Activity/game - risk and failure

….Company culture

Hi Natasha,

I have run a few courses around innovation, risk etc. In my experience, the major stumbling block to whether an intervention is successful is the culture of the business that you work in.

Often, I have found that delegates have many ideas they would like to try out (i.e. risks they want to take) but are put off for any of a number of reasons, e.g. they get a grilling or told off if they miss a deadline or something goes wrong, they are rewarded for hitting a particular measurable target rather than for finding a new and better way of doing something, their manager has a somewhat micro-managing style.

In order for your workshop to be successful in the long term, I definitely recommend that you refer and make explicit links to whatever your company's wider ulture change intervention is aiming to do.

I have some material on management styles, decision making and risk management – pm me if you'd like copies.

I've also used this game from a UK training company and would highly recommend it:

http://www.northgatetraining.co.uk/problem-solving-decision-making/35-decisions-decisions.html

They have other exercises too, but I've only used this one.

Hope this helps.

Sophie

2 Responses

SteveRobson says:

September 12, 2014 at 2:47 pm

2 ideas

Hi Natasha

This is not an area of training I have been involved with but you could do a lot worse than to pose your question to the following two companies who both sell training materials for a number of different scenarios.

http://www.mtalearning.com/

http://www.azesta.co.uk/
Sophiecope says:

September 18, 2014 at 2:26 pm

….Company culture

Hi Natasha,

I have run a few courses around innovation, risk etc. In my experience, the major stumbling block to whether an intervention is successful is the culture of the business that you work in.

Often, I have found that delegates have many ideas they would like to try out (i.e. risks they want to take) but are put off for any of a number of reasons, e.g. they get a grilling or told off if they miss a deadline or something goes wrong, they are rewarded for hitting a particular measurable target rather than for finding a new and better way of doing something, their manager has a somewhat micro-managing style.

In order for your workshop to be successful in the long term, I definitely recommend that you refer and make explicit links to whatever your company's wider ulture change intervention is aiming to do.

I have some material on management styles, decision making and risk management – pm me if you'd like copies.

I've also used this game from a UK training company and would highly recommend it:

http://www.northgatetraining.co.uk/problem-solving-decision-making/35-decisions-decisions.html

They have other exercises too, but I've only used this one.

Hope this helps.

Sophie