team building – Αγγελική Καρβέλη

Diamonds

A fast-paced team strategy and decision-making game

Diamonds (powered by Gaminar.net), is an extremely engaging and fast-paced team strategy game, which places focus on important team processes like: selecting and prioritizing important information, making decisions based on insufficient data, communicating and creating test scenarios in order to validate hypotheses.

Teams must choose their actions carefully, in order to maximize their gain while searching a 15 by 15 tile area for… diamonds!

Key learning points

Clear communication and team cohesion
Strategy design and implementation
Filtering and prioritizing vital information
Team decision-making (based on insufficient data)
Trail & error
Build and test scenarios

Game Context

Participants work in teams to find hidden mines from the slots of a 15x15 grid
The game takes place over 3 rounds, generating opportunities for teams to refine or adjust their strategies and become better and more efficient as rounds go by
Participants will be provided with some free information and have access to additional information, at a cost
Each team starts with a budget of 15,000. As they progress in the game, they can either increase their budget or spend it all
The team with the biggest amount of money, at the end of the 3rd round, wins!

Can your team function efficiently and find all the mines?

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Survival Games

Do you have what it takes to survive in extreme conditions? How about your team?

Discover all these answers (and more) while enjoying this all-time classic activity in a more gripping online environment!

Survival games (powered by Gaminar.net) are fun exercises where groups evolve into teams as they communicate, build trust, synergize and engage in collaborative problem solving and decision making.

Whether you choose Arctic Survival, Desert or Ocean Survival, your team will go through two stages: first, individuals prioritize available objects according to what they believe is the most important to their survival. Second, the team gets together and negotiate a single ranking of the same objects – the team ranking! Which will be better?

Unexpectedly, teams often register better scores than the best individual score from the first stage – it is a very powerful argument for teamwork.

Negotiations within the team can get really heated, even more so when people feel they know better. Not unlike daily interactions! So, dealing with these situations while also being pressured by time is a powerful lesson.

Unleash the potential of your team with Survival Games!

Key Learning Points

Communication
Negotiation – Influencing skills
Team Synergy
Analytical Thinking
Problem Solving – Planning & Prioritization
Decision making

Key Outcomes

Practice active listening skills without judging or evaluating opinions
Ask questions to understand and validate other’s perspectives
Assertively express opinions with logical reasoning
Focus on value creation and win-win outcomes
Foster trust and drive collaboration
Engage in conversations to analyze and solve problems as a team

Escape games can be played mainly as an Team Building activity and in some cases as an Ice Breaker. It’s fun enough to be just that. However, it can be SO MUCH more than that!

Will working together with your team increase your chances of survival? Or not!?

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Expressive

Unleash the power of correlation and help participants express themselves through their chosen photo!

Expressive (powered by Gaminar.net) offers a full set of original photos, which allow participants to become masterful communicators and use their favorite photo as visual aid while sharing their ideas with the group. Whether used as an ice-breaker, during the introduction, or at check-out, this activity engages all participants.

Participants can share more complex ideas in a clearer way, as including visual aids adds a whole new level to communication.

It is an activity that includes 50 unique artistic images that helps participants make instant associations with their experiences, emotions, aspirations, realities and more.

It’s a fun and engaging way to:

Participants simply select one image at a time and submit their choice which is debriefed based on the context. The images can be used in several ways such as:

Icebreakers & Introductions: Choose a picture that says something about you
Topic of Discussion: Choose a picture that best represents collaboration / problem solving / customer centricity etc.
Goal Setting: Choose a picture that represents your expectations from this program or your personal or professional goals
Critical Thinking: Choose a picture and make a list of questions based on the image (Why, When, Who, Where, How)
Empathy & Perspective: Choose a picture, put yourself in that situation, what will you be thinking & feeling?
Selling Skills: Choose a picture and create a sales pitch with a clear unique selling proposition
Summarize Key Learnings: What was one of the most important learning for you and which picture represents the learning?”

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