Introduction​

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey. The purpose of this survey is to gain insights into your understanding of mental models and to identify areas for improvement to enhance team performance and understanding of team mental models within the company. Your feedback is essential to help us better understand how employees perceive and think about the company, and how this impacts decision-making and problem-solving within the team.

We believe that by improving our collective mental models, we can enhance our ability to work together and make more informed decisions, which will ultimately benefit our team and the company as a whole. Once again, thank you for your participation, and we look forward to your valuable insights and feedback

Rail Roads

Build a network of rails and roads, making an effective transportation system in the city! But everything you wish for is not granted, and things are uncertain. Played over 7 years, Can you and your team build an effective inter-connected transport network?

Mental Models: seeing the big picture | entropy

Outcomes

  •  Helps people embrace and get comfortable with uncertainty
  • Avoids procrastination, and focuses on progress over perfection, and learning to course-correct
  • Helps people in recognising patterns amidst chaos.

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The CEO’ Abduction

Can your team rescue the kidnapped CEO? Provides the participants the thrill of working together to decipher codes, solve clues to unravel mysteries.The game comes with scenarios which are not only super fun and engaging but intellectually stimulating as well.

Mental Models: seeing the big picture | entropy

Outcomes

  •  Highlights the significance of effective leadership and team presence.
  • Help listen to various perspectives, and think out of the box to solve challenges. 
  • Increases the patterns recognition, and attention to details.

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So Farm, So Easy

Be a villager for 2 years! Can you make the right decisions in times of uncertainty, can you plan ahead, and generate a good produce, and a happy profit?

Mental Models: Tuckman’s team development model

Outcomes

  • Plan, prioritise, and manage a team virtually through the four stages of Tuckman’s Team Development Model
  • Manage risks, deal with crises, and make decisions while resolving conflicts within the team
  • Practice behaviours of 100% accountability, open communication, feedback, responsiveness, and trust

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Mavericks

A thrilling and immersive team challenge, where players are put in team to uncover a hard boiling case. Coordinate with your team of detective and forensic scientists to identify the culprit and his/her motivations

Outcomes

  • Infer and critique decisions from the view of Ladder of inference.
  • Helps people infer the various unconscious biases in their decision making.
  • Immersive game, where you get to upload pictures of evidence from around your home/office.

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Tough Deal

Participants will take charge of 4 different cricket teams & agencies. They will try and get the best value for their players or their money in an exciting live game
  • Preparing for a negotiation, by understanding the needs of stakeholders.
  • Practical understanding of BATNA, ZOPA, and Anchoring.
  • Applying the 6 principles of science of persuasion.

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EMO-G

Express your emotion in a statement, and help your teammates guess it accurately in the Emotion Wheel. Emo-G is a social guessing game in which players cooperate to read each other’s emotions in communication.One representative of the team is asked to create a statement expressing a chosen emotion. Later, teammates discuss and try to guess exactly the emotion that is conveyed by the teammate.

Mental Models: Pluctchik’s wheel of emotions

Outcomes

  •  Helps enhance one’s emotional vocabulary.
  • Understands the variou intensities of emotions, and how one leads to another.

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ICONIC ICONS

If you don’t understand a language, Can you communicate with just icons? This game challenges players to use just icons, to make their teammates identify an iconic figure.

Mental Models: first principles thinking | systems thinking

Outcomes

  • Helps promote deductive reasoning.
  • Unleashes creativity and vivid imagination.
  • Promotes both divergent and convergent thinking

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YIN-YANG

Black and white thinking distorts reality. People who see the world in black and white, miss the nuances of situations. This party-style game puts a player somewhere in between two extremes, and challenges the player to come with statements to guide their team to the right spot.

Mental Models: #grey thinking #yinyang

Outcomes

  • Instead of seeing things in black and white, players appreciate seeing things in Grey.
  • Help understand the other side of the argument, and make one open up to people, mindset, opinions and the world in general.
  • Help appreciate the goodness even in a negatively impacting situation, thereby creating more gratefulness and happiness in
    OUTCOMES
    oneself and others

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AMAZING OBSERVER

How well do you know about yourself and your team/friends? This game helps you figure that out in the competition for the title of ‘Amazing Observer’. Understanding oneself is the first step towards Mastery, and this game, built over Johari Window, helps you open up, and discover yourself from the point of view of self and the observers.

Mental Models: johari window

Outcomes

  • Increased self-awareness, via self-reflection and feedback
  • Getting to know more about your friends and colleagues. 
  • Helps you open up, and built trust and openness among teams.

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SET

In SET, there are 4 attributes: Colors, shapes, shadings and counting and all come in three different types. A set consists of three cards that are either all alike or all different in each attribute. Race to find the SETs among the twelve cards

Mental Models: #nash equilibrium #prisoners dilemma #pareto optimality #trust equation

Outcomes

  • Acts as a mindfulness practise
  • Tests one’s pattern recognition skills. 
  • Helps practise deep focus, and agility.

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CODENAMES

Codenames is a team-based game focusing on word association. Can your team decipher the clues given the Spy Master, and locate all your spies before the other team locates theirs? No one can play this game only once.

Mental Models: #convergent/divergent thinking #confirmation bias #group think effect

Outcomes

  • Help celebrate various perspectives of people.
  • Encourages people to play devil’s advocate, thereby appreciating its impact on effective decision making.
  • Cognitive biases like confirmation bias, groupthink are brought out through gameplay and lets people self-introspect.

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A counselling psychologist by profession, Abs specialises in addressing mental health concerns of adolescents, young adults, and adults including stress & time management, relationship counselling, substance abuse, domestic violence, perinatal problems, depression, loneliness, anxiety, sexual issues, identity crisis and work issues, among others. She believes that therapy can hold different experiences & meanings for each individual, thus using an eclectic approach with her clients.

Aditya’s passion lies in Career and Business Strategy. He loves Supporting executives and professionals with career obstacles such as self regulation, goal directed persistence, task initiation, planning/prioritization, role transition, organization and time management.

His clients share from the experience about their coaching engagement  that they feel his coaching is an experience that is engaging, highly energizing and making learning fun. He has a strong determination to offer something different, with the intention of helping others succeed in their walks of life.

His accreditations includes him being an Associate Certified Coach (ACC- ICF),Brave Spirit Icon 2017 I Youth Icon Recipient 2016 I National Service Excellence Award 2016 I National Education Award 2015 

His experience includes 50,000+ hours that involves facilitation/presentation/training/consulting on a wide variety of topics globally across Dubai, Sri Lanka, UK, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, USA. He has successfully engaged with over 1,00,000+ participants from diverse backgrounds working on a national and international assignment since 2014.