Serious Games
next generation training solutions
Life is often serious enough. As is work. We do it differently during training sessions. With our Serious Games, we follow Pestalozzi and combine “head, hand and heart” in our learning concepts. In addition to our digital formats and Learning Journeys, it is still, and today especially, the shared emotional experience that is decisive for achieving learning effects and changes. None of us remember the boring moments during lessons or lectures back in school or university. What we still remember today are the “fun” lessons when we were encouraged to explore and experiment. That’s how we still like to learn today.
In this spirit, we enable learning with impact and sustainable work transfer.
Simulation Game
Friday Night at the Emergency Room
Topic
• Agility
• Behavioural roles
• Collaboration
Objective
The objective is to use the live simulation to identify one’s own attitudes and behavioural patterns as well as “blind spots” and thus achieve the necessary conditions for agile work as well as new roles and improved cooperation within the team or across departments.
Description
In this simulation game, participants work a 24-hour shift in a hospital and must follow inviolable rules. This simulation game offers a different form of experimental learning.
Interactive game, group activity
Win as much as you can
Topic
• Team development
Objective
The objective is to make conflicts within the team transparent and to solve them as well as to develop suitable team strategies, roles and behaviours. Internal cooperation instead of internal competition.
Description
In this game, cards are played by different teams in order to win points. Through this interactive group activity, the team practises problem-solving strategies and team strategy.
Model making
Explorer challenge
Topic
• Cooperation
• Communication
Objective
The objective is to improve cooperation and communication in teams and to strengthen the team spirit by mastering challenges together.
Description
The participants‘ cooperation and communication strategies are challenged during this model making, because they not only have to reconstruct a model, but also face further challenges for their team.
Card game
Let’s be honest
Topic
• Introductions
• Leadership
• Trust
Objective
The objective is to enable an open exchange on important topics – including taboo topics – among the participants. Self-reflection as well as reflection in the group become possible, as well as transparency on motivation and action patterns and a better and shared understanding.
Description
This game introduces the participants to a specific topic by enabling a deeper exchange and an exciting discussion. This way the participants get to know themselves and each other better.
Board game
Culture squared
Topic
• Guidelines
• Values
Objective
The aim is to jointly develop (corporate) values and (leadership, behavioral) guidelines and to make them tangible and thus establish them in the organisation. The focus is on concrete discussion and personal practice transfer.
Description
The participants will go on a search for answers and will be confronted with various challenges: “What do we need to actually live our guidelines?”
Board game
Unicorn
Topic
• Entrepeneurship
• Agility
Objective
The objective is to promote entrepreneurial thinking and action and to teach people to make quick decisions.
Description
In Unicorn, the participants build their own business imperium, learning entrepreneurial thinking and acting on the way.
Dice game
Roll the Bones
Topic
• Risk assessment and behaviour
• Health & saftey
Objective
The objective is to use irritations, changes in perspective and self-reflection to sensitise people to risks, to raise awareness of risk assessment and misjudgement and to further promote safety at work.
Description
The challenge to reach the goal in ten moves sounds simple. However, the participants realise that human risk assessments are often imprecise and depend not only on objective information but also on many other factors.
Card game
Sin obelisk
Topic
• Team development
Objective
The objective is to promote team cooperation, i.e. to strengthen communication among each other and to work out how cooperation can be further improved.
Description
The Sin Obelisk game teaches the handling of scattered information in the problem solving process. For this purpose, participants are dealt various cards, which they must use strategically in order to find a solution to the situation.
Box with playful elements
Idea in a box
Topic
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Agility
Objective
The objective is to develop new business ideas while also providing the methods necessary for it. At the same time, it is also a matter of anchoring the appropriate mindset of agile working, whether in the area of innovation or in principle.
Description
Idea in a box is a process to develop a creative, innovative business idea together as a group. Participants are guided through the innovation process by step-by-step instructions.
