Team Dynamics: Leading Through Collaboration

Supply chains depend on people who can coordinate under pressure, often without formal authority or complete information. This module places you directly in that dynamic through a live, scenario-based simulation. You join a team of strangers tasked with an emergency logistics mission: delivering critical supplies to a remote communications site in a forest fire zone. As the situation unfolds, you must make decisions in real time — managing conflict, interpreting group behaviour, and influencing outcomes without positional power. Following the simulation, you examine communication patterns, emerging conflict, informal power structures, and the conditions required to build effective consensus. A reverse logistics exercise connects these dynamics back to supply chain planning and execution. What You’ll Gain Self-assessment of collaboration behaviour A structured reflection on how you communicate, respond under pressure, and contribute within group decision-making environments. Conflict navigation strategies Practical approaches to identifying, managing, and resolving conflict based on observed team behaviour in high-pressure scenarios. Informal leadership capability Understanding how influence operates in teams without formal authority, and how leadership emerges through action rather than position. Consensus-building under uncertainty A repeatable approach to reaching decisions that are robust, defensible, and collectively supported — not simply compromises. Applied reverse logistics planning A constrained logistics exercise embedded in the simulation, focusing on routing, resource allocation, and operational decision-making under disruption.