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A management team tested its strategic thinking with Before Mars

A management team of 30 participants used Before Mars to make decision-making, focus, and collaboration under pressure visible.

A management team tested its strategic thinking with Before Mars

Client: not publicly disclosed
Activity: Before Mars
Number of participants: 30
Target group: management team
Theme: strategic thinking, decision-making, complexity

A management team of 30 people was looking for an active way to explore strategic thinking and decision-making. Not through a traditional workshop, but through an experience where choices, pressure, and collaboration naturally come to the surface.

For this purpose, Before Mars was used.

In this business game, the team is given a complex mission. Participants must plan, set priorities, process information, and make decisions under time pressure. The challenge is not only about finding the right solution, but about how the team arrives at decisions together.

Who keeps the overview?
Who quickly moves into action?
Who identifies risks?
Who shares information at the right time?
And how does the team stay focused when the situation changes?

Before Mars makes this kind of questions tangible. Participants experience in the game how they deal with complexity, deadlines, and limited resources. This creates far more material for discussion afterwards than a theoretical explanation of strategy.

For this management team, Before Mars became an active mirror. Not to evaluate people, but to jointly observe what worked well and where collaboration or decision-making could be sharpened.

What stayed with them

The team shared a common experience around strategic thinking and making decisions under pressure. This made it easier to have concrete discussions afterwards about focus, role distribution, and decision-making.

Discover how Before Mars works

Are you looking for a team building activity for a management team that goes beyond a classic activity or light, carefree fun? Before Mars combines fun, complexity, and strategic reflection.