Jai Ho

HIREN DHANAK

COHORT C – FULL TIME MBA – FIRST YEAR

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Introduction:

As a part of learning exercise, my team and I played a team oriented simulation game named Forbidden Island. It was a highly interesting board game that involved strategizing and decision making as a group. I learned valuable lessons of group functioning and group dynamics after playing this game with my team members. Forbidden island helped us evolve into a better team and helped us learn the process dynamics in which individual pieces of a process achieve the single unified objective.

Before The Game:

The entire team was excited about the game and I personally was looking forward to the same eagerly. We were provided by our instructor a box of game with rule book in it. The game was a team efforts oriented game where we had to play as a team and not individually. I noticed a positive environment in the team and there was no air of competition or stress among the team members, rather every person’s energy was directed towards achieving the unified objective of “team success”. Another interesting aspect was that four out of six were allowed to play the game whereas the remaining persons acted as observers.

The performance of team and what contributed to it :

Description of personalities of players: Our group is very diverse, we have combination of extrovert and introvert personalities with diverse experiences. After working on our first project, I learned that when we started working as a Team, a few members were still more concerned about their individual win, but later all of us realized that we have to work as a team for the unified objective.

Before starting the game, we decided to refer to the rules of the game. In the process of understanding the rules, we wasted a lot of time on debating and discussing the rules. When I learned that two of my team members Sarah and Miles were aware about the rules of the game, I suggested my team members to...