Corey Rosen
This EO Month, Gamify Your Business Literacy Initiatives
Teaching employees to understand business is an important part of ownership culture. One way to do this is through business games. This member-exclusive article explores how Renée Mundell of ESOP-owned Radian Research worked with artificial intelligence to come up with this business game. The documents describe how the game works and include a scoring sheet. The basic idea of the game is to present a business scenario and then let employees choose between four different ways to spend money, including growth, employee bonuses and compensation, infrastructure, and paying down debt. The game is played in multiple rounds with a dedicated metric to keep score of the effectiveness of each employee's investment decision. The employee gets a positive or negative score to carry on to the next round based on the prior round's decision.
Even if you choose not to use this game, the approach Renée uses here may give you ideas on how to create your own game.
The game documents include a more detailed description of the game, the scenario, and score sheets. They are available to NCEO members in our document library's section on ESOP communications.
