| “Good
afternoon teams, my name is Carlos, AKA Agent 75 of Spy Inc, we work with the
government, not for the Government. In times of crisis we call upon ordinary citizens
to undergo extraordinary missions…Today is your day! Here’s your Spy
Case and your Mission Access Code. Your mission will be delivered via
our secure online site. The rest is up to you. Good luck teams you have 3 hours.” What is Spy
Inc?
SPY INC is a unique,
fun, and interactive team development event, designed to test any team's planning,
delegation, communication and time management skills, in a creative learning environment. Where and
how do I play?
SPY
INC can be carried out from anywhere; offices, hotels, restaurants or even Trafalgar Square, London. After a short mission brief by Agent 75 the
game starts by teams logging on from any computer with internet access to our
secret spy website for a mission briefing. This brief outlines the scenario, objectives
and gives relevant advice and clues. Logging onto the website also manages the
team’s time by starting the mission clock which can only be stopped by entering
the correct mission solution code - the overall objective of the mission. Teams
are then required to take part in the mission at a nearby location by finding
and exchanging information with other secret agents on the ground and completing
mini missions.
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Spy? Mini Missions
When a team makes a rendezvous with our spy agent
they complete a spy-exchange and are given a mini mission in return. Quite often
these are simple tasks that exercise the teams reasoning, planning, delegation
and communication skills. For example, a decoder task requires the team to identify
eight specific locations, once identified, the location names fill a code breaker
box and decode a message. The question is, do the team plan this task, delegate
specific roles to each other, or does one individual take the lead and the others
just follow? In other words how do they manage their team and time remaining to
complete the task efficiently? The Real
Mission Objective
Spy Inc is fun, but the real objective is to
present a problem which delegates can resolve as a team, but also to understand
and utilise the skills they implemented to combat the problem back in the workplace.
If full facilitation is required then from this training example, we can establish
a structure upon which the delegates can build and measure their own performance.
Or they can simply play for the fun of it! Spy Inc – the game for anytime,
anyplace, anywhere! |
