Benefits of playing games at work.
Why play games at work? We get this question a lot of times when we guide entrepreneurs, small and large enterprise organizations. Or a plain remark: “Pfff, playing games?! That’s not work!”. So what is the answer? Why would we like to use games to do serious work? We encounter a lot of organizations that struggle […]
Budget Games Kortrijk Ready, Set, Go…
In April we were happy to announce that we were supporting the City of Kortrijk to organize their own version of the Innovation Games ® – Budget Games and in the mean time lots of work has been done by City council members to prepare for this European scoop. If you do not know anything […]
Innovation Games ® – Budget Games is coming to Belgium, Kortrijk!
Some of you might be familiar with the concept of “Budget Games”, from its success in San Jose. Some of you might not be, and in that case I would recommend checking out the video below in order to get some context about the subject at hand. [youtube=http://youtu.be/NRYFQzvGkAM] Motivation As an Innovation Games ® and Gamestorming […]
Internal Marketing is a Key Leadership Practice
The hardest part of an organization, and therefore its management, is sharing the enthusiasm with the entire organization, especially when most of the people in there are making one-tenth to one-fiftieth of what top managers make. Selling the company to their customers, or within their market segment, is a piece of cake compared to selling […]
Gamificiation within the Education System
Thanks to Mark Willems, Bart Cornille, Oiheba Bensaâd and my wife, my brain has been doing overtime concerning our Belgian Education System and how I would like to see it being different. It has been a strange ride, where most of the time I, like many others, was too much focussed on the current constraints […]
Mindsetter: Boost Your Change Project
Guestblog by Dave Synaeve, propellor.be Mindsetter is partly a powerful simulation of changing organisations and the resistance they can encounter. This serious game gives insights in the cycle of change, the reactions of people on change and the different kinds of resistance you can expect. Good change management involves to create buy in and making […]
Effective Brainstorming with GPS
Guestblog by Peter Bertels, FlandersDC.be In his 1942 book How to Think Up, Alex Osborn presents the technique of ‘Brainstorming’ used at BBDO, one of the most successful advertising agencies at the time. He described brainstorming as a group activity “using the brain to storm a creative problem”. Although Osborn believed that brainstorming was central […]
Plörk – Gamification and Group Coaching Combined
Guestblog by Pierre Neis Plork (play and work) is a workshop facilitation format combining the forces of group coaching and the dynamics of games (gamification). Some consider Plork as solution focused coaching in a minimal timeframe. The main reason for Plork is to install a dynamic of permanent change within the company by the dynamics of the […]
Team Purpose and Motivation Empowered by Applied Improvisation
Guestblog by Rutger Slump, letsplayinnovation.com An increasing number of professionals are trained in improvisation skills and mindset. It helps them to play with their environment instead of controlling it, which is especially useful when dealing with complex or choatic surroundings. Improvisation is therefore a very interesting part of the Innovation Game in organizations. “The act […]
Intera(ttra)ctive Presentations
Guestblog by Jasper Sonnevelt, VX Company If keeping someone’s attention in a lecture was business, it would have an 80% failure rate.” – dr. John Medina Whether you’re a seasoned presenter/trainer or just every now and than presenting something to your colleagues, you will know that one of the hardest things about giving a presentation […]