Description

What it is

A facilitated session built on The Authority Gap, the free career simulation for safety professionals. Participants play a safety advisor from the job interview to the investigation that names them, and they make every decision themselves.

It is not a knowledge session. Nobody leaves knowing a clause they did not know before. It runs one argument, and it runs it hard: your exposure in a safety role is a function of authority relative to accountability, not a function of your competence or your character. People nod at that in a keynote. They do not forget it when it happens to them across ninety minutes while they are making reasonable decisions with good intent.

Two ways to run it

Mode A. Solo in the room. Three hours. Everyone plays their own career on their own phone or laptop, in silence, then the room compares what they found, where their twelve weeks went, and why two people with near-identical play reached opposite endings. Six to thirty people.

Mode B. The Table Edition. Three and a half hours. Four players, four classes, one twenty-sided die, and no software, no network and no screens. Each player holds information the others do not have. The table has to agree on a course of action, and then decide whose name goes on it. Those are two separate arguments, and the second one is the session.

The Table Edition is a complete tabletop build. Printed class cards, the full enquiry key, the negotiation thresholds, the quarterly event tables, the incident and investigation decisions, and the finding. It is the better product, and it works in a room with no reception.

What is in the pack

• Facilitator Guide. What you are actually running, the one rule you must protect, the failure modes, and how not to ruin the Record trap.
• Two session plans, with timings, plus a full-day running order that uses both modes.
• Table Edition Facilitator Script. The complete no-software game. Answer keys, event tables, finding bands.
• Debrief Crib Card. One page, seven steps, forty minutes, in order.
• Worked Example. A real shape of play, annotated, including the two facilitation errors that session produced.
• Participant Workbook, Class Cards and Career Record Sheet, print as many as you need.
• Player Guide for participants.
• Eleven slides, deliberately thin, because the room is the content.
• Joining instructions, evaluation sheet and certificate of participation.
• Licence and terms.

Licence

One named facilitator. Unlimited sessions inside your own organisation. Print what you need for the room.

Delivering this to another organisation for a fee needs a commercial delivery licence. A site licence for multiple facilitators, and a commercial delivery licence for consultancies and RTOs, are both available and quoted on enquiry.

The game itself is free

The single-player game is free, public and ungated at tombourne.website/the-authority-gap/, and installs on a phone at /the-authority-gap-app/. This product is the facilitated session around it.

Based on Built to Blame: Why the Safety Role Is Designed to Take the Fall, and How to Survive Inside It by Tom Bourne.

Also available

Continuous Improvement Facilitator Pack, the same design for registered training organisations. All three games.