Seven Seas Quest and Buccaneer

Quest and Buccaneer are two "sister" team building games 

packaged on one cd for one price. 

Your purchase gives you:

• The ability to use both exercises for an unlimited number of teams of 5 or 6 people.
• A great value for trainers and consultants looking for an interactive half-day workshop on team building.
• Proven exercises effective in dozens of training situations.
• A solid design for interactive learning.

With the purchase of The Quest/Buccaneer Exercise, you will be able to download both exercises upon completion of your purchase transaction plus receive free email or telephone support, any time.

of the medicines to fight the plague.

In both games, teams have sufficient but limited resources for sailing to the islands and back. All the teams are

successful, but some are more successful than others. And, what is emphasized is the overall results of the group

rather than individual teams.

Quest and Buccaneer are great programs that are fun, engaging, and easily accessorized with themes of sailing and

the islands. 

They play fast and furious and the framework allows a great deal of collaboration between teams in a theme of

optimizatizing the results of the expedition.

Their look and feel is intentionally similar to our flagship exercise, "The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold

Mine." The main game frame was designed by Mike Robinson and Scott Simmerman to be a follow-on exercise to

Lost Dutchman but the games have evolved to stand on their own as great programs with nautical themes.

What is valuable is how effective the exercises are in generating insights and discussions about the choices that

people make and the issues surrounding leadership. Their simplicity makes the issues of systems and processes for

communication and information-sharing very obvious. Thus, they link well to organizational change issues, Total

Quality Management or Six Sigma, etc. As in Dutchman, they have a strong shared vision and demonstrate the

benefits of planning and collaboration.

For accessorizing, they are wonderful. You can have team members outfit themselves in paper Pirate Hats that

they construct (instructions included!) or you can assemble a wide variety of accessories such as seashells, leis,

and other colorful island flourishes.

Both are designed with strong debriefing possibilities. They are excellent for demonstrating learning principles of

leadership, motivation, collaboration and communications.

If you have delivered Dutchman to a group and need a good follow-up activity, Quest or Buccaneer work

extremely well. While they are similar, it has been our experience that repeating the messages of leadership,

collaboration and communications has a high impact. When players use some of the strategies they learned from

Dutchman, they can clearly see the benefits of collaboration and the need for having solid systems and processes

for moving information among the teams as essential to the strategy of optimization.

Bundled together on one cd for either transparency or multimedia presentation, including instructions and files for 

printing colored forms and other resources, you pay a one-time only cost of $895. The theme of Saving The World

works well for hospitals, for example, and sales groups enjoy the aggressive pirating theme. Overall, these are 

SOLID simulations, easily accessorized that work beautifully around issues of systems and processes for 

organizational improvement.