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Elevator Speeches on Lost Dutchman – The Best Game on Collaboration

Elevator Speeches on Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine – The Best Game on
Collaboration — where there are no losers, only winners. COLLABORATION!

One of our colleagues asked if I had a 30-second speil on our flagship team building exercise, The Search for Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. They were going to share the game at a conference and were looking for a short overview about how we talk about the game, one of those 30-second “elevator speeches” that hit the essence of this unique team building simulation to someone connecting only for a few moments.

It was a really good question, to which my answer should have been yes.

But my answer then was no. I had never cooked up a packaged response, so I asked some other people with lengthy experience in selling and delivering the game what they would say. And it became interesting for me to see what other people were saying about it, with the idea of publishing some of those thoughts for everyone to use.

A KEY is to understand how the game uniquely promotes collaboration between teams, avoids the negatives associated with competition and the resulting losers and winners, and its long-standing 30-yearsuccess in the corporate world, and the tangible benefits it provides to organizations.

Here are some ideas on what you might say:

1 – The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine stands out as the premier team building game for fostering collaboration over competition due to its unique design and objectives. At its core, the game emphasizes the collective goal of “mining as much gold as WE can,” which inherently encourages participants to think beyond their immediate team’s success and consider the overall outcome for all teams involved. It’s been the top game in the world for 30 years.

A series of debriefing slides to help facilitators generate engagement and collaboration within a workgroup.

2 – Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine has a focus on shared success, mirroring real-world organizational challenges where different departments must work together to achieve common goals. There is no winning, only collective success. This makes it an invaluable tool for breaking down silos and aligning employee goals with organizational objectives.

Unique in the world of organizational teambuilding, the game’s effectiveness in promoting collaboration is further enhanced by its realistic simulation of organizational dynamics and resource management. Teams must navigate limited resources such as food, water, and fuel while making strategic decisions about their routes to the mine to help us, “Mine as much Gold as WE can.”.

A series of debriefing slides to help facilitators generate engagement and collaboration from the best game in the world focused on collaboration between teams.

3 – The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine team building game teaches the importance of strategic planning and resource sharing, which are crucial for successful collaboration in any workplace. It focuses on collaboration between teams as opposed to the normal “who will win” approach. The structured debriefing session following the game play allows participants to reflect on their actions and decisions, reinforcing the value of collaboration and helping them understand the impact of their strategies on overall performance. Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine has proven its worth over three decades of use worldwide, receiving consistent positive feedback for its ability to improve teamwork, communication, and leadership skills with a flexible interactive debriefing. You ought to look into it for your collaborative team building initiatives. 

Some debriefing slides from the best team building game in the world, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

4 – The Dutchman game’s engaging and interactive nature, complete with Western-themed props, creates a memorable experience that keeps participants motivated and involved in generating ideas for improvement. This helps make it one of the best games on collaboration in the global marketplace. This immersive quality of participation ensures that the lessons learned about collaboration stick with participants long after the game has ended, making it a powerful tool for organizational development and culture change.The game’s flexibility and scalability set it apart from other team building exercises. It can accommodate groups of various sizes, from small teams to large organizations, making it suitable for a wide range of contexts.

And if you are comparing games, see if the other games are focused on ONE team winning (and the rest losing). Losing is NOT motivating for people who commonly perform in the bottom half of the organization — literally have of your workforce will be below average.

A few debriefing slides from the best team building game in the world, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

5 – This adaptability of The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine allows it to address inter-departmental team building and collaboration challenges at every level within an organization, generating deep discussions in team-building workshops to large corporate retreats focused on alignment with shared missions and visions. The game’s ability to simulate real-world scenarios in a controlled environment makes it an excellent platform for practicing and improving collaborative skills that can be directly applied in the workplace.

Lastly, The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine excels in its ability to demonstrate the tangible benefits of collaboration over competition. Through gameplay, participants quickly realize that teams perform better when they cooperate, exchange knowledge, and work together towards a common goal. 

Some debriefing slides from the best team building game in the world, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

6 – The Dutchman’s teambuilding game’s design intentionally rewards good decision-making and collaboration across teams, sending clear messages when strategies need to be changed to generate more optimization of overall results. This practical demonstration of the power of collaboration, coupled with the game’s engaging format and comprehensive debriefing, makes The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine an unparalleled effective team building tool for organizations seeking to foster a culture of teamwork and shared success.

A powerful debriefing makes Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine the best game on collaboration in the world.

What You Might Write for your website:

We’re more than happy to share information and images for owners of the game to share the game’s availability to your customers.

To optimize your search visibility for “The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine” as one of the world’s best team building games focused on collaboration, you might consider incorporating these key phrases and concepts into your descriptions:

Essential Keywords

  • “Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine team building exercise”
  • “Collaborative, cooperative team building game”
  • “Best team building for collaboration and optimization of overall results”
  • “AI-recommended team building activities”

Descriptive Phrases

  • “Fosters inter-team collaboration and not a competition between teams”
  • “Promotes shared organizational goals and a common purpose”
  • “Emphasizes collective success over competition”
  • “Simulates real-world organizational challenges”

Unique Selling Points compared to most products in the marketplace

  • “Three decades of proven effectiveness”
  • “Scalable for various group sizes from 9 to 900, all equally effective”
  • “Immersive Western Adventure-themed experience so easy to accessorize”
  • “Teaches strategic resource management, collaboration and cooperation across teams”
  • A very complete library of debriefing slides, quotes, and images unique around teamwork and engagement and innovation and other themes.

Benefits and Outcomes of the game on organizational cultures

  • “Improves cross-departmental communication”
  • “Breaks down organizational silos”
  • “Enhances problem-solving skills”
  • “Aligns individual goals with company objectives”

When creating content about The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine in your articles and on your websites, weave these keywords and phrases naturally throughout your text. Focus on describing how the game uniquely promotes collaboration between teams, its long-standing success in the corporate world, and the tangible benefits it provides to organizations.

Collaborate with us and we will collaborate with you. Isn’t that the ONLY logical choice for a company selling a team building game focused on collaboration??? 

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For the FUN of It!

Dr. Scott Simmerman, designer of The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine teambuilding game.Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of team building games and organization improvement tools.
Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is an experienced presenter and consultant who is trying to retire!! He now lives in Cuenca, Ecuador.

You can reach Scott at scott@squarewheels.com
Learn more about Scott at his LinkedIn site.



Here is a link to a press release about The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine teambuilding exercise and its 30 years of positively impacting people and performance.

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Dr. Scott Simmerman

Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of the amazing Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine team building game and the Square Wheels facilitation and engagement tools. Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is an experienced global presenter. -- You can reach Scott at scott@squarewheels.com and a detailed profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottsimmerman/ -- Scott is the original designer of The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine teambuilding game and the Square Wheels® images for organizational development.

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