https://www.teamplay-workshop.com/teamplay-workshop-blog daily 0.75 2026-07-08 https://www.teamplay-workshop.com/teamplay-workshop-blog/can-board-games-build-teams monthly 0.5 2026-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/c253bd79-7592-4583-a85b-78ffc7b189b6/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+5%2C+2026%2C+03_15_08+PM.png Teamplay Workshop Blog - Can Board Games Build Teams? - Traditional training asks people to remember information. Research consistently shows that people retain knowledge longer when actively participating in meaningful experiences rather than passively receiving information. David Kolb's work on experiential learning demonstrates that adults learn most effectively through a cycle of concrete experience, reflection, conceptual understanding, and experimentation. Games require people to understand and use information. Instead of discussing collaboration, players must collaborate to win. Instead of hearing about communication styles, they practice communication. Instead of reading about leadership, leadership emerges naturally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/00c51469-94ee-4ba9-83d8-2e98d2bc4ec7/Skill+Matrix.jpg Teamplay Workshop Blog - Can Board Games Build Teams? - Here are some critical skills that teams practice when playing a game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/855687cc-95bb-4ee6-9f83-056f7d5a3575/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+6%2C+2026%2C+06_42_36+PM.png Teamplay Workshop Blog - Can Board Games Build Teams? - The game creates the experience. The experience creates the interactions. The interactions create the learning. The games’ story, the game board, cards, rules, game mechanics, and victory conditions all create the structure of the game experience. The master game facilitator links the context of the game to the team’s learning objectives, helps players draw connections between game behaviors and work behaviors and come to conclusions about any behaviors that need to “show up” at work as a result of what the team learns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/d2aab12e-52ac-48ab-a225-780f098aeb17/ChatGPT+Image+Jun+26%2C+2026%2C+03_32_10+PM+%282%29.png Teamplay Workshop Blog - Can Board Games Build Teams? - Every Teamplay Workshop follows Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle: Players first experience the challenge. Then they reflect on what happened. Together they develop new understanding about communication, trust, leadership, or collaboration. They immediately test those new ideas during the next round. Finally, they decide what new behaviors and learning needs to transfer back to the workplace. That rapid cycle of experimentation and feedback is one reason experiential learning creates such lasting behavioral change. The board game becomes more than entertainment. It becomes a safe laboratory for improving how teams think, communicate, and work together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/f57effe9-71f0-431d-8c07-6a82b6aff5fc/Master+Facilitator+Infographic.jpg Teamplay Workshop Blog - Can Board Games Build Teams? - The facilitator helps the team discover how they communicate, make decisions, handle conflict, and support one another under pressure, while having fun. 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Enlarged player pieces are easier to see, handle, and create a deeper, more immersive game experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698f7050c54a090588963bc5/959e41c9-2157-4c66-a9c3-ce7c2fb672b0/IMG_5811.jpeg Teamplay Workshop Blog - Why Modify Games? - The larger modified air tracker is above the original. A tiny wooden tracking disk was reimagined as a tall antenna mast on a Lego underwater base. Move the mast one peg for each unit of air your diver uses as you race for treasure. 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Large painted miniatures repalced Small player pawns. Neoprene playmats and a helicopter pad enhance the fun of this great cooperative heist game. Simple to learn and play with depth in decisions as your team searches each room for a safe full of goodies to crack, while avoiding randomly roaming security guards. Work together to reach the top floor and helicopter away with your loot. Below is an early prototype of what became the lighted three story tower. 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