Learning should be interactive, fun, and informative ~ so let’s play! We combine all three in our serious learning games. We take you on a journey of personal discovery so that you can be agile and achieve business excellence ~ both help teams create a ‘better’ normal workspace in our post-pandemic world.
All of the games on this floor are being refreshed and updated for 2024.
When you combine learning with fun and just a little friendly competition it makes for an enjoyable inclusive experience ~ one that you and your teams will really remember. Come play the game and then bring all of that learning and insight into a LIVE virtual de-briefing session into the Learning Impact Lab
This is the first in a new series of game-based learning called A-MAZING JOAN WILLIAMS
An interactive online game which teaches you about performance management and team leadership, and how to deal with sensitive human issues that arise in a team.
The scenario presents you with a series of twists and turns that will test your knowledge and skill about how to manage difficult situations and the people in your team that cause them.
Immerse yourself in the problems in the game and discover a truly different learning experience.
Designed for seasoned and newly appointed middle managers, team leaders and those who run project teams that want to revitalise their thinking about to get the best from their team in public, private or third sector organisations.
At the end of the game you get really valuable people skills something always in demand by employers. You’ll set yourself up for your first managerial role, or take the next step up the management or team leadership career ladder.
JOAN WILLIAMS challenges the learner to make a decision on the scenario they are presented with, then another and another. Each answer leads to a consequence which produces new challenges and more choices. As the learner makes decisions, the story unfolds in unpredictable ways, thereby making this kind of learning engaging and fun. Branching scenarios are not new, they were originally called Action Mazes and their root is from psychological research into behaviour as far back as 1934 when the neo-behaviorist, Edward Chace Tolman, PhD, explained the importance of maze learning.
“Everything important in psychology … can be investigated, in essence, through the continued experimental and theoretical analysis of the determinants of rat behaviour at a choice-point in a maze.”
Branching scenarios is the term now used for maze learning, and has been readily adopted by the e-learning and gaming industries. Maze learning is different from quizzes, which also pose challenges and ask for input. The difference is that quizzes are linear. The next question is always the same regardless of what the learner answered before. In a scenario, every response determines what’s next. Scenarios aren’t linear and therefore unpredictable and engaging. It means they are fun to play, and re-play.
A unique online learning workshop takes a peek inside a make-believe organisation called “The Company” that is starting their journey to business excellence. Told as a 10-part story and presented as a cartoon, there are self-paced learning points all along the way. Plus the odd trip into the real work of the Learning Impact Lab to discuss what happened, and most importantly – why.
This workshop was designed to be completed online by individuals, but can also be adapted and brought into your organisation and delivered on-site with your business teams.
Update June 2023: Hit hard during the pandemic years and now the economic crisis “The Company” is recalibrating and adjusting things internally so as to response to the latest challenges. This means that they are offline right now, but will be available again for scrutiny and analysis very soon.
A physical board game still has a valuable place in your in-company training offering, as well as for business meetings as an ice-breaker. A game of this quality, with strong pedagogical design elements cannot fail to bring out the very best, and maybe even the very worst practice of your project teams.
Here’s what makes ‘VISIBLE’ so effective as a serious learning game:
A brand new development of this original game is currently under development and will likely be due for release in 2025.