Professors, Teachers and Curriculum Directors

Join the hundreds of educators who use simulations and assessments from Human Synergistics in the classroom.

Selecting a Simulation or Assessment

HS offers simulations that are appropriate for courses at all levels. Below are our recommendations for various types of courses and applications.

Cooperative Learning (middle, junior high, and senior high schools):

The Desert Survival Situation and the Subarctic Survival Situation remain our most popular products for student teams in public and private schools. Cascades Survival has become almost as popular, and can be completed in less time.

Orientation and Team-Building Programmes (undergraduate and graduate):

The Subarctic Survival Situation, Cascades Survival, and Desert Survival are widely used in college orientation programmes and for team-building in programmes and courses designed around group projects. Bushfire and Reef Survival are also appropriate and may require the application of more advanced problem-solving skills on the part of students.

The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) should be used in conjunction with a simulation for courses involving intensive and/or semester-long team projects. One inventory is needed for each student along with one participant guide for each team.

Management and Leadership Courses:

Self-assessment exercises have become increasingly important for management courses, and two of HS’s inventories – the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) and The AMA DISC Survey (DISC) – are particularly appropriate for in-class use. Both inventories are self-administered and self-scoring and are accompanied by Self-Development (LSI) or Debriefing Guides (DISC). These inventories also are available on-line. These inventories enable prospective managers and leaders to learn about themselves, understand their strengths and weaknesses, and initiate self-development programmes.

Organisational Behavior:

The Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) is used in many OB courses to introduce students to culture, enable them to see how culture is measured by leading organisations, and to apply the concept to their own organisations. Students can complete the inventory, describing their own organisations, score the results, analyse the profiles, and (as an option) prepare brief reports or term papers.