Advantages & Disadvantages of using Business Games
Advantages
* Training the brain to act without to much consideration
* Team uniform approaches * High knowledge retention * Quick learning * Fun & entertaining * Builds teams cohesiveness * So many games available * Very versatile options * Cheap options available * Enhances creativity * Develops a sense of achievement *Develops critical thinking skills |
Disadvantages
* Can cause people not to assess risks thoroughly
* Creates people to be more robotic than human * Unless well structured and thought-out people will get bored * Often demonstrations will give participants the main idea of how something works, but place less emphasis on detail. * Less critical thinking skills - misdiagnoses caused by doing everything automatically without thinking properly * Time difference between how business games are delivered and how the events unfold in the real world. Emergencies happen in seconds, minutes whereas simulation training can be delayed giving people more time to think about what they will do which reduces the pressure |