Email Game
- 1. E-MAIL GAME Thiagi Game Letter, October 1999, Volume 2 (7), page 5.
- 2. Purpose Generate and share ideas via e-mail about how to handle any challenge.
- 3. Length of Game Four days Ideal Four weeks Maximum
- 4. Participants Ideal Ten to thirty participants
- 5. Materials E-mail access Know how to use e-mail
- 6. Overview Three rounds and a debriefing All conducted via e-mail
- 7. Preparation Identify players Write a thought-provoking “how to” question that summarizes the challenge Prepare a schedule Templates from the reference source available at: http://www. thiagi .com/email-101tips.html
- 8. Round 1 Facilitator sends an e-mail with overview of the challenge and game Announces deadline for action Each players sends the facilitator an e-mail with 3 ideas for handling the challenge Facilitator records all ideas Generates list of top 10 to 15 ideas
- 9. Round 2 Facilitator post the lists of ideas via e-mail Players vote on the 3 most appealing ideas in rank order Facilitator tabulates the votes and ranks the ideas by popularity 3 points for top idea, 2 points for second and 1 point for the third idea Tabulate the ideas by popularity and rank order
- 10. Round 3 Players asked to predict which 3 ideas received the highest votes Include a copy of the list of ideas Facilitator scores each prediction on the basis of actual number of votes the 3 ideas received
- 11. Scoring Scoring the person’s choices: For the person’s 1st choice, multiple the number of votes that the idea received by 3 and give that number of points to the person. 2nd choice multiple by 2 3nd choice multiple by 1 Add the 3 numbers together for each person’s score
- 12. Announcing the Winner Send an e-mail announcing the results and include: List showing order of popularity (Round 2) List showing predicted results (Round 3) with actual results (Round 2) Player with the highest total score wins the game
- 13. Debriefing Facilitator reflects on the merit and implementation of the top ideas List of open-ended questions Encourage reasons behind selections
Editor's Notes
- #2: Thiagi, 2(7) page 5