Performance Jam is a team-based action learning exercise that requires effective communication, leadership and cooperation for its successful completion. The major benefit of the Performance Jam activity is that it compresses the time taken to experience and learn many of the key facets of high performance.
The Performance Jam activity can be used to analyse and demonstrate a number of different organisational performance characteristics such as: the role and influence of leadership; how team members work with each other to solve the problem and improve performance; how the teams utilise their knowledge of continuous improvement principals or how the how team members communicate with each other and how they set performance goals to motivate the team.
There are two major components of the activity: working out the solution, and continuously improving the team performance. All performance measures are taken in time - minutes and seconds. As team members improve their performance measures are recorded in seconds and hundredths of seconds.