Game On

Game On – Applied Learning with Agile Games

Wednesday, November 27 at 11 AM ET • Online

Come learn and share Agile games and exercises that can help to create Aha! moments for yourself, your teams, and those who lead them. Learn more about Game On.

Playing to our strengths with StrongSuits

In this workshop, we’ll play one of the StrongSuits games called “Your StrongSuit” which will help us to discover and clarify how we prefer to communicate in teams and how cognitive diversity makes teams stronger. After a short introduction, we’ll play a single-player game on our own to discover our communication style. We’ll then get into breakouts to discuss how we might work together if we were a team!

StrongSuits is a people and team development toolset that uses playing cards and games and is based on 4 main insights from modern psychology:

• People are more effective at work when they play to their strengths (Gallup)
• Every strength can be overplayed and become a limitation (Daniel Ofman)
• Cognitive diversity makes teams stronger (Meredith Belbin)
• People interact and communicate in different ways (Linda Berens)

Workshop Pre-requisites

We’ll be running a single activity for the duration of the session. You’ll get the most out of it if you arrive on time and stay for the whole session. We’ll be using Zoom and Miro for this game. Miro works best on a desktop/laptop browser (rather than a tablet or a mobile). You’ll have the best experience joining from a quiet place where you can have your camera on.

Meet your hosts, Ellen Grove and Ryan Behrman

Ellen Grove is a business agility coach and change agent who works with organizations of all sizes to help them put agile thinking into practice to make change happen. Her coaching practice is shaped by deep experience working with software development teams and organizational transformations, a passion for user-centered design, and a love of using playful techniques to get serious things done. Ellen coaches and trains teams and leaders in startups, multinational enterprises, and public sector organizations in Canada and internationally.

Ryan Behrman has been a team and organisational effectiveness coach, enterprise Agile coach, facilitator, and trainer for well over a decade.  Prior to that, he was a software developer and senior project manager in multinational consulting firms. He is the founder of Systemic Agility, an organisation and meetup community dedicated to aligning teams and organisations through systemic coaching and facilitation. Ryan has a history of facilitating outcomes through play, including having been a long-time Management 3.0 Facilitator, Lean Change Management Facilitator, and Lego Serious Play Facilitator. He is the CEO of StrongSuits – Play to your Strengths.

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