Change Management Workout
Change management is the process of guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through transitions or transformations. It involves planning, implementing, and supporting changes to minimize resistance and ensure a smooth shift from the current state to a desired future state. This can include changes in processes, technologies, structures, or culture. Key elements of change management include clear communication, leadership support, employee involvement, and training. Effective change management helps organizations adapt, stay competitive, and achieve long-term success.
Skills tested with Change Management game are:
- Think Outside the Box! Video
- Dealing with a Change
- Creative thinking–Breaking Patterns Tool
- Change the Pattern Video
- Resilience–The Alpinist Method
- Self–Block Strategy
- Thinking Outside the Box – Managers Video
- Following Move Order
Description
An in depth look at the skills this test will accomplish:
Think Outside the Box! Video
- Description:Watch this short and informative video to learn the concept of thinking outside the box. The video emphasizes how breaking our thinking patterns can help us generate new and original ideas. By exploring different perspectives and taking unconventional approaches, we can unlock our creative potential and find innovative solutions to problems. The video provides practical examples of thinking outside the box and encourages viewers to challenge their assumptions and embrace creativity in their thinking.
- Content Type: Video
Dealing with a Change
- Description:In this workout, you will get to know and practice a thinking tool called the Stoplight Method. The method will help us deal with changes.
The Stoplight Method is a meta-cognitive method that emphasizes our ability to detect changes ahead of time and adapt ourselves to changing situations.
- Leading Game:Two-Flags.
Two-Flags is a strategy game for 2 players in which you need to create and execute your strategic plan while overcoming opponent threats. The game is characterized by the need to be agile in your thinking, as well as the ability to adjust to changing conditions. Players must think about the long-term moves in the game, while making short-term decisions that will help them gain an advantage over their opponent.
- Practiced Skills:Planning, Decision Making, Calculation, Strategic Thinking, Flexible Thinking, Analysis and Deduction and Adaptability.
Creative thinking-Breaking Patterns Tool
- Description:The workout will focus on Creative Thinking. It is the process of nurturing your imagination allowing you to think outside the box. Being able to train your mind to think creatively helps you invent, solve problems, create and communicate in a fresh and original ways.
- Leading Game:Mystery Box.
Mystery Box is a puzzle game that promotes creative thinking and breaking thinking patterns. For players to figure out how to solve the levels, they need to use their intuition, imagination, and previous solution patterns. The game is characterized by the ability to recognize familiar patterns and use them, as well as the ability to define new patterns. Players are challenged to think creatively and use the game pieces in an unusual way.
- Practiced Skills: Creativity, Identify Patterns, Planning, Flexible Thinking and Persistence.
Change the Pattern Video
- Description: This can lead to frustration and dissatisfaction on both sides. The video aims to show how identifying and using the correct response pattern in any situation can lead to more positive outcomes and better customer service.
The video also highlights the importance of empathy and active listening in service interactions. By understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of customers or clients, service providers can build stronger relationships and create more positive experiences for everyone involved.
- Content Type: Video
Resilience-The Alpinist Method
- Description:In this workout, we will explore the Alpinist Method – a useful strategy for developing resilience and successfully coping with life’s challenges! The Alpinist Method will teach us about goal setting and making sure we are equipped with different resources to cope with various situations we may encounter.
- Leading Game:ClimbUp.
ClimbUp is a puzzle game requiring good planning and flexibility. The objective of ClimbUp is to help the alpinist reach the top of the mountain by rearranging the available resources to form a path. The game is characterized by the need for resourcefulness and flexibility from the players. The game levels illustrate that progress toward a goal does not always follow a straight path.
- Practiced skills:Planning, Efficiency, Calculation, Persistence, Problem Solving, Analysis and Deduction and Following Move Order.
Self-Block Strategy
- Description:In this workout we will learn about a practical tool in decision-making called self-block. The purpose of this tool, which sounds counterintuitive, is to be used when we have a fear of withdrawing from a decision or goal. In order to keep us focused on the main target, this tool will be used to block paths that could divert our attention
- Leading Game:Blocker.
Blocker is a two-player strategy game. Players are presented with various dilemmas that require them to make decisions, manage their resources, and decide when to act. The key to winning the game is identifying the critical path and using (limited) resources effectively.
- Practiced Skills:Analytical Thinking, Decision Making, Analysis and Deduction, Calculation and Strategic Thinking.
Thinking Outside the Box – Managers Video
- Description:This video is aimed at management teams of various levels, highlighting the significance of thinking outside the box and practicing flexible thinking in their daily management tasks. It emphasizes the benefits of adopting such an approach and provides examples to illustrate them.
- Content Type: Video
Following Move Order
- Description:In this workout, we’ll learn to recognize situations where calculating the order of actions is necessary. We’ll also practice the skill of determining the correct sequence of actions using a straightforward and effective thinking model, which consists of three steps:
Step 1 – Identifying a scenario that requires a sequence of actions.Step 2 – Analyzing dependencies between different operations and forming a logical chain.Step 3 – Planning and drafting an action plan.
- Leading Game:Maxit is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 square board. The board is randomly filled with numbers and a star is placed on one of the squares. One player plays in the rows and the other in the columns. The objective of the game is to collect more points than the opponent by selecting squares that maximize the sum of their numbers. However, players must also anticipate and adapt to a constantly changing board, adding a layer of complexity to the game that requires planning and strategy.
- Practiced Skills:Analytical Thinking, Following Move Order, Analysis and Deduction, Calculation and Strategic Thinking.