Guannan Li
Product/UX Design Lead
Circle of Trust
A board game to understand the business challenge and teach negotiation skills
This is the final prototype of the board game named Circle of Trust.
We were invited by Idea House to give a workshop in a business camp to try to use the game to train negotiation skills. You can find more information from the video below.
This is the final prototype of the board game named Circle of Trust.
Negotiation Workshop
We were invited by Idea House to give a workshop in a business camp with Circle of Trust to train business students negotiation skills
Cooperation Project
2011.09-2011-10
Key words: Gamification, workshop, negotiation ,business
Project Details
Circle of Trust is a board game to help companies understand their innovation dilemma and even inspire them of better solution. In cooperation with Idea House, we also realized other ways to use this game such as teaching negotiation skills.
How it works
4-6 people can play this game together. Basically everyone gets limited and different types of resources(represented by resource rings in 4 colors) and works together to finish projects(meet the amount of resources drawn on the project rings) so that you can get reward from successful projects. Everyone serves as the project manager in turns(which means you are in charge of collecting resources and sharing the profits) and you can develop your own strategy to invest in others' projects, save your resources for your own project, cooperate or even cheat to gain as much profit as you can.
Results
6 versions of the game were developed based on trying out sessions.
People were happy when they played this game because it was really open and left them enough space to talk and develop their own strategies. It also felt real and simple once you got the rules. It was also interesting to see how different people developed different strategies to fight for their goals. Some people would like to invest in others' projects to share profits while others kept all the resources for their own projects so that they did not need the help from others, which meant they could get all the profits. People made friends, negotiated with each other and also cheated in the game. But all in all, they aimed at more profits just like how the business world works!
And in cooperation with Idea House, we also tried to use this game to teach negotiation skills. It went very well because it offered an easy and feasible way for the business people to try out different negotiation strategies and get the response from other people immediately. And you can find more information about this session from the video on the left.
Deliverables
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Six well packaged prototypes available for playing
Process
Company interview
Story board
Prototype design
Workshop
Team
Marie Beuthel, Thijs Roumen, Ye Wu, Brian Schewe &Guannan Li