In today’s online, social networking, always connected business world it is difficult to find the time to actually have meaningful, significant and relevant communication that is not constrained by the technology itself. This is where the effectiveness of well-designed business board games really comes to the forefront.
These carefully designed business board games, which are complete with samples, data and scenarios right from your business, give small groups or teams the chance to explore different aspects of your company and have those deep and meaningful discussions. These discussions, which can also explore options for moving forward or making a change, also help to determine where potential weaknesses or problems may exist in any aspect of the decision.
Understanding Organizational Changes
One very good example of learning from business board games is in the area of organizational change. By bringing together your staff into teams or small groups to play the game you can preview and detail any changes in the company before and as they occur.
The format of the game allows your employees to discuss their concerns and also to see how those concerns are going to be addressed in a non-threatening and very collaborative way.
Honing Leadership Skills
For project leaders, managers and supervisors honing and enhancing leadership skills, decision making ability and even communication is a great professional development opportunity. These games can typically be played through in a single block of time from two to four hours and are guaranteed to the most entertaining and fun professional development training you have had in a long time.
By playing business board games that use real examples from your company’s past experience or common issues that your leadership team faces, you will allow each person to build skills and come up with a uniform way for leaders to effectively address these issues. With this uniformity and understanding of how other managers are handling the issue there is less confusion and more effective leadership throughout the business.
Business board games may seem old school, but well-designed games that encourage and allow discussion, insight and understanding into different aspects of your company are invaluable as a learning tool. Not only to do they get discussions started but they can also spark new ideas and new ways to approach issues that have been problematic in the past.
Playing business board games is a wonderful learning experience for your entire organization.
