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Activity/game – risk and failure

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Hello all,

I'm designing a workshop, which aims to encourage managers to support staff to be more entrepreneurial, and to take ownership of team/organisational success.  We'll be exploring themes around autonomy, risk and failure, and I'm trying to find an exercise to bring some of this to life.

Has anyone got any games they have used that explore concepts of positive risk taking or encouraging people to become more comfortable with failure?

Ideally I'm looking for something immersive and scenario based that takes about an hour or so to complete.  But I'm open to any other ideas!

Many thanks

Natasha

2 Responses

  1. ….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

     

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