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Top Priority is a business simulation game, simulating a matrix structure to create a realistic organisational context.

An effective delegation group activity, where participants must complete and prioritise parallel tasks under a strict time frame, with limited resources. Leadership, change management and strategic thinking skills are essential for the group to complete the task as they’re attention and availability is in demand from more than one area.

Top Priority reflects all those times and situations in the work place when demands for your attention and availability conflict. On these occasions you are forced to make decisions about how, where and when you can contribute most effectively and how to apply your effort most constructively in order to achieve organisational targets or goals.

In many organisations, prioritisation occurs haphazardly, as staff responds to urgent rather than important tasks or follows the lead of the person who shouts loudest! Creating a vision and strategy that is accepted and understood by everyone helps: so does a clear channel for decision-making.

In Top Priority, participants work in sub-teams to tackle a series of independent, parallel tasks. Each task is important, and each must be achieved by the deadline at the end of the exercise. Organisational success is achieved if all tasks are completed, to standard and within time.

Top Priority contains our popular activities Webmaster, Sequencer, and Workstations, as well as other engaging resources.

Watch the recorded Webinar on the right for a fuller explanation of applying the Top Priority Powertool

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Prioritisation/Managing Multiple Tasks
Supervisory Leadership
Project & Resource Management
Large, Remote, and Inter-team Working
Simulating a matrix business structure
Change management
Effective delegation
Individual and organisational prioitisation
Strategic thinking to achieve end goal

In order to be successful in Top Priority, everyone must:

Identify the value of each task in relation to overall goals
Identify specific constraints and demands of each individual task
Create a strategy and implementation plan which recognises task demands
Examine the contribution required by individuals and the whole group to ensure task success

Every individual involved in the activity must:

Understand the ‘big picture’ and have a continual awareness of where their own contribution fits
Work collaboratively; attending to organisational needs and priorities even if they are in conflict with personal priorities
Operate flexibly and cooperatively as circumstances change
Influence others to provide support, information or resources as required

Business Benefits

A highly practical experience with real pressure. The selected activities represent different types of work tasks e.g. compliance, administration, manufacturing, problem-solving and require different types of expertise. All participants must be engaged and involved. This demands real motivation and leadership and this potential can be assessed by observers of the exercise. It is therefore an excellent assessment tool.

We can provide extra facilitation support for this large business simulation exercise - please contact [email protected] for more information.

Activity Contents:

Extensive Facilitator manual, Webmaster, Polydron, Workstations , Spot Check, Pantones, and Sequencer .

This Powertool package includes an online training session with the RSVP Design team to assist in the set-up, delivery and review of this extended activity.

Package Weight: 25kg

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