Continuous Improvement Business Game

How do you make a company more efficient? In the Continuous Improvement business game, the team are tasked with finding the most efficient, productive solution.

A company has hired a team of consultants (your team) to help to improve the performance of the production process at their factory. But there’s a problem: To get the production line working, 30 icons (plastic cards) on a large floor-mounted touch screen monitor must be touched in sequence.

To complicate things further, the sequence can change when a different product is being manufactured.

Not surprisingly, the process is taking too long and impacting productivity. Teams must find a quicker, more efficient solution.

Total flexibility – Tailor the game to the group

This creative continuous improvement game is easily adapted to focus on different key skills, such as leadership and teamwork. The Trainer’s Guide and Team Briefing Sheets offer several possible options for running the game, including:

• Leadership and Continuous Improvement:
  • The facilitator appoints a small team as managers and a bigger team as their staff
  • The managers go into a separate room or area where they cannot see the team carry out the task
  • The managers are given the briefing notes to enable them to brief the team on how to carry out the task
  • The team are allowed a number of attempts to accomplish the task. In between rounds, they report back to management with an update on their progress. The managers are under pressure to provide the team with effective leadership in less-than-ideal conditions.
  • On the first attempt, the team will usually get one person to touch all the cards, while the rest of the team stand along the outside of the screen, pointing to the next card in sequence. To get the lowest time, the team will need to work together and share responsibility for touching the cards. This is more difficult because of the need to coordinate effort; however, the time required will be reduced.
• Continuous Improvement and Performance Management:
  • The team are given the briefing notes and make their first attempt at achieving the task
  • The facilitator records the time it took and the number of penalties incurred.
  • The facilitator asks the team to debrief on what they did and how they can improve it
  • The team tries their new method, which is debriefed, and another method is tried until they are satisfied with their score or their time is up.

The Continuous Improvement training game helps learners develop their abilities in the following key areas:

• Continuous improvement
• Process improvement
• Change management
• Performance management, including giving feedback
• Leadership and management skills
• Problem solving
• Planning and time management
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Teamwork.

Other benefits of this continuous improvement game:

• Integrates into any training situation, ideal as an ice breaker or energiser
• Simple to set up and administer with clear instructions and Trainer’s Guide with debrief suggestions
• Suitable for conferences, seminars and other learning and development events.

This Continuous Improvement business game includes:

• 30 Plastic cards numbered 1 to 30 on one side, and A to Z on the other (for the different ways of running the game)
• Length of cord to mark the area of the monitor screen
• Laminated Team Sheets for different ways of running the game
• Trainer’s Guide.

• Continuous Improvement Business Game PDF
• Business Games Brochure
• Course Brochure
• Team Building Brochure

“We use it time and time again for different training courses. So adaptable for continuous improvement, teamwork and leadership.”

“As you recommended, we use observers and they come up with the points that we as facilitators would. Thank you for another of your wonderful training games.”

“So much learning comes from this game; it always goes down well. We also use it with people who do not speak English, so all we do is brief them verbally; they do not have to read anything.”

• Multiple games can be played at once to accommodate groups larger than 20.  This requires at least one trainer per game.
• Additional licences are required to play more than one game at a time:  Two games are required for 21-40 participants, three games for 41-60 participants, etc.
• There’s no restriction on the number of times you can use our games.
• It is possible to play Continuous Improvement in other languages if the trainer verbally translates the English instructions.