As a small business owner, or even a business owner with a medium sized company, finding funds to provide top quality professional development workshops can be difficult. However, you can provide very interactive, top level learning experiences through the use of business board games that can be used again and again with different teams and groups within your company.
There are many different business board games out there with some being more relevant and engaging than others. It is a good idea to spend some time reviewing websites and choose the company that you want to do business with. Top companies offering board games usually also offer simulations and even facilitation for small groups, in-house trainings, conferences or retreats for large or small corporations.
Focus Area
Getting started with a few business board games for you company is a simple, cost effective way to provide self-training, discussion, critical thinking, communication and decision making skills. These games can be played with management, employees or groups that include people from different departments or levels within a company.
All you need to do is think about what you want to focus on. Board games for businesses can include leadership skills, how to work through changes in a business, improving performance within a company or even business finance and business strategy development.
Team Building
While some business board games are meant to be played on an individual basis, there are also top games that allow you to group people into teams. This is a wonderful way to include team building activities that can be used on a regular basis or to highlight the qualities that each member brings to the team.
Just like typical games, business board games usually have some element of competition which keeps they very motivating. In addition the element of chance through dice, cards and random scenarios carefully selected to focus discussion to address a problem any business faces helps to keep the games fun and engaging.
Typically most business board games are designed to be completed in just a few hours of play. However, the discussions that are generated throughout the game and the skills learned during play will continue on.
