Gaming At Work: Waste Of Time Or A Competitive Advantage?
In a society in which productivity and efficiency prevail, it seems truly foolish to reserve a moment to play and indulge in serious play. It is common for companies to respond with “We don’t have time for games.”
Meanwhile, companies do not dedicate time to unite and improve the relationship between the members of their teams; Sometimes they do specific team building activities and hope that this will solve the problem. And projects drag on or do not go as smoothly as expected, so costs increase, which implies losses for the company.
How many times have you thought that if the team could work better together, it would be of great benefit to all its members? A lot of money is spent on sales and skill development courses and the aim is for people to be more proactive and for teams to self-manage, but to do so It is necessary to help them get to know each other, to support each other, to become a team using various coaching and support techniques.
What can we do to create a winning team? To answer this question, we can listen to Plato, who said: “You know more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” And this, for your information, was mentioned in the year 400 BC The answer to improving our companies is in the game, but a game with meaning, a serious game And now in the 21st century, with all the good communication that technology provides us, we have disconnected from the people closest to us, it is difficult for us to talk face to face.
To begin, I will tell you that Lego Serious Play meetings are designed and facilitated specifically for those attending; It is a tailored suit for your team in order to obtain better results. Of course, the person who facilitates these meetings cannot guarantee the specific result of the meeting, since this depends on the characteristics, knowledge and skills of each team.
A Lego Serious Play meeting has as its main characteristics the fact that all players participate with the same level of 100% commitment in the meeting and that go through several phases with the same structure:
Why is this activity necessary for your team?
Because communication is the basis of any relationship and when we work with projective communication (that is, when using images, Lego pieces, dolls…) and when using different materials that allow us to make metaphors, we reach a much deeper subconscious level of communication than in the direct communication from you to you.
Furthermore, when we work with LSP Non-aggressive communication is carried out, since at no time is the creator of the model questioned the model itself is questioned, allowing for a much deeper understanding of the creator’s points of view.
The first thing that is achieved when using this methodology is to listen to all the voices, and in this way cohesion begins to be created, by working together to reach different agreements; We are getting to know our colleagues, something that often does not happen due to day-to-day tasks and functions. We are not wasting time, we are working with a clearly defined purpose and at much deeper levels of consciousness than when we simply use words. For this reason, it is known as the serious game.
Have you ever played with a child as an adult? If you have not concentrated on the game, if you have been paying attention to your phone, if you have not paid the required attention, he will have blurted out something like: “Be attentive, play seriously”, because even though it is a child’s thing to play, it is something serious. As Plato said.
What benefits do these meetings have?
Meetings with facilitators allow us to resolve conflicts in the moment because conflicts should not be avoided, they must be faced, since their resolution, whatever the type of conflict, will allow us to grow the team both personally and professionally.
In short, conflict management serves to create stronger teams. When people learn to resolve their own conflicts, that is the beginning of high-performing, self-managed teams.
Working while playing allows us to speed up decision-making, consider all the factors that affect the system and even those that we did not think would affect the system.
Listening to everyone has the consequence that people commit to decisions by consensus , so the agreed actions are carried out 95% of the time. Improving processes and eliminating inaction.
Companies that know that teamwork is essential are able to put people at the center. They know that the secret of results depends on the quality of their collaborators’ relationships and their happiness, since this will produce better results for each of their components. and they know that They need the talent and skills of each of them so that their teams give their optimal performance
Without a doubt, investing time in playing is not wasting time, it is gaining efficiency, coherence and agility. It is saving time, it is saving costs, investing in happiness, it is promoting the creation of better results with greater commitment from all team members. Having a committed team is having a team with a greater sense of belonging, it is working for the common goal, not just for each individual’s ego.
In Karismatia We are specialists in improving equipment and we make each person contribute their best for the good of the team, obtaining better equipment, we accompany in specific workshops or in continuous monitoring. We use our own CORS method of cohesion, objective, results and monitoring, integrating various techniques and methodologies to make people more aware of their strengths and how much they can contribute to their colleagues so that they can give their best, for the good. common and company.
