IMPROVE SPECIFIC LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Eagle Racing is a generic business game that triggers reflections and learnings about a specific aspect of leadership, namely “collaboration.”

The participants take the role of Gianluca, the manager of Eagle Racing, and help him make decisions.

From time to time the game stops and participants must decide which choice they think Gianluca should make.

Different choices lead to very different consequences, which means that Eagle Racing has one beginning but eight VERY different endings – from commercial success to total disaster.

Eagle Racing was developed in 2008 in close collaboration with Professor Albert Angehrn, Director of the Centre of Advanced Learning Technologies at INSEAD.

The pilot was originally part of an EU-funded research project, Learning to Collaborate (L2C). But after the pilot we funded and produced the full game.

Since then, Eagle Racing has been played both on site and online by more than 1,000 managers and students from a variety of organizations, including IKEA, Novartis, the Scottish government, Havas, INSEAD, Fiat, Merial, and the US National Defense University.

Eagle Racing has also been used to experiment with very different deployment scenarios, demonstrating the very high deployment flexibility of simulations like Eagle Racing.

It can be used for a half-day learning experience or the episodes and debriefing can be spread out over several weeks.

It can be run on site, played online by distributed teams, or used with a combination of both.

In higher education contexts, for instance, this type of simulation can be used to engage participants before a course starts on campus in order to help them get to know each other better through a collaboration experience that is debriefed on site during the course.

Alternatively, it can be used to engage participants and keep them connected during the recess between two on-site course modules.

For corporate conferences Eagle Racing can be used to stimulate a lively discussion about collaboration – after which the debriefing can be directed toward the specific collaboration issues of the company. Improve specific leadership skills Eagle Racing was launched in Copenhagen in 2008.