As active trainers, we couldn’t find sims that cemented learning at a reasonable price.
We built our own kits over the years and added Quick Start Guides, Exercise Workbooks, Worksheets and Trainer Notes.
This translates to a richer learning experience for both trainers and students.
Now they are here for you.
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The Magic Ball Icebreaker turns a group into a TEAM with a common goal. Whether an existing team or a new group from different locations immediately engage your people with this fun and highly interactive icebreaker.
This team-oriented, problem solving exercise can be run in 30 minutes in relatively small spaces. Visuals required are a list of the 8 Wastes of Lean and a list of the 5 rules for the exercise. Best for groups of 7 or more.
A team starts off in a circle with a ball and the goal is for everyone to touch the ball once in order. Once the team masters the basic exercise, additional balls are added to the exercise. This way the instructor makes the point that solutions or countermeasures that worked when you had one ball don’t always work as conditions change.
This exercise demonstrates teaming, personality styles (DiSC), problem solving, and logical thinking as participants are encouraged to think of solutions that don’t violate the rules of the game.
The downloadable brochure describes how to run the exercise and variations, depending on what learning points the instructor wants to emphasize with the group. By using a Socratic approach of guided inquiry, teams brainstorm answers and implement changes immediately while in the exercise. Takeaways include:
The learning cycles are short and immediate feedback on what works or what did not work in the exercise helps modify the exercise. Some metrics for use include:
The team learns to go back to customer specifications, rather than looking at the organization’s standard procedures, which were developed to meet specs, but may be tougher in its approach than the actual customer specification.
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View a 2 minute video on how to use the Magic Ball Icebreaker Exercise to turn groups into teams.
For even more learning insights, the Blue Bead Experiment, available exclusively through CICS as a companion to the Red Bead Experiment, shows the effects on a process with reduced variability in performance, due to a reduced number of “defects” in the process as a result of CI activities.
Check out this 2 minute video on the features and benefits of Red and Blue Bead Experiment Kits found on YouTube.
Check out our other classroom learning kits in this 2 minute video on YouTube.
This kit includes:
3 "Magic" balls
Magic Ball Quick Start Guide
Magic Ball Trainer Notes
Zippered storage case
They are Affordable, light to carry, and easy to run
These are the qualities we needed in a good exercise kit. As active trainers, we at CICS couldn’t find sims that cemented learning points quickly and at a reasonable price. We built our own kits and have been successfully incorporating them into out classes over a number of years.
This translates to a richer learning experience for both trainers and classes.
All CICS kits have a Quick Start Guide. The QSG has the critical information needed to run the sim. More complex kits have an optional Exercise Workbook & Trainer Notes with even more exercises that support Lean and Six Sigma and problem-solving courses.
The activities are more meaningful as the key points are written and procedures designed to promote open-ended inquiry and problem solving.
“Designed by trainers, for trainers” is not just a line!
These are the kits Manny and the CICS Team use every day to foster teams, CI thinking, and engage classes in active learning. CICS Learning Kits also support online learning efforts.
Response has been overwhelmingly positive from both colleagues and students.
This translates to a richer learning experience for both trainers and students.
Now they are available for you.
Manny Veloso
Principal - CICS
With our Learn-and-Do approach to improvement, we build Practitioners who think and act like owners. All of our training is project based for participants to use and implement concepts as they learn.
The goal is to complete a project during training, not only to empower participants to be active and knowledgeable contributors to improvement initiatives, but also to provide your company with sustainable results.
Hands-on exercises engage participants to cement the learning and promote working in teams. All of our kits are classroom tested and we use them every day to help companies incorporate Continuous Improvement principles and engage people while doing it.
Learn how the CICS approach to learning will make a difference in your company.
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