Serious Play: a method that improves your team

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Since our earliest childhood, games have been our companions on journeys of discovery. They have helped forge authentic social bonds. They have also nourished our thirst for experiential learning, showing us the infinite horizons of our skills. But what happens when play crosses the boundaries of the personal realm to work in the professional world? This is what we call serious PLAY or serious game!

Transform your
meetings into moments of productive synergy

Participants exploring blind during a serious play session

Imagine a meeting where creativity emerges naturally, where innovative ideas come to life and where collective intelligence works intensely. Our Serious Games make this possible. We transform traditional meetings into stimulating moments of interaction, using games as a catalyst for productivity. Based on your development needs, our games provide a friendly framework for your strategic thinking.

Far from the usual constraints, our Serious Games involve all participants, and the benefits are manifold. They range from individual fulfillment toteam growth within the company, by exploiting everyone’s talents. We create a synergy that pushes projects to new heights, leaving no one behind.

Our role as facilitators is key to this success. We create a safe environment where every voice counts, where risk-taking is encouraged. To be constant, innovation must flourish unhindered.

Do you know a flower that has already grown without being planted? Our sessions always start with setting the scene, encouraging creativity and mutual respect.

Dare to play seriously with us to unleash innovation and unlock your team’s potential.

Imagine the tangible results: solutions to complex challenges, refined strategies and a team that grows stronger every step of the way. Leaders and managers who reject play at work are missing out on the opportunity to unleash their team’s hidden potential, and take their company to the next level.

Don’t let monotonous meetings stifle the brilliant ideas that lie dormant in each and every one of your employees. Join us in offering your colleagues a revolutionary work experience, where gaming is not just entertainment, but the key to your success.

Turn your company into a playground for innovation and get ready to unleash waves of innovative ideas and success stories of all kinds. Dare to play seriously with us!

Participants brainstorming together during a serious play session

The key to collective intelligence success,
two inspiring case studies

Case study of one of our customers
in the paper industry:

During a session organized at La petite merveille, our participants immersed themselves in the challenge of attracting talent. Led by our serious playexperts, this workshop was designed to encourage action. During the ideation process, they came up with the idea of revolutionizing their approach to recruitment. Let’s explore the reasons behind this revolution.

Situation

Let’s imagine a company seeking to improve its working environment and stimulate employee commitment. To this end, it has initiated a Serious Play session, aimed at readjusting the company’s strategic direction. The aim is to capture employees’ desires, concerns and ideas in terms of attractiveness, using collective intelligence. Encourage innovation while identifying potential obstacles and reservations.

Workshop procedure

The lego serious play method

Before moving on to consider what tomorrow’s company might look like, it was important to initiate a creative situation for the participants. We start with an Icebreaker, followed by a time of inclusion to think about common objectives, in confrontation with individual objectives. This training in collective intelligence is followed by further exchanges using the Lego Serious Play Method and Thiagi’s framework games.

Participants had the opportunity to simulate the process of putting development ideas into action, exchange mentoring methods and build career progression paths for their future talents.

Through creative Serious Play sessions, the aim was to readjust the company’s strategic direction and capture the desires, concerns and ideas of its employees. The aim was to encourage innovation, while identifying potential obstacles and reservations.

Teams brainstormed about what could be optimized, about customizable benefits packages, considering the varied expectations of new talent. A lively discussion helped to assess the benefits of these changes, while taking into account the realities of the company.

Here are the concrete results:

  • A more dynamic and committed work atmosphere.
  • Taking the initiative for times of cohesion.
  • A shared awareness and a sense of responsibility in terms of research and development.
  • Communication on our actions.

The participants experienced our workshop not only as a learning session, but above all as a real wake-up call about the gaps and opportunities they had previously been letting slip through their fingers. Through this experience, they were able to identify, in a concrete and practical way, the areas for improvement to be implemented in their HR strategy at both strategic and management levels, as well as at individual level.

Case study of one of our customers
operating in the security and identification technology sector:

Situation

This company was looking to set up an employee ambassador program to put into practice the core values developed during the COVID period. Although these values had been communicated to all employees, they had never been put into practice. It was therefore essential for our customer to put them into action, to integrate them concretely into all the company’s day-to-day actions. The key issue was how these values could be adopted and embodied within the company.

Workshop sequence

To make this initiative a reality, we chose to introduce the Thiagi Executive Games, which opened the way for in-depth reflection on how to bring these values to life in our day-to-day work. Each of us, at our own level, was able to draw inspiration from our missions to test these same values and question our own practices.

Feedback from employees has been extremely positive. They expressed a growing desire for alignment with the company’s values. This underlined the importance, during the recruitment process, of sharing and clearly communicating these values. In addition, the issue of multiple interpretations of values was raised. To avoid errors of embodiment, it is and will be essential to work with teams to collectively define the “how to be” in order to live these shared values over time.

Technical backdrops for a serious play experience

Here are the concrete results:

Thanks to the tools we use at Team First, this company took the time to mobilize its teams to co-create a common approach to “how to put our values into practice”. This strengthened cohesion and commitment to the company and its long-term strategy.

This approach has generated a tangible return by reinforcing employees’ adherence to our values and improving our corporate culture. It has also contributed to a better integration of new recruits. The result is a more solid cultural alignment and an improvement in the company’s overall performance.

Employees who feel in tune with the company’s values tend to stay longer.