Team Development Program

Do you know how your team
really makes decisions?

A 3-week program that turns team dynamics from a black box into a concrete action plan.

Starting with a 2-hour behavioral simulation — real cards, real dilemmas, real conversations. Ending with insights you can act on.

3 weeks
From session to action plan
10–150
Participants
2h
Live simulation
See QurumQ in action — 90 seconds
Personality tests show who people are.
QurumQ shows how they work together.
The Problem

Traditional assessments miss the team

MBTI, DISC, and Gallup tell you about individuals. But teams fail not because of who people are — they fail because of how they interact. Misaligned planning, poor negotiation, invisible conflicts, and unclear leadership aren't personality problems. They're behavioral patterns that only emerge when people work together under pressure.

The Solution

A mirror for your team

QurumQ creates authentic pressure through a business simulation game. Teams make financial and career decisions across 10 rounds — and the real insights come not from the game scores, but from the observable behaviors: who leads, who follows, who plans, who improvises, how conflicts surface and resolve. It's a mirror, not a verdict.

How It Works

Three weeks. One clear picture.

01

Setup & Briefing

Teams form around the table with physical cards and dice. The facilitator introduces the simulation — each team is a "player" navigating 10 years of life decisions.

02

Report & Debrief

Week 2. The facilitator delivers a behavioral report based on real-time observation: leadership patterns, decision-making styles, conflict dynamics, collaboration effectiveness. Not judgments, but mirrors. “Here is what we observed. What do you recognize?”

03

Action Plan

Weeks 2–3. Together with the manager and HR, we translate observations into specific next steps. What to reinforce, what to change, and how to measure progress. The development starts here — grounded in what actually happened, not assumptions.

Behavioral Insights

What the game reveals

Observable patterns that no questionnaire can capture

Leadership Emergence

Who naturally takes charge? Does leadership rotate or concentrate? How does the team respond to competing visions?

Strategic Planning

Does the team plan ahead or react round by round? How do they balance short-term gains with long-term strategy?

Communication Patterns

Who speaks? Who listens? Are decisions made through consensus, authority, or default silence?

Risk Tolerance

How does the team handle uncertainty? Do they hedge conservatively or bet boldly? What happens after a loss?

Conflict Navigation

When disagreements arise — and they will — how does the team resolve them? Avoidance, escalation, or productive debate?

Pressure Response

As time shrinks round by round, which patterns break down and which strengthen? Stress reveals the real team.

Who It's For

For those who build teams — and those who are the team

Teams

See your own collaboration patterns — how you plan, decide, debate, and adapt. No external judgment, just a mirror that helps you grow together.

Self-awareness & Growth

Team Leaders & Managers

Understand how your team actually works — not how you assume it does. Discover hidden dynamics, untapped strengths, and friction points before they become problems.

Leadership Insight

HR & Team Building

Transform team offsites from fun-but-forgettable into insightful development experiences with real behavioral data alongside genuine engagement.

Team Offsites & Events

L&D Professionals

Integrate behavioral diagnostics into your leadership development pipeline. Map observed behaviors to competency frameworks like Korn Ferry and SHL.

Leadership Development

Executive Coaches

Give senior teams a safe space to see their own dynamics. The game creates enough distance for honest reflection without the baggage of daily operations.

Executive Assessment

Participants see their own value — not just "fun" or "HR wants this".

Every player walks away understanding themselves and their team better. That's why engagement is real, not forced.

Use Cases

How companies use QurumQ

Every session starts with a business goal — not just fun

Goal

Shorten the "storming" phase

What's visible

How trust forms, who takes initiative, how roles emerge naturally

Result

Team builds in 2 hours what usually takes months — shared experience + agreed working principles

Goal

Unite two cultures, reduce "us vs them"

What's visible

How people from different backgrounds collaborate, who builds bridges, where friction appears

Result

Shared experience that creates common ground + specific observations for leadership

Goal

See who leads naturally under pressure

What's visible

Who thinks strategically, who takes ownership, how they perform under uncertainty

Result

Behavioral data for individual development plans — observable actions, not self-reported opinions

Goal

See the real team dynamics quickly

What's visible

Informal roles, hidden tensions, communication patterns, who has real influence

Result

Manager sees in 2 hours what usually takes 6 months to discover

Goal

Identify root causes of dysfunction

What's visible

Communication patterns, avoidance, dominance, how conflict is handled (or avoided)

Result

Specific behavioral observations → starting point for targeted team development

Goal

Assess team readiness

What's visible

How they handle multitasking, surprises, limited resources, ambiguity

Result

Understanding of risks + recommendations for strengthening the team before the challenge hits

Goal

Observe real collaboration behavior

What's visible

Collaboration style, influence, adaptability, how someone actually operates vs. their interview persona

Result

Behavioral data for hiring or promotion decisions — based on observation, not impressions

Goal

Align people who rarely work together

What's visible

How they negotiate priorities, handle different perspectives, find common ground

Result

Team discovers its collaboration patterns and agrees on working norms

Goal

Reset team dynamics after organizational change

What's visible

New informal hierarchy, adaptation to changed roles, unresolved tensions from the transition

Result

Team processes the change together and establishes new working patterns

Format

Session 1 (baseline) → targeted development → Session 2 (3–6 months) → measure behavioral change

Result

Provable ROI on team development — before/after comparison. The only approach that shows whether the investment actually worked.

Not sure which scenario fits? Let's talk — we'll help you define the right goal.

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The Format

Physical game. Digital brain.

Real cards in your hands. Real dice on the table. Real conversations across it. The technology stays invisible — handling calculations so humans can focus on each other.

NFC-Enabled Cards

Physical cards with embedded NFC chips. Tap to play — the digital engine reads them instantly. No screen time for players.

Electronic Dice

GoDice electronic dice give the tactile feel of real rolling while transmitting results digitally. Chance meets precision.

Digital Engine

Automates all calculations, card effects, and tracking. Teams focus on decisions and interactions — not bookkeeping.

Programs

Choose the depth that fits your situation

Every program starts with a behavioral simulation. What differs is how deep you go with the results.

Quick Scan

See your team clearly

A focused diagnostic: simulation session, behavioral report, and expert consultation. See your team clearly in 1–2 weeks. Perfect for testing the approach or getting quick answers before a big decision.

What's included
Pre-session briefing with HR/manager (30 min)
QurumQ simulation session (2h)
Extended behavioral debrief (60 min)
Written report with observations and recommendations
Follow-up call with HR/manager (30 min, one week later)
Result
Concrete observations about team dynamics + actionable recommendations. Your entry point to evidence-based team development.
1–2 weeks
from €2,000 / team
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Full Program

Transform how your team operates

A comprehensive transformation program for 6+ months. For high-stakes situations: post-merger integration, leadership team alignment, HiPo acceleration, organizational turnarounds. Combines team-level and individual-level work.

Everything in Develop, plus
QurumQ advanced sessions with trained observer
Individual behavioral profiles for key team members
Individual coaching sessions for leaders (3–5 each)
Integration with existing HR tools (DISC, 360, engagement surveys)
Interim QurumQ checkpoint session
Strategic recommendations for leadership
Result
Full transformation documented. Individual + team profiles. Proven behavioral change. A foundation for long-term team effectiveness.
6+ months
from €15,000 / team
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Every program is tailored to your situation. Pricing depends on team size, goals, and scope. Let’s talk.

Evidence-Based

Grounded in research. Proven in practice.

QurumQ draws on decades of research into team dynamics, behavioral observation, and organizational psychology. The simulation creates conditions that mirror real workplace pressure, producing authentic behavioral data that maps to established competency frameworks.

Built on proven team effectiveness models and 25 years of hands-on experience building high-performing teams across corporations and SMEs — from the pacing of rounds to the structure of debriefs.

MIT Honest Signals

Behavioral patterns that predict team performance

Psychological Safety

Amy Edmondson's framework for fearless organizations

Google Project Aristotle

What makes teams effective — beyond individual talent

Korn Ferry & SHL

Competency models for behavioral observation mapping

Lencioni — 5 Dysfunctions

Trust, conflict, commitment visible in team decisions

Session Structure

A typical QurumQ session

0:00 – 0:15

Introduction & Team Formation

Participants form teams and receive their starting cards. The facilitator explains the rules and the session begins.

0:15 – 1:45

Gameplay: 10 Rounds

Teams navigate financial and career decisions. Early rounds allow longer discussion; later rounds compress time, creating natural pressure escalation.

1:45 – 2:15

Team Self-Debrief

Teams reflect on their own experience without managers present. What worked? What patterns do they recognize from their real work?

2:15 – 2:30

Expert Feedback & Report

Behavioral observations presented as mirrors and hypotheses — not judgments. Managers receive separate consultation with expert insights.

FAQ

Common questions

QurumQ is a team development program built around a hybrid physical-digital behavioral simulation. Teams make decisions together using real cards, dice, and a digital engine, revealing how they actually collaborate under pressure. The simulation is the diagnostic core; the program includes debrief, behavioral report, and action plan.

Personality tests show who people are individually through self-reported questionnaires. QurumQ shows how people actually behave together as a team through observable actions during gameplay. It provides a behavioral mirror, not a personality label.

QurumQ sessions accommodate 10 to 150 participants organized into teams. Each team acts as a single player in the simulation, making collective decisions across 10 rounds.

The simulation session takes approximately 2 hours. The full Quick Scan program takes 1–2 weeks from briefing to final report. Deeper programs (Deep Dive, Full Program) run 2–6+ months.

QurumQ reveals leadership emergence, risk tolerance, strategic thinking, communication styles, conflict handling, decision-making dynamics, role distribution, and collaboration effectiveness.

QurumQ draws on MIT's Honest Signals research, Amy Edmondson's psychological safety framework, Google's Project Aristotle findings, Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions model, and competency models from Korn Ferry and SHL.

We recommend a three-phase model: teams play without their direct managers to ensure psychological safety, then debrief among themselves, and finally managers receive separate consultation with expert behavioral observations.

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been missing?

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