Paper Planes, Inc.®

What happens when a team can see its working habits—and try a different approach together? Paper Planes, Inc. is a facilitated team simulation that makes collaboration, communication, and process improvement tangible.

Participants take on roles in an aircraft manufacturing business, producing paper planes to meet customer requirements. Across three production rounds, the team reviews results, rethinks its process, and explores how individual contributions affect the wider system.

Key features

• An interactive team learning experience built around a shared production challenge.

• Brings organizational silos, communication, customer needs, and teamwork into focus.

• Uses three production runs, with opportunities to reflect and redesign the process.

• Reviews measures such as cost, quality, delivery time, and customer and worker satisfaction.

• The publisher describes a group size of 12–30 participants.

How it can support your development

Useful for teams exploring collaboration, continuous improvement, or the impact of change. The facilitated debrief connects what happens in the simulation with patterns participants recognize at work.

Take the next step

Create space for your team to learn by doing. Contact Dr. Jennifer Wyatt to discuss whether Paper Planes, Inc. fits your team’s goals.