Improving Organizational Performance Through Game-based Team Learning
Viewpoint Advantage provides a fun, interactive, half-day program that can galvanize your team AND provide insights to improve performance.
"It's about collaboration...about seeing your department as one piece of an enormous mosaic. I bet there was a department manager in a dry room on the Titanic who went down thinking 'It's OK, my department is dry.'" - William W., Johns Hopkins University
This is not your typical training or strategic planning session. Not a lecture, not irrelevant activities, but a stimulating way to see your organization and yourself from a new perspective. The immersive experience of playing the game helps the concepts stick. Viewpoint Advantage provides a pre-session consultation, expert facilitation for gameplay, a debrief discussion to connect the learning points to your organization, and all game materials.
Delivered in one 4-hour session, the program provides benefits for any organizational level and any industry. Benefits include:
Industry: Disney, Pepsi, Intel Corporation, Johnson and Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, Marriott.
Government: FEMA, U.S. Bureau of Census, U.S. Postal Service, IRS, Department of Veterans Affairs.
Academia: John Hopkins, Dartmouth, Emory, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Boston University.
Healthcare: Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Ortho Pharmaceutical, Quest Diagnostics, GE Healthcare.
"You can see how effectively a team communicates, how they work together under pressure, how risk-averse they are. Do they play by the rules or are they looking for creative and innovative ways to solve common problems? It's amazing all that can be discussed during a debrief with the team. I see it as a fit for any organization and any composition of players." Lisa B., GE Healthcare
Each game board accommodates four players. To stimulate interesting comparison of experiences during the debrief discussion, we recommend between 3-5 games be played simultaneously, or 12-20 players.
The delivery cost for sessions with up to 20 players is $4,000. Pricing for larger groups is available on request.
"The program provided a wonderful opportunity for our managers and directors to gain insights into the direct impact that teamwork, communication, and 'thinking outside the box' have on their success as leaders. And they had fun!" - Patricia M., Kaiser Permanente, San Fransisco
Friday Night at the ER demonstrates Systems Thinking principles, including how parts of a system are interdependent, how actions have multiple-order consequences, how mental models influence our actions, and how structure drives behavior. These learning points have direct application for improving personal and organizational performance.
Games, or simulations, create active learning. Learning through experience, coupled with reflection and discussion, improves retention and provides a shared experience and common language for your team. Applying the concepts learned in the game to your organization can improve performance, just as it does in the game.
Gameplay is one hour. The session includes game instruction before play, a debrief discussion after play, and an exercise to translate gameplay learning to real world circumstances.
The best game play is with four players per table, but if your group is not divisible by four, some tables can have a fifth player. The game is not suitable for only three players.
Ideally, the room will have one table and 4 chairs for each game board, with several feet between each table. Good table sizes to fit the game board are two 24” x 60” tables, two 18” x 72” tables, or a 5’ diameter round table. In addition, there should be a monitor at the front of the room for displaying presentation slides.
Viewpoint Advantage provides a pre-session consultation with leadership to determine relevant points and organizational priorities to emphasize during the debrief, expert facilitation, and all game materials.
Karen provides expert facilitation to meet your organizational needs.
Karen has led international projects in management consulting and manufacturing, and has created national programs in the U.S. federal government. She has worked with large multi-national companies and with small non-profit organizations.
Karen received her B.A. in Sociology from Princeton University and her M.B.A from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.
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