If you work in soft HR, you may be wondering how best to introduce corporate games as part of your HR strategy. One of the following options are worth considering:
Option 1: Developing Your Own Team Games for Employees
Advantages:
- You have full control over the shape of your games.
Unfortunately, there are significantly more disadvantages:
Disadvantages:
- Creating your own games requires highly specialized knowledge and experience
- It’s very time-consuming
- The cost of preparing and producing corporate games is very high
- Running business simulation games on your own is difficult, time-consuming, and risky
Option 2: Purchasing Ready-Made Corporate Games
Advantages:
- Speed of acquisition. All you need to do is conduct research online, choose the ones you want and place the order.
Just as with option 1, option 2 has many disadvantages.
Disadvantages:
- “Boxed” corporate games are very simplistic, not very spectacular, and do not provide the opportunity to create a WOW effect
- Ready-made training games engage your internal resources, i.e. you need someone to facilitate them
- These types of team games for employees are generally not scalable: they are not suitable for large groups
- In case of wear, damage, or loss of even one element (which unfortunately happens), you need to buy a new game
Option 3: Partnering with a Corporate Games Provider
The advantages of this strategy clearly outweigh its potential limitations.
Advantages:
- You do not need specialized knowledge and experience in designing or running corporate games
- Time savings – you do not waste valuable time on preparing and moderating the games
- Cost savings – you do not invest large amounts of money in producing your own corporate games
- Risk mitigation – you do not have to worry about answering participants’ difficult questions
- High added value of corporate games delivered as a comprehensive service
- Excellent artistic design, high quality materials in corporate games provided by specialized companies
- Scalability – the possibility of effective participation even for very large groups (up to 200 people)
- No consequences of potential wear, damage, or loss of parts of a game – the game owner must account for this
Potential Limitations:
- Not every corporate game provider offering a comprehensive service model will be able to meet your expectations. Therefore, check their credentials to make sure you’re investing your money wisely.
