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Carta: Miki Island, the highlight of the offsite!
“Engaging and hands-on, Miki Island is a concrete experience, devoid of abstraction or theory, offering all the essential elements of real-life scenarios.
It highlights common pitfalls: unclear objectives or misalignment within teams, the importance of understanding individual roles and the necessity for collaboration to maximize team effectiveness, unexpected challenges, such as a sudden hurricane, mirroring the unpredictability of real-world situations.
Miki Island assesses the team’s agility and collaborative spirit during crises, showcasing the relevance and applicability of its lessons to real-life scenarios.”
Bhavik Vashi, Managing Director at Carta Singapore.
Bhavik Vashi, Managing Director @ Carta
Why choose Miki Island?
Boosts Team Collaboration
Research-Based
Fun & Memorable
Customizable Debrief
Proven Results
I am impressed by the amount of real work-life value teams have taken from this journey. Not only it was interesting, but it’s applicable. The set of changes in behavior and attitudes initiated have boosted the agile growth and performance of our teams.
Bram De Block
Miki Island experiential learning program is a great way to practice teamwork for performance improvement. The combination of doing and reflecting as well as being both concrete and theoretical is promising for learnings about team development!
Christian Jacobsson
Engaging and hands-on, Miki Island is a concrete experience, devoid of abstraction or theory, offering all the essential elements of real-life scenarios. It highlights common pitfalls: unclear objectives or misalignment within teams, the importance of understanding individual roles and the necessity for collaboration to maximize team effectiveness, unexpected challenges, such as a sudden hurricane, mirroring the unpredictability of real-world situations. Miki Island assesses the team's agility and collaborative spirit during crises, showcasing the relevance and applicability of its lessons to real-life scenarios.
Bhavik Vashi
What to expect? Business Impact & ROI
Backed by studies such as Wheelan and Jacobson from GDQ Associates, our research partner, we know that High Performing Teams deliver business impact:
- Have more satisfied customers and managers (Wheelan, 1998)
- Have more surviving patients in intensive care (Wheelan, 2003)
- Have members that experience higher level of work satisfaction and lower level of emotional exhaustion (Jacobson, 2014)
- Produce more goods in the manufacturing industry (Wheelan & Furbur, 2006)
- Manage money better in the financial sector (Wheelan, 2005)
- Have a greater ability to adopt to agile ways of working (Gren, 2017)
Designed with a research company
Miki Island is more than just a game. It integrates the Group Development Questionnaire® and Integrated Model of Group Development from Susan Wheelan’s research to ensure higher learning effectiveness and business impact.
Blog, Success Stories & Miki Island Love
Customers and partners love Miki Island for its ability to bring teams together and improve leadership skills through fun gameplay and practical lessons, leading to real-world success and lasting impact.
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VISEO: Building a culture of excellence and quality!
Pepsico: Accelerating the performance of Management & Leadership Team
Let's Discuss Your Offsite Needs!
Schedule a call to explore how Miki Island can help tailor the perfect offsite experience for your team. We'll discuss your objectives and create a customized plan that aligns with your goals.
Miki Island Gallery!
See for yourself the smiles, celebrations, pride and engagement from previous participants
What.
The.
FAQ?
Miki Island workshops distinguish themselves through immersive gameplay, research based methodology as well as data-driven insights from comprehensive team assessments. This allows to guarantee a focus on creating sustainable, high-performance team cultures that drive tangible business results.
A Miki Island workshop will last for 2,5h to 4h. Depending on the objectives set for your team, the program can then be enhanced to 2-day or 3-6 month team coaching journey. The more we can work with your team, the better the results!
Of course, you can. However, our game-based learning approach in Miki Island workshops creates a psychologically safe environment where teams can practice the behaviors of Stage 4 teams effectively. This approach fosters active engagement, real-time problem-solving, and experiential learning, enabling teams to develop and internalize advanced teamwork skills in a dynamic and supportive setting.
Debrief sessions allow teams to reflect on their performance and behaviours in the game, discuss how it relates to their every day life, and identify key takeaways for improvement.
Funny enough, we often see senior executives on the back-sit at the beginning of a Miki Island workshop. Now when the game starts, people (and c-suite) forget about their default leadership behaviours and engage fully in the experience.
This engagement and commitment guarantees and allows for great conversations and debriefs at the end, making it as effective for C-suite senior executives as it can be for more junior team members.
The key difference relies more on the depth of the conversations in the debrief and business application workshops than the game itself.
Yes, Miki Island workshops can be tailored to address specific team challenges, goals, and industry contexts to maximize relevance and impact. The team assessment and diagnostic is a key element that allows for customization.
We have had team offsites sessions with as many as 500 people (both virtually and face-to-face). We also work regularly with senior executive teams of 6-8 people. The results are consistent with highly engaged, challenged and impacted team members ready to build their High Performing Teams back at work!
The journey brought the regional team together and created an inclusive and connective tissue between colleagues. It was a very immersive and energizing journey to facilitate our teams’ key learnings of high performing teams, inclusive collaboration and agile decision making all for performance improvement back at work!
Anne Lepissier GENERAL MANAGER, MICROSOFT