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Rainforest Game

The Rainforest Game provides individuals and teams with the opportunity to work across boundaries. Working within and across groups, participants learn how to work effectively across functions, geographies, and distance and how to break down communication barriers, creatively solve complex problems, and examine assumptions about how people and functions work together.

Participants are members of a worldwide consortium of environmentally sensitive organizations meeting to discuss a critical issue: the future of the rainforests.

Each organization, sponsoring a specific endangered species, has pieces of the overall picture as well as its sponsored animal. But because no one team has all the pieces, the team members must be able to work collaboratively in order to successfully complete the task at hand.

Following the activity, participants consider their experience in the context of real-life, organizational experience and discuss the four critical skills needed to effectively work across boundaries:

• Reaching out
  
• Sharing information
  
• Exploring alternatives
  
• Making it happen

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