate in this virtual simulation. The exercise sets the stage for a rich conversation about what it means to be a leader versus a manager.

	Walk Softly and Carry a Big idea! Finding Balance, Meaning and Purpose in Work and Life This experience is based on the lessons from the book Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea! By Don Jones. Each participant receives and reads a copy of the book prior to the program and together with a facilitator explores the ways that these lessons can make a difference to our work and lives. This story is about the profound personal and professional challenges we face on the job managing and leading ourselves first and others next; and the challenges we face at home giving of ourselves for others. And it is about balancing the two. It is about the soft skills that make the hard differences. It is the story about one person’s movement from chaos to clarity, from isolation to connection, from fear to courage and ultimately toward meaning. It is a story about imagination and about seeing through a child’s eyes again, and it is about letting another side of ourselves help guide us. Ultimately it is a story about finding within yourself the unique gifts and talents that you do have, were meant to find within yourself, and were meant for you to bring forth for those you work with, lead and love.

	World View World View offers participants the opportunity to experience and confront some of the most challenging elements of organizational life: change, alignment, leveraging shared history and diversity.