The best games for the leadership

[Adriano Gasparri]

Hi there,

in your opinion, what are the best games (I mean podium) for the leadership ? :-)

Thank so much

Adriano

--

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My Blog Site                                 www.adrianogasparri.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Yves Hanoulle]

what do you mean with podium?

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AgileGames" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to agilegames+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to agile...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/agilegames.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

-- 

Yves Hanoulle 

Current community projects that need YOUR help:

• Community Tips for hiring a great team: http://www.hanoulle.be/hiring 
  
• Community Tips for Coaches: http://www.hanoulle.be/2015/06/community-tips-for-coaching/  
  
• Scrummaster and agile coaches survey: http://www.hanoulle.be/2015/05/salarysurvey/ 
  
• Who is agile "your country version"  >> mail me
  
• CoachRetreat in your country >> mail me

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno venerdì 5 agosto 2016 13:11:05 UTC+2, Yves Hanoulle ha scritto:

what do you mean with podium?

The 3 best

Thanks
Adriano

[Yves Hanoulle]

although I created a game called the leadership game, I personally can't answer that question.

that question is for me too broad, leadership is so big , that the best leadership, is similar to me as:

what is the best knife.

y

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AgileGames" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to agilegames+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to agile...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/agilegames.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Timofey Yevgrashyn]

Hi Adriano,

It seems you also need to define the Leadership meaning or at least your target audience :-)

For me there are three games in descending order:

#3 “60 paces” by Ken Schwaber http://tastycupcakes.org/2009/06/60-paces/

#2 “Human Knot” http://tastycupcakes.org/2011/11/human-knot/ 

#1 “Team Responsibility” (AKA “Team Network”) http://tastycupcakes.org/2014/10/team-responsibility-game/

The #1 is the best demonstration of processes that happen inside the team, which is by fact a social network. And especially clear affection of different influences by a boss or other processes inside and outside the team.

I always use “Team Responsibility” on my trainings for different type of leaders and managers when I teach them to build long lasting effective Agile teams.

Timofey Yevgrashyn,

Author at "The Improved Methods"

http://tim.com.ua
http://www.facebook.com/tim.com.ua 

Skype: spidertim
Phone: +380 67 408 53 30

--

[Michael Sahota]

I use a lot of games in my practice. None with leadership. 

That is a space for real conversation and dialogue. One of my favourites is: http://agilitrix.com/2014/06/agile-is-not-the-goal-workshop/

[Silvana Wasitova]

It really depends on your objectives, what you want to achieve with your target audience. Is it warm up? Ice-breaker? Or to teach them a specific concept?  E.g for the last one, the Penny Game makes them appreciate small batches, and helps to wean them off waterfall. http://tastycupcakes.org/2013/05/the-penny-game/

Silvana Wasitova | Lausanne, Switzerland | +41 79 558 0509
Skype: wasitova | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wasitova

[Mike Burrows]

Ah, perhaps I understand the question better now. I have used my Featureban game (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) successfully with senior people (C-suite &/or their reports, senior customer representatives, etc) as part or all of the audience. Not only does it show the technical benefits of getting work-in-progress under control, players experience the collaboration benefits too.

Also, I have also tested a game that's about turning problems &/or solutions into outcomes, using Clean Language. It's not fit for publication yet (likely I will after the October Agile Nottingham meetup http://www.meetup.com/NottAgile/events/232778488/) but there are some clues here: https://blog.agendashift.com/2016/08/04/two-new-tools-and-how-im-finding-them-useful/. The ability to recognise the difference between problems, solutions, and outcomes seems to be one of those basic skills that a lot of leaders seem to lack (or appear not to care about). Before I sound too critical though, the Cynefin-inspired followup exercise I describe in the blog post is also interesting for what it reveals about leadership instincts.

Cheers,

Mike

--
Mike Burrows

Positive Incline Limited
Email: mike.b...@positiveincline.com
Twitter: @asplake (me), @agendashift (for agendashift.com) & @KanbanInside (my book)

Blog: positiveincline.com & blog.agendashift.com
+44 7785 236497

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno venerdì 5 agosto 2016 14:38:14 UTC+2, Yves Hanoulle ha scritto:

although I created a game called the leadership game

Thanks Yves, my question is intentionally generic. I'm interested in collecting your own opinion about this huge topic, without any influence. I downloaded your Leadership Game ebook ;-)

Best
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno domenica 7 agosto 2016 21:27:00 UTC+2, Timofey Yevgrashyn ha scritto:

#3 “60 paces” by Ken Schwaber http://tastycupcakes.org/2009/06/60-paces/

#2 “Human Knot” http://tastycupcakes.org/2011/11/human-knot/ 

#1 “Team Responsibility” (AKA “Team Network”) http://tastycupcakes.org/2014/10/team-responsibility-game/

Thank you so mutch Timofey, my question is intentionally generic. I'm interested in collecting your own opinion about this huge topic, without any influence. I bookmarked your podium ;-)

Cheers
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno lunedì 8 agosto 2016 04:23:29 UTC+2, Michael Sahota ha scritto:

One of my favourites is: http://agilitrix.com/2014/06/agile-is-not-the-goal-workshop/

Useful link Michael, thanks ;-)

See you
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno martedì 9 agosto 2016 10:33:11 UTC+2, Silvana Wasitova ha scritto:

http://tastycupcakes.org/2013/05/the-penny-game/

Thanks for the advice Silvana :-)

Bye
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno martedì 9 agosto 2016 12:44:21 UTC+2, Mike Burrows ha scritto:

Ah, perhaps I understand the question better now.

Thank you so much Mike, I bookmarked your resources ;-)

Best
Adriano

[Pierre Neis]

Why making difference between leaders and operational? You can use the same games for every body and agree with Silvana you need to have a clear purpose.

- a value stream game like Take the Win Win Wave or Draw how to make toast are helpful to visualise the process from demand to delivery and get alignment. Also helpful to see where leadership is needed in the stream.

- Cool we failed is also a nice one, where people are celebrating their biggest failures >>> team building

... and a lot of others

like the Sociogram game to visualise the place of each agent in the organisation and asking where is the manager and who solves their issues.

and of course Agile Animal Farm to highlight the behaviours....

but you can take all kind of games for leadership or better a combinaison of several games and. of course, lego/color pencils and PlayDoo are working well too

	PierreNEIS Senior Lean Agile Coach | Associate M: +352 / 661 727 867 UK: +44 / 203 239 52 60 wecompany.me | You can book me Actually Scrum Coach for S4HANA/Hybris Billing @ SAP SE BOOK Me: HERE

--

[Barb O'Connell]

Where can I find details on "Cool we failed" ... sounds interesting!  I googled it but didn't get decent hits.

[Pierre Neis]

"Cool we failed" is a post mortem game and quite simple:

1- ask the audience to remember 3 of their bigger failures in their life

2- when their done, each of them tell the stories to the audience starting from the highest responsible person of the organisation.

3. celebrate the failure of each one

4. debrief using grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance through Mad/Afraid/Sad/Happy checks

This game has never been really formalised but was often an inspiration for a couple of team building games.

Value of the game: create an emotional link between people, broke hierarchical barriers, recognition.

Avoid to use it as a communion or group penance

Use it as a quick starter.

That's it

	PierreNEIS Senior Lean Agile Coach | Associate M: +352 / 661 727 867 UK: +44 / 203 239 52 60 wecompany.me | You can book me Actually Scrum Coach for S4HANA/Hybris Billing @ SAP SE BOOK Me: HERE

[Adrian Howard]

This sounds similar to the Failure Swapshop exercise from Luke Williams — deck with some links over at

http://www.slideshare.net/adrianh/failure-swapshop

example of output

https://twitter.com/adrianh/status/581807481355145216

Adrian

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AgileGames" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to agilegames+...@googlegroups.com.

To post to this group, send email to agile...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/agilegames.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

-- 
adr...@quietstars.com / +44 (0)7752 419080 / @adrianh / quietstars.com
- Get the Agile & Lean UX newsletter here > http://bit.ly/agileleanux -

[Barb O'Connell]

Thanks Pierre and Adrian!

[Luke Hohmann]

Hey everyone - 

I've been watching this thread with interest. I think the games suggested have a lot of power - but I also want the group to consider the deeper goals.

In my Agile Camp keynote I challenge the notion of "leader" vs "manager". Indeed, I argue that continuing to perpetuate these concepts can be harmful. The goal is to create "agilists". 

To help motivate you to watch the keynote, consider the meaning you associate with such words as "leader" vs "manager". 

Now, consider the meaning you associate with words like "mother" and "father". 

Watch this for even more insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aWcchmMCE0

Luke

www.conteneo.co

[Yves Hanoulle]

2016-08-12 20:37 GMT+02:00 Luke Hohmann <luke.h...@conteneo.co>:

Hey everyone - 

I've been watching this thread with interest. I think the games suggested have a lot of power - but I also want the group to consider the deeper goals.

In my Agile Camp keynote I challenge the notion of "leader" vs "manager". Indeed, I argue that continuing to perpetuate these concepts can be harmful. The goal is to create "agilists". 

To help motivate you to watch the keynote, consider the meaning you associate with such words as "leader" vs "manager". 

Now, consider the meaning you associate with words like "mother" and "father". 

observation before watching.

when I think of mother and father roles, I think more of the archetypes of mother and father 

not the people doing these roles.

(aka it could be a mother who does the archetype of mother role and vice versa or a stand alone person who does both roles (yet some have a harder time distinguing both roles as one person)

a little bit like an old school PM was for me a SM and a PO into one person.

now the archetype of a mother is the caring type, nurturing the child

the archetype of a father is the one challenging the child, and pushing it out the door so it can stand on it's own.

in psychology it turns out that the more a child has people around her that do these two roles. (could even be a teach instead of a father) the more "healthy" (whatever that means) a child grows up

now I'm interested it to watch your keynote ...

Watch this for even more insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aWcchmMCE0

Luke

www.conteneo.co

On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 4:09:01 AM UTC-7, Adriano Gasparri wrote:

Hi there,

in your opinion, what are the best games (I mean podium) for the leadership ? :-)

Thank so much

Adriano

--

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My Blog Site                                 www.adrianogasparri.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AgileGames" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to agilegames+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

To post to this group, send email to agile...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/agilegames.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno giovedì 11 agosto 2016 16:58:10 UTC+2, Pierre Neis ha scritto:

but you can take all kind of games for leadership or better a combinaison of several games and. of course, lego/color pencils and PlayDoo are working well too

Yep Pierre, thanks for the advice :-)
Agile Animal Farm rocks

Best
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno venerdì 12 agosto 2016 19:16:28 UTC+2, Adrian Howard ha scritto:

This sounds similar to the Failure Swapshop exercise from Luke Williams

Useful link Adrian, thanks ;-)

See you
Adriano

[Adriano Gasparri]

Il giorno venerdì 12 agosto 2016 20:46:52 UTC+2, Luke Hohmann ha scritto:

Now, consider the meaning you associate with words like "mother" and "father". 

Thank you so much Luke, I bookmarked your resources ;-)

Best
Adriano