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A$260
Process Management Snakes & Ladders
A fun and informative game that provides a great platform for conversations about process management theory and practice.
Provoke powerful conversations about process-based management with some serious fun!
Why Snakes & Ladders?
The Snakes & Ladders game originated in India in the second century as a morality teaching aid, exploring enlightenment and dealing with life’s inevitable ups and downs.
Enlightenment! Dealing with positives and negatives! That sounds useful for our process-based management journey. Let’s play and learn.
The Process Management Snakes & Ladders game is a fun and informative platform for challenging conversations about process-based management.
Informed by decades of practical experience, it delivers what it says on the lid — it informs, educates, anticipates, prepares, and entertains.
Are You Game?
Any two people, or larger groups, can play Process Management Snakes & Ladders to discuss key organizational management issues more deeply and form shared understandings about process-based management.
Do you want to see your organization making better and more consistent use of effective process management and improvement practices?
If so, no matter what your job title, authority level, or organizational home, you are a process promoter and encouraging use of the game and shaping learning experiences will be a vital aid in your quest.
All process promoters should include the Process Management Snakes & Ladders game and related materials in their toolkit for raising awareness and enhancing capabilities.
Snakes & Ladders ...
INFORMS
- Track practical benefit delivery
- Nurture process commitment
- Raise process awareness
- Excite process interest
- Know why
EDUCATES
- Develop process capabilities
- Encourage effective tool use
- Define process approach
- Expose benefit potential
- Know how
ANTICIPATES
- Assess event risk
- Survive the negatives
- Capitalize on the positives
- Consider process continuity
- Identify impactful events
PREPARES
- Utilize strengths
- Strengthen weaknesses
- Find strengths & weaknesses
- Enhance process governance
- Nurture process stakeholder groups
ENTERTAINS
- Have fun
- Build cross-functional teams
- Create non-threatening space
- Reduce fear of change
- Bring ideas and people together
Talking Process
The learning experience of the game comes from discussions prompted by the 26 events and their consequences around which the game is designed. This allows for a grand tour of the key issues in process-based management, including important topics such as the following. Play & learn!
TRIGGERS
- Budget problems and opportunities
- Prove value delivery
- Regulatory demands
- M&A process management
- Support strategic challenges
- Impact of public Board/ExCo support
- Achieving external recognition
- Impact of audit outcomes
IMPEDIMENTS
- Multiple BPM method challenges
- Ignoring process performance
- Unmet promises
- Process Improvement Project failure
- CXO process champion gains/losses
- Threats to the process approach
- Process Reluctance Syndrome
- Need for active Process Owners
MACHINERY
- Process Architecture
- Process Stakeholder Groups
- Removing OBPM direct involvement
- Process Council importance
- Efficient Office of BPM operations
- Managing ROI expectations
- Internal process conference impact
- Using BPM Maturity assessments
BENEFITS
- Gaining & retaining credibility
- Process improvement as BAU
- Process measurement criticality
- Sharing a process mindset maturity
- Impact of a Chief Process Officer role
- Business excellence accreditation
- Whole-of-organization consistency
- Problems avoided, opportunities gained
Creating Your Game Experience
The minimum requirement is one Game Box which provides a standard game board, anti-venom access cards, one dice, playing tokens, and instructions … and a box to keep it all in!
To achieve greater impact, optimize the game experience using four variables:
Single or Multi
Run a single game or get many more people involved by running simultaneous games on multiple standard boards in the same space. Complete a session of concurrent games, discuss and debrief locally, then bring key issues back to a plenary session to expand the discussion. Mix up team memberships and finish with another round of games. Create an event! High energy! High impact!
Number of players and observers — determines board size
A standard game board (350x350mm) comfortably accommodates 2-4 players and perhaps a similar number of observers.
Upgrade to a group board (800x800mm) to accommodate 5-8 players per game plus observers. The larger board gives flexibility — perhaps multi-member teams playing the game with members taking turns to throw the dice as the team’s token travels across the board.
Supersize to a workshop board! This version of the board is 3x3m. Yes, you read correctly, 3 meters square, and it goes on the floor allowing a large crowd to participate and observe.
Customize the Game Board by changing the board (any of the three sizes) to show the colors, logo, graphics, and text of your choice. Replace the generic events and consequences of the standard game board with a board that speaks directly about your organization, uses your terminology, and has your branding. Talk to us about how we can work with you to make this happen.
Facilitator
It’s much more than a game! Each of the 26 events that make up the game provides an opportunity to discuss local relevance and impact. Could it happen here? Has it happened already? What would be the consequences? Can we protect against it? Perhaps it should be encouraged – how could that be done? Such conversations in parallel with game play will be most effective if there is a designated facilitator, either from the internal team or an external resource.
Get in touch if you’d like me to help you find a suitable facilitator (it could be me!).
Add the Consequences Handbook to assist facilitators engage participants in useful discussions.
Bring It All Together
Workshop the possibilities and confront the consequences. Make a day of it with a TregearBPM Consequences Workshop facilitated by Roger Tregear or another TregearBPM accredited facilitator.
The Consequences Workshop package includes the following:
- Process-based management briefing including the theories of Primacy of Process, Tregear Circles, and the 7Enablers of BPM, along with practical group exercises.
- 3 standard Game Box sets
- 1 Group Board (700 x 700 mm)
- 1 Workshop Board (3 x 3 meters)
- 3 copies of the Consequences Handbook
- Workshop – 3 hours of facilitated game play
CONSEQUENCES WORKSHOP AGENDA
9:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 1:30
1:30 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:30
3:30 – 5:00
Briefing
Break
Game Play Session #1
Break
Game Play Session # 2
Break
Debrief
[Happy to discuss variations]
Loads of fun
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Great game!
Snakes & Ladders is a wonderful way to engage our team and discuss issues and solutions for business process management.
Buy Process Management Snakes & Ladders
Buy the Game Box
START HERE. The Snakes & Ladders Game Box includes a standard board, tokens, instructions, dice, and Dr Roger’s anti-venom access cards.
A$95 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Buy the Consequences Handbook
Get more from your in-game conversations. The handbook explains each snake and ladder event and provides prompts for powerful discussions.
A$165 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Buy the Group Board
Make the game a team sport! Upgrade to an 800x800mm board to engage more players and observers around a tabletop.
A$105 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Buy the Workshop Board
Supersize me! Allow even more player and observer engagement with this 3-meter square game board on the floor.
A$1,785 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Consequences Workshop
Workshop the possibilities and confront the consequences. A full in-house workshop package with an experienced facilitator.
Prices will vary depending on your tailored needs
Customize the Game Package
Bring it home! Make the game a team member. Customize any size game board with your colors, logo, and event/consequence descriptions.
Prices will vary depending on your tailored needs
Bundle 1: Game Box + Consequences Handbook
Upgrade your Standard Game Box with a Consequences Handbook.
A$230 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Bundle 2: Game Box + Consequences Handbook + Group Board
Upgrade your Standard Game Box with a Consequences Handbook and the larger Group Board (800x800mm).
A$325 + GST where applicableAdd to cart
Anti-Venom Access Cards
The Game Box ships with a set of 20 Dr Roger’s Anti-Venom Access Cards. If you’d like to buy more, perhaps to use with your Group or Workshop board upgrade, do so here.
A$23 + GST where applicableAdd to cart