Leadership Exercise Pages

Settinng up One jigsaw is to have the pieces numbered as in the diagram below. Leave the other puzzle blank. Put all the pieces of both puzzles into one box but provide the leader with the two puzzles.

• Objective - To assemble the two different jigsaw puzzles.
• Exercise Constraints - There is a time limit of 20 minutes.

Leader's Brief
The task is to assemble two different jigsaw puzzles which are all mixed up in one box. You have four assistants to help you. You have 20 minutes to complete this. Some of the pieces are numbered. Please do not mark the pieces. There are no tricks - that is to say both puzzles are complete. If time runs short it is better to complete one puzzle rather than have two incomplete ones.

Settinng up The exercise needs to be conducted on a large table with all the equipment readily available in a container.
Sellotape, pins, paper clips, magic marker, stapler, paper
Task

• Objective - To mark up and index in a suitable manner all the adverts and cartoons in the two magazines dealing with smoking and drinking.
• Exercise Constraints
  • a time of 20 minutes is allowed to complete the task.
  • Just before completion of the task the leader is to recieve the following message from his Director's Secretary :- "the Director has gone to his meeting without his copies". He says "Thanks anyway".

Leader's Brief
You are a PA to the Sales Director of an Advertising Agency. Your boss is going to a meeting at the office of an important client whose company is considering diversifying into drink and tobacco. The client however, is concerned at the number and range of advertisements already appearing for competing brands of drink and tobacco; he is also worried at the image conveyed by cartoons showing the hazard to health of drinking and smoking. For this reason your director has asked you to get two back copies of a typical magazine. He wants you to get four people from the outside office to help you mark up and index in a suitable manner all the adverts and cartoons dealing with drinking and smoking. You have just discovered all the office copies of ..... have been torn up and thrown in the waste paper basket. Your boss says this is not so important provided the magazines are assembled in correct page order (so that the position of the adverts and cartoons is readily apparent). You are not very pleased. You do not know the 4 members of staff you have gathered but you guess they are not likely to be pleased either. Neverheless your boss wants you back in his office in 20 mins, with the task completed, so that he can take the magazines with him to the meeting.

Settinng up The exercise needs to be conducted on a large table. All the equipment and the modle parts should be in one box. The model can be assembled without using paper glue or sellotape. On completion of the exercise the model should be dismantled ready for use again.
Task

• Objective - To prepare written instructions for the assembly of the model supported by an exploded diagram.
• Exercise Constraints
  • A time of 25 minutes is allowed from the completion of the staff brief to the leader.
  • The written instructions must be legable

Leader's Brief
You are the assistant of a inventor/business man. Your boss recently invented AIRFIX models. His prototypes along with the instructions for assembly have just arrived back from the Research and Development section of the firm. Later on today your boss is launching the idea of scale models at a sales conference. His key to success lies in his convincing the meeting how easy the model instructions are to follow. You know from the diary that at this moment your boss is on the way back from the Managing Director's house where he has had a pre-sales conference meeting. You can only hope that the son of the managing director has behaved himself for he is notorious for mischief. Suddenly the office door bursts open and in strides the boss. "Curse the brat. He somehow managed to get at the model during my discussions with the MD. Not only has he mixed the pieces up, but he has also cut up all the instructions. Fortunately, he's cut the shapes of the model out of the instructions, but the little so and so has eaten the written parts of the instructions. The confrence is at 13:30 this afternoon so we have got some time to rectify the problem. What I want you to do is to work out how to assemble the model and then prepare written instructions and an exploded numbered diagram. I can only give you 25 minutes as the drawing office needs the rest of the time available to produce new drawings/ instructions from your draft. I've made a start and stuck all the pieces onto a piece of paper and had it photocopied. I'm afraid I cant stay to help as i have to brief the Chairman on his part in the sales conference. I'm happy for you to use the 4 technitions. See you in 25 minutes.

Settinng up The exercise is conducted on a steady table. The wooden block represents water tank and the newspaper sheets represent steel.
Task

• Objective - To construct a scale model of a water tower which must not be less than 15" high in height and obtain maximum profit.
• Exercise Constraints
  • Time limit of 25 minutes from completion of brief
  • The model must be free standing long enough for it to be measured.
  • The height of the tower is taken from the table top to the bottom of the block.

• Select the two team leaders and give them the brief
• Immediately before the exercise select and send the members of the team out of earshot but retain the leaders. Ask the leaders if they understand the brief.
• Send the two teams to their respective tables. Start the planning stage when they are ready and stop it punctually.