Hollow Square
Designed to understand the impact of communication.
This game can be used to help teams understand the impact of communication between those who develop plans and those who have to implement them. It also highlights helpful and not so helpful behaviours when planning, assigning or completing tasks. T
Hollow Square can be played at several levels of complexity and teams that regularly work on problem solving will find the game useful for alerting them to factors that encourage or restrict effectiveness
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About the Game
The group is divided into a Planning Team and an Operations Team. The Planning Team have 20 minutes to prepare a briefing that will enable the Operations Team to carry out a specific task – the building of a hollow square.
The Operations Team then have to carry out the task working from the briefing they have received without any further input from Planning.
At the end of a time limit both teams review the performance against the task, quality of briefings, assignments and instructions plus the wider implications for their work situation.
In the more complex version teams can be chosen to reflect their real work roles or their level of attention to detail! A longer version can be played with Planning allowed to intervene halfway through the process.
Typically, the game promotes an active discussion about behaviours, assumptions made by both teams, quality of delegation and actions to improve communication.
What you Get
Hollow Square is downloaded from the Internet in Adobe Acrobat reader format. You get a full instructions on how to run the game, handout masters for Planning and Operations together with a list of review questions and a guide for leading the post-exercise learning discussion.
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You may copy all sheets for use within your own organisation as long as you retain the copyright note. This exercise has been developed into a UK business context on behalf of Proposal Masters
