Puzzle Negotiation
Your company is like a big puzzle, and everyone is an indispensable piece of the team. The significance of team building is that no matter which department you come from or what position you are in charge of, everyone can work together to piece together a beautiful picture.
Business School Research and Development at Top U.S. Universities
The Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge was developed by business school professors from top American universities. Team members must make good use of teamwork spirit, strive to win sales and occupy the market! The purpose of this team training activity is to cultivate communication and collaboration skills and team thinking among your team members through interesting jigsaw trading games, cultivate overall team tacit understanding and help your company connect all employees.
Competition vs Cooperation
Just like the real world market, each puzzle is like a specific customer group. The more customer groups you have, the more market share you have. The goal of each group is to win by gaining the largest market share through teamwork.
But a single member or brand cannot monopolize the market! How to gain more market share? In addition to the division of labor and cooperation among team members, how to gain more market share through negotiation and exchange of conditions with other groups (departments)? In addition to the division of labor and cooperation among teams, it can also train the communication and team cooperation tacit understanding among team members.
Assemble your team
Knowing people and making good use of their strengths
Each group must first decide on the division of labor within the group:
They are divided into team leaders, builders, negotiators, market researchers, strategists, etc. A supervisor needs to be assigned to the next group to monitor the scoring process to ensure there is no cheating.
Strategy selection:
Competition vs. Cooperation
Just like the real world market, each group must do some market research, such as looking at what competitors have done and what trends they have (understand what puzzle materials the other party has and how they are progressing)
Each group can send a negotiator to negotiate with other groups on exchange/trading conditions. For example, in order to put together the puzzle pieces with the highest degree of completion and maximize your team's market share, you need to take 10 puzzle pieces you don't need to negotiate with other groups in exchange for 5 puzzle pieces you need.
Everyone is an indispensable part of the team
Communication and negotiation skills and team business thinking
Division of labor and cooperation to cultivate team tacit understanding and cohesion