I’ve had the displeasure to attend the odd corporate love-in where a facilitator suggests fancy dress and coloured balls may help in the strategic planning process. Scarred for life, I generally experience reflux every time someone starts suggesting we ‘play a game to get things moving’.
However, of late I have dropped my guard and let others at the agency persuade me to ‘open my mind’. I am not quite ready to spend time with corporate ‘life coaches’ but invested 3 hours on a European train journey to the subject of games. Specifically, I reviewed a text called Gamestorming which, although veering into territory that threatens nausea, is mostly a good summary of well known and emerging techniques for getting results in diverse meeting environments.
In this post, I’ve pulled out the ones I think are most effective. Some I have used successfully before.
Right now, marketing and communication executives across Australia are scoping the year ahead. Government leaders are finely crafting their approaches to Treasury. Yes, it’s strategic planning and budgeting season!
