Trapped Underground is a challenging simulation exercise that improves employees' listening skills as it increases their ability to analyze information and make rational decisions.
The exercise focuses on a group of tourists who together with their guide are trapped in Cherokee Caverns when an earthquake knocks out the caverns' electrical system. The group's guide was seriously injured in the tremor and is now unconscious. But the group has a flashlight and can communicate with rescue workers on the surface via the guide's walkie-talkie.
Participants take the role of a team of rescue workers who must pinpoint exactly where the trapped tourists are within the caverns' miles of marked passages and chambers. In order to do this the rescue team must listen effectively to the description that one of the tourists radios to them about their surroundings. The rescuers must then decide in which of several possible sections of the caverns the tourists are located. Time is of the essence!
Requires approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour.
A terrific active listening training activity:
• Evaluates and develops listening ability
• Improves interpersonal communication
• Sharpens decision making skills
• Improves teamwork
