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Games, Etc.

How to improve team learning, performance, and productivity in today's workplace

Who should attend this workshop?

Trainers who want to increase participant involvement and learning
Facilitators who want to enhance team-building activities
Managers who want to increase worker participation and passion
Instructional Designers who want to add variety to training programs
Employee Involvement Consultants who want to be effective and remembered

Objectives
(Benefits for individuals)

Use games for multiple purposes-training, team-building, evaluation, and process improvement
Immediately apply high pay-off tools and techniques to the job
Increase effectiveness of lectures and reading assignments
Maximize organizational learning through effective debriefing
Create powerful simulations
Use interactive activities in consulting
Handle disruptive and distracting participants

Benefits for the organization

Improve performance
Involve workers
Increase ROI of training and meetings

Workshop content

Basic concepts

Critical features of training games, simulations, roleplays, experiential learning, action learning, etc.
Multiple uses of games, etc.
When to use games, etc.- and when not to use them.
How to improve the effectiveness of games, etc.
Common misconceptions about the design and use of games, etc.

How to design a training game in 10 minutes

Use flexible, multipurpose framegames
Load a framegame to meet your training needs
Select from several framegames
Use checklists for selecting, unloading, and loading framegames

How to use games to improve traditional training

Use a 3-part instructional model
Modify lectures to reduce limitations and enhance strengths
Adapt and load a lecture game to meet your training needs
Use different lecture game formats
Use different R & P games to strengthen your reading assignments

How to design and use simulations and roleplays

Identify advantages and limitations of simulation games
Select several simulation games
Use simulation game design checklist and worksheet
Identify advantages and limitations of roleplays
Use a creative design model for roleplays

How to be a master facilitator

Overcome your phobias
Prepare materials, participants, and facilities
Use the 6-tensions model to conduct group activities
Adjust game pace, intensity, and playfulness--in real time
Use the 6-step model for debriefing

Thiagi's expertise with games etc.

At seven years of age while playing checkers with his uncle, Thiagi often lost. One day the boy realized that if he could get his uncle, the more skillful player, to agree to a small change in the rules, he could even out the odds and maybe win the game. In that moment, Thiagi made two paradigm shifts: his perspective changed from that of a game player to a game designer and he realized that rules were made to be changed.

With hundreds of game-related articles and activities to his credit, Thiagi has been the president of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association. Through his writing, workshops, and consulting activities, he helps professionals in organizations all over the world to create, use, and modify games to meet their needs.

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