This presentation will relate our experience in incorporating a decision-making skill development exercise in Business Policy, our capstone business course. This course requires student consulting teams to complete a series of consulting projects related to strategic management. We typically form the consulting teams during the first class meeting. It has at times taken some teams a prolonged time to work through the early stages of group development and become fully functional. Over the past year we have utilized this exercise at the start of the semester and have found it useful in the early ramping up of the cohesiveness and productivity of the various consulting teams.