serious PLAY, serious LEARNING, serious RESULTS

Experienced trainers know that games for learning and development can be used as five minute icebreakers or whole day simulation.

The following are some ideas where you could effectively use 45-120 minute games.

• a training-lunch - perhaps you can follow it with some pizza
• your monthly department meeting
• Friday afternoons before breaking for the weekend
• when your staff are too busy to attend a full training program
• filling a 1-2 hour gap in a conference with an activity that is meaningful, memorable and produces results
• improving staff morale
• when you want to try something different

It is very important that all games are properly debriefed at the end and links made to the workplace.

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Reasons to use games and simulations for learning and development

1. Learning becomes enjoyable, challenging and stimulating.

2. They enable participants to quickly realize their strengths and weaknesses in a relatively safe environment.

3. They enable the transfer of theory into practice.

4. They enable participants to see and experience the gap between what they think they believe and what their behaviour demonstrates they believe.

5. Games and simulations encourage participants to take risks and experiment with new behaviour.

6. Participants often know more than they think they know. Games and simulations help participants to discover the underlying principles that make them competent.

7. They stimulate participants to ask more penetrating questions, about themselves, their colleagues and their organization, than a more formal learning process would trigger.

8. They can produce more powerful insights than were planned for the learning experience.

9. They are FUN.

I'm sure there are a lot more reasons to use games and simulations in corporate learning and development programs. Tell us about them.

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