Lions’ Den for your company
Engage in an interactive game to design the best prototyope that compete to attract the most investments from fellow teams. In a fun a colloborative spirit teams will compete to conceptualize, design, pitch and solicit investments. Each team will also give out investment to other teams. Team with most investments wins.
Session 1: Concept & design phase of prototype from trash
Each team gets a pile of electronic waste from the local dump. It is 100% sustainable, and it gives a framework for creating a product that will be built and form the basis for later pitch for investments. Key questions: What concept should product have? Should it project a value? How should the concept be designed, i.e.: How do you translate the concept into a physical form? Should it be a never-seen-before product? Should it be an improvement to an existing product?
How: In bigger group setting, participants are asked to brain storm on what constitutes a never-seen-before product? What is feasible? What does it look like in real life? Who does what? Roles to be distributed: Concept lead, design lead, production lead, pitch lead, investment lead.
Outcome: Creating a vision and team-spirit for theme of day: build a never-seen-before product.
Session 2: Build your product
Values in Action. Production lead facilitates a session to build a convincing prototype. Key questions: Does it need to work? In the given time, how good can the product be made? What are criterias for success? What parameters should behind concept & design?
How: Moderated discussions in smaller groups, exercises & affirmation.
Outcome: A product for pitch team to take to Dragons’ Den for an investment competition.
Session 3: Dragons’ Den: The pitch Competition.
All teams together. Each team has two roles at same time: They present their prototype and compete for investments. At the same time, all teams have investment leads that will seat on the panel and decide which other teams to give investments. Discuss and justify your investment choices to the other group.
How: A pitch competition a la Dragons’ Den
Outcome: The most viable product gets the most investment, and proceed to either national finals.
Session 5: Wrap-up and presentations of winning team
All together, explain design and the decisions leading to the winning investment project. What were the main design decisions, and what are they based on? What was the ideas behind role distribution
Project is preserved and presented as take-home gift for teams.
How: Staged presentation and explanation of work with winning product. Moderators will ask questions and solicit team’s conclusions.
Outcome: Buy-in of process and value work of the day. Final thoughts, key learnings, and what are we willing to commit to in order to honor our values tomorrow?
Session 6: Wrap party for your company’s culture!
Wrap party: Dinner with conversation cards: Tricky questions to get a new conversation started with your seating partner. Afterwards party with DJ.
How: Food, drinks & good vibes!
Outcome: Feeling of achievement and connection with each other. Willingness to engage in our common goals.