Fri Night at the ER / Fifth Discipline CD LO16408

ROB.JONES.BHCB@STATEFARM.COM
Fri, 2 Jan 1998 07:34:07 -0600

In response to LO16390.

Woody Davis writes:

"I have come accross a catalog from The Resources Connection and have some
interest in the Friday Night at the ER, Team Learning Game and Activating
the Fifth Discipline, Multimedia CD Rom Series.
Is anyone familiar with either? What application have you used them in?
What are you comments and recommendations?"

Woody, we brought the CD in to review it for applicability. It certainly
looked promising. We asked a few of our folks to go through it to see if
it truly is worth purchasing. Each person asked was readily agreeable.
But, when it finally came time to stop all other tasks and work on the
program, they found it intimidating, both in scope and in actual length
(12-14 hours, I think).

No one made it past the Friday Night at the ER exercise (which is the
first thing you do) except myself. And, I didn't make it through the next
exercise (which was 3+ hours in length). So, we really don't know how good
it is. But, I thought you might like to know our experience with it.
General consensus was it was too long, too intimidating, and cost too much
($600 per participant).

As for the Friday Night at the ER exercise, I found it frustrating. The
exercise in and of itself was very interesting, but in the end you're
provided with a scorecard. I received a less than favorable grade, which I
expected. But, I didn't get much of an explanation of the score. I can
only surmise that I might have learned some of that later.

I wish you better luck if you decide to review it. And if you do, please
pass along your evaluation. I'd be interested in hearing from someone that
went the distance with it.

Happy New Year!!

[Host's Note: There is some potential for confusion here... "Friday Night
at the ER" was first created as a multi-player table game, no computers
involved, by Bette Gardner, and has been used for several years. Elements
of the board game were incorporated into the CD-ROM "Activating the Fifth
Discipline." Comments from others are most welcome here. ...Host]

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