Here a list of 10 decks of playing cards related to business. These cards are valuable resources to convey leadership and management concepts.
The Emotional Culture Deck is a simple yet powerful and flexible tool for creating face-to-face conversations about culture and leadership within any organisation or team. It will help you drive bottom-up change in your workplace.
Only the Emotional Culture Deck is simple enough to get up and running in minutes, yet powerful and flexible enough to drive lasting organisational change.
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Eno's Oblique Strategies Deck
In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician. The Oblique Strategies constitute a set of over 100 cards, each of which is a suggestion of a course of action or thinking to assist in creative situations. These famous cards have been used by many artists and creative people all over the world since their initial publication. Fifth edition 2001. Oblique Strategies (enoshop.co.uk)
Change Management Game
Originally published in Jurgen Appelo’s, How to Change the World, the 90-page booklet is a fun way to share stories of successful change management processes. This game doesn’t give you answers. It raises questions. Why? Because questions force us to self-reflect. Questions make us take a step back, look inwards and delve into why we do what we do.
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Delegation Poker & Delegation Board
Use Delegation Poker to clarify who’s responsible for what and to what level. This is a method where you can encourage employee engagement through controlled self-organization and clarified value and decision-making.
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Agile Planning Poker
Planning Poker helps Scrum & Agile Development teams to estimate the effort to reach their goals.
It is a game designed to be a fun way to quickly reach consensus without any cognitive bias. The Ultimate Planning Agile Poker is suitable for teams of up to 8 people. It contains interesting quotes, coaching questions, and answers. In addition, you can use the cards as regular playing cards, dice, or random number generators.
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Moving Motivators Cards
Moving Motivators is a swell game for pairing your team up one-on-one or for you as manager to play directly with your individual teammates. All you do is prioritize what motivates you, how a change can affect those motivators, and then talk about that change management in the context of your organization. Find more information here: https://management30.com
Team Decision Cards
The Team Decision Cards are the next level in their maturity. Help the team to get clarity on who is empowered to make which decision in a team. This is the tool any team with no managers need! As leader support your team to make the next step and create the Team Decision Matrix.
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50 Ways to Fight Bias cards
The 50 Ways to Fight Bias cards highlight 50 specific examples of gender bias in the workplace, encourage participants to brainstorm solutions together, and offer research-backed recommendations for what to do.
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Lean In Connection Cards
The Connection Card activity uses a deck of cards to facilitate the process of sharing deep information with one another quickly through a series of questions. The goal of this activity is to get to know one another better by answering questions and sharing a lot of information fast—think of it as table topics for your Circle!
More info here: leanin.org
The Manufacturing Deck
The Manufacturing Deck is a deck of lean cards beautifully designed to contain the main concepts for excellence in manufacturing. The deck contains 48 methods, tools, and principles applied in manufacturing industries and a set of game instructions to experience these concepts in practice. Lean, 6 Sigma, Kaizen, PDCA, Problem Solving, TPM, Value Stream, Machine Effectiveness, are some of the concepts found in the deck.
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