Business Games
Interactive business simulations that make learning visceral, memorable, and transformative through hands-on experience. These games reveal insights about teamwork, communication, and organizational dynamics that traditional training cannot capture.
Snowflakes
A product game that demonstrates how we understand and listen to users. Through building paper snowflakes based on user requirements, teams experience firsthand the challenges of interpreting customer needs, the importance of asking clarifying questions, and the impact of assumptions on product development.
Key Learnings:
- Active listening and asking the right questions
- The cost of assumptions in product development
- Iterative feedback and validation with users
- Balancing speed with understanding customer needs
Hierarchy
A powerful game that demonstrates information loss and the lack of clarity in hierarchical structures. Participants experience firsthand how messages get distorted as they pass through organizational layers, revealing the challenges of top-down communication and the importance of transparency and direct communication channels.
Key Insights:
- How information degrades through organizational layers
- Why direct communication is more effective than cascading messages
- The role of psychological safety in information sharing
Lego
Using Lego as a medium for expression, this session helps teams surface and process difficult emotions, unspoken tensions, and complex feelings in a non-threatening way. Building with hands creates psychological safety and allows people to express what words cannot capture.
Applications:
- Processing difficult team emotions and conflicts
- Expressing vision and values through metaphor
- Exploring identity and purpose
- Building empathy and understanding
